Female character
SilkSpider
Join Date: 2016-10-22 Member: 223305Members
Join Date: 2016-10-22 Member: 223305Members
Haven't seen anything mentioned about this for a while... I'm a woman, and would very much love the option to play as a female character in the game. Don't know if you are still considering it or not, but there is at least one person you would make very happy if you did.
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It would be cool, but not really a necessity.
We're a silent protagonist, and it's nothing more than a proxy for the player, not a predefined character with a backstory, dialogue and all the bells and whistles. As a male, I feel a bit more immersed when I hear a male sounding voice yelling in pain.
For that reason I can empathise with female players wanting to play as a female. Anything that increases immersion can only be a positive.
I'm all for it. Especially considering how little work (comparatively) it would take to implement.
And if you'll allow me a little male piggery, chicks in wet suits are hot.
Bad News: It won't be in until after the 1.0 release.
The industry has evolved a great deal since then, but we still have a long way to go. I just want male to stop being the "default" sex, because there shouldn't be a "default" at all.
Subnautica is slated to be able to choose the gender of your character after v1.0 hits; also: here
You know what MMORPG stands for?
IMO, the only reason to have male and female characters is if the game is a third person game and/or a voiced protagonist. If the game is a first person game and a silent protagonist, then it doesn't matter if the character is male or female.
It's all about immersion, however. I feel as though females playing this game would feel more immersed if they were a female in game as well, and when they were damaged it didn't make the very manly grunts we already have.
And it would just be a nice option to have.
Its a matter of immersion and equality
What you want is representation. A quota. And quotas are by their very nature discriminatory, not equal.
Argue with game design concepts, not ideology. There should be no politically motivated restriction or requirements for creativity, no thoughtcrimes.
An argument is player choice, because choice matters and empowering the players matters.
An Argument is immersion, because it matters in a first person game, it matters even more in a VR game and Subnautica lives through its atmosphere which is experienced by the player through immersion.
These are arguments. The other is politically motivated shamebullying.
Looking forward to the female option big time. I'm willing to wait, though, as SN's already doing so many great (and political) things that I accept resources and time are not available for the moment.
I agree, it's not equality this would achieve, but better player choice.
There's no reason at this point NOT to include the fairer sex as an option and in fact, it is probably the best and easiest choice for increasing a games profitability tenfold or more.
From a development standpoint in Subnautica, the game is currently playable with the character, and serves the purpose of testing. Adding the female character now really doesn't change the dynamic of alpha/beta testing.
That's entirely speculative (it will increase the game's profitability!) and extremely hyperbolic (tenfold!). You can't prove that statement objectively. In this case it's moot as it's on the devs wishlist of things to do, but claims like this are not factual and they fall back on fallacies and erroneous thinking such as correlation equals causation to try to prove their point. Not that I'm opposed in the slightest, and I can't imagine (at least in this game) that adding a female silhouette, some sounds for when the protagonist takes damage that matches, and an avatar corresponding to the gender for viewing through cameras and whatnot, that it's an expensive addition consider the very minimalist approach the game takes to actually seeing/hearing the character. But these are costs that do impact game development.
Tell me, Subnautica is basically number one on the list here right?
But everybody knows females make up 90% of the video game industry's customers, and not a single one has bought Subnautica yet because no bewbs.
I honestly do not appreciate your blatant sexism. I also deduce that you have no evidence or citation to your preposterous hypothesis..
+1 if intelligent sarcasm following my own sarcasm
-100 if genuine foolishness
Either way, it gets an awesome.
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Nonbinary, inter identity, fluid gender, any of the alternate genders from non-Eurocentric societies - I reckon two-spirit will be the most readily recognized example, etc.
Come to think of it, it'd be lovely if UWE could set aside resources one day to give a third, gender ambiguous player option. I know several people who'd be interested because they so rarely get to feel represented by protags. Read-Only Memories is the last time I saw them all excited over a game.
"Unless we get a third person perspective, there really isn't a use for a female character.
It would be cool, but not really a necessity."
Not to pick on starkaos or Skope, but women hear stuff like this all the time. Yes there are qualifiers around those words, but they do tend to get said often enough without those.
I'm glad we'll get a female character eventually, but can't wait until every developer makes sure that the choice is a priority from the start. I just really hope they don't make her suit only pink.
Does it matter? The Oceanography Society did a 264 page report on it, so they must think so.
https://tos.org/oceanography/assets/images/content/27-4_supplement.pdf
I'm sure if you spent, like, 30 seconds thinking about the second half of your first sentence, you'd get an answer to your first half.
I'd concede that, except for the fact that you never really get to look at yourself in-game. Well.. wait. hmm. Really? rolls eyes. That's pathetic. Are you referring to looking down in first person view? If so I have no choice but to concede, but please bear in mind even if that wasn't the case, I don't think it would matter that much. It shouldn't, at least. I mean, good grief.
I'm not going to pretend I can carry an argument for people whose gender does not fit the cisbinary, but I know that statement is incorrect (people who are intersex are the first to come to mind) and weirdly dictating who people are. Folks don't decide their gender - they figure it out. And a little bit of support for what is a difficult journey with regularly health- and lifethreatening consequences won't be held against you.
For what it's worth, until a few years ago I reasoned like you. Things happened within my circles. Bottomline, whatever one may think of gender, it isn't worth putting that before other people's happiness, health, and safety.
Probs not. Why would I care then? Most games (and media in general) by far feature male protags or promote the male option anyway. To demand male rep in female space works by completely different power principles than to demand female rep in male space.
Although I can assure you I would not have behaved remotely like several people in this thread have behaved in the alternate universe scenario that a male option would be requested. I'm not left-handed, yet have voiced support for a left-handed option. I'm cis, yet have proposed a non-cis option. I have regularly supported and brought up considerations for players with disabilities that aren't relevant to me. It isn't that hard not to argue with someone whether their existence and presence are valid (as long as they aren't hurting anyone).