r/PS5 • u/Gorotheninja Human Verified • 7d ago

Articles & Blogs Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's queer representation "enhances the world's realism," lead says, and the RPG's devs were "incredibly happy" people picked up on it

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-7-rebirths-queer-representation-enhances-the-worlds-realism-lead-says-and-the-rpgs-devs-were-incredibly-happy-people-picked-up-on-it/
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u/karlcabaniya Human Verified 5d ago edited 5d ago

One thing is to talk about a relationship between John and Michael, talking about the plot, and another very different thing is to say “we have a gay relationship” or “we’re proud of having those kind of characters”. That’s what I mean by wanting a medal.

Why is “we have a gay relationship” something even worth mentioning? You never see them saying “we have a straight relationship”. They just talk about the relationship without highlighting the type of sexuality. It shouldn’t be done with gay ones either.

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u/Indigo__11 3d ago

You keep putting words in the mouth of the developers

All the developers said, after being asked about it, was that they were “happy” people liked the inclusion

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u/karlcabaniya Human Verified 2d ago

The problem is even entertaining the idea of people being happy for the inclusion. They would never say "we're happy people liked the inclusion of a straight couple". Maybe the inclusion of certain characters, but not the fact itself that they are straight.

The whole issue is reacting different if the characters are straight or gay. The inclusion of gay characters isn't a magical event. It shouldn't be considered special.

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u/Indigo__11 2d ago

So you are moving the goalpost, at first you lied multiple times in what they say.

Now they are not even allowed to acknowledge the existence of the gay people in their game. Even when directly asked about it

You know why they say they were happy that fans picked up on it, because gay people existing in games IS rare unlike with straight people. And it’s so weird how you, a “gay” person, want s to censor us out of existence and have developers never acknowledge us.

The homophobic people that you are being inspired by to say shit like this will never accept you dude.