A lot of the problem is that the biggest source of character-driven video games is still Japan, which is not only grossly xenophobic, but also traditionalist and stuck a good thirty years behind America in terms of acceptance, if not further back. A decent number of Western-based games allow for the option to play female, or POC, but those are entirely games like Mass Effect or Grand Theft Auto or what have you, where you're an interchangable player avatar character.
That said, I can think of exactly one game from Japan where you have a non-heterosexual protagonist (if sexuality is brought up at all), that being Persona 2: Innocent Sin's Tatsuya Suou. Tatsuya, unlike pretty much every JRPG protagonist before and since, actually has a serious homosexual romance option - which some people suggest might be part of the reason that the game didn't see American release in the PSX days.
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Date: 2013-12-09 08:38 pm (UTC)That said, I can think of exactly one game from Japan where you have a non-heterosexual protagonist (if sexuality is brought up at all), that being Persona 2: Innocent Sin's Tatsuya Suou. Tatsuya, unlike pretty much every JRPG protagonist before and since, actually has a serious homosexual romance option - which some people suggest might be part of the reason that the game didn't see American release in the PSX days.