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).
i think this is a slightly incorrect way to look at it if we describe character attributes within the diegesis, which i think we usually do. a playersexual character might be straight or gay depending on the player's gender choice but for the fictional world, the woman who talks about her ex girlfriend if you play a woman and has a different line about her ex boyfriend if you play a man isn't necessarily bi as far as the story or the other characters are concerned.
Hell, you could do the opposite and have an anti-playersexual character so that the story is about being a supportive friend and clearly not about pursing romance.
An alternate universe JohnBrownNote who loves what i'm not into doesn't change my orientation.