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elden ring is the only game I've played where I can trans my character's gender in mid-story
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3/4ths of the way through the game I dropped by the character customization editor mirror
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and was just like
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fuck it we're transmask
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set body type to A
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soldier on
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transmasc*
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just something Quennox did at some point to gain a few levels
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it's better QoL considering you can recustomize your appearance
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but I must say
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slightly less style than the Gender Coffin
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the what
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Dark Souls 2 also enables you to get your trans gendered
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in the tutorial zone there's just
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a coffin
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oh that would be why
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that you can interact with
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idk for some reason like
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and it'll change your sex
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you can do this in ff14
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but in ff14 it feels like... it's an MMO, there's a social element, of course I can change it up as I go
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but elden ring is a single-player mostly narrative adventure experience
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and being able to create, just for me
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a trans experience in the story of your playthrough
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my playthrough
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it hits different
Snowdrops ﾐ☆
Freedom Wars also let you do this! I appreciated it. I also appreciated that because the protag's gender could change at any time they decided to play it safe and have the best dudefriend just be A Friend hitting on everyone other than you, which is a rare experience when playing girls for me
Snowdrops ﾐ☆
more games that let you change gender midgame when you want.
Quinn Angstrom
here's what they should have done in mass effect 2
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import your save from mass effect 1
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the attack at the start of the game, blows your shit up
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get recovered and 'reconstrucated' by Chimera
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reconstructed
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and that's all already canon
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but what should have happened next was
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an option using this as a chance to redo your character model
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and come back different
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and if you change the M/F switch after redoing it
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characters should acknowledge that in the game
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you can change your appearance, but not your gender
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wait
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oh you mean already in the game?
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also I dunno how that'd work as an explicit trans option since Shepard's dead while Cerberus is rebuilding them
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yeah
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and it's just genderlocked???
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it's not actually a diegetic appearance change
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cowards
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nobody acknowledges it
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it's just an option to have another pass at your look, since they updated the graphics
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cowards!!
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bioware! you should have put huge amounts of effort and resources into voicing and animating a whole bunch of scenes that most players will never even notice
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to please me personally
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ten years later
AzureChrysanthemum
Unfortunately from what I hear of the shitheads in Bioware upper management they'd never have gone for it anyway
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if they're upset about my revisions they can come to Minnesota and challenge me to a fistfight
Haze Arquebus
stardew valley lets you do it after you get high enough friendship with the wizard and he gives you access to a shrine in his basement
BF
Having to work hard at befriending a secretive wizard in order to transition feels like an allegory for trans healthcare in the US
Echo
Yeah, but at least the damn wizard doesn't try to judge your lived experiences to see if you meet an arbitrary standard that has little to nothing to do with actually helping trans people.
Echo
He just doesn't want to give some rando the key to his basement.
Haze Arquebus
that and "high enough" is 4/10 hearts so it's not like you gotta go all in on a huge thing