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Sep 18 2017 Anchor | ||
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Edited by: TilenM |
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Sep 19 2017 Anchor | ||
To be honest why does it matter? Is it a centeral point in your story? or are you doing it to virtue signal?
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Sep 20 2017 Anchor | ||
It really depends on the story IMO. If your game is about a life of a blind girl, having agender protagonist would obviously not fit. OTOH if the game is about alien or monster trying to save the world, gender hardly matters so agender protagonist would do. Example : Ghost Trick : Phantom Detective is about ghost trying to save people while discovering the truth about his/her death. At beginning of game, you might guess protagonist' gender however after completing the game, you could see that gender of protagonist has no effect to the story
Usually I never bother since gameplay is always my main focus of playing a game. |
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Sep 20 2017 Anchor | ||
DarkBloodbane wrote: This is honestly the response of the average person. No one really cares I think. Again I don't think the gender of the character is really even necessary as anything but some side info instead of the main selling point. I think as a marketer you've really overestimated the value of this one faucet of the character as a selling point. In any case hope Mr. Marketer understand what people are getting at |
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Sep 20 2017 Anchor | ||
Is the protagonist's gender really important? If "No" is the answer to both questions, why don't you simply make it androgynous? As why to do that, I personally think it is a good idea to have an androgynous protagonist (whose gender is never mentioned) so that said gender is applied by the person playing it. It would not be much different than choosing the classic "Male/Female" but it would be an improvement because you wouldn't have to work on minimum two protagonist models, you wouldn't have to set up the story in a way that keeps track of the protagonist's gender and you could simply skip the whole "select gender" part; Plus, there are some people that identify as both, or neither... By having an androgynous character whose gender is never mentioned or chosen, they could easily identify as anything and immerse themselves in more easily. TLDR: I see having an androgynous protagonist as less work, an improvement under many aspects and surely more original than most games albeit not innovative. |
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