I do wonder how many ladies play gender CSG

[Sammysam]

Eh, I can play games with male protags, but normally that’s not games that build on me immersion in the role of the protag or games where game mechanics are more important as the actual story/the protag anyway has not that big of a characterization tbh.

But for choice games I honestly expect a little bit more? Actually I think I already did write what I think about genderlocked protagonists in another thread?

Wait here it is:

Is having gender choice important to you?

Personally? I prefer to be able to play a female character (sometimes nonbinary characters), though choice games are actually the only games where gender choice for me is a knock out criteria. I think it’s for two reasons: 1. The number of games which present (the choice) for a female character as protagonist is still pretty limited depending on the genre (And sometimes the advertisng of a game doesn’t even mention that chosing the gender of the protagonist is possible), so I would most likely m…

In short I prefer to play either a female or a nb MC and it’s especially important for me when it comes to choice games. Maybe I look at a genderlocked to male (choice) game if I heard enough good things about it, but normally I avoid them, because…of all the reasons mentioned by others. Especially when the protagonist is forced to act very “stereotyp manly”…but I honestly also don’t like games that force me to play a girly-girl female MC, so I just really don’t like gender roles, I guess?

@Rogar

I try Guinevere but I’m not a fan of contemporary perspectives put into what’s supposed to be a bigoted time. And that they downplay the importance of Christianity at said time period.

Guenevere is explicitely set in a fantasy world as far as I remember (even when it’s historically-inspired)…I don’t think they really have christanity in that world? (@jeantown wrote some things about that on her blog, also about genderlocked protagonists).