are an overkill in most situation imo, as you are not going to see/hear it most of the time. It is also quite obviously only valid for games in which the gender of the player doesn't matter in terms of gameplay. please, whenever you think about doing a first person VR game, plan for a gender switcher if the game allows for it.Įdit: my point was about immersion, not any politics nor philosophy. There too, players I let play the game in VR always prefered their corresponding body type anyway.

You can change the skin tone, and your gear's colour and look, but there is no 'be a woman' button, which is just too bad (I also don't think modelling two hands, recording 10mn of female voice and adding a button to switch would have blown the budget)įunnily enough, E : D, which has a non-talking, barely seen (headless) character has the option to switch gender. There is no stories of any sort, and this seems to lessen the immersion a lot. In 'The Climb' the player's very masculine voice is heard all the time, and the definitely male hands are always in sight. It also makes sense as Adr1ft tells a story. As a man, it was slightly jarring when I was reminded that I was playing a woman through audio logs, but it happened so rarely that I forgot about it in no time, being back to playing 'me'. You also don't see anything reminding you of her gender (gloved hands, etc). This is not much of a bother in 'Adr1ft' because Alex has one single word and some minimal panting to do. My kids playing right now? They are both girls and as much as they enjoy the game they keep talking about the climber in the third person because there is a serious discrepancy between their body image and the gruff macho panting coming out of the headphones.

My only complaint about The Climb might seem odd, but I think it is something more game developer will have to take into account when producing immersive first person games/experience : there is no way to change the player's gender. It runs beautifully on my DK2/i5-3470/GTX970 by the way. I highly recommend the game If you can afford it. My kids are playing 'The Climb' right now and loving it.

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