mehGusta
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"look as conventionally hot as physically possible" partially correct.Out of curiosity, why in the quiet almighty fuck would you want to play as Axel? Genuine question.
How do you approach the male POV when you play ORS and what would make you want having Axel over Ian (or any other potential male character for that matter) as your male MC?
This also makes me think of something else... Why ain't nobody tryna play as Alison, Emma or any other female character?
There's some cheap ass AI slop knockoff where you play as Cindy... So is the standard for great MCs just "look as conventionally hot as physically possible"?
i think i've said it before that i don't like to play as a self-insert, especially since the illusion is destroyed as soon as the character says something i would never say in the given situation or since most of the time characters who are supposedly blank slates to relate to i see as an insult to me as if the game is telling me i'm bland myself, i much rather play a defined character.
for example if you know or have played both mass effect and mass effect andromeda, you would think that the creation of your MC should be so variable that exchanging shepard with ryder should make no difference? however that is no the case. regardless of how you play each game, the MC has a scope of reactions and characteristics associated with the person themselves. that alone is already defined by the limited options you can respond in conversations. no surprise there as you'd need a near infinite amount of options to cover every possible character type.
so yeah of course i rather have a character who is not a loser.
don't get me wrong a "zero to hero" kind of story is interesting in it's own right. but a full game as loser? no thanks!
axel as himself wouldn't work quite well in my eyes, because he is too set in his psycho-boyfriend theme. but physically? hell yeah i would like to play him as MMC!
and yeah i think you could create a game revolving around a character like alison, emma, holly, ivy, etc. and even as minerva. you'd just have to know what you want the story to be about.
the same things that make them interesting as NPCs can be used to make them MCs.
tl;dr boring characters are boring.