Inclusive Gaming

     As someone who plays a large amount of Role-Playing Games (RPGs) I understand the want and need for characters to look like the player base or at least share some commonalities with the player base. RPGs are usually telling a story based around one singular character with specific voice lines or from an already established IP. It means that a majority of the time there is a set character to follow and not much room for player interpretation. Players can feel rejected or excluded if games make no attempt to have characters that look like them or that they can relate to. It's difficult to immerse yourself in a game when you realize that the person you are playing as you can't identify with at all or put themselves into the player character's shoes.

    As time has gone on people have become more aware of their identities due to the easy ability to access resources has meant that there has been more of push for player characters that look like the players that are playing the game as the rise in gamers has kept rising. 

As a gamer who is part of the LBGTQ+ community I don't tend to see myself represented often in games, particularly because I play a majority of fantasy/action RPGs what romance track they have tends to be heteronormative, and there tend not to be very many options in the terms of gender identity of video games. While I advocated for more representation in video games and it can get annoying to see the same version of a character 20 times in a row in a majority of the games I play it doesn't tend to matter as much to me personally, I'm more into the physical immersion and time spent in the game itself.