Female MC?

[donii]

will there be a female mc as well or just a male?

[Runa]

Just male. You play as Ivier, the main character, who is part of the cast. A character with his own hopes, fears, and dreams. However, you will be able to make dialogue choices during the game.

[Tentakeltier🦑]

Awe...

That sadly turns it into a "I'll wait for a sale, if the reviews are good" for me.

[Rono]

Originally posted by Runa:

Just male. You play as Ivier, the main character, who is part of the cast. A character with his own hopes, fears, and dreams. However, you will be able to make dialogue choices during the game.

Based

[SivartStoneheart]

Most JRPGs have set characters. You could argue that Final Fantasy is not a JRPG. I would agree, it is just an RPG. Not until the follow up games the characters get names and personality but we are talking about very old school.

They should put more of the story description in the game description to show the importance of the story/characters after all the tags show the major things most of the time.

[Jessica1350]

I love these kind of games with all characters have their own story, that why I love the Xenoblade Chronicles Series, I am not a fan of silent characters in games

[Tentakeltier🦑]

Originally posted by Jessica1350:

I love these kind of games with all characters have their own story, that why I love the Xenoblade Chronicles Series, I am not a fan of silent characters in games

That's why I liked the Mass Effect series so much. Male and female protagonist had (almost) the exact same dialogue, both had standout voice acting that brought so much life to Commander Shepard, wether you chose femShep or maleShep - no silent protagonist needed at all to write a compelling character that can be either male or female. Wish more games would do that.

[Fuyuno]

Originally posted by Tentakeltier🦑:

Awe... :sadpug:

That sadly turns it into a "I'll wait for a sale, if the reviews are good" for me.

Originally posted by Tentakeltier🦑:

Originally posted by Jessica1350:

I love these kind of games with all characters have their own story, that why I love the Xenoblade Chronicles Series, I am not a fan of silent characters in games

That's why I liked the Mass Effect series so much. Male and female protagonist had (almost) the exact same dialogue, both had standout voice acting that brought so much life to Commander Shepard, wether you chose femShep or maleShep - no silent protagonist needed at all to write a compelling character that can be either male or female. Wish more games would do that.

same, to be perfectly honest, for both of these - looks great but it lost a lot of priority points with me. I get the need to focus on character personality, background, development, and story, but nothing stops you from making two variants have the same... everything. or maybe a compelling sibling/twin adventure happening [similar to various assassins creed games where twins are either interchangeable but don't always hang out together, or are separated at a young age, allowing the player to choose who to play as]

[Hokkaido_Emi]

This is very disappointing in having no Female Protagonist or Main Character. While it 'Looks' good in the video, I won't buy it without a female mc. I think the decision not to have one is ridiculous, and could very easily be added, using the same / similar background as the Male MC. I was going to back you on kickstarter where you are over 750% over funded until I found out you don't have any interest in adding a female mc. Something isn't right here at all. Was the plan all along to alienate us females away from this game from the beginning? If so you have already lost a customer and potentially many other female customers before it's even half ready. Rethink your plan and you will find more and more women / girls will buy this game if they are the mc.

[Fuyuno]

or at the very least, if the mc isn't voiced, allow for easy modding? i wonder how difficult it'd be for players to mod the game. also how quickly a female mc would be added. but honestly, just having the option to have an official female MC would be the best option lol

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by Runa:

Just male. You play as Ivier, the main character, who is part of the cast. A character with his own hopes, fears, and dreams. However, you will be able to make dialogue choices during the game.

Stay true to your vision Dev

Don't let activists chip away at your game to try and push their ideas onto you

We'll support you with purchases and they will move to the next Dustborne for 3 minutes in their cycle of rage

[Fuyuno]

Originally posted by tankanidis:

Originally posted by Runa:

Just male. You play as Ivier, the main character, who is part of the cast. A character with his own hopes, fears, and dreams. However, you will be able to make dialogue choices during the game.

Stay true to your vision Dev

Don't let activists chip away at your game to try and push their ideas onto you

We'll support you with purchases and they will move to the next Dustborne for 3 minutes in their cycle of rage

for my part, it has nothing to do with activism or woke agenda, and more to do with either comfort or immersion. or why not both? let's go with both.

ah don't get me wrong, i've nothing against playing as male, and depending on the game i'd play it without thinking twice. it wouldn't be as immersive to me, personally, but when it makes sense for there to be a female player character (and it does make sense here), there's no reason not to add the OPTION for it. one's "vision" can be flexible.

also having the main character be either male or female wouldn't break someone's vision of a game, especially when it's still being developed in a way that CAN POSSIBLY be added.

edit: ps, dustborne looks hella boring lol

[Texus]

Originally posted by Runa:

Just male. You play as Ivier, the main character, who is part of the cast. A character with his own hopes, fears, and dreams. However, you will be able to make dialogue choices during the game.

USK rating Please look into it, from what i heard and now saw it looks like they start removing games from the german store that don't have it.

[Fuyuno]

Originally posted by Texus:

Originally posted by Runa:

Just male. You play as Ivier, the main character, who is part of the cast. A character with his own hopes, fears, and dreams. However, you will be able to make dialogue choices during the game.

USK rating Please look into it, from what i heard and now saw it looks like they start removing games from the german store that don't have it.

waitwhat? don't have what?

[Texus]

Originally posted by Fuyuno:

Originally posted by Texus:

USK rating Please look into it, from what i heard and now saw it looks like they start removing games from the german store that don't have it.

waitwhat? don't have what?

yes sorry I just wanted to hurry, not sure what is going on but I heard about store problems again and it seems to be about the USK age rating.
Now i noticed some weird wishlist entries and some showing nothing at all.

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by Fuyuno:

Originally posted by tankanidis:

Stay true to your vision Dev

Don't let activists chip away at your game to try and push their ideas onto you

We'll support you with purchases and they will move to the next Dustborne for 3 minutes in their cycle of rage

for my part, it has nothing to do with activism or woke agenda, and more to do with either comfort or immersion. or why not both? let's go with both.

ah don't get me wrong, i've nothing against playing as male, and depending on the game i'd play it without thinking twice. it wouldn't be as immersive to me, personally, but when it makes sense for there to be a female player character (and it does make sense here), there's no reason not to add the OPTION for it. one's "vision" can be flexible.

also having the main character be either male or female wouldn't break someone's vision of a game, especially when it's still being developed in a way that CAN POSSIBLY be added.

edit: ps, dustborne looks hella boring lol

Indie devs don't have the budget to rig and animate an entire 2nd main character on the off chance someone would pick it instead of their storybound main character the entire game was designed around

If there was a character creator, then sure go ahead and ask for any option you want

If it was an AAA studio with 400 million dollar budget, also, ask whatever you want

But to have to basically re-do an entire game's worth of making sure every piece of equipment/armor/attack/animation is re-done when you've already made your game and purposefully have a story to tell from that character's perspective is wasting finances indie studios just don't have to give

Also note that i would give the Dev the same recommendation regardless who the MC was, as its their story to tell

You are playing as the character, not yourself, so there's no need for representation by physical appearance of the character

You can find common ground with any character in any story, be it Male, Female, Xenomorph, Yautja or otherwise

Fantasy should not be chained to the limitations of reality and this push in games for 'representation' is only trying to chain the developers down to the most common reality of those asking for it, which these days, are usually activists who hate video games and want to rot the industry as they did with American Comics and Cinema already

Note that the same ones who demand 'representation' are also the same ones who when having power over localisation, immediately remove any mention of the term 'woman/female' and replace it with 'Body Type B', so it was never about female representation and only about control over someone else's fantasy IP.