I do not want to go the way of implementing things for certain groups of people or use any reasoning in that direction. That would go the way of a political discussion. We got enough of those already and this is still just a game.
Unfortunately, I think given the societies many of us live in, the idea of changing the gender of a character from male to female or vice versa is intrinsically political, either because it is shown impacting their characters or relationships or because it isn’t. Both options would, to me, be making a statement. Which is why I think it is probably best avoided unless planned from the start and done carefully and well.
But I completely sympathise with your desire to keep real world political discussions out of this thread so … mouth zipped!
Well, yes. that is the reason why i mentioned it. Stuff like this gets political because some people want it to be. People want to be offended ad jump at every chance. And this would surely give them a pretty big one.
Personally i think that changing the genders of the (playable eventually) NPCs would give the game some freedom. I am a normal human with preferrences and dislikes and also predjudices and because of those, certain parts of the game will probably ever be hidden from me. I know i could jump over my shadow but i usually play games to feel good and enjoy myself, going against my dislikes might be a good thing from a certain viewpoint but knowing me i would end up deleting that save because it does not feel....right.
For me, putting political reasoning into the idea of making a playthrough fun for more people is just a way of trying to get attention, either for themselves or to a certain topic. We also have enough of that.
But apart from the outcries this might create, the money and effort involved in a change like this will surely kill this idea anyway
