LogFAQs > #948034427

Darmik posted...

In a world where there's a woman with a penis is marketing beverages wouldn't that sort of thing be pretty easy to find or encounter in person? Don't you think there's a bit of a discrepancy there? If that sort of thing is mainstream enough to be used for advertisements it would surely be an attractive thing for people and something the player should encounter in their journey? If not why does the ad make sense in that world?

The issue with cis characters doesn't exist because you do indeed encounter characters like that in the game so the discrepancy still exists. The lore of the world has to still match what you're interacting with otherwise it's shallow shock value.

It could be, but the author only complains that the game doesn't billboard trans characters enough to make it obvious when you're talking to one. See below:

In my 40-plus hours in Night City, I never met a single character of any significance whom the game made clear was trans, and one of the only queer-coded characters I encountered was an extremely unsavory cybernetic surgeon who does extremely unsavory things. I did spot a trans flag on one characters vehicle, though that hardly counts as positive trans representation and doesnt even necessarily mean the character is trans. It felt more like a way for Cyberpunk 2077s creators to say they had included positive trans representation without actually putting thought into it or making trans people a visible part of the makeup of Night City.

So it's possible the city has plenty of trans characters if you go around and pay attention, but because a major npc doesn't explicitly say "hi I'm a trans person" the author just kind of assumes that the representation doesn't exist.

Like, in 40 hours if they interacted with dozens or hundreds of NPCs how did they go about determining which ones were and weren't trans? because if you're talking consistency in world building, in a future where you can just replace your genitals with cybernetics why are we assuming that it's obvious who is and isn't trans? Wouldn't it make more sense that people didn't bring up their orientation at all because it stopped being a big deal when you could plug and play whatever you want it?

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