Quote Originally Posted by DocFrance
And now I'm gonna get a bunch of people jumping on my ass about how I'm a homophobe.
I'd actually like to shake your hand for that statement, it's 100% true.

I'm a homosexual male, and I have to say that when I'm playing a Final Fantasy game, I'd be hard pressed to care less about the sexual preferences of the characters. I'd also be hard pressed to care one way or the other about their hair color or skin dryness. I'm focused on levelling up and killing more stuff, not on who's smooching who. If Squenix ever manages to pull off a romantic angle that isn't nauseatingly terrible, then I think this discussion might have a little more merit since we'd be talking about a more mature type of love story that an adult could get behind, NOT some squealing, yaoi reading fangirl (or fanboy, you know who you guys are!).

If they were going to include a gay character, they'd have to handle it a lot better than they handled having a black character for the first time. Barret could host his own minstrel show if he wanted to. Thankfully they kinda made up for that with Kiros. Now, if the gay character were like James Gandolfini's character from The Mexican, that'd be a different story. It could be done properly, but it really is doubtful that they would.


.....Waitaminute..... Couldn't you make Claude fall in love with a guy in Star Ocean 2?