Issue with Gender

[Aero]

Why in a game all about customization and making whatever you want with gunpla and dioramas, does your main character have to be a guy? For some reason they didn’t either let you change your gender or even just keep it ambiguous for you. Like with how many female characters there are it is so strange they just assumed you are a guy.
At first I thought it would be nothing just some that would come up very occasionally but no it is like almost every mission so far. There were even lines where they seem to specifically call it out. It just feels so odd to have a game where your avatar is a gundam and you can make whatever you want as long as you, the character, are a dude.

[Aero]

Originally posted by 魔装機神 Psybuster:

For instance? Genuinely curious, I teach English to non-native speakers as my day job, so if something like that has come into common use that would be good to know.

Generally “they” and “them” while most often being used for groups of people is also commonly used for individuals when the gender isn’t known/specified. You can probably look at a dictionary website like dictionary.com to see examples of it in the singular context. It has been a thing for a long time, but it has become a lot more prominent due to the increase discussion of LGBT folks and discussions of being non-binary.
in context of the game there are other ways they could’ve done it for instance already in the game whenever the text says your name the characters will said say “bud” instead of your name they could have just rewritten some of the lines to use bud or some other nickname instead of needing to use a pronoun for instance.

[47Haven]

Originally posted by 魔装機神 Psybuster:

I think I've heard them refer to you as 彼 all of once so far, and I'm in Chapter 4. Are you playing it in a foreign language or something?

The one that immediately jumps out to me is how Tao would get very flustered during that time when he got paired with Sheena and Lilin, while you get paired with Lin and Mister. IIRC Tao even said something about "This is the first time being in a team with two ladies", implying that at the very least Tao doesn't see you as ladylike.

But yeah, other than that it's pretty nondescript.

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

Originally posted by Aero:

Generally “they” and “them” while most often being used for groups of people is also commonly used for individuals when the gender isn’t known/specified.

It's generally only used for a singular person when that person is a theoretical person for the sake of an example, or someone whose identity as a whole is unknown in my experience, so it would feel very unnatural to use it in more everyday conversations I should think.

[Elemoir]

Personally i sexually identify as a Gundam. Ore wa gundam da! Therefore i would like to be referred to as such as 'Gundam'.

[Aero]

Originally posted by 魔装機神 Psybuster:

Originally posted by Aero:

Generally “they” and “them” while most often being used for groups of people is also commonly used for individuals when the gender isn’t known/specified.

It's generally only used for a singular person when that person is a theoretical person for the sake of an example, or someone whose identity as a whole is unknown in my experience, so it would feel very unnatural to use it in more everyday conversations I should think.

Not really honestly. I knew quite a few people that started using they/them as their pronouns and I flowed a lot more naturally than you initially think it would.

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

Originally posted by Aero:

Not really honestly. I knew quite a few people that started using they/them as their pronouns and I flowed a lot more naturally than you initially think it would.

Admittedly, it's been almost a decade since I lived in the States, so if young'uns started talking like this recently, that might be why it feels unnatural to me.

[XΨX]

go play some woke sh1t

[White Rabbit Alice]

Originally posted by Satanic Minerva:

Personally i sexually identify as a Gundam. Ore wa gundam da! Therefore i would like to be referred to as such as 'Gundam'.

yeah, but which gundam, there are like.... 1000 Different Gundams! (See what i did there?)

[Kubric-khan]

Originally posted by Satanic Minerva:

Personally i sexually identify as a Gundam. Ore wa gundam da! Therefore i would like to be referred to as such as 'Gundam'.

Kira, please

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

Originally posted by Kubric-khan:

Kira, please

You're thinking of Setsuna

[Rhanos]

ain't this gundam game why gender is problem here.Can't you guys just play game and don't care about gender in video game?

[VividSnake]

Originally posted by Aero:

Originally posted by 魔装機神 Psybuster:

I think I've heard them refer to you as 彼 all of once so far, and I'm in Chapter 4. Are you playing it in a foreign language or something?

I’m in America and am playing in English so it may just be a localization thing.

im in america im rewading and watching i havent noticed once them saying anything about your gender can you tell me specifically what missions they are saying this on so i can look

[Phillip Mainländer]

just roleplay as a guy

[ななみ]

Originally posted by Aero:

Why in a game all about customization and making whatever you want with gunpla and dioramas, does your main character have to be a guy? For some reason they didn’t either let you change your gender or even just keep it ambiguous for you. Like with how many female characters there are it is so strange they just assumed you are a guy.
At first I thought it would be nothing just some that would come up very occasionally but no it is like almost every mission so far. There were even lines where they seem to specifically call it out. It just feels so odd to have a game where your avatar is a gundam and you can make whatever you want as long as you, the character, are a dude.

I have not played the game yet, so I can not really be absolutely sure about it, but it might have something to do with the Japanese anime trend that is going on. Which is all about male main character and a bunch of female characters. Basically harem-type anime which pretty much is the most popular anime genre in Japan for more than a decade or so now.

If you look at the anime release schedule, you will see that all the Japanese anime nowadays are either harem or BL (Basically gay anime). I kind of noticed New Gundam Breaker story was like that, too, so I guess they are doing that again in Gundam Breaker 4.

[neotechni]

Came to make the same complaint. The previous games let you pick your gender, but like all recent garbage games it's been replaced with Type A and Type B. But it still calls you a him! Whoever makes these Type A/B decisions have sent representation back decades

Lin also calls you a he.

Originally posted by Aero:

Not really honestly. I knew quite a few people that started using they/them as their pronouns and I flowed a lot more naturally than you initially think it would.

That's even worse than being called "him"... That's more of an insult given how terrible they people tend to be