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 don't want to see what male g*mers (or devs) would do with canonically lesbain characters. theres no way that ends well in anything non-indie
Didn't they mod a lesbian character in cyberpunk to be bi or something?
Yeah, and the straight girl to be bi as well, not sure about the dudes
Sadly that's already a thing, not to mention the dumpster-fire in response to Tracer being gay.
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Still, I like both options in games. DD2 had everyone bisexual just for ease of play, but I do like a fleshed-out story where sexuality and kink runs a gamut.
Yeah Parvati was very well recieved. Good example of what i mention in my post of writing charachters with a set sexuality who arent romance options for the player.