Female Player Character

[Foshizo]

It's the ultimate remake, yeah?

Let us make a woman.

[Junoh]

I think that you're underestimating how hard it is to reprogram all of the characters, give them new audio files that are flagged by your character's gender, completely change the mesh of every single article of clothing that you can wear, change the brothel scenes to suit a female character, record all new lines for every single character that ever references your character's gender without making them sound out of place, and then test everything to make sure it works(and I'm probably missing a few steps there that would add to the workload!).

If a modder just slapped a female model into the game it would be enough since they don't have to care about the quality. A modder can half-ass a lot of things or improve something over a long period of time but a developer can't. They have to release a game that's complete and adding a new incomplete feature(like just having a female model with people still referring to you as a male) would actually reflect poorly on the quality of the overall game.

Could they just add a female model to the game and call it a day? They probably could. It would just be a very stupid idea since then it would cause even more issues. You don't half-ass something like that if you're trying to be professional. That's why modding is so great; they don't have to care about lore, sticking to the canon, or even being that high of quality.

[-3xA'Lu©κy the disappearing act]

Publicado originalmente por Junoh315:

I think that you're underestimating how hard it is to reprogram all of the characters, give them new audio files that are flagged by your character's gender, completely change the mesh of every single article of clothing that you can wear, change the brothel scenes to suit a female character, record all new lines for every single character that ever references your character's gender without making them sound out of place, and then test everything to make sure it works(and I'm probably missing a few steps there that would add to the workload!).

If a modder just slapped a female model into the game it would be enough since they don't have to care about the quality. A modder can half-ass a lot of things or improve something over a long period of time but a developer can't. They have to release a game that's complete and adding a new incomplete feature(like just having a female model with people still referring to you as a male) would actually reflect poorly on the quality of the overall game.

Could they just add a female model to the game and call it a day? They probably could. It would just be a very stupid idea since then it would cause even more issues. You don't half-ass something like that if you're trying to be professional. That's why modding is so great; they don't have to care about lore, sticking to the canon, or even being that high of quality.

In my latest comment I also addresed the fact new bugs would probably pop up as well.

But great post. It's not as simple as crappily editing some lines or copying and pasting armors/outfits and other meshes. It's hard work. A lot of work.

[-3xA'Lu©κy the disappearing act]

Alright. I'm done. I don't know if I'll return to this thread but I feel like I've wasted a lot of time and it's ended up with no result.

This isn't productive so I'll unsubscribe. I might come back later but I hope by then this debate will have ended.

[Tomhap]

Publicado originalmente por Shrapnel:

...you couldnt play as a female in the Fables?

You could in Fable 2 and 3. Not in the first game though, which is this one.

[Russ Rockjaw]

I don't understand why people are complaining about not having a female protag. This game has no character creation and you don't even name the character. It's not a sandbox RPG it is a traditional RPG where you play as a set character. Asking for a female protag in this game is like asking to make Dante from DMC to have a female form to pick from. It's just not that type of game.

Also they are trying to do a cash grab by remastering visuals and selling an old game again. Do you think they want this to become a project with a huge overhead?

[Shasow]

Publicado originalmente por Russ Rockjaw:

I don't understand why people are complaining about not having a female protag. This game has no character creation and you don't even name the character. It's not a sandbox RPG it is a traditional RPG where you play as a set character. Asking for a female protag in this game is like asking to make Dante from DMC to have a female form to pick from. It's just not that type of game.

Also they are trying to do a cash grab by remastering visuals and selling an old game again. Do you think they want this to become a project with a huge overhead?

I know, right. Asking for a female in this game is like asking for a female in Fable 2 or 3. Oh, wait...

[Weltall8000]

Publicado originalmente por Russ Rockjaw:

I don't understand why people are complaining about not having a female protag. This game has no character creation and you don't even name the character. It's not a sandbox RPG it is a traditional RPG where you play as a set character. Asking for a female protag in this game is like asking to make Dante from DMC to have a female form to pick from. It's just not that type of game.

Also they are trying to do a cash grab by remastering visuals and selling an old game again. Do you think they want this to become a project with a huge overhead?

The game is all about creating your own character, in appearance with, for the time, a pretty good amount of hair styles, facial hair, and tattoos. Then there was the morality, being good, evil, and neutral, with many different ways to express and explore those choices. You could even dictate your character's sexual preferances.

The ability to choose genders would be right in line with this theme of player choice in the game. It was surprising that it was not included in the original Fable. We see that later installments in the franchise did allow for this choice.

As I pointed out earlier, even specifically mentioning Dante from Devil May Cry, he's a specific character with a personality and choices born from that, which is important to the narrative. In Fable, the player makes many of the choices for what the protagonist does and who they ultimately become. It's very different.

It's pretty well documented that this isn't a heartless cash grab, this really was a labor of love for many of those involved in the project and they spent quite a bit of time on it. While they do want to make something off of it monitarily, this isn't a souless port of the original game to get rich off of.

[BeJust]

Imagine Geralt of Rivia being female. Not possible. Same here.

[Major Respect]

Please be polite and discuss friendly here. i will remove any post that violate any steam rules.

Thank you.

[Sunky]

No , not because of request but because the way you present it : "Give us female character" , if you said "Can you please make a female character ?" someone would consider it , this way it has no point

[robomagon]

Publicado originalmente por Just777:

Imagine Geralt of Rivia being female. Not possible. Same here.

I can imagine that quite easily... :)
But if you need help, just google rule 63.

Publicado originalmente por Sunky:

No , not because of request but because the way you present it : "Give us female character" , if you said "Can you please make a female character ?" someone would consider it , this way it has no point

OP used the word 'let' rather than 'give'. It's sort of a grey area with dictionary definitions, but to me at least, 'let' comes off more as a request than a demand. "Let us have X." sounds more like a request whereas "Give us X." is clearly a demand.

[BridgetFisher]

No female, from playing fable 3 I kinda thought they would have added the choice for that, this isnt the end of the world but it would have been nice.

[Cymopoleia]

I know it's unlikely to happen, but I do wish they would introduce playing as a woman in Fable. Give us DLC with it as a option at least, and toss in a gender change potion and all is good. Fable 2, and 3 both offered it, and being a boy in no way interferes with the story in Fable or... if I'm not mistaken, been awhile since I played 2 and 3, that it won't effect those stories either, so it's not like it's impossible.

[M姆êr MïñÐ]

makes no differnce to me. why does it matter what sex the hero is to you?

[*D4rKsKy*]

Some people are just pathetic get a girlfriend lol, complaining that there is no female character as main person, and then not buying it ?

How far do u want to go lol ?