Summary
Bethesda fans have a brand-new immersive RPG to add to their libraries in the form ofStarfield. Promising to give fans an entire universe of a thousand planets to explore, players can take companions with them across the blackest sea to build outposts, discover artifacts, and maybe kill alien threats along the way. Of course, like all the other RPGs that have similar scopes, allowing players to put themselves in the center of the story is a must through a customized character, andStarfield’s character creatoris now one of the best games to do that in.
Just as the other games in Bethesda’s library handle their character creation,Starfieldstarts out with defaults players can pick and then change as they go along to make a character that suits them. From there, the character’s body and face can be molded to fit a player’s needs, be it if they’re playing as a specific person they made up, or themselves. However,Starfieldis unique in that it uses its sci-fi setting to its advantage, and everything about the character can be changed later in the game at special facilities, including their pronouns.
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Starfield’s Pronoun Choices Are Optional
Players can first choose what pronouns their character goes by at the very end of the character creator. WhileStarfield’s gained a bit of controversyfor including the feature, it isn’t something the game forces fans to interact with. As players need to pick between masculine and feminine body types, the game automatically assigns them the respective pronouns depending on what fans pick to only mention it at the very end alongside the box needed to give the character a name.
Here, opening the pronoun selection requires hitting a specific button to be able to change it to anything but the defaults, meaning players who don’t care to change them can name their character and move on. AsStarfielddoes have recordings for specific names, the option to select a character’s pronoun feels rather small in comparison. However, while many fans will likely skip over the option to change their pronouns, the gesture goes quite a long way for Bethesda’s LGBT+ fans.
How Starfield Gives LGBT+ Players Complete Freedom
While it’s easy for fans to skip over the part of the character creator that deals with pronouns, the players who use it most certainly won’t, and will very much appreciate the intricacies that go into the gesture at large. When fans decide to hit the button that opens up the menu to select the character’s pronouns, not only will he/him and she/her be options, but they/them is possible as well. If players decide the pronouns they had weren’t the right fit, or that they wish to change them later, they easily can inStarfieldby visiting Enhance stores.
The inclusion of these features may seem small, but they go quite a long way for the LGBT+ fans who wish to make a character just like themselves from the very beginning, or even make them figure themselves out and transition along the journey with Constellation and other factions. The positivity towards LGBT+ players doesn’t just stop there, either, as fans can indulge in romance with applicable companions regardless of their character’s gender, and body types in the character creator are listed by numbers rather than gender, avoiding any associations with specific shapes and parts.
It just goes to show how far a few small features can make a game incredibly welcoming for all sorts of players. According to Bethesda, 2330 is an inclusive future where anyone can be who they wish to be, which helps makeStarfieldan out-of-this-world experience.
Starfieldis available now on PC and Xbox Series X/S.
