Does no one play male v?

[Licoix]

All the promotional stuff, even the phantom liberty ending shows female V, and most videos i've seen of people playing have picked female V, is male V just not popular, is it the voice acting?

[Grenade_Cobra]

I really don't have a preference for this game as both voice actors I enjoyed and I've beatin it with both. I mean Panam or Judy how do you really choose. Now say Mass Effect? Female Shepard all the way.

[palathas]

I have one save for each origin: Male Nomad, Male Street Kid, Female Corp.

[Friends with Benedicts]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Meenik (メー二ク）:

A lot of people seem to prefer female V, but in the end I got fed up with her voice. Male V sounds much more rough, confident, and intimidating, which is what I prefer.

THIS

Her VA was done in an era the media was heavily copying Marvel's antics.

She sounds like another Judy.

Dont get me wrong, I really enjoy Female V's VA, it does get a lot of the 80's cyberpunk feel, BUT, it also chases a trend that erodes that quality in acting a little, and then, Male V's, which has less impact and tone to his voice, gets better by comparison because the lack of SASSYNESS actually helps over time. Too much sassy gets tiresome. That is the problem of Female V Voice Acting IMO. It gets boring over time. It is really good at first, but I believe its due to it being a little more stereotypical than it was needed.

[Grenade_Cobra]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από palathas:

I have one save for each origin: Male Nomad, Male Street Kid, Female Corp.

Nice I've always gone Male nomad,Female Street kid,Male Corp. DLC I copped out and with Male Corpo again bleh. Maybe it's why I haven't made it thru the game again yet.

[Friends with Benedicts]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Blink4aMoment:

Female V has a widely accredited Voice Actor behind many projects. Whereas this is the breakout project/role for Male V's voice talent. I think he did a great job; and I always go male V. The character of V is full of this internalized masculinity that works much better on a man than on a woman. At least in my opinion.

It shows honestly. While Female V gets boring over time, kinda like it overstay its welcome, she has waay more tone and emotion in her VA work than Male V counterpart IMO.

But both are actually very good, and maybe the feeling F-V puts into the game is what rubs me the wrong way after a lot of playthroughs. But still great acting, its not as if its bad, Im just a little tired of hearing her

[Lyciana]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Friends with Benedicts:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Meenik (メー二ク）:

A lot of people seem to prefer female V, but in the end I got fed up with her voice. Male V sounds much more rough, confident, and intimidating, which is what I prefer.

THIS

Her VA was done in an era the media was heavily copying Marvel's antics.

She sounds like another Judy.

Dont get me wrong, I really enjoy Female V's VA, it does get a lot of the 80's cyberpunk feel, BUT, it also chases a trend that erodes that quality in acting a little, and then, Male V's, which has less impact and tone to his voice, gets better by comparison because the lack of SASSYNESS actually helps over time. Too much sassy gets tiresome. That is the problem of Female V Voice Acting IMO. It gets boring over time. It is really good at first, but I believe its due to it being a little more stereotypical than it was needed.

But this is more different in the specific language. The english female V Voice is a bit too shy and harmless for me, in the opposite the german one, my native, sounds like a badass girl, which is much more matching with the charackter V itself. Also Judy and V are completely different in the german Voice.

[Larry]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από EJR:

CDPR has been 50/50 on male or female V. The official box art and trailers feature male V while the art and trailers for PL feature female V.

As for the playerbase, it is roughly 50/50 but the common consensus is that female V's VA is better than male V. The way her VA delivers is just more believable and a much better character, just listen to a sample of the No Coincidence novel as the same VA is reading it. Though some say that male V shines in certain situations like having a bromance with Jackie, which I do agree with.

Personally I prefer female V for, you guessed it, better voice acting. I also agree with Drahknon, Judy is the best romance option. But I can go either or, some lifepaths builds I have make sense for male V or female V IMO.

This is incorrect. Very anecdotal.

It's the same issue with Alexandra and Alexios in AC: Odyssey and again in AC: Valhalla. The very vocal minority insisting "QQ Female better" which is completely incorrect. The media outlets hitting for clicks by saying "QQ Female better VA" and spinning a false narrative to generate discussion about a non issue spewing made up bs about how "most people agree / most people say / female is better". This in turn prompted people to call it out as BS and then others to counter argue and complain and insist their opinion is correct.

Fact is majority of people play the male characters and shut up about it. In AC: Odyssey over 66% of players played as Alexios yet media outlets kept telling you otherwise until the director of AC at the time blatantly said more players opted for Alexios "which surprised him". It didn't surprise him, he knew, marketing knew, everyone knew. That's why initial marketing was heavily focused on a male protagonist and months later did the devs claim the female character was "canonical".

More men play these kind of games. This is a fact. This is why all marketing material is aimed at the male demograph from the start. It's the evolution of marketing:

1. Market games toward your core demograph to get that big hit of cash.
2. Once you've reeled in your core demograph and gotten their money change the marketing toward the smaller demograph to entice those who were interested but not 100% interested into buying your game.
3. Do next to ♥♥♥♥ all that's required to get the smaller demograph interested.

This is why marketing changed from male V toward female V. It's also why the trailers for PL that include female V are very lazy and only have snippets of dialogue the character would speak through normal gameplay and also why the trailer consisting of female V is in-game content that literally only shows her hands.

It's the same reason why Call of Duty MW3 is marketed toward young male XBox/PS gamers and has very distinct TikTok vibes in all their promotional material: They're targetting their core demograph. Next they'll launch more serious marketing material to include Ghost and other characters to entice the old school fans of the series looking for something reminiscent of a more serious tone. After launch they'll start including more female characters or female personalities(Like streamers - cheaper method of marketing when all they do is give them a copy of the game and pay them to play the game for a few days) to try lap up some interest in a demograph that was never really there to begin with.

[IcyDec]

I'm horny

[AdahnGorion]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Licoix:

All the promotional stuff, even the phantom liberty ending shows female V, and most videos i've seen of people playing have picked female V, is male V just not popular, is it the voice acting?

Both sexes are being equally marketed.
I´ve played both sexes already.

[Simple Man]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Larry:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από EJR:

CDPR has been 50/50 on male or female V. The official box art and trailers feature male V while the art and trailers for PL feature female V.

As for the playerbase, it is roughly 50/50 but the common consensus is that female V's VA is better than male V. The way her VA delivers is just more believable and a much better character, just listen to a sample of the No Coincidence novel as the same VA is reading it. Though some say that male V shines in certain situations like having a bromance with Jackie, which I do agree with.

Personally I prefer female V for, you guessed it, better voice acting. I also agree with Drahknon, Judy is the best romance option. But I can go either or, some lifepaths builds I have make sense for male V or female V IMO.

This is incorrect. Very anecdotal.

It's the same issue with Alexandra and Alexios in AC: Odyssey and again in AC: Valhalla. The very vocal minority insisting "QQ Female better" which is completely incorrect. The media outlets hitting for clicks by saying "QQ Female better VA" and spinning a false narrative to generate discussion about a non issue spewing made up bs about how "most people agree / most people say / female is better". This in turn prompted people to call it out as BS and then others to counter argue and complain and insist their opinion is correct.

Its been happening for awhile too.

When mass effect was out, 2007, conversations were an outright copy paste of that post, "its pretty much a 50/50 split, lots of female players, female Shepard canon yada yada". Then Bioware tracked player stats, turns out mass effect 1 had something like 87% male shepards, Mass Effect 3 had 82% male shepard players.

Such pushes really are just for the browny points, as otherwise the companies couldn't care less either way (as is evident with stuff like the latest spiderman).

[Larry]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Faiza, Star Made Knight:

i dont have an immediate source for this but i thought female v was canon?

Nope. Never been said.

They mention them "both" as cannon however the cinematics tell a different story.

Really though, the only cinematics - proper cinematics - are of male V. Any cinematics with female V have been gameplay - the easy, cheap and quick to make "cinematics."

Proper cinematics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2kIfS6fb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIcTM8WXFjk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a8f1TbYb2w

Gameplay launch cinematic featuring male V primarily(Except possibly Judy Romance scene unless Judy was originally supposed to be romancable by male V also) - Male V voice, image in mirrors, in all gameplay, etc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnA7tepsc7s

Male V was also heavily shown on the box art, ending of every cinematic showing him standing in a power pose. Everything.

The female V you see is just the reverse box cover art they're now using to try get more interest in a potentially untapped audience

[Etagloc]

Honestly still think that male V is the most played over all.

I remember an old official poll for Mass effect, that was 68 to 32 in male fav.

Probably the same here. But since most players are male 32% female is fairly high.

[Larry]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Kodiak.pW:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Larry:

This is incorrect. Very anecdotal.

It's the same issue with Alexandra and Alexios in AC: Odyssey and again in AC: Valhalla. The very vocal minority insisting "QQ Female better" which is completely incorrect. The media outlets hitting for clicks by saying "QQ Female better VA" and spinning a false narrative to generate discussion about a non issue spewing made up bs about how "most people agree / most people say / female is better". This in turn prompted people to call it out as BS and then others to counter argue and complain and insist their opinion is correct.

Its been happening for awhile too.

When mass effect was out, 2007, conversations were an outright copy paste of that post, "its pretty much a 50/50 split, lots of female players, female Shepard canon yada yada". Then Bioware tracked player stats, turns out mass effect 1 had something like 87% male shepards, Mass Effect 3 had 82% male shepard players.

Such pushes really are just for the browny points, as otherwise the companies couldn't care less either way (as is evident with stuff like the latest spiderman).

Yuuup.

Same deal with Baldur's Gate 3. Vast majority of origin characters were male characters.

I do remember by ME3 there was a big vocal surge in talk about how much better "femshep" was better and what not and how much better Jennifer Hale(Is that her name?) was better than Shepard - which was ridiculous. When there was the dual version for both male and femshep in one of the cinematics there was a massive vocal shout about how femshep was "better" and femshep was "cannon" which wasn't the case.

Marketing evolves. Marketing has evolved to not pidgeonhole the content it's marketing itself toward to one demograph no matter how big or small it is. Marketing execs know that once they cater to the core demograph first they can do whatever the hell they want after they've moved on and rinse and repeat for every sequel.

I'd put it to anyone that if a game like this or even an AC game were heavily focused on a female protagonist over a male protagonist the game wouldn't do as well as with a male focused protagonist. People have to be enticed to want to play your game: How do you do that? You give them an anchor point to become invested in your title and that can be as simple as gender.

[Vipus]

Played both and find both are great. If you are gonna play more than once, might as well alternate between the two for a different experience.
There are aslo some subltle chances in dialog with NPCs beyond the obvious sex locked romances.

[Caprichaun]

I've completed multiple playthroughs and I alternate based upon which build I intend to use. All things being equal though, I enjoy both the Judy and Panam romances, but think the female VA is a bit more in line with how I perceive V overall. Sometimes the male VA gets on my nerves with his delivery. But not enough to dissuade me from rolling with a male V.
All that said, if I had to vote for fave overall, then it is Female V for the Judy romance.