I don't understand what you're talking about. Deciding male or female and "body type" (stupid that's a thing but ok) options are completely unrelated. He's talking about a single "He/Him, She/Her, They/Them" dropdown that you MUST select from, and then it only affects NPC dialogue about the player character as far as I know. (but how would a random NPC know what your "preferred pronouns" are?)
Anyway I've been watching friends play and kind of agree with both Norenia and OBRIENMUSTSUFFER. It's good but would be relatively boring for most unless you are really starved for a first-person space exploration RPG. There's nothing particularly exciting about the mechanics or game loops - it's more the "idea" that's fun. That said I'll probably get it in a year or two because I am someone who can enjoy just wandering around random planets and settlements for hours at time.
You know, I wonder if we look at human sexual dimorphism and compare it to mythical dimorphism in these games, we might see that politics stops at the humans.
For example, I bet the humans are designed to look pretty similar whether you select male or female.
But if you select a reptilian, or a Felidae, I'd bet the male and female variants are very distinct. Bright colors and hoods on the reptilian females, stockier bodies with horns on the males. Female Felidae are more slender, male Felidae have manes and a larger chest.
I bet that they pretend sexual dimorphism doesn't exist in humans for woke points, but have major sexual dimorphism in non-humans because people still want that.
This would probably be limited to only some species, though. Orcs probably all look the same, so would things that don't have apparent sexual dimorphism to humans like sharks.
I don't understand what you're talking about. Deciding male or female and "body type" (stupid that's a thing but ok) options are completely unrelated. He's talking about a single "He/Him, She/Her, They/Them" dropdown that you MUST select from, and then it only affects NPC dialogue about the player character as far as I know. (but how would a random NPC know what your "preferred pronouns" are?)
Anyway I've been watching friends play and kind of agree with both Norenia and OBRIENMUSTSUFFER. It's good but would be relatively boring for most unless you are really starved for a first-person space exploration RPG. There's nothing particularly exciting about the mechanics or game loops - it's more the "idea" that's fun. That said I'll probably get it in a year or two because I am someone who can enjoy just wandering around random planets and settlements for hours at time.
You know, I wonder if we look at human sexual dimorphism and compare it to mythical dimorphism in these games, we might see that politics stops at the humans.
For example, I bet the humans are designed to look pretty similar whether you select male or female.
But if you select a reptilian, or a Felidae, I'd bet the male and female variants are very distinct. Bright colors and hoods on the reptilian females, stockier bodies with horns on the males. Female Felidae are more slender, male Felidae have manes and a larger chest.
I bet that they pretend sexual dimorphism doesn't exist in humans for woke points, but have major sexual dimorphism in non-humans because people still want that.
This would probably be limited to only some species, though. Orcs probably all look the same, so would things that don't have apparent sexual dimorphism to humans like sharks.