First off the 3rd person scenes will most likely be from behind your character like almost every other 3rd person scene ever done. Seldom are they from the side like two people in a movie. So you get to see the back of your head and not your face. That's not to say you face won't appear. It will most likely appear but in the character stat screen.
Source? Do you have some insight into the development of this game that the rest of us don't? You have no idea how the third person portions of the game will work. Regardless, some of us have something called an imagination and we like to use it, even if we don't get to see the face during normal play.
Pronouns are a who different matter. I doubt if they ever even show up during the game except maybe on the character stat screen before your name which is lame.
Again, unless you have some insight it's all conjecture. It doesn't take much to change single short sentences, you don't have rerecord the entire conversation.
The "HUGE EMPHASIS" part of their statement. Why? Where is this EMPHASIS going to be at? They are implying that it will mean a big deal IN the game and that the game matters about what you do. That to me appears to not be the case at all.
AGAIN, appears
from where. We have next to no information on this game so far. You explicitly state "that to me appears to not be the case at all" so tell me, appears from what?
I'm asking HOW will it matter. What about the game will this HUGE EMPHASIS of your character creation impact the game? I don't see how it does impact the game.
How does anything matter? It's art, it's all up to you as the audience as to how it matters.
Body style which they mention impacts how? As I said if you're a fat body style does that mean your dexterity is low? A tall body style does that impact sneaking skills? Does a female body style mean you have less strength? So what am I missing here? How can body style impact the game and if it doesn't then why a huge emphasis?
Are you now being deliberately facetious? You've already discussed that there will be third person segments to the game, plus (unmentioned so far) the possibility of seeing your reflection.
In the table top game you create a character based on stats. You don't pick body style. You don't create a face.
Maybe
you don't, but everyone I've known and played with does. It's the reason they have spaces for this sort of stuff on the character sheets.
And once again you clearly miss the point. I'm not asking if it's "important" or not. I'm asking what impact it has. It wasn't me that claimed dchosing a body style and pronoun would be a 'huge emphasis". I take it from your answer you have zero clue on the impact and that it won't mean anything in the actual game.
See my previous responses with regards to it being art and the impact is up to the consumer, and also this strange insight you seem to have into a game for which we have not seen anything.
Because most people, at least on this thread, don't want a RPG
The impact is on sales, nothing more nothing less. It's a way to signal. What is important is the hundred of hours of developer time spent on this was determined to be more valuable than spending on other aspects of the game.
Seriously. If you already hate this game why are you still here? There are people here who want to engage in serious discourse, if all you want to do is criticise something the hasn't even been released yet, go down speaker's corner.
Can we please get this thread back on topic and limit it to things that have been revealed to be (even potentially) in the game.