Fallout 4...might the protagonist be "set"?

[Rebel_Raven]

It kicks the crap out of my immersion being called the wrong gender, and being treated differently, ya know like in love scenes, and stuff.

There are no love scenes in F3. Well, if you have the Black Widow perk when you talk to Mr. Berk in Megaton you can "seduce" him, so he will go away and then send you some hilariously cheesy love letters. But you're almost guaranteed to deal with this quest long before that perk becomes available, and other than that case there are like 7 other places where you can use it with 5 of them having like zero effect, making it THE most useless perk in the entire game. And... that's it for the "love scenes".

I'm not limiting this to fallout 3. Or one single game at all. Pretty sure there's a bit more than that, even if its just prstitures, but I hadn'nt played in ages.

They'll talk to you and call you a dude, or a woman, of course. It might just be text, but that kinda just makes it harder to suspend disbelief.

The amount of gender-differentiated dialogues in F3 can be counted by fingers of one hand. Pretty much all of them are conversations with your father. On all the other occasions game is more annoyingly careful not to pronoun you than a crazy tumblrite. Some time after I got power armor I honestly forgot what gender I was playing.

Again, not limited to FO3. The reason for the limited gender specefic dialogue is because there's gender choice. That's generaly how it is. They either have male/female text, male/female voice tracks, and/or just dodge it like Dragon's Dogma using gender neutral "ser" and Saints Row using Boss.

[qute]

Then there's prostitutes, coz those are basically inevitable in a fallout game.

"Present in two places" != "inevitable". And again - they have unisex dialogue and interactions, kinda making them bisexual. [/quote] hadn't played FO3 in a while. Not limiting it to that game. When there's prostitutes in basically every entry in a game, it's inevitable. Doesn't matter if they're limited in appearance or not. The ones in New Vegas didn't, except for one.

Even in games like Fallout where Gender changes very little, that little bit helps.

And you're telling me that this "very little" is the deciding factor for you when buying a game?

It could make one think that you don't really care much about them games. More about vaginas in them.

One thinking that would be wrong to put it kindly,and briefly.
Pardon me for having a preferrence in playing a female character. It's not like it's at all common at all. I mean, if I had consistent new releases with female characters, I'd probably forget what it's like not having that luxury.
And yeah, if I have my choice between a decent game forcing me to play as a dude, and a decent game where I don't have to, I'm picking the latter. For what it's worth, I'm voting with my wallet.

 

[Mike000]

Plot twist: The dog was the one talking.

If they pulled a "Boy and His Dog" reference, that'd be awesome!

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

I would prefer to just be a random person living in the wasteland who found a pipboy. I don't need a main quest. If I hear about something that interests me I'll investigate.

If I am stuck with only a guy I'm not going to really care much. Being yet another person from yet another vault is kinda boring to me.

It would be cool to pick from say, human, ghoul, or robot. You could pick to start out in a town, a cave, or with the BoS or something and get on with faffing about.

I tend to skip the main quests in Bethesda games after the first time, because they ALWAYS have a point in them where everything gets fucked up and makes your life vastly more of a pain in the ass for having gotten that far. You are having fun in Oblivion, go to Kvatch, then you pretty much want to restart because fuck the Oblivion Gates and the lame armor set you finally get after a series of quests I barely remember.

You are playing Skyrim and kill your first dragon. Well congrats, you get to be attacked by them every time you go anywhere for anything FOREVER, they will kill every smith and shopkeeper they see first assuming they do anything other than fly around preventing fast travel and generally being dicks.

You are playing Fallout 3 and get to a certain point and Enclave are all over. Well that's not so bad, they actually have great loot. You keep playing and whoops you are dead, unless you buy the dlc.

Not to mention that unless you get pc version, good luck even playing the game until 2+ years later when they finally decide to patch 7 out of 500 issues that the pc community shall have fixed in the first month.

So yeah, my hype train isn't leaving the station on Fallout 4

 

[RJ 17]

A lot of people seem to be freaking out because the fact that the character speaks in the trailer.

Firstly: it's not even confirmed that that's who you're going to be playing as.

Secondly: there's been tons of games that have voiced protagonists where you still get to customize aspects - including gender - of the protagonist.

As such, I highly doubt they're going with a standard stock character for this one.

 

[Zenn3k]

yaaaaay! freak out! its hapeniiing!!

one thing people have speculated is weather or not the protagonist will be "voiced" personally I dismissed this as just something for the trailer

HOWEVER

http://kotaku.com/all-the-juicy-details-hidden-in-the-fallout-4-trailer-1708720494

this article from Kotaku (partcially near the end) shows us some leaked script thing from around 2013 or so...and you'll see if you read it and watch the trailer they match up

and a leak from reddit implying you can only be male in the main story
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/28v2dn/i_played_fallout_4/

so this actually makes me wonder if that's the case...kinda left of field for Bethesda

HOWEVER

I did see this floating around on reddit

http://i.imgur.com/2w6wYkK.png

which might imply we get a choice

I reeeeaaly hope that's ture because if I can't play as Furiosa from Mad Max I ain't playing

The "leaker" (who's been about 95% correct so far), said it'll be locked to a male voiced protagonist, they're doing it for storytelling purposes, which is fine in my book.

However, the leaker also said after the completion of the main story, we can then modify our character into something new and even change gender.