633
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 164 points 3 months ago

I dunno, man.

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

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Earflap@reddthat.com 14 points 3 months ago

Speak for yourself, Alexios was hot!

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 108 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Kit 33 points 3 months ago

That's exactly what I'm into tho.

[-] DharkStare@lemmy.world 104 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Kit 21 points 3 months ago

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

[-] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

Jennifer Hale did such a great job in Mass Effect.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 69 points 3 months ago

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.

load more comments (6 replies)
[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I bet these dudes have no problem playing Tomb Raider.

And they were real pissed at the end of Metroid.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

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.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 50 points 3 months 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.

load more comments (6 replies)
[-] matlag@sh.itjust.works 50 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Don't forget his magic dong

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

But he says Fuck a lot, so my immersion remains intact

[-] itslilith 14 points 3 months ago

But he fucks a lot, immersion ruined

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

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.

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

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?!

[-] kazerniel@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

those boobs are killing me 💀 like helium balloons yearning to fly away

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

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

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] LemmyRefugee@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

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

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

and now my tits are triangular

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] LordGimp@lemm.ee 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

load more comments (6 replies)
[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 months ago

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.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] FlapJackFlapper@lemm.ee 31 points 3 months ago

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

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] LuckingFurker 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months 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.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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".

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

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!?"

load more comments (8 replies)
[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] starchylemming@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

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

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

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.

load more comments (6 replies)
[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] raptore39@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago

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

Me too, thanks.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 months ago

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

That's a fair point. Cyberpunk also did it quite well with the customizable character called V (Vincent/Valerie), I thought.

On the other hand, I have to say for games like the Witcher, that adapt an existing world, character set and story threads (from a book series in this case), this is probably too hard to do without compromizing the source material. I'd rather get a good adaptation than risk it going wrong.

And I also understand if smaller studios keep it simple and bring one artistic vision to the game. Like Dontnod with Life is Strange. You could probably make it so Max can be male too, but it's an extra burden and it's a valid choice to go with Max as a fixed person.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] debil@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I have a male gaming buddy whose account is named like tim2299. He names his characters Tim, they're always male and if possible, the toon's facial features resemble his real-life looks.

I don't get it.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] happysplinter@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months 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.

[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think it was Jack on Roster Teeth that said it best...

Everyone made their online character for GTAOnline as basically themselves, except Jack, he made a female character. They all start ripping on him and he hits them with "if I'm gonna be staring at an ass for the next 500 hours, i want it to be a girl's ass." I think Gavin even asked if it was too late to switch.

ETA: girls run faster in GTA, so it's the better choice by any metric.

load more comments (18 replies)
[-] Shortstack@reddthat.com 16 points 3 months ago

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

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm the strongest woman in the world!

[-] Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

“I am a very heterosexual manly man” These dudes are so transparent

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

Ya know what? Just out of spite IMA play it.

load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
633 points (100.0% liked)

gamingcirclejerk

3539 readers
2 users here now

omg they made lemmy political

Rules

  1. Gamers will be oppressed
  2. Don't be a dick
  3. No Personal Information
  4. No Self-Promotion
  5. Mark Spoilers

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS