• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    Reminds me of all the DBD players who I keep finding on Youtube who complain anytime someone wears an optional pride charm. “Bro this many gay people isn’t realistic! It ruins my immersion!”

    and I’m like “They’re wearing those charm because they’re gay in real life. It’s not realistic for gay people to exist?!”

    I’ve quickly learned “Ally to the community” in Gaming Circles is a dogwhistle for “I hate gay people”

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    7 days ago

    “I have no imagination not even enough to save myself from the monotony of my own life and suffering esteem from mediocrity”

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    9 days ago

    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.

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      8 days ago

      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.

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        7 days ago

        Then it wouldn’t be Twitter.

        To be fair, it’s a selection bias. People who shut up, shut up.

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      8 days ago

      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.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    9 days ago

    Not interested in…

    Metroid.

    Perfect Dark.

    Mirror’s Edge.

    Parasite Eve.

    Portal.

    Half of Resident Evil.

    All of these pivotal, classic games have great female protagonists, and came out before Obama got elected… probably before this person was even born?

    Maybe somebody could try the ‘return to tradition’ approach with this fool.

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      9 days ago

      As a kid, who doesn’t get a little warped by Samus Aran being female? Maybe it was just my experience growing up in the christocultist world, but I was in denial about Samus at ~7-8 years old with my only familiarity being passive and Smash Bros.

      Now I see anyone that has a similar outlook as being ~7-8 years old in their cognitive development and KAFS

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      8 days ago

      Even The Witcher itself. You might not play as a woman, but seriously, the women are definitely the shining stars of the series.

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        8 days ago

        If you wanted to include earlier games with great, compelling woman characters who you don’t singly/primarily play as, the list would be even longer.

        Tons of em from party based RPGs alone.

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    9 days ago

    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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            Why did I comment here…? The name of this community even has circlejerk in it… I’m not interested in this silly ragebait.

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              8 days ago

              You probably were expecting being able to get your dick out and jerk off with other dudes. You know, not to break immersion.

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    8 days ago

    There are two versions! One of them is this one, which you can okay if you’re cool or even mildly tolerant. The other one is fucking right off and crying inside your own asshole

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      8 days ago

      Guess he didn’t play Horizon either? Fucking dumb ass. I don’t ever remember thinking or feeling that I was the main character in the last Witcher. I for one look forward to playing this character.

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        8 days ago

        I do remember them noticing Aloy had peach fuzz and immediately jumped to the conclusion that any woman not waxing her face in the roboapocalypse must be trans…

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          in the roboapocalypse

          Even better, post ecological collapse, with the only culture carried over to the auto incubated new humans being the teachings passed on by robot kindergarden teachers, because the robot schools didn’t end up working correctly.

          Presumably facial waxing is not part of the kindergarden curriculum :-D

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    9 days ago

    Ah fuck, he is right. Time to stop development on Witcher 4 while we go back and add a female main character option in the previous games.