Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.
Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.
Super weird, because after 20 some odd hours in, I can’t remember pronouns even coming up outside the creation screen.
It comes up any time an NPC refers to your player to another NPC, and there are quite a bit of multi-NPC dialogues in the bigger quest lines. But I mean, how likely are you gonna remember or think about every instance they say “he” or “she” or “them?” For most people, this is so insignificant that it’s almost like you didn’t even have the choice; but for those that hearing their preferred pronouns is uncommon IRL, it would be very apparent and likely very uplifting to be validated.
Its especially innocuous if you choose the pronoun on the character screen that you’re are used to using. Or just leave it at default, which is cis gendered. You have to really go out of your way to make this weird.
Most of the time they are talking to me, not about me. So it’s a lot of "you"s.
That’s kind of my question about specifying pronouns in general. I know it’s very important to trans and nb people, but referring to people in the third person while they’re present doesn’t happen very often in my experience.
“You dusty rook ranger rengade.”
While true, it is not like those NPCs are suddenly going to call you “them” after you chose “she” during character creation.
It comes up every so often in battle. You will hear the enemies, both on a planet and in space yell something to the effect of “someone stop him/her/them”. It is so quick you can easily miss it.
Really the outrage is probably nothing more than click bait. Like a video made the rounds shortly after it came out of some guy yelling for 2-3 minutes about pronouns.
“Did those pirates just assume my gender? And were right?!”