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).
As much as the game is the blandest thing I've ever played, I liked the fact that Outer Worlds had an asexual lesbian companion who was NOT into you but wanted your advice on how to approach their love interest NPC.
If I recall, the character got pretty positive press even if the writing wasn't the best, but I'm not on Xitter where the gamer discourse is usually at.
Yeah Parvati was very well recieved. Good example of what i mention in my post of writing charachters with a set sexuality who arent romance options for the player.