I play video games. I admit it freely. Have since I was like 10. I was maybe interested in this new Cyberpunk 2077 game, because the whole "open world" thing is kind of cool, and the footage I've seen was somewhat interesting. Been thinking about it. Casually. You know, "hm, yeah, maybe I dunno, maybe not, can't decide."
Then I read this.
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I'm all for customizing your player avatar to reflect you, or what you want to be. I was behind it when Battlefield V put women and minorities on the front lines of WW2, because who cares, and it lets the player be who they are, without forcing them to be a 20yo white kid from the Bronx or Iowa or whatever, instead of a cook, nurse, secretary or only "the enemy"... I get it. Doesn't bother me one bit. Historically inaccurate AF but its a game, right?
But this sh*t is just dumb. It's juvenile and stupid. I get that there's no longer simply two genders or whatever, I haven't decided if I'm totally behind it, I mean I don't care that your brain tells you one thing and the thing between your legs tells you another. Brain chemistry, body chemistry and biology are stupid to begin with.
I'm not one of these quaker types. I consider myself pretty progressive but there's still some things I go "I don't get it but sure whatever doesn't bother me or affect me so sure."
...
But at some point, they had a meeting. Somebody raised their hand and went "hey we should make it so players can customize their genitals."
And somebody went, "yeah that sounds cool, lets do that." And they assigned a dev team, and artists, and people had to QA test this, and more meetings were held to discuss the progress of this subsystem. "Hey how's the dick customizer coming along? I heard you've had a hard time of it. Need a hand? We need that up soon!"
I picture this game now being a favorite of 12yo boys who will spend hours and hours doing nothing but dicking around (pun intended) in the character customizer, doing the sh*t that 12yo boys do, and it makes me sad that this even exists bc its totally NOT going to be used for the purpose it was intended.
God forbid they put in a huge open world explorable environment, full of detail, tons of story, and I mean sh*t Keanu's even in it and you know if Keanu's in it then its got to be good, right? And then this is what the news coverage of your game is about. Somebody didn't think this through at all.
If Beavis and Butthead were still around, this would be the subject of an entire movie.
I'm literally not going to buy this game now because of this. Not because I think its necessarily "wrong" but because as a gamer I don't give a sh*t what my character's uglies look like. I mean am I going to have to use them at some point in the game to solve a quest or something? Looks like this is just a fancier version of GTA now.
further... The rest of how they describe the in-game violence in that article sounds just gratuitous and dumb, too. I guess maybe that's the whole premise of the game "lets see how shocking we can be and get away with it." Like the GWAR of video games or something.
Maybe I just reached my breaking point and turned into the old white guy yelling at clouds, but seriously WTF man.
Then I read this.
Cyberpunk 2077: All about Gender Appearence & Genitalia Changes
Cyberpunk 2077 joins Rust and Conan Exiles in the round of games that allow customization of genitalia and gender characteristics.
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I'm all for customizing your player avatar to reflect you, or what you want to be. I was behind it when Battlefield V put women and minorities on the front lines of WW2, because who cares, and it lets the player be who they are, without forcing them to be a 20yo white kid from the Bronx or Iowa or whatever, instead of a cook, nurse, secretary or only "the enemy"... I get it. Doesn't bother me one bit. Historically inaccurate AF but its a game, right?
But this sh*t is just dumb. It's juvenile and stupid. I get that there's no longer simply two genders or whatever, I haven't decided if I'm totally behind it, I mean I don't care that your brain tells you one thing and the thing between your legs tells you another. Brain chemistry, body chemistry and biology are stupid to begin with.
I'm not one of these quaker types. I consider myself pretty progressive but there's still some things I go "I don't get it but sure whatever doesn't bother me or affect me so sure."
...
But at some point, they had a meeting. Somebody raised their hand and went "hey we should make it so players can customize their genitals."
And somebody went, "yeah that sounds cool, lets do that." And they assigned a dev team, and artists, and people had to QA test this, and more meetings were held to discuss the progress of this subsystem. "Hey how's the dick customizer coming along? I heard you've had a hard time of it. Need a hand? We need that up soon!"
I picture this game now being a favorite of 12yo boys who will spend hours and hours doing nothing but dicking around (pun intended) in the character customizer, doing the sh*t that 12yo boys do, and it makes me sad that this even exists bc its totally NOT going to be used for the purpose it was intended.
God forbid they put in a huge open world explorable environment, full of detail, tons of story, and I mean sh*t Keanu's even in it and you know if Keanu's in it then its got to be good, right? And then this is what the news coverage of your game is about. Somebody didn't think this through at all.
If Beavis and Butthead were still around, this would be the subject of an entire movie.
I'm literally not going to buy this game now because of this. Not because I think its necessarily "wrong" but because as a gamer I don't give a sh*t what my character's uglies look like. I mean am I going to have to use them at some point in the game to solve a quest or something? Looks like this is just a fancier version of GTA now.
further... The rest of how they describe the in-game violence in that article sounds just gratuitous and dumb, too. I guess maybe that's the whole premise of the game "lets see how shocking we can be and get away with it." Like the GWAR of video games or something.
Maybe I just reached my breaking point and turned into the old white guy yelling at clouds, but seriously WTF man.
