For my part I didn’t mind that so much in Cyberpunk 2077, I just played it multiple times with different V characters.
But then I can see that it’s a big time investment and not good for everyone.
Any game that doesn’t make all NPCs “opportunistically bisexual” pisses me off. Quit locking content behind my character’s pronouns.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
Yeah, I’m usually only playing games once. I don’t want to be forced to replay just to see content like that.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 week ago
I DEMAND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY OBJECTIFICATION IN VIDEO GAMES
NO /S
Except some aces here and there, for the homies to talk about books with.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
I still think asexual characters should be “romanceable”. Like, there shouldn’t be increased-friendship related content behind gender.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 week ago
That’s fair.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 week ago
I’m sort of the opposite. Give characters sexualities! Make them people! Give them criteria by which they will or won’t find my character attractive! I feel gross when every NPC is pansexual and aggressively attracted to the main character for no reason. Then again, I’m acespec, so.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
You can do that while still not locking any content behind gender though.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 week ago
How can you make a character not attracted to men and simultaneously make their relationship not locked for male characters?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
If it were me, I’d do something like not really focus on what their actual “real” sexuality is unless it is somehow relevant to the plot. Then if it is so something like make them a 1 or a 5 on the Kinsey scale instead of a 0 or a 6.
I don’t think games should be required to do, I’m not trying to force some sort of universal bi/pan agenda. I’m just saying it personally annoys me when I am locked out of pursuing a character just because of the gender I happen to be playing as because I typically don’t play games multiple times. It also annoys me when games don’t allow you to pursue all characters. Like in BG3, as far as I know, all characters are bi/pan but not all are poly. The game forced me to pick between Astarion and Karlach, for example. I put 100 hours or so into the game before I quit. I’m not willing to put over 100 more hours into it just to see what would’ve been different. It’s just a waste of my time.
An alternative approach is only having “sex scene” type content gated behind gender, but everything else can still be seen by friends. E.g., anything a character would eventually tell a lover they still tell close friends. Which is still sort of annoying but not really as bad because you can easily just look up a sex scene, but experiencing things like dialogue and special quests in game isn’t comparable to looking it up on YouTube.