And that’s where the race mods come in You see, our mods expand our freedom in FO4 and allow us to do whatever we want essentially. However, when have never really gotten to play any of them. Once Overseer777 shared it on Bethesda Softworks’ website, however, homophobic players swarmed the comments section, posting hateful anti-LGBT messages and death threats. Fallout 4 has a number of very cool races, both from the fantasy realm and from the sci-fi. The innocuous mod was titled “LGBT Family” and was developed to offer gaymers the option of playing with a character who was a little bit more like themselves. Though it seemed like LGBT players would be stuck playing the game straight, one fan, known only as Overseer777, created a modification that “changes dialogue and all other references to the Sole Survivor’s pre-war spouse to be the same sex as them.” Unfortunately, once the game was released last November, players discovered that, from the jump, they’d be paired with an opposite-sex spouse and a baby. Given the series’ progressive bent on LGBT inclusion, gaymers were hopeful that Fallout 4 would continue to expand its cast of gay characters.

In the following installments, the series featured gay couples as non-playable characters ( Fallout 3) and even included the option for players to designate their character as gay or lesbian ( Fallout: New Vegas). Post-apocalyptic role-playing video game series Fallout has been a hit with gaymers since 1998 when Fallout 2 became the first major release to feature same-sex marriage.

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