OPINION: Playing as a Female Character in Far Cry 5 Is Really Weird

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1. Please watch this video before commenting <3.

2. Can't never win

3. Am I the only one that skips all the dialog/cutscenes?

4. Ghost Recon Wildlands actually overcame that issue

   I honestly thought it was pretty well written.

5. i think the issue is the title, its misleading, she says its weirder playing as a female but then iterates that its weird playing as both genders because he or she is silent. Its a bit of a click bait.

6. Did you ever try playing Shadow of Mordor as a female? It was just a female from part of the story as you fight and then it jarringly changes back to the male character for cinematics and advancing story.

7. Did anyone else notice the examples in the beginning there's only 2 characters that call the protagonist dude/man

8. To the people who are disliking without watching the video. There are some very good points made in the video. It is not complaining about the main character being designed as a guy. It is more that they added a female choice within the game without it making sense within the dialogue, as if it was an aftethought. Which is my opinion is bad story design within a game like this.

9. How many of those dislike do you think came from people who just got REALLY MAD at the title and disliked without watching?

10. And also Far Cry franchise is not as popular or well known like GTA. I mean everyone has played at least one GTA game in their life but a Far Cry game……….not so much.

11. NPC sometimes refers to me as « her » or « she », even though I’m a male character. Localization problems, I guess…
    But yeah, I definitely agree with you, the lack of voice is a serious weakpoint, in my opinion. The antagonists’ lines are really good but wasted without an answer from our character.

12. It would be nice to have some voices for both the male and female protagonists

13. Far cry 3 still the best far cry. Not even close

14. Naomi confirms Half Life 3?

15. You know only Hurk and that other dude just calls you 'Bro'. Hurk even says that regardless of male and female he just calls everyone his bros and homies

16. Oh serioisly?

17. Id rather have me as a character "then some 20 something so-cal douchebag with a tattoo, pardon my french" i also love the subtle noises he makes when a fishing line breaks

18. People will always nit pick

19. It's a fair complaint that choosing a different character breaks immersion and feels weird in some situations.

    But, having voiced protagonist(s) and maintaining the level of customisation to your playable character is a difficult situation to bring into fruition as well, considering the fact that you have the ability to modify your character and how he/she looks and it's a bit unrealistic to have only 2 sets of voiced dialogue for characters that can have a myriad array of existences. Dialogue options, like the ones in TES, are the only possible way to combine character customisation and a protagonist driven story (that I have come across, apologies if I've missed some examples).

20. Yeah they could have did more definitely.

21. Agree. ?

22. the whole game feels wierd because the character doesn‘t talk. if the character had been fully voiced (which should be standard in AAA games) the problem would not be there as much.

23. when it's a first person situation – couldn't care less what gender Iam.