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.
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Don't forget his magic dong
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.
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.
Cyberpunk 2077 let's you change genitals, but still forces you to be either female or male with no impact on romance
Average Witcher fan.
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
That's a tall order. More like don't play the game if it doesn't appeal to him.
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.
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.
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.
"I'm not a marble so I can't enjoy Marble Madness."
"I'm not a terrorist so I can't play Counter Strike."
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.
If you're "immersion" can be broken by playing as someone who's not a carbon copy of yourself, you may be lacking some brain matter.
This guy wants to look at a man's ass for 40 hours straight.
Me too, thanks.
Solid Snakes cheeks be clapping.
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.
Conversely, Kirby is my favorite series for the same reason.
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.
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.
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
Getting called a bitch as masc V in cyberpunk :(
Getting called a bitch as femme V in cyberpunk >:|
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.
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.