PrinceOfDeath
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Given the site, I'd peg 99.5% interest here as 'PC'.
Well.
Theres the PC UI.
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2009
- Messages
- 107
Given the site, I'd peg 99.5% interest here as 'PC'.
They had to commit to a female character if their story is centered around deaths daughter taking over daddy's job.
Dragon Age has something similar. You can choose a lot of stuff during char creation, but only the first name can be chosen. The last name is fixed depending on race.
I like to get in touch with my feminine side by using female avatars in cRPG's.
I'd have to give up playing a lot of games if I shared your gender centric outlook, D'artagnan.
I do agree though that while generic male avatars are acceptable, they're something of a turn-off--especially the musclebound brute-looking ones, and I'd prefer a female--but then you have the story-focused games that have been mentioned, where the plot revolves around a definite persona. I would have missed Gothic, PS:T and The Witcher, my three favorite non-party rpgs if I let stuff like that stop me.
It may sound pretty boring to those who don't care about identifying closely with the player character, and who simply enjoy experiencing different sides of themselves.
(Admittedly I tend to skip any hetero romance subplots if I'm playing as a woman, but then I usually don't care much for the romance subplots anyway.)
A good role playing experience shouldn't just be about playing yourself in an imaginary world, though. (Or should it? I guess if that's what you enjoy, then it should.) But I know I enjoyed the three games I mentioned just because I completely got away from being myself and could imagine myself as someone doing things I would never have the chance or ability to do, for reasons that were at first very foreign but ultimately made sense and made me see things from a new perspective.
A good role playing experience shouldn't just be about playing yourself in an imaginary world, though. (Or should it? I guess if that's what you enjoy, then it should.)
I have to admit, when I first play a game, I tend to "play myself in a fantasy world". I do whatever I'd do in that particular situation (usually end up as Neutral Good). I might have problems in Venetica for that reason. I only try to roleplay different characters once I've already played as myself.
That's one of the reasons PS:T, Gothic and ME work out so well for me - while the story evolves around a predefined character, that character is open enough to allow me to play more or less any kind of character. Overall I feel that PS:T had the best character, but ME actually allowed you to be either a male or female character (still predefined), so that's certainly something to include in future games.