I used to think my desire to play female characters was a “closeted trans” thing. It’s not. I’m definitely a cis gendered male. I’ve realized, at least for me, it’s more of a self worth thing. I don’t want to play as something I don’t particularly like, such as me, and so I play something as opposite as possible. I’m working on that, tho.
Hell yeah brother. Never forget the most important step a man can take: the next one.
Hahah. True, that.
For most 3d games you spend 99% of the time looking at the backside of the character anyway. Lady butts are just better to look at generally.
Additionally in most character creation it seems easier to get a decent looking female character than a decent looking male character. I’m not entirely sure why but most male characters in games look like blocky fuzzy potatoes. When you start getting weird with fashion choices on top of that it just looks like a potato dressed like a goofball. With female characters you can go nuts with crazy hair colors, piercings, and wild fashion choices and it looks more deliberate somehow.
Bisexual woman here, so I agree with you on the butts, but straight girls and gay men do exist.
Okay feminism time. In my opinion, the reason that dude’s look like potatoes in video games is most likely because of the gender disparities in the industry. There just isn’t anyone that looks at men from the perspective of attraction.
I think you’re spot on.
Part of the reason I think it’s a little easier to render women is that they typically have smoother less textured skin than men (video game women look like they are wearing makeup even if it makes no sense), and we’re only just now getting the graphical fidelity to render realistic looking facial hair or fine stubble in realtime.
Not that long ago making stubble on a male character usually just involved putting an irregular brown shadow on their cheeks which can be pretty indistinguishable from dirt.
While I don’t disagree with those points, I just don’t think the technical aspects are that much of the issue.
Oh it’s definitely a reflection of the makeup of the industry too. No disagreement there.
Ah, right you were explaining additional issues alongside it, sorry that was my bad reading comprehension!
Yeah, I was wondering that until modern games started changing voicelines to reflect the characters’ gender.
The moment Drifter referred to my hunter as “Sister”, all those doubts were cured.
Ever since the appearance modding system went in, my Hunter’s been pretty genderfluid - I tend to swap from male to female depending on how I feel that day.
Oh yeah, I’ve quit the game for good by that time.
I am similarly cis gender, straight male (much to my more fluid spouse’s amusement and dismay). I’ve just found the fem- voice actors to be better. Femshep, the female lead in Ghost Recon Wildlands, etc. Or maybe it’s that the brah actors for the male characters sound so consistently dumb. And now it’s just a thing I do.
PS. I hope you love yourself.
Working on it. Thanks for the support.
I like how this meme is crafted to be life-ruiningly specific for maybe 2 people in the whole world, but we all get to blithely enjoy the anti-humour
Out of the loop. I don’t get it.
It’s a setup for them saying you may identify as Trans, then switching it up by explaining some news for you, as in something said in the news, aka a storm coming
Oh well. I thought there was a joke about being trans in Florida.
Either option is a good reason to leave that state.
Yup. I expected the affected area to be all of Florida, just as the bill takes effect. Looks like a boring genuine one though.
In the years since this joke first floated out into the tubes of the internet, Florida has gotten specifically worse for trans people, to the point that your thought would be quite plausible.
Trans floridians please evacuate the storm, the rest of em can stay there
Ah. I’m slow. Also, “ha ha”.
It’s just a regular anti-joke
I think it’s a big meme in the transgender community that if you are assigned male at birth and choose to be a female in videogames etc. it means you may be trans
Instead of “you may be trans”, they hit you with a pretty scary weather forecast thank god I don’t live there
Idk I’m not trans and maybe looking too far into the setup but I feel like equating playing girls in video games with being a closet trans is really reductive to what it actually means to be trans
I often choose female characters in games because I like variety and male characters are super common. I always make them non-white if given an option, too, although non-human is best of all!
I always choose female characters in games with a third person camera. If I’m gonna be staring at them the whole time I play they better be nice on the eyes!
I’ve heard that reason a lot, but I’m usually too busy kicking ass to pay attention to hers. And I prefer outfits that look intimidating rather than skimpy.
Yup. I don’t understand how some people are looking at a characters ass more than what else is on the screen and I’m a horny pansexual.
I play a girl in dark souls because dark souls 2 stole my gender
That coffin changed it all
boysgalsHello fellow dark souls 2 enjoyer. The Internet had made me think there were no others.
Power stancing
Zweihander parries
Small white soapstone
Covenant of Champions
Bonfire Ascetics
Dark Souls 2 had a lot of cool things that didn’t get enough credit.
I loved dark souls 2. It has a lot of really neat things. Just a couple of questionable design paradigms keep it from being a top tier FS game, but the worst of the best is still pretty fuckin good.
If they would have called it something else people would like it more. If they called bloodborne or sekiro dark souls and shoehorned in some lore, people would hate those games.
Not enough playable spider girls…
A close friend of mine is making a playable-spider-girl-based game.
I’m in the process of programming a procedural spider walk for it: https://youtu.be/oeBFCxbtwXM
The spider body is placeholder, it will become a drider. The plan is to make the legs able to seek and grip on arbitrary 3d geometry, including flailing when no good purchase is available, and allow the spider to traverse on any surface.
Edit: I am also chronically ill but slowly finding stability, don’t hold your breath for this to come out.
That is awesome.
Can I also not hold my breath for a spider-tank game?
Spider tank game does sound cool. I actually have a scifi concept about cyborg-vehicles that people ride inside of. They’re genetically-engineered living tissue with cybernetic components, a cockpit and possibly a neural interface, and they would be walkers.
The walking controller is generic, so it really should accommodate any number of limbs. And you could quite easily make it lumber more slowly like a mech.
Basically Eva spider tanks? Want.
I don’t see a lot of games actually make legs look like they’re reacting to the ground under them so the concept is cool and really makes things feel … grounded. The last I remember is MechWarrior 4 from forever ago.
Huh, I never made the connection with Eva, but I watched that as a kid so the influence would’ve been there.
And yeah, MW4’s feet blew me away when I first saw them. The way they tilted to match the ground and rotated to turn the mech.
Thats oddly satisfying to watch. Best of luck!
There are dozens of us weirdos out their with questionable taste.
Thanks! I think that’s a good sign :)
I’m not going to tell you you’re wrong about me being a weirdo with questionable taste.
I always do non-human if the option is given too. Its just more fun to be a lizard person or an alien, if not, I go for “eh, that looks enough like me”
I have a fascination with collars. I want to be a dog. Where is the video game that lets me play as a dog?
Okami
Parappa the Rapper
Sam and Max
That’s on me, I set the bar too low.
Sleeping Dogs
Kick
Punch
It’s all in the mind
Tokyo Jungle
There’s a PS2 game literally called a dog’s life where you play as a dog.
Thanks for letting me know! I left a window open at home and don’t want my precious BLÅHAJ to blow away!
Shoutout to my fort myers and cape coral homies
See also Cas confessing to Dean, followed by world events.
