Comments on: The Lesbian Uncanny Valley of Gaming – What is the gay uncanny valley?

By: theangel

theangel — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:16:17 +0000

fucking hilarious stuff, I love the lesbian uncanny valley.
thanks lesbian gamers.

By: Allison W

Allison W — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:44:04 +0000

I dunno, “You’re so strong” doesn’t seem at all uncanny. I believe it specifically refers to a player character with a high Physique rating, which in Albion is considered attractive regardless of sex (note the “Muscle” bonus to appearance in the stats window). Of course, the wife calling you handsome actually is much more uncanny, unless your hero is butch (mine was, so the uncanniness didn’t occur as readily to me).

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:52:28 +0000

Excellent post.
However, I feel the LGBT community will be either given lip service or marked via sex for some time to come. I am enjoying the fact that we are seeing options arise in emergent gameplay, but as you state, it does become a bit odd. Since the first Fable had homosexual relationships almost as a fluke (it’d take more work to code in only heterosexuality), I wonder if this was much the same, and that they didn’t give too horribly much thought to the actual dynamics of the relationships.