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omg they made lemmy political

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days 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] 20 points 4 days 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] 5 points 3 days ago

I can't be immersed in a game unless it's literally me in a mundane setting with no fantasy/sci-fi etc. elements. /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It matters so much. As a straight, white, cis male, I'm so glad that kids these days of all backgrounds have representation in media.

Not only does it make for a much better variety of stories and styles, but it gives kids proper role models and lets them know that there are other people out there like them. The difference in this aspect between now and the 90s is unbelievable, and I really hope we don't backslide too much...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Alan Wake 2: you can play with both: Saga and Alan. Gamers: Nooooo, I want to play only as Alan Wake.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I am neither a doctor, nor am I Mario! Immersion broken!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days 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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days 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 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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] 17 points 4 days ago

I am not interested in playing as a male. As a male, I already go through life as one. I don't have the urge to experience that further. Breaks immersion.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days 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] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

i will always champion for character creators in any game. mass effect proved you could have a heavy "story based" game with two main versions of the single main character + the countless custom personal creations

for example it is an absolute crime star wars outlaws and the jedi ones did not have a custom human character but also not all of the amazing alien races you could of played. such. a. waste.

but also fuck off to those that just go 'boo girl/guy!" etc

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I think Im missing the issue here. Wasn't the same argument used for adding female characters to games and transgender characters later on?

Kinda thought that's the goal, for everyone to be represented if possible. That said, I'm looking forward to game being focused on Ciri

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They for sure didnt complain when you only could play a man in the first 3 games.

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