Interesting fact about Dee-Ay!

Dee-Ay, the SPEC OPS Echo Six leader from Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, is gay according to the game's writers. You can read the interview here! I applaud the writers for creating a male lead who is gay.

I heard a kinda mean but funny line about gays awhile back.

God has a plan for all gay people, AIDS is just the beginning!

As far as the character...don't remember who he is. I just remember that tubby bastard, Beltway, as well as Vector.

Wasn't a fan of the wolf pack really. I would have preferred the Umbrella special forces team to wear the same gear as HUNK and all the other USS members. Not the ridiculous and extremely diverse types of gear, just so they are all distinguishing. And invisibility? Hecks naw.

Well, that was unexpected. This is pretty cool, actually. Nice find!

All of the characters from RE:ORC have interesting backgrounds. The problem is their personalities were never displayed in game. Beltway is suppose to be the comedian but fails to tell any jokes during gameplay. Lazy writing by Slant Six.

Yeah, what's the point of making personalities and backgrounds if you're never going to take advantage of it? It's like making a movie and you create a colorful world and when you go watch it the film is shot in black and white.

not only the didn't take advantage of the background, half of the characters are dlc only

In terms of fleshed out characters, the interview mentioned that the characters' personalities were meant to come through in the game. However, there was a lot of translation issues between Capcom and Slant Six. I'm assuming the translation errors are the reason why the characters seem bland.

DampRevil wrote:

Dee-Ay, the SPEC OPS Echo Six leader from Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, is gay according to the game's writers. You can read the interview here! I applaud the writers for creating a male lead who is gay.

And was it at all relevant to the game's story or other characters in any way? By the comments so far in this topic, I'd say it wasn't. So, really, there isn't anything to applaud. Capcom could come out (no pun intended) tomorrow and say, "Hey, guess what? Jill has dug chicks all these years!", but it wouldn't be anything more than superficial unless it was revealed in the course of a game or movie with an impact of some kind on the plot or characters around her.

Dee-Ay being gay would have been somewhat relevant to Operation Raccoon City. It wouldn't have been relevant to the story, but it would have been relevant in making a more believable character. Take The Last Of Us for example. Bill is gay, but it has no impact on the story. It does, however, make him a more realistic character.

DampRevil wrote:

Dee-Ay being gay would have been somewhat relevant to Operation Raccoon City. It wouldn't have been relevant to the story, but it would have been relevant in making a more believable character. Take The Last Of Us for example. Bill is gay, but it has no impact on the story. It does, however, make him a more realistic character.  

How would ORC have been different had you known this before you played it? How would TLoU have been different if Bill hadn't been gay? Nothing in either game would have changed because the games had nothing to do with these characters' sexual preferences. This is what I mean by relevant.

There's nothing different or special about writing an LBGT character, nor does doing so make the author unique or groundbreaking.

I know it wouldn't be relevant to the story, but it doesn't necessarily have to be. It wouldn't have changed the course of the game, but I find it to be a nice touch on a character. Instead of being this typical "male, macho super soldier", he's a gay man who's just dedicated to serving his country.

Having a LGBT character isn't unique or groundbreaking, but there's certainly nothing groundbreaking about characters like Chris or Leon either. I think the gaming market is over saturated with macho male characters who are all the same essentially. I just think characters like Dee-Ay are a nice change from the normal, whether it's relevant or not.

I think the most interesting part about this piece of news is that he is quite possible the first (officially) gay character in a series that has run for almost 20 years now.

The times, they be changing.

That they be.

Sorry if my innate cynicism is getting the best of me again, but when people stop seeing LGBT characters in media as something "different", then times will have changed. Until then, they aren't getting any different because LGBTs still aren't seen as a normal component of society.

I didn't mean that LGBT characters are different, I meant that you don't see a lot of games that feature gay characters. When we do get a gay protagonist it's always welcomed, at least to me. I'm just tired of seeing the same type of protagonist over and over again. It's like the video game industry had a mold of how a male protagonist should be portrayed and how a female protagonist should be portrayed. When the mold is broken, it's refreshing.

Too bad there are no protagonists in ORC.

Technically the entire Spec-Ops team are protagonists.

DampRevil wrote:

Technically the entire Spec-Ops team are protagonists.

I can argue against that.

pro·tag·o·nist
prōˈtagənist,prō-/
noun

The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

There really isn't a leading character in the story since the story is a scatter-brained mess. Plus if you're playing as Unbrella, then you're fighting the protagonists? No. The role would switch as they're the characters you're following.

So if you really want to say "Technically" you have to follow up with "there are no protagonists in ORC."

Just because a character is evil doesn't make him the antagonist in the story, look at Despicable Me if you don't believe me.

If you wanna get that technical, then yeah, you're right. In the broad sense though, the Spec Ops are the protagonists while the Wolf Pack are the antagonists. The Spec Ops are the heroes of the story as they're trying to eliminate the threat in Raccoon City. The Wolf Pack are the antagonists since they're working for a very evil company.

There's also multiple classes of protagonists too, not just the leading character. Same applies to antagonists.

DampRevil wrote:

If you wanna get that technical, then yeah, you're right. In the broad sense though, the Spec Ops are the protagonists while the Wolf Pack are the antagonists. The Spec Ops are the heroes of the story as they're trying to eliminate the threat in Raccoon City. The Wolf Pack are the antagonists since they're working for a very evil company.

No, a protagonist isn't by definition a good guy, he/she is simply the central character of the story. Kratos in God of War III, for example, is a straight up villain, yet he's the game's main protagonist while the Gods of Olympus, who are fighting in the typically heroic hope of preserving Olympus and the rest of the world, are the antagonists. The role of the antagonist is to compete against the protagonist, thus he can be either good or evil depending on the protagonists' alignment. Because ORC can be played from different perspectives, the roles of protagonist and antagonist differ depending on which campaign you're playing.

Ghost Leader wrote:

Sorry if my innate cynicism is getting the best of me again, but when people stop seeing LGBT characters in media as something "different", then times will have changed. Until then, they aren't getting any different because LGBTs still aren't seen as a normal component of society.

For that to happen we'll just need developers to use different sexualities in games more often, not just in some chosen RPGs where it'll be a player option.

DampRevil wrote:

If you wanna get that technical, then yeah, you're right.

He does want to get that technical, it's called Vandalism.

@Mass, ok, we get it, you and homosexual characters. (;

Hey, I'm the original Technical Timmy here, and don't any of you forget it!