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"Two-thirds" of AC: Odyssey Players Played As Alexios
- Thread starter Mezoly
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The difference between two thirds and one half is only one sixth. I'd say this is a fine split, in terms of Ubisoft's work paying off.
If the split was 25-75, it would be a problem.
If the split was 25-75, it would be a problem.
Alexios has some of the worst voice acting ive ever heard in a game. Its as bad and lol worthy as chris klein as nash in that chun li movie
Same here. Was very happy to get some man-on-man action in a video game.
I feel represented.
I bought this game, just because of Kassandra, probably first playlable woman I really really like. But one think I do not understand, why is the shame play as a man, you know, you can choose.
And this is totally not ME situation, Mark Meer does faar better job as commander Shephard (besides voicing Vorcha, wonder how many people could do that), since Jennifer Hale is in so much other titles it felt really like flat and boring, sorry. Voice matters.
And this is totally not ME situation, Mark Meer does faar better job as commander Shephard (besides voicing Vorcha, wonder how many people could do that), since Jennifer Hale is in so much other titles it felt really like flat and boring, sorry. Voice matters.
Yep. Superior voice acting, canon character, and the villain of the game just plays off her character a lot better imo.
I think it's safe to assume that the majority of straight male gamers played Alexios. I'm talking about the folks on Era who keep dropping in just to say Alexios is trash, but not engage in any way.
In any case, I've appreciated the Alexios defenders in this thread, and I'm reconsidering playing as him when the game arrives next week.
Also, side note, this thread is a reminder of what an absolutely tremendous protagonist Bayek was. Easily top one or two AC protags, and definitely better than everyone's all time favorite Ezio. Bayek is legitimately one of my favorite GAME protagonists. Well-rounded, flawed in just the right ways, motivated in just the right ways. Just an absolute standout character.
No split would be a problem. People were given a choice who to play and that's good. They just chose what they preferred. Nothing more, nothing less.
That is insane, Kassandra had by far the best voice acting.
I skipped most of them and had a BLAST with Odyssey, especially with the exporation mode.
I skipped most of them and had a BLAST with Odyssey, especially with the exporation mode.
I wanted to start the game over with kassandra next after I beat it with Alexios. Is it worth it? Is the story completely different for her or are the scenes just swapping the characters out?
I'm not understanding the problem. People choose who they want to play as. Is this a political thing?
Even diversity in the background is better than no diversity at all. Look at some issues people had with The Witcher 3 and the lack of black NPCs in the base game. Then compare that to the diversity of Horizon's NPCs and how much people enjoyed and valued that. Just having diversity in the world makes a game more inclusive than it would be otherwise.
You don't have to dive deep in here to see, that for some people, choose between Apple and Orange for snack is a political decision....
I'd imagine it's like Mass Effect Andromeda where they're effectively the same character.
As a Bi- man I usually play as the female character because I find that I generally enjoy that more, but I am not at all surprised.
In fact, 1/3 is actually much higher than I would guess.
No its not? Those are quite tame in terms of complaints.
It is not a big deal and most people aren't treating it as such.
In fact, 1/3 is actually much higher than I would guess.
No its not? Those are quite tame in terms of complaints.
It is not a big deal and most people aren't treating it as such.
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While thats true im not disappointed cause playing a gay man is rare as hell in a videogame.
That's fair. I think a full game with a sole female protag, followed (or preceded, whatever) by a full game featuring a sole gay male protag, would have been much better though.
Hell, I don't think there's a single AAA game featuring a pre-set gay male protagonist as sole playable protagonist, is there?
Edit: oh and also I kinda feel that gay Alexios was almost an afterthought, considering there's twice as many potential female love interests as there are males. Roleplaying as a straight female or a gay male is penalized compared to playing as gay Kassandra or straight Alexios. It kinda sucks.
The new female reboot of God of War looks badass.This news disappoints Kassandra.
There isnt as far as i know, so you can understand why i would always pick the gay male option in any game i can.
I'm not opposed to play an AC or any other game with a sole female protagonist tho. Ubisoft is certainly having minorities represention a whole lot more than most software houses for sure.
Why the "surprise"? It's been known since the dawn of time that male protagonist will always be preferred over female. Gamers "rise up" and all that shit and will avoid female characters when given a choice. Whether it's FemShep or whatever other hand gives you choice, even in MMOs you see more male characters running instead of female.
Kassandra is an amazing character, but when given a choice to choose one without knowing much about the characters prehand, folks will go for the male protagonist.
I hope there's a game in the future where both male and female characters have ridiculously opposite personalities, to the extend that picking a male character gives you a bad ending because he will turn evil or some shit. That'll be awesome. Having the same personality with dialogue swaps or minor changes will not help anyone to make a decision between looks and gender.
Kassandra is an amazing character, but when given a choice to choose one without knowing much about the characters prehand, folks will go for the male protagonist.
I hope there's a game in the future where both male and female characters have ridiculously opposite personalities, to the extend that picking a male character gives you a bad ending because he will turn evil or some shit. That'll be awesome. Having the same personality with dialogue swaps or minor changes will not help anyone to make a decision between looks and gender.
If too few people were choosing the female character, I expect it would stop returning in future games. Business execs would question why they're putting in the development and voice acting expense, etc etc.
I loved my playthrough with Kassandra, but not entirely sure why anyone is looking too deeply into these stats. It's not like people's choices about who they play as is indicative of some type of social progress or anything. Myriad factors would go into the character selection, not just 'respect for women', 'strong female leads' etc. I look forward to playing as Alexios in my next playthrough. More than anything, I'm just glad people bought and enjoyed the game.
Then perhaps more casual gamers are off social media rather than on social media.
Then they should've stopped investing like decades ago. There's always a market for things, and I'm sure a lot of people (33%) bought this for Kassandra.
I haven't beaten it yet, but I'm pretty sure it's the same character with 99.9% of the same dialogue regardless of which you choose. I think the actor playing Kassandra delivers a better performance, though.
Most console video game players are male (for context 27% of Assassins's Creed Syndicate players were female)
Male players prefer same gendered characters
As someone that has only played the games before with Ezio, Altair, Connor and Edward(so AC1,2,3 and Black Flag) what would you say are the ones that rank high?
Kassandra has personally been the first AC protagonist that I connected with. Part of it is a certain type of acknowledgment of how she is actually superhuman + the squabbles with the crew like Barnabas and being able to lay low on the superstition helped. There was a certain feeling of being able to connect better to the characters agency not sure if it's just cause of the flavor choice dialogue. I hear good things about Bayek so far.
Was gonna say that, then saw this. 100% agreed, this is not a representative sample.
Apparently there is no canon character. Which is stupid.