Timeline for Does the commander in the modern XCOM series have a canonical gender?
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| Aug 31, 2017 at 11:38 | comment | added | Flater | @Philipp: Your question itself implies that it's possible there was never a slip-up as to using gender-specific pronouns. It is impossible to prove a negative (the non-existence of a slip-up), you can't have direct confirmation from something that never occurs unless you want every single script and voice line from all games presented to you (which is not by any means feasible in the scope of an answer here). | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 21:09 | comment | added | Flyto | "I played the games all the way through and the gender of the commander is never hinted at" is about as primary a source as it gets, in a question about those games... | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 20:28 | comment | added | Vemonus | I think the point of them never saying one way or another that it is actually you, the player, is because that would also be limiting who the Commander is. It doesn't have to be you. If they never specify gender in-game, never give the Commander spoken lines, and never show the appearance of the Commander, the Commander can be exactly who you imagine him/her/it to be. This is a case of a self-insert or blank slate character. Their personality and appearance are entirely up to what you want them to be. Any word on who the Commander is "supposed" to be detracts from that ideal. | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 20:19 | comment | added | Vemonus | @Philipp honestly, it doesn't look like they officially said it since all of the context is there to pretty much lead you to the conclusion that you are the Commander. In the interview you mentioned in your question, there's a part where they said "as the Commander, you", but that's probably as close as you'll get to an "official" source. | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 20:15 | comment | added | Philipp | Primary sources would be the game itself or a quote from a team member. "I played the game and didn't find anything like that" would be an example of an argument based on the primary source. Unfortunately not a very strong one, because it is hard to prove a negative through testimony. | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 20:12 | comment | added | Vemonus | @Philipp what do you mean by a primary source? I've played XCOM Enemy Unknown/Within and XCOM 2 and cannot recall a time when a gender-specific pronoun was used. It was always "the Commander" this and "the Commander's" that. Did you mean word from the devs themselves? | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 20:11 | comment | added | Philipp | Thank you for your answer, but unfortunately it is completely based on secondary sources in form of user-made wikis. I upvoted, but I would only accept an answer which includes a primary source. | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 18:40 | history | edited | Vemonus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 25, 2017 at 18:33 | history | answered | Vemonus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |