LogFAQs > #948035029

ghostblob posted...

I'm very excited about the game but yeah that's a fuck up by cdpr. If anything a cyberpunk future should be genderless. I had some hopes to be able to play a character that felt like me as a non binary person, in some ways I'll be able to do that but it feels very backwards

It is. For context, here's what the lead concept artist on the game had to say:
https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2019/08/27/cyberpunk-2077s-character-creation-system-wont-have-gender-options/

Of course, if you tackle certain subjects then you will expect people to have an opinion about it and we respect that. And its good that people give us feedback. And our character creation menu, for instance, compared to the last demo we now give you so many more options. For instance, you dont choose your gender anymore.

You dont choose, I want to be a female or male character you now choose a body type. Because we want you to feel free to create any character you want. So you choose your body type and we have two voices, one thats male sounding, one is female sounding. You can mix and match. You can just connect them any way you want. And then we have a lot of extra skin tones and tattoos and hairstyles. So we really want to give people the freedom to make their own character and play the way they want to play.

The underlying complaint (other than quantity) stems from the fact that the game has NPCs use "he" or "she" in voiced dialogue based on which voice type you pick, because other than making literally all dialogue gender neutral (or recording a dozen versions of each line) they had to have some way for the NPCs to know which word to use. They just picked one that upset people. Which is ironic, because if they had just kept in the male/female choice at the beginning than the pronouns would line up and this whole controversy could have been totally avoided.


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