#ms plaidos ur smart i will watch this video now

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All fair! And I do agree for the most part. My own experience making a woman who looks (and sounds) like me in VG was more successful though honestly I had her all armored up for half the game so my main focus was on the face so I'll cop to my brain just filling in the details if that's what happened lol.

Comparing Saints Row 5 and Veilguard is actually fun because they were also both #Woker than previous installments (and amusingly I made basically the same character visually in both). And I think that's why I'm a little more patient with the character creators not being as expansive as they might otherwise be. Veilguard's is less cohesive in the physical sense but they at least give you the in-game recognition (outside of those conversations with other trans characters that treat you like you don't know, which to clarify, blow), and SR5 lets you be whatever and then ignores it. Which was always my main critique of THAT sort of CC. Like the visual diversity is there and that rules but it's hard to ignore that as far as the game is concerned, being an average trans woman is no different to being a turbo plus-sized shiny Dr. Manhattan with his dick out who sounds like a southern belle, so I can't really give them props for "inclusion", especially in games like Saint's Row, where it really wouldn't be surprising if the game made jokes about trans or fat or otherwise marginalized people. BUT it's clear both teams wanted to offer some level of inclusion in a more thoughtful way, even if they were lacking one way or another, so I can't really be mad so much as I might just wish they'd gone further. Hopefully they keep pushing the boundary and one day we get some better CC standards where you can be trans and fat and not talked down to lol.

the fact that the cyberpunk 2077 character creator doesn't let you be fat is utterly indefensible. like even elden ring let's you have more different kinds of body types than cyberpunk and elden ring doesn't advertise itself on "In The Lands Between you can BE ANYONE...."