Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Ability to change gender during the game

It's impossible to please some people at all, and attempting to cater to them achieves nothing, because nothing is ever good enough - nothing is done well enough, and with these sorts of people, the effort isn't even counted for much because it's just not good enough for them; attempts to be inclusive are met with further outrage because it wasn't accurate or sensitive enough for any given particular individual's experience... Attempting to please this particular crowd is, unfortunately, an exercise in futility; the best thing you can do is be as even-handed and fair as you can be, and beyond that, ignore them.

We choose our physical sex when we make our character. We don't nominate a gender. Originally, choosing your sex granted you a tag, the description of which read "you will be perceived as a male/female of your race by others" - and you know, that was fine, because it's TRUE. You WILL be. The description even left it entirely open for space to correct that initial perception with your friends an allies, and could have been used to add depth of character and further inter-character conversations to make the party feel like a party as they get to know each other, and as they get to know *You*... Perhaps something of that nature could even have been used to flip a pronoun reference flag under the hood, so that those who know you get it right, if it's other than the basic perception implies.

Instead, they've just clumsily erased the reference to your physical sex from the character sheet, without actually changing anything else - the game will still refer to you using terms that match the sex you picked... so who exactly have they made happy by doing this?

And no... I don't want to play through another game with all of the NPCs clumsily using awkward and unnaturally avoidant language or eternal enforced neutrality; that sucks. It creates a rift in the game immersion that makes it highly visible that nothing about your character matters; when your details are not acknowledged, it makes it harder to feel like the story is yours. I don't just want the game to acknowledge that I'm playing a male or a female; I want there to be places where it can acknowledge if I've chosen a character that is particularly tall or short, or reference the colour of my hair, or eyes - I want to feel like the game sees me and acknowledges me, and the harder they move into bland, empty every-possibility non-reference, the less it is capable of doing that for ANYONE.