>I get that Cyberpunk’s dark future is intended not as a goal, but as something for humanity to avoid. As Mike Pondsmith, creator of the Cyberpunk tabletop game, has put it, “The Cyberpunk future is a warning; not an aspiration.” There’s real potential for a grim world like the one Cyberpunk 2077 offers to serve as a lens through which our own world is critiqued, but the developers at CD Projekt Red failed to do anything with the trans options and identities they incorporated into the game to make them function in this way, and as V, you never have the option to say or do anything about it. The objectification of trans people is just background texture, nothing more.
>For elements like the inescapable dehumanization of trans people on imagery throughout the city to function as any kind of critique of transphobia, the game itself would need to create tension around those images by showing us humanized trans people navigating that world. But it doesn’t. The result is a game in which transphobic players (of which there will be many) can just laugh at us by using the character creator to generate models they consider worthy of mockery and derision and by gagging at the Chromanticure ads they see everywhere, or perhaps by fetishizing the model while continuing to see trans people as objects of desire but not as full human beings. Meanwhile, we trans players are left wanting in its world for depictions that humanize us.
>Here in 2020, people boldly and bravely hack gender all the time. And yes, I know that Cyberpunk 2077 takes place on a separate timeline in which the year 2020 looked very different than it does for us, but it’s still a world in which people push their bodies to the extreme of technological modification, sometimes swapping out eyes or limbs like they’re changing clothes. You’d think transgressing gender norms would be pretty commonplace, too, and that as a result, a fundamentally different understanding of gender and of trans identity would have taken root in the world.
Complaining about trannies being nothing but an objectified background texture in a dark dystopian cyberpunk future is like complaining how your american soldier character in Call Of Duty emptying a clip into brown foreigners is offensive because you can't do it as a non-binary genderfluid
Is he even trying? I can look more fmeinine with a wig lmao
Joshua Price
>Trans people constitute 0.1% of the population >Demand to be represented mainstream >Complain about any way they are represented
This is why you don't pander to these fucks. They can never be satisfied. You can literally make Buck Angel or Linetrap, but because you can't pick neutral pronouns it's not enough.
Kayden Carter
thats a fucking dude stop it society is collapsing
James Price
they'll never be satisfied with the size of the bone you throw them
Zachary Robinson
the entire review is just bitching about trans shit
Daniel Rivera
ITS MA'AM AND IM GOING TO HAVE YOU STOP MISSGENDERING TRANSFOLK OR ELSE I WILL REPORT YOU.
