The Villain of Ubisoft's "Far Cry 4" is confirmed to be gay..

If they don't include his gayness in his villainy, it's ok. But if they use it to creep out the player, I'm going to be extremely displeased.

 

Well, being antagonist doesn't mean it's all bad. Vaas in Far Cry 3 was one of the main villains and I thought everyone loved him? He was my favorite character for sure.

The article isn't promising to be honest, but we have to wait and see how it turns out.

 

It's Ubisoft so I'm going to wait and see where they're going with this before I pass judgement.

One query though, I can't find any reference to the supposed gay character being the villain in the article. I see a reference to a gay protagonist, but nothing about whether the antagonist is gay. The gay rainbow flags referenced in the article look far more like prayer flags to me, something which is quite common in Tibet. I can't see a gay rainbow at all.

 

A gay protagonist would of been more interesting. As for his character I feel like he probably won't have much of one, at least none of the previous far cry villains really did, but maybe I'll be surprised.

I don't see why it's so bad to have fictitious gay people portrayed as villains anyway. I guess it's seen as representing the community in a bad light. I just don't see that every gay person depicted in a game or movie has to stand for either positive or negative commentary about gay people. We're just people like everyone else, we dont have to be justified all the time. Sometimes I feel like if we were always portrayed the way we want to than that wouldn't even be fair or realistic. Fact of the matter is it's entirely possible for someone to be an unforgivable evil prick and be gay at the same time. If that's how they wanna do this character then I'm fine with that.

 

I really hope the portrayal is mature. I've never played a Saints Row game but from what I've seen the series is anything but mature lol. It's all about over-the-top fun..which is great...but I fear he's gonna be a walking stereotype!

 

That's fantastic !
Look forward to it

It may probably show that gay people can be bad asses too and not just female, goody two-shoes as a large percentage of people believe.

 

It depends how they portray him I guess but it does add a bit of diversity and shake people's stereotypes of what "gay men are like". Take for example, the brilliant character of Gus Fring in Breaking Bad who is implied to be gay. He is so evil, powerful and ruthless that the fact he is gay is really a moot point to the audience.

Now on Far Cry, I doubt they would have much care for being politically correct or sensitive. The last game essentially used male-rape as a source of humour for heterosexual players to snigger at which I found extremely distasteful, that would put me off playing the new game more to be honest.

 

I think it depends on the portrayal, to be honest. I think it would only be seen as putting us in a bad light if his sexuality existed in correlation to any heinous thing he does. If It's separate though, I think It's fine because we gay people are just normal people too. There are nice and heroic gay people, but there are also evil and criminal gay people.

I guess I empathize with this as a writer, since my main antagonist, a murderous psychopath, is bisexual. But it doesn't mean their sexuality has anything to do with their crimes, they are separate. I also have bisexual characters who are extremely kind to others and have been in long-term monogamous relationships, so It's not like I'm stereotyping the whole sexuality based on only one character that happens to swing both ways. I have straight villains too, as well as straight/gay protagonists.
I guess what I'm saying is that I understand that we don't get a lot of positive media coverage, but I would also hate for political correctness to get in the way of author creativity and expression.

 

There's a Far Cry 4? Oh, where've I been? Argentwing is right, I really hope they don't go too far with it to try and creep out the player- but that would be swept under the carpet anyways :l

 

i hope they make him more of a villian then about his gayness....if done right, he could be the most creepiest, and sadistic mastermind

Edit: although he does look like one big stereotype, the same could be said about women in video games being objectified just as much as men do. for them to do a character like this, it's not really that surprising to me .