damn, i cant vote or write a reply in community voices, is it backer only somehow already or just a glitch?
CMcC and
ksaun
and at all, generally speaking:
We all played as female PC in Fallouts (the only two that were made), - and thats pretty much how it should go here.
but, with the fact we are talking about this kind of setting - with billion years in the future - and player dealing with all sorts of "inhuman" creatures and NPCs and enemies - i kinda doubt that would be many of them who would give rats ass about gender of the player.
phah... let alone any fucking patriarchal "issues" and all that shit that became a trope on itself.
And Torment is supposed to deal with tropes.
This of course - being one of them.
Some of you guys have read Books of Malazan, right?
It not only has strong female protagonists but very often, in case of smaller side characters, especially those inside Bridgeburners company - many are addressed and addressing each other only with nicknames and you can read more than half a book without figuring out those were actually female characters. They serve as soldiers, walk like soldiers, talk like soldiers, throw dirty jokes like soldiers, wear functional armor and have a clear "soldiery role".
Naturally, there would be some characters in the game or story who would react differently to gender, and that may help in defining their own "character", but that should be toned down and used where it fits.
Instead of plastering it all over such a far removed reality, where the setting and skills allow for pure physical strength to be less of an factor.
Sure, you can also have a character that has these "patriarchal issues" too. But such a thing must not be some kind of general issue.
Wasnt in Fallout. Anybody want to complain about that?
Most of us are at least familiar with the Steppin Razor - Molly from Neuromancer female archetype too, right? - which is just one example of the possible "options".
Anybody ever objected?
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At first, when i suggested this, i only didnt take in consideration the angle of seeing this issue through the concept of the "body snatcher" - our "Sire", who either takes over or makes these bodies he uses.
It would make sense that he is of a single gender, from the story viewpoint, right.
But - then again, he is on that epic struggle and it wouldnt take much to believe he, (even if it is a "he"), - after many bodies and lives and problems with his persecutor, maybe tried hiding even better, in a body of a different gender.
Not as any sort of sexual stupid thing but just as a way of camouflage.
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