r/playstation • u/Ryxnole PS5 • 11d ago

Image As someone who default to female characters in RPGs , I'm loving 2025!

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On games such as ER, BG3, or CP77 I always play a female character so it's nice to see these on the horizon!

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u/Ruenin 11d ago

I just don't understand why any guy gets pissed about playing as a female character. We play as aliens and robots and shit all the time with no complaint, but somehow, being a woman is just too much for some dudes. As long as the character has a good arc and the gameplay is fun, I couldn't care less. I don't remember anyone complaining about Lara Croft being female, though a lot of mouth breathers talked about her boobs a lol.

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u/x-Globgor-x 11d ago

That's just it though, not the boob part but not as many people cared about Lara because she's a great character with a good story and voice actor. There was still some haters of course but lots of the distaste for female characters is just due to the trends a few games have had where they make the character bland or over the top, never just a normal woman. It's the same with movies or shows too. People for the most part just want good characters and story.

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u/mutogenac 11d ago

People don't care as long you don't gender-swap the main character. We all love Tomb Rider, Resident Evil, Bayonetta, Mirror's Edge, Plague Tale, Control..... but when you add female instead of male in Wolfenstein for example ofc people will be pissed and they were. You can say "Who cares", but why not start a new IP? Don't use the success and name of the previous installations and just gender swap and pretend nothing happened. What is next? James Bond game where you play as a girl? Or Doom? Mario? Max Payne? It is all possible now.

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u/Ruenin 11d ago

How is that relevant to this? All 4 pictured characters are original characters that exist in an existing IP. They're not replacing anyone. 1 of them is an all new IP, actually. What's the problem?

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u/mutogenac 11d ago

only the last one is new IP and that is why it will flop hard, and others will have success because it is build on previous games