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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by autismdragon@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

This discourse was going around twitter today apparently and im curious takes from here.

Which is it for you?

For me i prefer playersexuality. I want to be able to romance any romance option regardless of my charachters gender. I dont want to be stuck with only Arcade Gannon if i want to do m/m

I agree that sexuality can be important to a charachter. But if you wanna do that, seems like the charachter can just not be a romance option.

That said. In RPGs devs can do what they want. You want a charachter to be monosexual and a romance option, have at it. (Unless theyre all straight, then fuck you).

I do kinda hate what The Sims did by adding monosexuality. Felt like such a virtue signal that made the game less fun. All Sims being pansexual was always more fun for me. Especially since i usually play that game as a pansexual slut. Unless i decide my player Sim is mono, but thats on the player's end.

Monosexual townies in the Sims should at least be optional (is it? Idk havent played Sims 4 since this update).

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[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

That said, my preference is still set sexuality. Especially the more grounded a setting. Judy from Cyberpunk (recency bias am I right) for example likely wouldn't feel as real a character to me without the history of messy lesbian situation-ships thing she has going on.

she could be bi if the PC is male and still be a lesbian if the PC isn't and the distinction matters. the world where you picked the other gender in character creation doesn't exist during the game so i don't understand why it should affect the narrative (unless the writers are cowards, of course. can't really say "change a thing" and expect nothing else to ripple from that on the dev side)

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