“I’m not a marble so I can’t enjoy Marble Madness.”
Real talk:
Representation matters.
My lady friend doesn’t want to play anything that makes her play as a dude if she can avoid it. She does sometimes but she has a strong preference for games featuring female protagonists. She did enjoy playing as Geralt though
If you’re “immersion” can be broken by playing as someone who’s not a carbon copy of yourself, you may be lacking some brain matter.
TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY MOTHERFUCKER!
As a cis-femme gamer I am SO SICK of playing as grizzled, middle-aged cis-men in every goddamn game with a set story.
Games where you can pick the gender of the protagonist don’t count. Whether you play as Man-Shep or Fem-Shep, Mass Effect is exactly the same and the gender choice is exclusively cosmetic. There are very few games with female protagonists that actually commit to the protagonist being a woman and delving into what that entails.
Just in this first trailer, Ciri is trying to save a young woman from being used as a maiden sacrifice and that is a much more emotionally complex situation for her as a young woman herself. I will be pre-ordering Witcher 4 the second it is available because I want more studios to make games with women as the main playable characters so that I can have immersion in my games too.
Mmm but any game that provides a different storyline based on gender is opening themselves up to no end of criticism. There’s just no way they’ll ever win that one.
Getting called a bitch as masc V in cyberpunk :(
Getting called a bitch as femme V in cyberpunk >:|
Not to mention that in Witcher 3 there were already plenty of Ciri “flashback” missions.
I kinda wonder if they’ll be doing the same in reverse and she’ll be saving Geralt’s ass this time around as the main plot
This guy wants to look at a man’s ass for 40 hours straight.
Me too, thanks.
This is exactly why I can’t play any of the metroid games. Also can’t play Kirby because I’m not an androgenous pink blob.
Conversely, Kirby is my favorite series for the same reason.
I’m not interested in playing as a Witcher. I am a regular human. Breaks my immersion. I think there should be two options. One for witchers and one for regular humans.
I’m not interested in playing as an Astro Bot. I am a human. Breaks my immersion. I think there should be two options. One for robot and one for human.
I am not interested in playing as a male. As a male, I already go through life as one. I don’t have the urge to experience that further. Breaks immersion.
Why are we sitting here discussing a troll? That’s the most obvious bait I’ve ever seen.
doesn’t matter if this particular person is a troll. this is literally a political movement now. being a maidenless loser as a political ideology.
No it isn’t. Being a manless loser is though. 4b
while I disagree with 4b because I don’t think it’s going to be effective if South Korea is any indication… it most certainly isn’t manless, almost by definition, at least not in the way maidenless is used. maidenless means someone who can’t get a woman. 4b is for women who can get and/or have gotten men. otherwise it would be moot anyway.
Oh, I didn’t understand the term I guess.
I remember when this totally broke my immersion back in the 1990s…
Didn’t they understand that I wanted to raid tombs as a MALE?!
those boobs are killing me 💀 like helium balloons yearning to fly away
Oh, they weren’t like that in the game. They were more like majestic pyramids.
Leave the pickaxe at home
It got better in the 2nd one IIRC
And they took 9 days to render. Times were tough back then.
If I play RPGs and have the choice of a character, I always pick male and customise him to look like me. Despite never seeing my character when I play in first person mode. It just seens natural to me.
But when I don’t get the choice (mainly narrative driven games like adventures), I simply roll with it. It’s a game after all, not a second life.
Have these people even played Witcher 3? Because there you play as Ciri too sometimes. Her moveset was really fucking cool actually
Also this is one of the games where you play a character that has personality already, self insertion isn’t intended.
Geralt of Rivia, Lara Croft, B.J. Blazkowicz, Faith Connors, Alan Wake, Max Caulfield, Joel Miller, Ellie Williams, and probably Doomguy those are all roles that you play.
In contrast you have games like Skyrim, Elden Ring, Terraria, Cyberpunk 2077, Far Cry, Valheim and most classic MMORPGs, where you have a playable character that you can form to your own design.
That’s just fundamentally a difference in design. Complaning that you can’t self insert in a game of the first category doesn’t make sense.
yeah the person in the OP should practice self inserting by fucking themselves
Not to mention every TV show, movie, play, opera, musical, novel and comic book
Of course not. I am rather confident that at least some of these people are doing it as a false flag. Trying to discredit critics of genuine bad character and game design.
Actually thats the only thing i am bummed about. The ‘blink’ moves she had were so fun. Other than that, seems like the hard choices are back!
i will always champion for character creators in any game. mass effect proved you could have a heavy “story based” game with two main versions of the single main character + the countless custom personal creations
for example it is an absolute crime star wars outlaws and the jedi ones did not have a custom human character but also not all of the amazing alien races you could of played. such. a. waste.
but also fuck off to those that just go 'boo girl/guy!" etc
i will always champion for character creators in any game. mass effect proved you could have a heavy “story based” game with two main versions of the single main character + the countless custom personal creations
That’s a fair point. Cyberpunk also did it quite well with the customizable character called V (Vincent/Valerie), I thought.
On the other hand, I have to say for games like the Witcher, that adapt an existing world, character set and story threads (from a book series in this case), this is probably too hard to do without compromizing the source material. I’d rather get a good adaptation than risk it going wrong.
And I also understand if smaller studios keep it simple and bring one artistic vision to the game. Like Dontnod with Life is Strange. You could probably make it so Max can be male too, but it’s an extra burden and it’s a valid choice to go with Max as a fixed person.
I am man. I once played Tomb Raider and now my tits are huge!
and now my tits are triangular
“You can’t shoot straight, you big-titted bitch.”
Gun boob mod says otherwise
I actually liked that part tho. I can’t even think of any games since the first couple of Tomb Raiders that allow you to shoot two things on opposite sides of a room at the same time with the way she akimbos.
