So what was this game about again?
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Another game that would have been fine with a neutral character creator. It's amazing how they insist on forcing you to play the equivalent of the female druid in D4 in every game now when the solution is just to give everybody what they want and focus on gameplay, story and mechanics instead of identity politics.
You want to be a bald headed black lesbian? Fine just use the sliders and have at it. You want to look like yourself or your favorite waifu? Go for it. I guess "owning the chuds" is far more important than selling games these days.
Having character creator is extremely limiting on story writing because you have to pretend that tabula rasa is real or ignore the choices altogether (for example female Shepard). Imagine for example Yakuza Kiwami if they made Kiryu male or female, it would completely change the storyline and make a good portion of it extremely bland. The problem is that the western RPG story writing is so shit anymore that no one cares about a dedicated character anymore unless it’s a JRPG. I can’t think of a single decently written AAA western rpg since what, Witcher 3? Meanwhile in JRPGS there’s been Persona 5, Dragon Quest XI, Nier Automata, Like a Dragon, etc that are all standouts for dedicated characters.
Saints Row 3/4 handled it perfectly, by simply letting you make a funny character and writing the story around it no matter what you picked.
That’s again the tabula rasa impact, you remove all uniqueness of a character and make them referenceless. For example, grandias biggest charm was the personality and uniqueness of the characters, they had personality and a lot of that was dependent on their age, appearance, etc. you can say this about many many dedicated character rpgs.
You mean Saints Row 1 and 2. Saints Row 3 and 4 had horrible nonsensical stories that were just meme-tier, especially Saints Row 4. But Saints Row 1 and 2 were pretty well written for a self-insert character, but it was obviously written to be a self-insert male character given how masculine the stories were for the first two games.
4 was a real shame because the driving was actually better than 3, but you had absolutely no reason to touch a car outside of mandatory sequences after about 10% of the game.