Are all NPCs referring to the type A (male hero) as 'them' ?

[PoGo]

Just noticed in a youtube review (https://youtu.be/6EK8FSq6U0A?si=7cIJXmfx0GTfTI6R&t=1042) that the mum says "I'm gonna wake them now" in the intro.

I'm interested in the game and I don't mind inclusion as long as it's not being forced onto the player. Like, it's fine if there's a non-binary or trans option but I don't want to be forced into being referred as one.

[Osha]

Before some irrationally angry dude comes here to give misinformation, no, it's only for voiced dialogue because they wanted to save on recording costs. All the non voiced dialogue will refer to the Hero through their given gender.

[Giant_Marvin]

Yes, they weren't going to ask the voice actors to record all the lines 3 times it is not a conspiracy and it is not a big deal.

[PoGo]

Originally posted by Osha:

Before some irrationally angry dude comes here to give misinformation, no, it's only for voiced dialogue because they wanted to save on recording costs. All the non voiced dialogue will refer to the Hero through their given gender.

Very helpful, thank you for confirming.

[Ederwolf]

Some NPCs will call you "son of Ortega" if you choose A and "daughter of Ortega" if you choose B and the voiced NPCs will say "child of Ortega" for the reasons that were stated above.

[PoGo]

I feel this could have been handled better, for example having the text match the player's gender choice and use "them" for the recorded line only.

Anyway, thank you for your replies!

[Mimi]

Originally posted by Osha:

Before some irrationally angry dude comes here to give misinformation, no, it's only for voiced dialogue because they wanted to save on recording costs. All the non voiced dialogue will refer to the Hero through their given gender.

this is the real reason. these companies don't do this to be inclusive, developers do it to be lazy or cheap with the excuse that they are doing it to be inclusive.

it's very lazy and easy to make 1 story with dialogue that fits everyone and much harder to make 2 variants with slight differences based on your gender. so yeah, never assume these devs or companies care at all about inclusion and always assume they are cheap and lazy, because that is always the actual answer

a truly "inclusive" game would have 3 options with 3 variants of the story. male, female and neutral. you know what's crazy? you never see that, because it takes effort and costs money, so unless you see 3 options, as I said, it's not for inclusion but for laziness and being cheap.

[Knight of Nyaa]

I remember when video games were based on fun and not one's identity.

[lorddamien]

Originally posted by Osha:

Before some irrationally angry dude comes here to give misinformation, no, it's only for voiced dialogue because they wanted to save on recording costs. All the non voiced dialogue will refer to the Hero through their given gender.

Even some of the voiced dialogue uses gendered variants as I found out when I became "queen" of Romalia not "King" and it had special lines about how I was a woman(also voiced). Considering that, it's almost weird they went all neutral with it for the beginning of the game. I'd also assumed it was to save on voice cost but looks like they decided to spend more for some scenes lol.

[nuakin]

I don't understand how when playing a character in a game you have to choose one that you personally identify with in real life. The original game was made with 2 characters male/female. Choose one from the 2. How hard is that?!

[ziosj]

Originally posted by nuakin:

I don't understand how when playing a character in a game you have to choose one that you personally identify with in real life. The original game was made with 2 characters male/female. Choose one from the 2. How hard is that?!

Because now we have 365 genders and developers MUST include them otherwise they are n*zi, big*ts and other insults that good people like them use.