The fact that such comments still get any traction is sad. Like come on guys, what an ass, with nothing to add! How is this in my all feed?
“I am a very heterosexual manly man” These dudes are so transparent
I usually feel so immersed when playing white haired super-ripped giants with magic powers. It’s as if they were a second me, except for the hair, size, muscles, facial traits, strength and magic powers.
Don’t forget his magic dong
But he says Fuck a lot, so my immersion remains intact
But he fucks a lot, immersion ruined
The fact that Geralt has a penis is not enough to make me forget that he is not me. Throughout the series, you’re constantly learning stuff about a character that isn’t you, that you aren’t writing. I doubt they have examined their feelings.
The thing that always got rid of immersion for me as I ride my noble steed across the countryside to defeat mythical monsters from a mythology not my own was (1) geralt sounds too much like Gerald (2) his magic is trash/boring and (3) his crossbow is weak af. Never had a lot of difficulties with whether he had a dick or not.
They probably project themselves over the character and feel like they’re really the one getting the rewards.
Transgender man here - the only game I can think of playing that let me be a transgender man was Dream Daddy. I think the Life is Strange director made a game with a trans guy too? I think the Dragon Age series has a side character. If anyone has any other good ones I’d love to hear about them.
Strangely, I have had no problem playing games with male or female characters. Stories have protagonists who are not like me. That’s why they are interesting.
Like I don’t think there was a game that let you play a black woman until 1992 with The Elder Scrolls: Arena. We can have a white female protagonist in one game in a series.
I’m pretty sure I read that the new Dragon Age gives you an opportunity to make your character explicitly trans. Not just with character creation, but an actual dialogue choice that has an effect on how people refer to you
Here’s an article about it. I haven’t played it yet, so I can’t really offer any other insight
Baldur’s Gate 3 lets you customize gender, voice, body type, and genitals all independent of each other.
Same! If I had to play games where characters were all me I just wouldn’t play games lol. I definitely don’t mind playing and learning new interesting characters as well
Cyberpunk 2077 let’s you change genitals, but still forces you to be either female or male with no impact on romance
It actually does impact romance, two of the characters will not romance a character where gender and genitals don’t “match”
Ah, yes. If she looks like a sex doll, she’s saving the industry. If she looks like a normal person, the game is unplayable.
Imagine if women did this. “I’m not a middle aged father, I won’t be playing The Last of Us. It just breaks my immersion, should have made Tess the main character. Also, you can see by the design of his nose bridge that they’re making him less attractive on purpose. How can I play this game if he isn’t a double cheeked up Adonis!?”
Grow an imagination.
Impossible. Can’t use real magic and fight real monsters without a real penis
You have to be wildly insecure to even care about such things.
I’m a guy. I don’t mind playing as a woman at all. I’ve played the Tomb Raider games, I enjoyed Horizon, I played a female V in Cyberpunk, FemShep in Mass Effect etc etc.
Games are a way to experience something that’s not you or your story. And that’s perfectly fine.
Heck, if we took that stuff seriously, I shouldn’t play Mario because I’m not an Italian plumber. Or I couldn’t enjoy Euro Truck Simulator since I don’t drive a truck.
“I’m not a marble so I can’t enjoy Marble Madness.”
“I’m not a terrorist so I can’t play Counter Strike.”
“I don’t have classified documents, I can’t play Warthunder.”
I saw a news update for that game on Steam called “sekrit dokuments)))”. Apparently there’s some unlockable item with a code “NOSEKRITPLS”. Like the first couple of times they were like “pls no 😱” but now they’re just embracing it. It’s wonderful.
Average Witcher fan.
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.
While I agree with the rest. I think we have learned enough about the current state of game release and if we should preorder.
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
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.
Honestly it’s free publicity. Like I know they don’t like courting controversy traditionally but hbomberguy’s video on Woke Brands explains how they’ve figured out that triggering these people can be really good for sales.
I’m not interested in playing as a vampire. I am a human. Breaks my immersion. I think there should be two options. One for vampyre and one for human.
Seriously though, this pathetic misogynist is a joyless snowflake.
He was clearly not interested in playing at all, since he doesn’t even know you play as Ciri in Witcher 3 as well.
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
What the Witcher games do really well is having female protagonists but not necessarily a female playable character. All the Witcher games aren’t about Geralt per se, but about Triss, Yenneffer, Shani, Adda, etc. but most importantly Cirilla, she’s the pivot point of all the games. Geralt is essentially just a vessel for the player to guide us through a world that is much bigger than him filled with drawn out characters of which most important ones happen to be women.
So ridic hahah
And it’s not the competent, powerful and attractive part that breaks your immersion?
Or he is just pissed that he won’t be having women in game to romance.
He is not pissed he just wanted an option.
Witcher has never been an RPG. It’s an action adventure game with a story and defined main character. Like The Last of us, or Red Dead redemption.
The characters sex forms a core part of the story telling, rather than choosing to gloss over it.
Oh Ciri will definitely have women to romance.
Another reason he is pissed. He is no god damn lesbian. :)
OP doesn’t identify as lesbian.
They ranted about how ugly she is as well. Even if Jesus came down for a second coming, but more like a remaster of the first one because, you know, the sin, and he tried as hard as his omnipotent ass could, he would fail to save any of them.
People IRL are ugly enough, why should people in games be?
Well there’s good reason to expect - if you believe any of it - that they’d be on the side of The Beast. Someone went through and found a bunch of references to the antichrist that apparently fit Trump, and these guys are pretty much all his people. Plus like… they obviously suck and don’t do anything that Jesus actually talked about. They’ve exchanged it all for a bunch of culturally traditional signifiers that have next to nothing to do with actually loving your neighbour or whatever.
Also, the story goes that millions of people join the beast’s army and go to war, and they gather, and it’s a big build up, then Jesus just goes splat like One Punch Man and it’s over. It’s honestly written just like that show, like a parody of an epic battle scene.
There isn’t much talk of salvation in that part of the book.
