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The Witcher 4 "won't focus on Geralt," but his voice actor says he'll at least be "a part" of the RPG sequel (www.yahoo.com)

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[–] scrion 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So, female leads in video games are fine when used and perceived as a novelty? Special and cool like they used to be? You can tolerate them if the game is good? Jesus man, I don't know what to tell you...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

It's funny I feel this way about the amount of generic Brown-haired gruff man protagonists we got about 15 years back. Without the "they used to be novel", because they've never been novel

[+] RightHandOfIkaros -26 points 4 months ago (5 children)

This is not what I meant at all, but leave it to Lemmy to make Redditors look intelligent, I guess. This place has really gone downhill quick.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Female leads are fine as long as the game is good? Why are male leads fine even if the game is not good? Why does the gender matter either way?

[–] Stamau123 4 points 4 months ago

Please go back to reddit, /r/gaming needs your discourse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You're not exactly making yourself look intelligent there, both with your original post and this reply.

If what you **said **- there's enough games with female leads; female leads are only fine as long as the game is good; female lead is bonus points for a good game; it's no longer special - isn't what you meant, then why didn't you say what you meant?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I'll bite the potential bait. What did you mean then?

I ask as a straight white dude that generally creates female characters in game and truly enjoy seeing how the game world reacts to the character (if it does) and find it enjoyable to experience challenges outside of those that generally color my world view.

It's cool to be Geralt or Male Shepard but I've seen, read and played that story quite a few times. For my personal enjoyment I'd like to live in a world (especially another CDPR one, doubly so for the Witcher universe) as a female character. It opens up a shit ton of new dialog possibilities and quest choices.

Having played through Cyberpunk multiple times as both male and female V, there's skme truly unique things that they do that are only possible by leveraging the PC's gender when interacting with the world.