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[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 50 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Getting called a bitch as masc V in cyberpunk :(

Getting called a bitch as femme V in cyberpunk >:|

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

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

[-] velvetThunder@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

While I agree with the rest. I think we have learned enough about the current state of game release and if we should preorder.

[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

I haven't pre-ordered a game since Halo: ODST when I was getting a physical copy from GameStop. I am very aware of the problems with pre-ordering, and I still want to pre-order Witcher 4 because I want to send the message that they did not make a mistake by making Ciri the main/playable character.

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

Honestly it's free publicity. Like I know they don't like courting controversy traditionally but hbomberguy's video on Woke Brands explains how they've figured out that triggering these people can be really good for sales.

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