This discourse was going around twitter today apparently and im curious takes from here.
Which is it for you?
For me i prefer playersexuality. I want to be able to romance any romance option regardless of my charachters gender. I dont want to be stuck with only Arcade Gannon if i want to do m/m
I agree that sexuality can be important to a charachter. But if you wanna do that, seems like the charachter can just not be a romance option.
That said. In RPGs devs can do what they want. You want a charachter to be monosexual and a romance option, have at it. (Unless theyre all straight, then fuck you).
I do kinda hate what The Sims did by adding monosexuality. Felt like such a virtue signal that made the game less fun. All Sims being pansexual was always more fun for me. Especially since i usually play that game as a pansexual slut. Unless i decide my player Sim is mono, but thats on the player's end.
Monosexual townies in the Sims should at least be optional (is it? Idk havent played Sims 4 since this update).
It'd be fun (and angering the gamers) and realistic if there were more romance paths, dialogue options, etc. for certain characters that end up with them saying "no, not interested" - for example
Persona 3 spoiler
there's surprising amount of that kind of dialogue in the interactions the FeMC has with Junpei Iori, which he does reply by laughing off each time.It's something I found neat - devs being brave enough to say no to the player. Though it's probably something ATLUS did unintentionally lol.
P3 is also interesting because
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Aigis is playersexual, but she's the only one who is, and her romance with the FeMC is heartmeltingly sweet IMO. She and her romance were not originally written with lesbians in mind but the whole "I want you to leave an indelible mark on my memory even knowing this will be harmful to me" thing is just. Gah. It hits for me in a way that playersexual romances normally don't.spoiler
Aigis is a neat character, yeah.The FeMC can also "romance" (unofficially) Elizabeth, and make several flirtatious comments towards Yukari during the game. For how cringe ATLUS can get when it comes to LGBT+ representation, it turns out getting lazy with the code led to one of the better examples thereof lol.