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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I need to play as a male

Imagine she's hangin massive dong then? Idk what to tell you.

[–] [email protected] 168 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I dunno, man.

Playing as a guy forces you to constantly stare at a dude the entire time. That's seems pretty gay. πŸ’…

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You joke but when I was playing AC odyssey, I did switch to a girl after an hour because I was tired of looking up a dudes skirt whenever I went swimming.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 week ago (2 children)

CDPR: we added a beard option for the insecure whiners, but it unlocks dwarves hitting on you.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's exactly what I'm into tho.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I really wish the people who say shit like this would realize how pathetic it makes them sound. I have never once felt my masculinity was being threatened because the player character in video game was female.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Agreed. In games with a gender option, I just pick the one with the better VA.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jennifer Hale did such a great job in Mass Effect.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I bet these dudes have no problem playing Tomb Raider.

And they were real pissed at the end of Metroid.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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 vampyr and one for human.

Seriously though, this pathetic misogynist is a joyless snowflake.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He was clearly not interested in playing at all, since he doesn't even know you play as Ciri in Witcher 3 as well.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (6 children)

When given the choice, I always play as a female character. I'm already a man 24/7, why continue that in games I play to escape reality?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A polarizing question. Me, I always play a version of myself. More muscular, perhaps, or more adventurous. But still a middle-aged dude who is trying to do good. I never feel the urge to play a woman or a villain or anything else totally different from my IRL character.

And I guess that's just how it is, right? We each make our own fun in the games we play.

So the dude in the xitter post is just going to have to sit this one out. I'm sure there will be lots of male centric stories to play in the future, as there always have been.

Meanwhile, I hope everyone who likes playing from a female POV has an absolute blast with The Witcher 4.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I remember when this totally broke my immersion back in the 1990s...

Didn't they understand that I wanted to raid tombs as a MALE?!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

those boobs are killing me πŸ’€ like helium balloons yearning to fly away

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Oh, they weren't like that in the game. They were more like majestic pyramids.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Don't forget his magic dong

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I am man. I once played Tomb Raider and now my tits are huge!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

and now my tits are triangular

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

It's gay to play male characters bc you're staring at a dude all day. True hetero males play female characters because it is most hetero to look at attractive women.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Have these people even played Witcher 3? Because there you play as Ciri too sometimes. Her moveset was really fucking cool actually

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Also this is one of the games where you play a character that has personality already, self insertion isn't intended.

Geralt of Rivia, Lara Croft, B.J. Blazkowicz, Faith Connors, Alan Wake, Max Caulfield, Joel Miller, Ellie Williams, and probably Doomguy those are all roles that you play.

In contrast you have games like Skyrim, Elden Ring, Terraria, Cyberpunk 2077, Far Cry, Valheim and most classic MMORPGs, where you have a playable character that you can form to your own design.

That's just fundamentally a difference in design. Complaning that you can't self insert in a game of the first category doesn't make sense.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"I'm not a marble so I can't enjoy Marble Madness."

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fucking outrage tourists, man, this one is barely even trying

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

Edit: If you think I'm joking, Mirror Neurons are the part of the brain that manages empathy and "learning by example".

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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!?"

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

its a story driven game

in the story these games expand on, ciri is the protagonist half the time. and the central story piece most of the time

hell, geralt is just some (badass) dude, ciri is the one filling the chosen one trope

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This guy wants to look at a man's ass for 40 hours straight.

Me too, thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why are we sitting here discussing a troll? That's the most obvious bait I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

doesn't matter if this particular person is a troll. this is literally a political movement now. being a maidenless loser as a political ideology.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What a dumb bastard. I'm a dude and I've always preferred playing female characters. Never once "bRoKe mUh iMmErSiOn"

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I'm the strongest woman in the world!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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