Meh. If that’s not his jam, fair enough. I like playing women just to be different.
Lemmy: “FUCK THIS GUY!”
Two things: It would be insane $$$ to make two versions and no one has to buy the game.
Fuck this guy for tweeting it to the company that made the game.
He could have just not played and shut up about why, but he had to let us all know that he very definitely has a penis.
Right? It’s a bit cringey but whatever, if he strictly wants to be immeresed as a dude, fine. Personally I find janky animations and repetitive sound effects/dialog to be the worst for immersion.
After reading it again though, yeah he dumb. It’s not the kind of game where you can create whatever character you like.
I think Im missing the issue here. Wasn’t the same argument used for adding female characters to games and transgender characters later on?
Kinda thought that’s the goal, for everyone to be represented if possible. That said, I’m looking forward to game being focused on Ciri
They for sure didnt complain when you only could play a man in the first 3 games.
I guess so. Not sure if the poster is famous for being one-sided like that. Could be hipocrisy, could be mockery of similar posts going the other way as well. But if not, if they honestly sticked to “provide all options where possible”, I wouldn’t mind them stepping up for themselves as well.
Yes, you want representation and the ability for people to play as someone like them. But we also can just tell stories about a character without needing to make the story for every character.
Adding women, anyone not white, or different gender and sexual orientations was notable because they were very underrepresented.
Women were by and large not saying they couldn’t play games as men, just that they’d like more chances to be women.
I think that makes sense for games in which you create your own character. Sometimes a game tells a story with a specific protagonist though and they aren’t meant to be “you”.
Make. Ciri. Transgender.
Here’s what you do… When you fire up a new game, you have a “Custom Character” option. Selecting that brings up a rendering of Ciri standing there all badass. Beside her is a single check-box, labeled “FAT COCK”. Selecting “FAT COCK” promptly puts a massive, sagging bulge in the crotch of her pants that drops down about a foot and bounces heavily from the physics. From here the player can either disable the fat cock option and proceed, or keep the fat cock and then proceed.
We need more female only games, purely so the chuds will start agreeing with us that every game needs gender select.
Companies have been opening up options in character creation across games to allow more diversity. More and more games allow you to select your name, gender, race, skin tone, physical attributes, personality, voice, and sexual orientation. These developers have discovered that people want to play characters they can relate to and this is mostly celebrated.
This person wanting to play as a male is a perfectly valid desire. It’s the exact same reason I never played any of the previous Witcher games despite it otherwise being my kind of game; being forced to be Geralt breaks my immersion. I wonder how much more popular the Witcher series would be if it had even the most basic level of character customisation.
I will never understand people not being able to play a game because of something so trivial.
When a game gives me the option I will always pick female characters because I’d rather look at a girl than a dude, but if it doesn’t and I have to play as a dude I don’t have a meltdown.
I’ll play the next Witcher game just like I played the previous ones: sat on the couch sipping mojitos and eating goat cheese and hot pepper flavored chips in my underpants.
TIL tweeting to the developers that playing as a woman breaks immersion = not playing a game
In a game where you are playing a role you define with your playstyle, that makes alot more sense. Here, you are playing an established story. No matter what choices you make in your gameplay, the character in this game will always react how they would react in that situation. It’s not really intended to be that style of immersive, it’s an immersive storyline, but you are not playing an avatar that is intended to represent you, or your imagined character.
Tomb raider games managed to be best sellers in an age where it was “wrong” to have a female protagonist. I think this game will do ok.
