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    Except this image implies male V, who plays male V?Female voice acting is so much better, jackie seems more heart-of-gold when he’s straight with a platonic femme best friend and the johnny silverhand angle is much more emotionally resonant.

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      Me. I don’t think I’ve ever played as a chick if there’s an option in any game.

      Specifically for 2077, I was playing as ‘me’ if timeframes were different. Also I played through the entire game as a naked (open jacket, tennis shoes) ‘me’. And you better fucking believe I was a thick uncut ‘me’. A better ‘me’. A ‘me’ with a thick heavy cock on display and carrying around an old-school minigun and sniper as my mains. Because it’s what I would have wanted.

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        I never see characters in games as “me”. I try to make someone hot or wacky. Often that’s a buff lady. Sometimes it’s “the biggest beard and hair I can get”.

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          I’m like that but for movies and TV shows - I can’t get invested. ‘what a dumbass, following the trail of blood unarmed into the abandoned shack, what an absolute moron. Yep, now he’s dead. This movie could be 15 minutes and the killer caught already.’

          When I am the one making decisions, it’s always ‘me’. I have a role, and I apply my own judgements and planning. Instead of going through the front door on the shack, I find the crawlspace and kill the murderer by shooting through the floor, saving and meeting an easter-egg character in the process. But it’s always ‘me’, or as close as I can get to it.

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        I used to play about equal m/f characters but i’ve gotten increasingly bored with male characters.

        I never play as me though, i’m always constructing a headcanon, backstory and playing very writerly.

        Over the last 10+ years or so i’ve just found boy stories more and more boring. I think the last game i seriously enjoyed as male was ME2, coincidentally with a keanu looking sniper type.

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        And you better fucking believe I was a thick uncut ‘me’. A better ‘me’. A ‘me’ with a thick heavy cock on display

        IMO, all the dick options in Cyberpunk were on the smaller side.

        If that’s bigger and better than yours … well, that kind of says a lot, lol.

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          I thought the large was alright. I’ve had bigger irl but I’m right in the center of average. And cut so I hate how it looks…

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        Nah you fucked up my first play through is always female. It’s a video game not a biography

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        I played male V on my second playthrough when the DLC came out, and regretted it immensely. Female V had way better voice acting. Finally got to romance Panam though.

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        I mean if a game is really good and i’m on my fifth+ playthrough and i have a really solid concept for a male character, maybe. And i did eventually play a male bodied female voiced V for the panam romance.

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          Does she have lines in the Panam romance path?I thought the reason why they put limits on the npc romances was to cut voice lines for the actors.

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            You’d think right? But femV has panam romance dialogue in the game that’s just locked off unless you’re male-bodied. I believe vice-versa is true for judy romance.

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        That tracks for me - the female VA gives a lot more emotion, there are some scenes that legit stress me out. Two violent guys vieing for control feela less tense than a guy slowly taking over a woman’s mind.