To be fair I did bought Witcher 3 thinking it'll be a great Fucking Simulator but instead I got the best open world RPG ever made.
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Main Female Protagonist Characters having Sex
- Thread starter Basarili
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To be fair I did bought Witcher 3 thinking it'll be a great Fucking Simulator but instead I got the best open world RPG ever made.
"Forced diversity / gender" male-defaultism narrative right in the second paragraph, this will go well.
I mean, he also said he doesn't have the same feelings when it comes to male protagonists.
OP, never play Yakuza series. If those examples bother you then you'll be devastated when you get around to Yakuza 6.
Zero would be in the REALLY active category lol.
She's a total badass too, easily one of my fave female characters from last gen.
It really annoys me too. Lemme me be the main female protag with a straight relationship. Devs pls.
Do you think a lot of these thoughts are influenced by your religion? How conservative are you / how traditional is your family?
If I'm playing a story based game with a female protagonist, then there's nothing wrong with her having a relationship that's sexual in nature.
I played Kassandra in AC:O and banged everyone I could find, male or female lol. I appreciated the option to let me do such a thing being there, and think more games should do the same.
I played Kassandra in AC:O and banged everyone I could find, male or female lol. I appreciated the option to let me do such a thing being there, and think more games should do the same.
Being asexual does not mean that sex repulses you, it's a whole spectrum that can be very veeery varied.
Why is it worse that Geralt, a likeable character that has developed romances and good scenes that is appreciated by both women and queer men to old Kratos that had QTE mini games that were frankly, incredibly uncomfortable. (who was not desired by men and women, I just can't put my finger on it)
Because a strong indendent woman can kiss whoever she likes, case closed.
Maybe a bit OT but I remember some Japanese gamers getting real pissed when a visual novel game had the main heroine get with someone that wasn't the main character. It got so bad that the studio that made the game had to actually close down because people were vandalising their property and harassing them.
Waifu culture was a mistake.
Waifu culture was a mistake.
Reading the thread title I assumed this would be a thread about games like Horizon going out of its way to avoid the topic, but uh, yikes. I'll echo the sentiment that, while female protagonists keep getting stronger, they're in need of stronger relationship writing, and stop being worried male players will be turned off by it.
OP, I'm not sure if it's your intent but I get the impression that you feel a degree of possessiveness towards female characters which you don't for male which is the problem behind your discomfort.
Why would you think that? Any major game this generation with a woman as a protagonist that you only can kiss men?
You should play Kassandra in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I love her classic Greek sexual liberalness. Probably one of my favorite parts in the game is having her flirt with everything that moves. Don't know why but I find it really endearing to have a philandering woman for once where it's played not as a weird fetishistic thing.
This is the one case that actually annoyed me. No buildup for their relationship and we just are supposed to accept that's Haruka's baby. I spent half the game thinking surely it was someone else's baby, and couldn't figure out why everyone just accepted the baby as Haruka's. In the end I was okay with their relationship, but it really threw me for a loop. I would have liked to see more of their interactions that led to their relationship blossoming.
I feel like while OP's post does sound weird as hell, his stream of consciousness also unearths some of the actual hangups that many dudes tend to have in regards to female protagonists hooking up with male NPCs.
Obviously, most wouldn't admit to those feelings and some aren't even fully aware of them (it just feels "off"), but I mean there gotta be some issues that men actually have with this kind of thing, otherwise relationships involving female protagonists would go somewhere more often.
My bet is on "yuck, my self-insert is kissing a man, that's gay" (ironically, that's why action between two women would be perceived better than between a heterosexual couple) and "... wait, am I a cuck now?..".
Obviously, most wouldn't admit to those feelings and some aren't even fully aware of them (it just feels "off"), but I mean there gotta be some issues that men actually have with this kind of thing, otherwise relationships involving female protagonists would go somewhere more often.
My bet is on "yuck, my self-insert is kissing a man, that's gay" (ironically, that's why action between two women would be perceived better than between a heterosexual couple) and "... wait, am I a cuck now?..".
I'm struggling to see what your real issue is here. Do you feel protective of women or do you just not trust the people that they sometimes engage with? Or is it something else entirely?
I was actually surprised that they didn't do a "twist" there and it was straight up hers. So I kinda liked that.
Um... what? Actually, I do think female protagonists owning their sexuality is needed. Straight? Even better, just to fly on the face of nerds.
There is lots of written stuff in here which teaches me that I still have a lot to learn and that lots of stuff I have written is understood differently then I would have thought.
I also see some posters who have not read everything.
I loved the drama in that my fav series. Also the two of them where a good couple the plot was well made.
I also see some posters who have not read everything.
I loved the drama in that my fav series. Also the two of them where a good couple the plot was well made.
Zero in Drakengard 3 being completely unapologetic about her wants and needs for sex made her vastly more interesting than the many chaste, helpless waifs that litter games throughout history.
Wow...I...uh...expected a totally different topic from the title. Like, on the opposite spectrum of different lmaooo
It's like the OP read some feminist critiques but decided to repackage it in the most paternalistic way possible.
Annoyed may have been too strong a word. In the end I have come around to liking it, but I definitely had some mixed feelings halfway through the game. I played Y6 right after Y5 and it felt like a VERY big jump from her character in Y5 where you basically live the whole idol life. So in some ways I was projecting the problematic standards of the idol industry onto her character that an idol should be pure and chaste. I personally detest that culture in real life, but I always enjoyed how Yakuza leans super hard into the lifestyles it represents. Really it was a better written story than the cop out "oh it's some Yakuza baby" would have been, so I should have given the writers more credit with her characterization.
I wish more female character were sexually active. Indeed, we recently saw Capcom changing the picture of Jill's boyfriend to a dog.