I think women are cool.
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As probably a generic "dude" as one can be, I like playing female characters because it gives me a chance to be someone I'm not. I play games to remove myself from the real world for a bit, and playing a male character feels too much like self-insertion.
It's weird, but being forced into playing from a "self" perspective I find to be less enjoyable. I like being told a story, and getting to participate in it, but I dont like when the story feels like it's supposed to be about myself, rather than a character.
For me, it’s the voice. For a voiced character like V, it requires a very special talent to take you on a journey with them, to listen to their fear, pain, anger and despair. Cherami Leigh just does such a fantastic job of bringing V to life for me, of really bringing that raw emotion out and making it feel real!
If its a 3rd person game and im gonna be looking at someones ass for 40 or so hours, im gonna make it an ass I enjoy seeing.
One of the weirdest people I ever knew said that exact thing about why he played a girl in Pokémon games. That dude was incredibly sus.
A few reasons. My first playthrough, I played as male V nomad. For my second, I went when a female V streetkid. So, part of it was going for a different story.
Another part is Judy. Yes, people have made mods to allow romance as a male character but those just don't seem right to me. Judy's a badass, beautiful, crazy-smart, and one of the only characters in Night City that I could likely be friends with IRL. But friends/extended family is all it could be. She's very clearly a lesbian, in her character as you get to know her and even her choice and style of tattoos - the roses on her arm especially seem rather anarcho-sapphic to me. Using a mod to "make her straight" just seems wrong, like a violation of deep parts of who Judy is. So, my second character was a lesbian.
And finally, when I started my second playthrough, I was a bit thirsty.
They "don't seem right"? How so? I am romancing her as male v and I haven't had any issues. She was originally bi to begin with. There's mods to fix the voice and some of the animations, too. Using a mod to "make her straight" is harmless. Let me guess, but it's ok if people make panam romance females, right?
They "don't seem right"? How so?
It feels to me like robbing the character of her agency (yeah, it's a program that doesn't really have agency). And it seems too similar, to me, to "she just needs the right man" sort of thinking, which is just tiresome.
Let me guess, but it's ok if people make panam romance females, right?
You do you. I'm not judging. Just stating how experience it myself. I'd not do that myself with Panam because her dialog when flirting with her as femme V makes clear that she's not into women.
Ah. Well, at least you aren't a hypocrit? I've seen people get pissed that a mod on nexus made judy romanceable for male v, which nexus removed, but then were totally cool with the mod that lets female v romance panam (which, last I checked, was still up a while back). I don't really think it's a bad thing at all, you can't rob pixels of their agency, because they are not people, and the folks who judge those of us who romance judy as males sound just plain silly to me about how bad it is. I don't see this "she just needs the right man" thinking you mention. I separate that stuff from my videogames, and I simply play how I want.
Why be me when I can be a pretty girl
I started my first playthrough as a male. But male V just seemed like a dull loud asshole. So I restarted as female V. For me this seems like the intended way. V is still loud and brutal but also seemed more sensitive to me.aybe it's just the voice acting.
One of my biggest criticisms points is, that it's not really possible to play a calm and collected character in Cyberpunk. That's something I'm dearly missing. Cyberpunk 2077 is not really an rpg.