"MC"-sexuals, as they're known in some of the industry...
Hate it. Ruins world immersion unless you've built a very specific and odd world, and hinders good writing.
"Oh, I've always been attracted to INSERT GENDER HERE, it defined my childhood, you see, when a INSERT GENDER HERE helped me... pick up some shit or something? We can't have a gendered conflict in a backstory anymore because of the seventy-two options. You're going to find my backstory very similar to every other character, to justify our attraction to INSERT GENDER HERE."
Writers aren't going to write 72 different backstories, one for each mytho-demi-hemi-spirit-gender out there, which means they need to dial back, tone back, any meaningful development in that regard to be as generic as possible.
And to what benefit? It's not like it helps players immersion or empathy. I've played female lesbians, female straight characters... I'm neither. Didn't stop me from identifying with the trials and tribulations of the characters, enjoying their writing.
"MC"-sexuals, as they're known in some of the industry...
Hate it. Ruins world immersion unless you've built a very specific and odd world, and hinders good writing.
"Oh, I've always been attracted to INSERT GENDER HERE, it defined my childhood, you see, when a INSERT GENDER HERE helped me... pick up some shit or something? We can't have a gendered conflict in a backstory anymore because of the seventy-two options. You're going to find my backstory very similar to every other character, to justify our attraction to INSERT GENDER HERE."
Writers aren't going to write 72 different backstories, one for each mytho-demi-hemi-spirit-gender out there, which means they need to dial back, tone back, any meaningful development in that regard to be as generic as possible.
And to what benefit? It's not like it helps players immersion or empathy. I've played female lesbians, female straight characters... I'm neither. Didn't stop me from identifying with the trials and tribulations of the characters, enjoying their writing.
I like it because otherwise they would just make most of them faggots and lesbians like in dragon age 3