God the entire point is that it shouldn’t matter. Executives forcing one thing or the other is what is making everyone hate both forces male and forced “woke” characters. Just let the freaking creatives do their job and stop having some committee decide for them. It makes the stories so freaking awkward.
If the story makes sense, I don’t care. Let the creators make the characters they want and stop pushing agendas at all. If they want to make the queerest game let them. If they want a male protag, who cares. Executives are not creatives. (Neither are the panels of people they put in charge of market research either)
executives don’t give a fuck about anything except money. with a male hero you’re still getting the handful of girl gamers’ money, but with a woman hero you’re losing the wish-i-was-a-tough-guy boy gamers who are so insecure they literally can’t play a game as a woman character because their simple minds interpret that as “play woman character = i am literally a woman now = weak.”
yea, it’s fucking stupid, but that’s what’s happening. it’s the same ridiculous nonsense with non-white, non-straight characters
God the entire point is that it shouldn’t matter. Executives forcing one thing or the other is what is making everyone hate both forces male and forced “woke” characters. Just let the freaking creatives do their job and stop having some committee decide for them. It makes the stories so freaking awkward.
If the story makes sense, I don’t care. Let the creators make the characters they want and stop pushing agendas at all. If they want to make the queerest game let them. If they want a male protag, who cares. Executives are not creatives. (Neither are the panels of people they put in charge of market research either)
Reminds me of a joke I heard about Concord.
“Our marketing team was heavily involved in the making of our character designs”
“I can tell”
executives don’t give a fuck about anything except money. with a male hero you’re still getting the handful of girl gamers’ money, but with a woman hero you’re losing the wish-i-was-a-tough-guy boy gamers who are so insecure they literally can’t play a game as a woman character because their simple minds interpret that as “play woman character = i am literally a woman now = weak.”
yea, it’s fucking stupid, but that’s what’s happening. it’s the same ridiculous nonsense with non-white, non-straight characters
And with a male protagonist you lose all the “I don’t want to stare at a guy’s ass for an entire game” demographic.
First person: male
Third person: female
System: hacked
Edit: Do it in one game and you also get trans inclusivity tag! ^^
Man dudes don’t know what they’re missing do they. I love femshep in 3rd person, but oh dang Geralt