Wait, how did they fuck with Minsc? Could someone tell me, please? :/
There's a special place in hell for people who fuck with Minsc!
For feels...
Right in the feels
I love me some Minsc.
Funnily, he kinda ruins the game for me in a way - ever since I was a kid I've been meaning to play an evil party, but I can't bring myself to be an asshole to Minsc, so every time I pick him up and from then on I'm pretty restricted to good party members and walking the straight and narrow. Worth it though - I even pick up Aerie just so she can replace Dynaheir as his witch.
Fuck, time for a replay.
^ is basically what I've felt like since BioWare went full-retard. Shoving same-sex relationship stuff in my face via that gay elf coming on to me in Dragon Age:Origins, and all the similar nonsense in Mass Effect 2 has made me write off BioWare completely since then.
Let me just play games without having all sorts of abnormal shit being shoved in my face, kthx.
I don't mind the gay stuff so much, as long as it's well written and not preachy (which Bioware have been hit and miss on, but DA:O for example I don't think I even realized that dude was gay in my first playthrough - although probably because I pissed him off somehow and he tried to kill me). It's realistic - people are people, and a certain amount of people like having sex with the same gender to varying degrees. Shit's been going on forever. I've been hit on by gay dudes, I'm sure most of you here have at some point, so it's not unbelievable that my RPG character would as well (if they're going to go out of their way to make sexuality/romance a part of the game, which is another discussion alltogether). And it leaves the option for gay people to RP their character as gay if they choose - I don't see why sexuality should be particularly relevant in an epic fantasy RPG, but apparently a huge portion of the straight playerbase differ, going by the inclusion of (and obsession with) romances in these games, so why not throw in a character for the gay players?
The trans stuff is very different, because as much as the SJW crowd would like to force us to believe otherwise, we just don't know exactly what the deal is with trans people yet, different manifestations of "abnormal gender identification" have occurred across different societies, but they've always varied in how they manifest. The current manifestation we're seeing in modern Western society (with the "wrong brain/gender dysphoria" theory*, hormones and surgery treatment, etc) is completely new, there's no reason to believe it's some kind of universal human phenomenon, there's no reason to believe that the current approach is the best approach, or will be how we approach the issue in 50 or 100 years, and there's sure as fuck no reason that it would be the way people would approach the issue in a high fantasy world like FR, with fucking magic spells and items that can do all sorts of crazy shit practically lying by the side of the road.
What we currently call trans people are also, despite what SJW's claim, not really that large a portion of the population. People who enjoy sex with the same gender are common enough that you're going to find them amongst pretty much any decent size selection of the human population, people who wish they were the other gender, quite simply, are not.
I could get behind a temple to some kind of hermaphroditic deity (which have been very common across polytheistic societies) where worshipers undergo some kind of temporary or permanant gender change, or a quest to retrieve a girdle of masculinity/femininity for someone, or to help them get some potion or whatever, or helping a wizard who was experimenting and got stuck as the wrong gender, as long as it was really well written and smoothly implemented into the game and served some purpose beyond virtue signalling. But that's not what happened, because Beamdog can't write for crap.
The issue with the trans stuff is that they took a very modern manifestation of a certain phenomenon and shoe-horned it into the game where there is no way it would exist within the internal logic of the gameworld, just so they could virtue signal and fulfill a quota and all that crap. And then when people called them out on their ham-fisted writing style (and the fact that they'd imposed it onto a genre defining classic), they had the nerve to attack those people and call them *phobic*ists (feel free the borrow that, I know I'm sick of typing out all the myriad ways in which SJW's think I'm an evil person).
*which I love because it shits on 40 years of feminists claiming gender is a social construct, as an aside.