I’m not judging, I’m genuinely curious. The reason why I’m asking is because in this sort of games I like to make the character resemble me as much as possible in every aspect, so I’m just curious to know what is the motivation behind men that decide to play as a female character.
A few reasons. My first playthrough, I played as male V nomad. For my second, I went when a female V streetkid. So, part of it was going for a different story.
Another part is Judy. Yes, people have made mods to allow romance as a male character but those just don’t seem right to me. Judy’s a badass, beautiful, crazy-smart, and one of the only characters in Night City that I could likely be friends with IRL. But friends/extended family is all it could be. She’s very clearly a lesbian, in her character as you get to know her and even her choice and style of tattoos - the roses on her arm especially seem rather anarcho-sapphic to me. Using a mod to “make her straight” just seems wrong, like a violation of deep parts of who Judy is. So, my second character was a lesbian.
And finally, when I started my second playthrough, I was a bit thirsty.
They “don’t seem right”? How so? I am romancing her as male v and I haven’t had any issues. She was originally bi to begin with. There’s mods to fix the voice and some of the animations, too. Using a mod to “make her straight” is harmless. Let me guess, but it’s ok if people make panam romance females, right?
It feels to me like robbing the character of her agency (yeah, it’s a program that doesn’t really have agency). And it seems too similar, to me, to “she just needs the right man” sort of thinking, which is just tiresome.
You do you. I’m not judging. Just stating how experience it myself. I’d not do that myself with Panam because her dialog when flirting with her as femme V makes clear that she’s not into women.
Ah. Well, at least you aren’t a hypocrit? I’ve seen people get pissed that a mod on nexus made judy romanceable for male v, which nexus removed, but then were totally cool with the mod that lets female v romance panam (which, last I checked, was still up a while back). I don’t really think it’s a bad thing at all, you can’t rob pixels of their agency, because they are not people, and the folks who judge those of us who romance judy as males sound just plain silly to me about how bad it is. I don’t see this “she just needs the right man” thinking you mention. I separate that stuff from my videogames, and I simply play how I want.
That’s fine. My brain just isn’t built that way. I have succeeded ONCE in playing an evil playthrough in an RPG because I just feel too bad. I don’t typically play games to feel bad so, I haven’t done so since.