• upstream@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Well, the player can choose which gender V is, plus there’s a lot of catering to gender fluidity.

    It’s definitely a conscious choice, but I can’t say if it’s to not have to record more variations of dialogue, and maybe NPC’s use it less so not to draw attention to them not knowing V’s gender.

    That said, nothing that really bothered me, although I still haven’t gone through the entire game.

    But maybe it’s just how they picture 2077? Just look at recent history and draw an exponential curve and assume pronouns just went out of fashion?

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      1 year ago

      I mean, it really doesn't have anything to do with V's gender, it's literally just that they start every sentence like, for example, "…Thought" or "…Look like" instead of "I thought" or "You look like," even when the VO is enunciating in a way that sounds much more emphatic than the dropped pronouns would imply? It makes the dialogue feel kind of disjointed at times.

      Granted, I'm using the female V voice, I have no idea if the male VO runs into the same problems, but I imagine they're reading off of the same script, so it seems likely.