Gender choice
" Yes, I believe people promoting ideas completely foreign to the game is violating the nature of the game. Everything doesn't need to be equal (boy and girl for everything). As I said (and you conveniently didn't quote), "You play the character you select from a specific point in time (post exile). From then on, the character IS yours to do with as you wish (this is good storytelling), but the character is NOT yours beforehand, nor is their backstory yours to make." And that is the way the game has been from the start. I will oppose any change to this model as it changes the fundamental of this game. Also, changing the Templar to female, for example, changes the feeling of that character. No longer are you a strong old man in both faith and physique, but you are a whatever alternative there is. This does not work, because templar has balance regarding what makes since for him as that role. Templar has no agility stuff, but he has staff, spell, shield, and whatever fits that character (strong in faith and physique), which aren't female tropes. In that same line of logic, it makes no since for there to be a marauder woman. Marauder is all about big shields, big armour, and big weapons. Innately promoting withing the game something like a loli holding a massive 2-h sword (Yes, an exaggeration, but lets be real, a woman with a 2-h makes less since than a man with a 2-h. Don't believe me, look at history.) takes away from the serious and grim nature of the game. Not promoting certain character types allows game to maintain seriousness while allowing humor because it does not innately promote humor, but permits it. (ie) You can play a ranger with a 2-h or even a 2-h witch. It looks more ridiculous than most things, but you can. It however is not promoted by the game because ranger and witch have to travel to get scaling for such things. |
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" You clearly have no idea what SJW means if you think a man asking to play a male character instead of a female one is an argument for social justice, if anything it could be argued as the complete opposite and make more sense but good for you for learning a new acronym and using it in a sentence! :D Zuletzt bearbeitet von Vampyress86#5708 um 24.03.2019, 21:03:52
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I think a "simple" solution that would avoid the new skin development/voice recording issue would be to sell an MTX that lets you use the skin and dialogue of another class for your character.
Sure, that will increase the amount of frail girls waving two-handed mauls and axes, but: + You can already do that. + The price hurdle makes it so that people that don't like it won't get in that discrepancy situation. + If you are having an issue with seeing other players having fun with this kind of discrepancy character, well... Fuck you. Who are you to tell other players how they should enjoy the game? That being said, I don't believe it's a big issue having fixed character genders. I just don't believe it would be a huge deal having the option for gender choice either. |
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Screw simple solutions! Make it proper!
Add a second class to every starting point with its own Ascendancy. Then you not only have a gender choice, you also have a gameplay choice. We heard you liked your characters and Ascendancies, so we doubled them! Sure, it also doubles the overhead, but at least it's not just some very superficial aesthetics and nothing else. If one feels the need to go through all the graphics work, at least it will have meaning. "Into the Labyrinth!
left step, right step, step step, left left. Into the Labyrinth!" |
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" Don't think this thought is very appealing to GGG. Imagine this scenario: A PoE streamer sees this MTX and wants to try it out, just because he thinks it's funnny. He chooses marauder, who now looks and sounds like a witch or a ranger (if I understand you correctly). He might explain this at the start of the stream, but a viewer who joins later might see this as a bug. This is something GGG most definitely doesn't want in their game, especially not with the new console releases. I think the only way is to do it proper, so 4.0 would be the earliest possible date. Zuletzt bearbeitet von MoarStuff#7597 um 25.03.2019, 06:51:38
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"There's no need to repeat yourself; I read your post the first time. Conveniently? Well yes, I'm glad you appreciate that it is more convenient to not quote things I'm not responding to. Less wasted screen space for everyone. "The alternative being...a woman strong in faith and physique. It's not that hard a concept. It does change the feeling of the character though, for some people at least. That's the point. If you don't want that new feel, then use the existing character instead. That's the point: an option, not a replacement. "Yes, people would be so confused if a woman held a staff or a shield or cast a spell or had faith in something. We should clearly limit our conception of women to the sexist tropes gamers have internalised like "women are the agility characters". My mistake. "The fact that you jump straight to "something like a loli" when the idea of a woman warrior comes up is bizarre. Why would a Karui woman be anything like "a loli", especially when there are characters like Maramoa and Lani already in the game? Yes, sure, you're 'exaggerating' - but why? Why is discussing women hard to do without this defensive joking? After all, let's be real, a man with fireballs shooting out of his hands killing entire armies makes less sense than a man who gets shot by one arrow and dies. Don't believe me, look at history. Which is to say: no, this is a nonsense argument. Path of Exile isn't set on Earth, and isn't bound to only depict the same sexist slant as has long been traditional in our histories. "I think it's worth keeping in mind that it's more a case of preferring future recording than requiring it. I mean, GGG have clearly demonstrated that a lack of voice lines for old characters in new expansions isn't going to hold them back. It may be a big step to get that done, but it's a step they can always just skip over to whatever degree they feel they need to at the time. |
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" And there are much bigger problems with PoE than gender lock. Give a Templar pans, before you cut his dick off! "War's over, soldier. You just don't know it yet. Everybody lost."
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" I am failing to see this as a reasonable issue. " Yeah! He's going to need these kitchen tools when he's not a man anymore! Sorry, it was too tempting, couldn't resist the sexist joke on this typo. |
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" I lol'd IRL and I am not a bloke so you're fine! |
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