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.
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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This guy wants to look at a man's ass for 40 hours straight.
Me too, thanks.
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“I have no imagination not even enough to save myself from the monotony of my own life and suffering esteem from mediocrity”
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
It matters so much. As a straight, white, cis male, I'm so glad that kids these days of all backgrounds have representation in media.
Not only does it make for a much better variety of stories and styles, but it gives kids proper role models and lets them know that there are other people out there like them. The difference in this aspect between now and the 90s is unbelievable, and I really hope we don't backslide too much...
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I can't be immersed in a game unless it's literally me in a mundane setting with no fantasy/sci-fi etc. elements. /s
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 neither a doctor, nor am I Mario! Immersion broken!
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Alan Wake 2: you can play with both: Saga and Alan. Gamers: Nooooo, I want to play only as Alan Wake.
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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.
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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.
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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.
its a story driven game
in the story these games expand on, ciri is the protagonist half the time. and the central story piece most of the time
hell, geralt is just some (badass) dude, ciri is the one filling the chosen one trope
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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.
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Fucking outrage tourists, man, this one is barely even trying
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.
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