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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

    • @c0c0c0@lemmy.world
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      201 year ago

      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.

    • Jordan Lund
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      101 year ago

      Most of the time they are talking to me, not about me. So it’s a lot of "you"s.

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        1 year ago

        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.

    • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      11 year ago

      While true, it is not like those NPCs are suddenly going to call you “them” after you chose “she” during character creation.