This discourse was going around twitter today apparently and im curious takes from here.
Which is it for you?
For me i prefer playersexuality. I want to be able to romance any romance option regardless of my charachters gender. I dont want to be stuck with only Arcade Gannon if i want to do m/m
I agree that sexuality can be important to a charachter. But if you wanna do that, seems like the charachter can just not be a romance option.
That said. In RPGs devs can do what they want. You want a charachter to be monosexual and a romance option, have at it. (Unless theyre all straight, then fuck you).
I do kinda hate what The Sims did by adding monosexuality. Felt like such a virtue signal that made the game less fun. All Sims being pansexual was always more fun for me. Especially since i usually play that game as a pansexual slut. Unless i decide my player Sim is mono, but thats on the player’s end.
Monosexual townies in the Sims should at least be optional (is it? Idk havent played Sims 4 since this update).
i think it gets at the deeper conflict between player gratification and considered storytelling. erotica and wish fulfillment are great, but there are other kinds of stories too.
but then again i don’t really play Bioware games or dating sims in general, so it’s moot to me.
Video game design should be centred around making capital G Gamers mad. Therefore, the every romanceable character must be gay. Thems the rules.
Not to sound like a broken record, but there’s one character in Genshin Impact that has a fixed sexuality. I don’t know if I want to spoil it. Compared to the rest of the characters, who are all “playersexual”, at least as playersexual as you can get in a children’s game, her fixed sexuality was a welcome change.
Stardew Valley is one of my favorite games, but I don’t like that befriending each of the romanceable characters inevitably leads to romance. At the very least, you should have some choice about if you want to smooch them before you give them so many shiny rocks and your smooch stat exceeds the smooch threshold.
I want a game set in the roman empire with authentic Roman sexuality. Actually I thought about this more, I probably don’t. It would just be intresting to see sexuality organized against the western consensus
