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ExDeath730 said:
First in The Witcher...There are no female Witchers, there is a lore reason you learn in the first game, but i'm not remembering now. So yep, to play a game called The Witcher as a Witcher, you would have to be male. The "female type" are the Sorcerers in that lore, but the thing would be different, since even mistrusted a sorcerer is not really viewed as badly as a Witcher, who is basically a useful pariah. And changing the character would impact the game, specially the ending of the first one, since you can choose the Human path, the Scoia'tel Path...Or the Witcher path. The second part of the crux is that you HAVE to take sides, and that is something that Witchers hate to do, so, it adds to the drama, Geralt being a cynical, sarcastic and selfish character just adds to the drama...Since he really don't care about someones agenda...It's hard to when everyone hates you already.
Actualy there is ONE case of a female witcher. Well, a partial female witcher. She has the training of a witcher, but she could not go through the mutations. Her name is Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon (Ciri for short), and she is going to be the crux of the story in witcher 3 due to her connection with both Geralt, Yennefer and the Wild Hunt (hell she even shows up in the trailer), as well as her unique nature in the witcher universe. And if you had payed attention to the plot of Witcher 1 and Witcher 2, both games have massive references to her character and her connection to Geralt and Yennefer. They are just a bit hard to spot at times
. (go back to chapter 4 in witcher one and ask the inkeeper to tell you a story).
On-toppic: Trust yahtzee to give us a buble of sanity.
The only other thing I want to add is this: Ok, so if a characters gender doesn't matter to the plot, then the dev should put a gender switch in, right? 2 problems: This means extra work and funds (not huge amounts like ubi lied, but still nees these 2 things) and since this is an aspect that doesn't affect the game or the story at all, it's something that is placed lowest on the priority list. So when the deadline comes and this feature isn't in, what will the dev do? Delay the game to add this unimportant element? Wil he even be alloweed to by the publisher? No, of course not. The gender swtich will get cut first thing. The second problem is this: some devs simply don't see the reason to do it. Some devs don't care. Some devs are lazy. This is something you can't change, this is something that is fixed with time.
TBH, whenever I see agame offer the gender switch, but that does nothing to affect the game in any way, I just see it as pointless pandering. The only exception to this rule for me are sandbox games, because those are all about freedom, so freedom to be whatever you like in them is a good thing (hello diamond skined genderless alien turned criminal mastermind of the 3rd street saints). But in any other game where you can just randomly flip from male to female and it changes nothign beyond what your character looks and sounds like ... what is even the point beyond cheap pandering. I mean beeing a female in those games does nothing, it portrays no female traits or strenghts or anything, it's just the same blank cardboard cutout with either meat or coconuts atached. Worse still is the shit Diablo 3 pulls out of it's ass: Yeah, we have these clases but some are guys and some are girls. Why? No reason, but we are inclusive! No, you're actually less inclusive than the blank cardboard pandering games. And that's a new low.