• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Do people really care what gender the MC is? I just role play as whatever gender the character is.

    If I’m playing Tomb Raider, I am Laura Croft. If I play GTA, I’m CJ or Trevor or whatever. If I’m given a choice, I’ll sometimes look up if the gender matters (e.g. in Mount and Blade it can impact relations), and otherwise just pick randomly. When there’s a character creation screen, I usually randomize it a few times and get into the game.

    I wouldn’t mind role playing as a gay or trans person, though I’d be a little worried about the content because I’m not looking for anything with relationships, I want to wreck monsters and solve puzzles.

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      1 year ago

      Depends on if the character’s supposed to be a self insert. In a game with deep customization you may be trying to make yourself, and not playing as Lara Croft or Geralt, so being able to choose your pronouns helps immersion, and immersion’s a big deal to many players who’ll take it anywhere they can get it in a game, whether it’s pronouns, or being able to see your torso and feet when you look down.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Huh, I guess I never want to insert myself because I’m not that interesting. :) I play games to escape myself, and I really hate seeing my own name show up in games.

        But that’s probably more my personality (I hate being publicly praised) than anything else.

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          1 year ago

          But that’s probably more my personality (I hate being publicly praised) than anything else.

          Revisit this thought whenever you consider if other people “really care” about something that you don’t instead of questioning whether inclusion is ever “necessary”.

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            1 year ago

            That’s fair.

            It’s just not something I have experience with. Even my wife, who likes public validation, also prefers to role play in games.

            But that’s the great thing about most RPGs, they have options to get whatever character model you want. So whether I understand people wanting to play as themselves or not is irrelevant. You can make your character look like yourself, I can make my character look random, and a trans person can make their character look like they see themselves. How I choose to make my character look has no impact on anyone else’s experience.

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              1 year ago

              How I choose to make my character look has no impact on anyone else’s experience.

              Tell that to the idiots making mods like this. Not that it changes anything for anyone but themselves, but it does promote bullshit bigotry over a menu selection of all things and fully deserves to be shut down.

              And none of this is about “public validation”. It’s about having even just one more avenue for people that don’t happen to be cis white males to make a character for themselves that’s more relatable. More options should always be welcome. It hurts nobody and lifts up many.

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                1 year ago

                Yup, I agree. The mods exist to push a narrative and make others angry, that’s it.

                I could understand if Bethesda made the MC trans with no way to change that, but expanding role play options is never a bad thing IMO.

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      1 year ago

      Most guys choose to be guys when given the choice, for example. Apparently a lot of people do care. Gender fluid, agender people, casgender people, etc may not care or vary more.

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        1 year ago

        Why would I want to stare at a man’s ass and hear his grunts for hours on end.

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          Idk. Why would someone want to have a man’s ass and voice? Seems weird to me. Yet about half of the world seem to want to be guys. And most of those are happy to be a choose to be a guy when customization is an option. I can’t answer why so many guys consistently and choose to be guys in game (and sometimes have pride in their characters appearance and try to brag about their it) or some tease other people they perceived as guys for choosing to be a girl in-game when I can’t understand why they want to be guys in the first place.

          For me, I relate more to those who make fun of themselves for using that excuse because they were in denial. I’ve definitely been there. Of course there are guys (cis or trans) who like playing as girls too; I just can’t relate (aro-ace spec).