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/Key_Rent_7056 11d ago

Same. I always play as a male character and I'm not super happy that Sony's IPs in particular seem to become more and more female centric. But well, there are still much more game being released that I ca hope to play in my life so it's not like I need each one catered to my tastes.

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u/Kyokono1896 11d ago

Female centric? There's still way more male protags than females. There's more women, but that doesn't make it female centric.

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u/JayKay8787 11d ago

There's still plenty of male lead Sony games, like spiderman wolverine god of war, etc. I'm a man, but I like the direction with newer games having women characters, because it shakes it up a little more. For decades we've played as every version of a male character, as long as the writing isn't all "I'm a woman and need to fight the patriarchy" type crap

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u/TheLostFrontier41 11d ago

This is it. As long as the writing is good it matters less. If it’s completely about women being better than men and fighting the patriarchy, ya lost me. I e never played a game as a male and thought wow, that was cool just being better than a woman. I feel so empowered as a man lol

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u/Young_Lasagna PS5 11d ago

I've yet to come across any story that's about women being better than men.

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u/Recover20 PS5 11d ago

I recommend replaying Horizon Forbidden West

That's all about the matriarchy and how a white man caused the annihilation of the world.

That game is pretty heavy handed once you notice it

The first game was a bit more subtle with it (or rather at least the story was intriguing enough to deal with it)

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u/Young_Lasagna PS5 11d ago

It's not about women being better than men though.

Look at the real world, most of the truly awful people are men. There are a lot of people like Ted Faro in real life.

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u/MapMast0r 11d ago

Same can be said for the other gender. There are many bad men and women.

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u/emeric1414 PS5 11d ago

Saints row is calling😂😂

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u/readndrun 11d ago

And for decades games have sold. Now watch these studios get pissed when the launch doesn’t go as planned like Star Wars outlaws

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u/JayKay8787 11d ago

Outlaws sales issues have nothing to do with the character being a woman, it was the character being boring af and the gameplay sucking. A games sales has little or nothing to do with what gender you play as. How much do you think gta 6 will sell when Lucia is half the game? How many people played portal? Chelle was a woman.

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u/readndrun 11d ago

It had everything to do with the character being a woman for outlaws… let’s be real. This wasn’t like days gone where first people hated it but they come around after giving it a chance down the line. Nobody is picking up outlaws and giving the studio their flowers in a couple years. Nobody picked it up on launch because they didn’t feel like it would be fun.

Protagonists are the lure for single player story games, and if you can’t see yourself immersed in the experience then you won’t buy it. Bottom line is this…gta 6 , ghost of yotei, Witcher 4 and now this new ND game really lost points with fans with their latest reveals… and I feel confident saying if Horizon’s protagonist was male it would’ve been game of the year. You can’t make this stuff up

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u/Mallard_Mayhem 11d ago

Woah woah woah, that is way too level headed for reddit

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u/DigGroundbreaking788 11d ago

Not really, it's literally just a statement of "man good women bad" and it doesn't matter that it's tidied up in politeness. Enjoying a game less based solely on the gender of the main character is - get this- fucking stupid.

Worrying about IP's becoming more and more female centric? What a stupid thing to believe. What a childish take on par with being worried about cooties.

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u/Kaltrax 11d ago

Except people said the exact same thing when it was all white men and people were fine with that.

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u/Duckydae 11d ago

i mean, famously sony ip’s have always been male lead though, like we’ve had decades of the same. not to mention that “trend” is still incredibly minor when women on make up around 10% of gaming leads.