I wish Female V was more Ladylike

[Ryan]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2345839524
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2345956218

Oh Female V, why is your sitting posture so ugly?
I wish she'd sit more dignified and cross her legs instead of spreading them like a savage.

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Another Example:
Taking the AV with Hanako Arasaka and look how ladylike she sits.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2346291982

Compared to how my Corpo Female V sits.
Ughhhh Savage. Just Savage.
C'mon CDPR, please change the sitting model for Corpo Female V at least?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2346292134

[sniiffer]

tbh its not that bad its really good and it's actually better the male V the acting is good the emotions in the ends are really really better when u are male V ... male V its good but finishing this game and playing it over 67h i really noticed its female protagonist game ... male its just kinda feels like addon ....

and ppl who played as male V are not so much emotionally invested like other players who picked female ... again nothing against male V its just feel better and give more emotional bonus ! .... But although sometimes it does feel female V when try to act really though it does not work haha in some moments but overall female v would be my choice and its better the the male version

[Space Fart]

Originally posted by Scyth:

Originally posted by Veshter:

I'm patiently waiting for the inevitable "animation overhaul" mod that's gonna drop in any quarter of 2021 now. No game's animations are untouchable lol. To be fair if all you folks here that have issues with the sitting animation decided to do a quick google you'd be the ones posting it by the end of 2021

You don't understand. It's not just a single pose, it's the whole of all V animations, which look pathetically unnatural for female V, because duh, a man mocapped it. It won't be 'overhauled', certainly not by a modder.

I'm literally animating right now. If an animator can open the animations and change the legs position throughout the animation, throughout ALL animations that involve sitting then ezpz. It's easy but time consuming. For some sitting moments through the game the animations I think are re used.

[Coin]

Do you really expect to have different animations in this game.

[Arawn]

Originally posted by V:

tbh its not that bad its really good and it's actually better the male V the acting is good the emotions in the ends are really really better when u are male V ... male V its good but finishing this game and playing it over 67h i really noticed its female protagonist game ... male its just kinda feels like addon ....

and ppl who played as male V are not so much emotionally invested like other players who picked female ... again nothing against male V its just feel better and give more emotional bonus ! .... But although sometimes it does feel female V when try to act really though it does not work haha in some moments but overall female v would be my choice and its better the the male version

Hard disagree on all points.

I usually play female characters, because for some reason they tend to have the better/more convincing VA. Bioware in particularly is usually way better on the female VA than the male.

Not this game. I *adore* the male V VA's delivery, and really dislike the female one most times. She feels... like she's trying too hard. She swings from almost weepy at very minor things, to seething hatred at equally minor provocation... And yet a few times where some actual, real anger would be called for, she seems fairly flat.

Male V? I had to double check the VA, because I could have sworn it was Wes Chatham, I got so much an Amos vibe, from the Expanse series.

[Space Fart]

Originally posted by Arawn:

Male V? I had to double check the VA, because I could have sworn it was Wes Chatham, I got so much an Amos vibe, from the Expanse series.

Just because of that I'm gonna do a male V playthrough next time lol

[Torenn]

Male V's voice actor fits perfectly for his role. I'm still early on in my female V playthrough, but so far I don't see this major improvement that others are stating. She's not bad, by any means. But I don't think it's vastly superior to male V.

[Muscarine]

Originally posted by Arawn:

Hard disagree on all points.

I usually play female characters, because for some reason they tend to have the better/more convincing VA. Bioware in particularly is usually way better on the female VA than the male.

Not this game. I *adore* the male V VA's delivery, and really dislike the female one most times. She feels... like she's trying too hard. She swings from almost weepy at very minor things, to seething hatred at equally minor provocation... And yet a few times where some actual, real anger would be called for, she seems fairly flat.

Male V? I had to double check the VA, because I could have sworn it was Wes Chatham, I got so much an Amos vibe, from the Expanse series.

I've seen both takes

Personally despite all the disappointment this game gave to me, Cherami Leigh's V has been one of the highs it offered
Loved the character's writing, delivery, voice acting, body language, etc

Aside from a handful idiots who thinks every women in the world should be hyper feminine, now i understand why some people felt her animations felt off sometimes though, even if i don't share that sentiment regarding my V

I wouldn't trade it for male V

Either way having people preferring both Vs over the other means they were both successful at what they did

Doesn't fix the absolute microscopic player appropriation though, but at least V is not insufferable (contrary to Geralt, from my perspective, couldn't get into the Witcher in good part due to him)

[Arawn]

Originally posted by Veshter:

Just because of that I'm gonna do a male V playthrough next time lol

I tried my best to make an Amos character! But unfortunately one of the limitations of the character creator is chins/jaws. Wes Chatham has this fantastic, square "Manly Man" type jawline, and there's just no way I could duplicate it.

This was the closest I was able to get...

https://i.imgur.com/R6aB3ub.png

[Player Zer01]

i mean this would fit... if Vs character was the same, but its not. female Vs character fits her body language. shes not a proper person so why would she act like that at all?

[Replica]

I like the VA well enough, and since I have a brother who fanboys hard over one of her anime roles, I did since I hate that show.

[TechnoDethMetal]

Originally posted by V:

tbh its not that bad its really good and it's actually better the male V the acting is good the emotions in the ends are really really better when u are male V ... male V its good but finishing this game and playing it over 67h i really noticed its female protagonist game ... male its just kinda feels like addon ....

and ppl who played as male V are not so much emotionally invested like other players who picked female ... again nothing against male V its just feel better and give more emotional bonus ! .... But although sometimes it does feel female V when try to act really though it does not work haha in some moments but overall female v would be my choice and its better the the male version

I remember fem V voice from FO4 I think... Raiders?

[Replica]

Originally posted by TechnoDethMetal:

Originally posted by V:

tbh its not that bad its really good and it's actually better the male V the acting is good the emotions in the ends are really really better when u are male V ... male V its good but finishing this game and playing it over 67h i really noticed its female protagonist game ... male its just kinda feels like addon ....

and ppl who played as male V are not so much emotionally invested like other players who picked female ... again nothing against male V its just feel better and give more emotional bonus ! .... But although sometimes it does feel female V when try to act really though it does not work haha in some moments but overall female v would be my choice and its better the the male version

I remember fem V voice from FO4 I think... Raiders?

Fem V voice is so much better than the Fallout 4 female VA. I wanted to shove her on mute.

[TechnoDethMetal]

Originally posted by Replica Velocity:

Originally posted by TechnoDethMetal:

I remember fem V voice from FO4 I think... Raiders?

Fem V voice is so much better than the Fallout 4 female VA. I wanted to shove her on mute.

Indeed VA is bad but her voice is sexy.. I like..
If I am not wrong, she covered Jack too.. Mass effect.

[ExplosiveEb1]

Just put it simply. It's due to laziness. It happens in many games, to varying degrees. Some animations they make unique female ones (for instance look down in first person, the female has a different walk animation than male), and then for others they dont. And it most certainly takes you out of the experience.

Of course they might try to come up with some other excuse or justification, to spin their laziness. But no, it's simply laziness.

[Lovecraft's Cat]

Originally posted by ExplosiveEb1:

Just put it simply. It's due to laziness. It happens in many games, to varying degrees. Some animations they make unique female ones (for instance look down in first person, the female has a different walk animation than male), and then for others they dont. And it most certainly takes you out of the experience.

Of course they might try to come up with some other excuse or justification, to spin their laziness. But no, it's simply laziness.

This.