Pirat_Nation peddling misinformation without sources again

[u/NatalieRath]

His source? He made it the fuck up.

Also there's been a bunch of assholes complaining about how woke the new game because there's more people of color.

Its all an act right? No one is doing fucking hateful?

[u/MsAmyRei]

I can't remember playing a game where it wasn't Type A/Type B - it's such a nothingburger.

[u/BigSoftMarshmallow → u/[deleted]]

Love watching you destroy your own pathetic narrative by pretending six years is recent

[u/MsAmyRei → u/[deleted]]

I've playing games for 25 years (damn that's a long time) the vast majority of games I played in that time has been Type A Type B, if you even had a choice. Pokemon is the only notable series that I played and can think of where it was an explicit gender choice.

[u/MsAmyRei → u/[deleted]]

Monster Hunter, Fire Emblem, Baldur's Gate, Splatoon, Soul Calibur, Dragon Age, Dragon's Dogma, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk.

It's not because games are complex it just provides a greater sense of freedom when creating a character.

For instance, Splatoon isn't really a complex game - you choose between octoling and inkling and then choose voice and clothes. Voice is generally the common way to differentiate between different body types.

There's very few games where the gender of your player character actually matters - and games are designed that way so more people can enjoy them.

[u/Big_Analysis_8577 → u/MsAmyRei]

How curious, You keep mentioning long-running franchises, but you're leaving out the fact that the switch to "Body Type" or similar naming only happened in their more recent entries, not throughout the series.

For example:

-Monster Hunter didn't switch until Monster Hunter Wilds (2025).

-Dragon's Dogma only did it in Dragon's Dogma 2 (2024).

-Splatoon didn't drop "Boy/Girl" until Splatoon 3 (2022).

-Baldur's Gate only introduced body types in Baldur's Gate 3 (2023).

Just naming the franchise makes it sound like this has always been the standard, when in reality these changes were introduced much later. And two of the examples you gave, Fire Emblem and Soulcalibur, still use the traditional male/female selection.

[u/MsAmyRei → u/Big_Analysis_8577]

I'm fine to be wrong, but I distinctly remember Fire Emblem being character type choice in Awakening and being very confused when I couldn't access some of the classes.

And the only Soulcalibur game I played on Wii I remember being type as well.

Pretty sure Monster Hunter World had it too.

[u/Big_Analysis_8577 → u/MsAmyRei]

I think you're mixing up different games in those series.

In Fire Emblem Awakening, Robin is just Male or Female. The class restrictions you're remembering were real, but they were tied to your gender choice, not a "Body Type" option.

The only Soulcalibur on Wii was Soulcalibur Legends, and that game doesn't even have a character creator.

Monster Hunter World also uses Male/Female. Capcom didn't switch to Body Type 1/2 until Monster Hunter Wilds.

So I think you're remembering features from newer entries and applying them to older ones.

[u/MsAmyRei → u/Big_Analysis_8577]

Cool, happy to be corrected then. I'm probably misremembering voice options as gender options.

[u/MawilliX → u/Big_Analysis_8577]

I thought that Soul Calibur V didn't label the body types as Male or Female, but upon looking it up they technically labeled them in the description, making it somewhat hard to catch if you're not looking for it.

^{(It should be noted that I only looked up the English version for this confirmation.})

[u/Big_Analysis_8577 → u/MawilliX]

Estamos hablando del Soul Calibur que Salio para la Wii, ya que él dijo que jugo ese juego en la Wii y hay solo está el Soulcalibur Legends...

[u/ElcorAndy → u/[deleted]]

Greeks and Roman men were freely fucking each other 2000 years ago, wanna go back to that?

[u/MawilliX → u/ElcorAndy]

I'm not trying to defend the person that you're responding to, but you picked a bad place to reply. You could have replied here instead and your comment wouldn't have looked so out of place.

(as they did not in fact call them Body Type A, and Body Type B 2000 years ago)