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[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Let's be honest, this is most probably a riff on the semi-current push for greater diversity in games. That "could" be boiled down to "I don't see characters with my exact physical identity and want/need this representation", even if it's reducto absurdum.

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I don't get why it's an issue period. I'm a black woman, I almost never see myself in a game unless it has a character maker. I have played game, after game, after game with characters that don't look like me and survived. It's very frustrating that just seeing a woman as the main character as immersion breaking when that was never a concern the other way around. I know they may not mean it this way, but it's almost like they can't see women as people to empathize. People played as a cat in Stray, a wolf in Okami, but they can't play as a woman because that's a step too far?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Even as a white man, characters in games do not look like me and never have. I don't have big muscles and flowing hair and all of that shit. I wouldn't look like a badass in armor, I'd look like Michael Dukakais..

And I doubt very many games would be all that fun playing as a doughy, out-of-shape, middle-aged white guy.

this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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