Poll: What kind of gender options do you prefer in games you're playing?

[FairyGodfeather]

@Sashira

It’s been a while since I played Robots, and my brain’s a bit fuzzy on the details.

Robots is Eiji/Elly, Raj is from WUT. Also they’re not actually set to your orientation. You pick whether you get Eiji or Elly right at the start when you get a phonecall. If you pick the phone-call from Josh then the game defaults to Elly.

The only character that is is Silas/Tammy, who’s set to be the opposite of your gender (so only a straight romance option).

Josh is technically MC-sexual, however he read as heterosexual to me, with a few last minute code-tweaks to the game to make him romanceable by men. Which may be a bit unfair of me, but none of the other characters read that way to me.

I did make a previous post about it though.

@FairyGodfeather

Admittedly in Choice of Robots I’d have rather Josh just rejected a male protagonist as opposed to the weird situation that we did have occur. Wherein we can be told that Josh is attracted to women who’re snappy dressers, doesn’t care that a band is trying to attract a GLBTQ audience (and doesn’t seem to even consider he might be part of that audience), confesses how he’d really love a female companion-bot that would serve as a housewife and act in ways he couldn’t expect a real woman to, and in general have absolutely no indication that Josh has any sort of attraction towards men. Well apart from how he can do all that in a playthrough where you’re a male character that’s actually dated him. (Yes, classy Josh, telling your ex-lover that you really want a female companionbot to cater to your every whim, is it any wonder things didn’t work out?) In that case I felt as if my protagonists gender, and sexuality were erased. In that case I’d have much rather a “nope, not interested.”

With Juliet it’s mentioned that you’re both female. The other characters (apart from Silas and his counterpart) read as bi to me.