Yup. Hopefully they add a 99 years old option as well and gyro aiming 😏
Yes, you can customize your Cyberpunk 2077 character with “various sizes and combinations of genitals”
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This seems like going overboard for a game where you never even see your character except probably in mirrors. But then I feel that way about FPS game character customization in general.
That would legitimately be a feature to tout, since the way games with layered and changeable equipment usually work precludes (easily) doing this sort of thing. They'd probably have some interesting tech behind it if they found a practical implementation that wasn't too performance-intensive.
I'd imagine it would be hard coded instead of reacting to the exact size of the dong in real time.
Cyberpunk 2077 is ostensibly an RPG, and I'll be approaching my playthroughs as such. With that in mind, the ability to customize my character thoroughly, and in line with my own personal headcanon and roleplay, is important to me. Irrespective of how often I'm going to end up seeing my character in 3rd person or otherwise (which, given the details we've heard and seen, will be more often than some people realize).
I tend to play Bethesda's open-world RPGs in first person the whole way through. With the exception of Fallout 4, that means I basically only ever see my character's outer appearance while browsing ingame menus. That doesn't render my ability to customize my character pointless, though, because knowing what I look like, and how that might relate to my character, does make a difference and inform my thoughts and occasionally my actions. (Funny enough, I have an example of that - during my last Fallout: New Vegas playthrough, I played as a straight-up cowboy. Capable of growth or change, but initially stereotypical, sometimes to a fault. I had some fun planning that character, and I decided it'd be funny to give him a bad haircut with a receding hairline, to help justify his penchant for wearing big, goofy hats, and for preferring them over other available headwear.) I'd much rather have customization options, than be resigned to playing an open-ended RPG with a preordained character, whose thoughts, decisions, and capabilities I can choose to determine - but whose actual appearance is set in stone.
It might sound strange, but options such as those described in the OP of this thread are also something I could come to appreciate from a roleplaying perspective - in a game that basically looks to be about the commodification of every aspect of the human experience, sexuality included.
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Depends on if they render the body, this is a brave new world we're stepping into so I'd say there is a good possibility that you might see more than your feet when you look down, depending on how you set the size slider of course.
Wait... don't you actually see your character in cutscenes? Not all cutscenes are 1st person... I think
Clothing in RDR2 change size dynamically with Arthur's weight. I don't think they need some new tech. It's doable.
The jiggle physics for the men in that game are revolutionary.
Reacting to a character's general outline isn't difficult because you're just moving the exterior bounding vertices and (presumably) have the clothing weight-painted to scale with them. This sort of thing, conversely, is enough of a different ballpark that in most games the "male" and "female" bodies are just completely different, and there are completely different "versions" of each article of clothing for each, even if they're visually almost identical, as dynamically slapping on new underlying anatomy that requires a completely different "bone" structure (in animation rigging terms) is considerable less simplistic.
I don't know if I quite believe that the customization in this case will be as in-depth as some people are assuming. 😂
Sure, but how is just a bigger bulge any different? They'd do the same thing but on that specific spot.
Yep, there will be cutscenes, mirrors, menus etc. where we got see V from 3rd person view.
Here, here!
Though this thread throws out of the window the idea that making a 5'7 character named Frederick Lamont would be controversial.
That's kind of the point of the cyberpunk genre--how the body can be commodified, and autonomy is a moving target.
Front paging some big names streaming it.
Them banning this game would mean huge loss of ad revenue and possible new users to platform. Even if they have to bend rules they will allow CP77.
Even then game doesn't inherently break any Twitch rules as anatomically correct nudity is allowed on platform. Game just can't be sex game, basically.
There seems to be a lot of customization (which is great) - but not sure what good it is when the game is 1st person and without 3rd person cutscenes. I mean, the way I see it, the only customization you'll actually be able to see is your hands.
There is 3rd person cutscenes at times, plus reflections and you see you character in the menu too.
Other games was banned for less then that but yeah... double standard is a typical Twitch thing.
Maybe the game will have a "steamer" mode who disable explicit content.
What are you refering to? The fetishization came from ad in the game, not ad for the game. That is big difference.
As art director said, this ad represented sexualization done by corporation as they do now for cis women.
Maybe it will be bad game in this regard, maybe not.
If Wolfenstain had nazis in the game, does that mean marketing for the game advertises fascism?
You are free to read the discussions this community has had on the subject. The general gist is that the only representation we have so far of transfolks is that ad, which dehumanizes trans women. People keep touting this game as mature take on a dystopian future with transhumanism and yet all they've shown are decade old stereotypes and juvenile jokes.
When the game is released we will be able to make informed criticism, but so far they seem unable to advance the narrative on a dystopian capitalist society and make any sort of interesting social commentary besides "people bad".
Pretty much this, said ad was also used to advertise the game at E3. For something that's supposedly meant to show how horrible corporations would be for sexualizing trans people, CDPR sure still used that ad in exactly that way themselves.
And speaking of what the art director said: yeah she said that it's meant to show how horrible it is that corporations oversexualize people to sell products. In that same breath she also referred to trans people as "people/bodies in between":
CD Projekt Red explains controversial Cyberpunk in-game ad featuring trans model
What a hypersexualized in-fiction ad reveals about the highly anticipated RPG
www.polygon.com
And considering she was talking about the controversial design on that poster, I'm going to assume the worst there.
That's not what I was commenting on, the fact that many people were making light (jokes, etc) of the subject of "a person with a dick and boobs" is kind of the problem.
Trans individuals end up the butt of a lot of jokes and fetishization, and eventually dehumanization. It would be wonderful if this game made proper use of it's setting to explore those subjects, but the great is it'll be surface level and instead the internet will just be flooded with grotesque images and even more grotesque takes on real life trans people.
That's all I was saying.
Art director's interview does not boil down to "people bad."
She did not said that. Stop putting words in someone's mouth. She said :
"I think that sexy bodies are sexy. Full disclosure: I love female bodies. I love male bodies. I love bodies in between. This is who I am. However, I hate it when it's used commercially. And that's exactly what we want to show by doing this exactly, by showing how big corporations use people's bodies against them."
Can you tell difference between male body and cis male person? Because twisting her quote you are impying that body type = gender
She literally did, in that article that both you and I linked.
I find it hard not to assume the worst here. Especially considering the context of the design she's talking about.
And even if she had the best intentions: that doesn't really matter because regardless CDPR did exactly the same thing she says she's criticizing companies for.
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They said they are throwing out 3rd person cutscenes from the game because of "immersion".
No, they didn't.
They even clarified misunderstanding about that by stating that there will be cutscenes in which you see V from 3rd person view.
Marcin Momot on Twitter
“2/2 That said, players will still be able to see their characters in the inventory screen, during driving sequences, in mirrors and, very occasionally, in some of the cut-scenes.”
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