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).
Thank you, it takes real integrity to admit that and I appreciate it a lot.
Someone rejecting you because they're not into your gender isn't a big deal in a vacuum. No more so than any of the other many factors about yourself which you do not have control over. Actually I'd go further - in a safe environment, an "I don't swing that way" is honestly one of the softest and easiest to get past rejection lines you can get.
There is the danger you touch on but it's related to factors the author has complete control over with in the fiction of the game. There is no reason there has to be any risk associated to being outed or of physical danger. Frankly, as a power fantasy I'd probably appreciate being able to kick the ass of some homophobic psycho who thought me flirting with them was justification for assault.
You convinced me
(also your other arguments make sense, especially because I don’t think I even really disagree with set sexualities in general (they’re going to pretty much always be better because of how writing works. It just seemed somewhat contradictory to what some games were going for but that’s only SOME games, not even close to a majority))
semi unrelated
would only really find issue with it in games that would implement it alongside a more accurate non-binary gender system while also being a generic power fantasy RPG sort of game, just because I think that would naturally lead to things like simulating attractiveness based on player appearance which sounds miserable to me. I don’t think any game that includes both of those things even exists yet, though. It would be way too much dev time anyways)