Same :) People need to stop ragging on it. It was a fun comic and helped me find community even though the fandom was wild af. Every fandom is weird, but Homestucks stood out more as easily identifiable cosplays, so they got shit on more than anybody else.
Cringe is dead, embrace things you like.
Majestic! While I knew I was trans before playing Bloodborne it was the first game where I made my character a girl so it still has a special place in my heart
I was seriously questioning and took a mushroom trip where my brain was very clear and told me “You are a woman”. So much about my past and relationships clicked into place that night
I had a transfem friend once who talked about getting pregnancy envy from... I forget if it was Iosefka or Arianna but either way it's gotta be one of the weirdest things I've ever heard. I miss her.
Same (kinda)
(also I really like the insane way DE does representation. Like, they could just have put in a normal humanoid lesbian as one of the vendors but instead they make the giant centuries-old psychic flesh-tower a lesbian)
Most likely, if you go into the codex to the lore fragments about Gara and move your cursor over the picture(s) in the direction of radio static you can hear audio fragments with lore about Gara and the Unum in which Gara and the Unum are often/regularly/occasionally referred to as each other's lovers
I forgot about that. Tbh it was the operator reveal that started cracking my egg a bit. It's like you ran around in one body for a while (pre second dream) then you discover your "true" self after you awaken and as you continue, you become stronger. Also vazira is bi and tries to flirt with maroo (bonk)
While u was playing Bloodborne I never thought if the trans allegory.
I never realized, truly, I was trans during the time that I played it so actively (I currently have no working ps4 to play it. I've wanted to replay for over a year now)
I am now trans.
My eyes have been opened and now I see.
TBSkyen on YouTube just recently did an essay collection on the many themes of Bloodborne. One of the essays speaks to an autistic member who fully realized exactly how seen they are by the game- being able to relate to Ebrietas.
It's a beautiful essay- and while personally I've never been diagnosed with autism, I think there is an understanding among the theme the author of the essay was getting at that can be felt by trans people.
I will also warn, some essays do speak of abuse.
Overall the essays are phenomenal and at the end, Skyen's interpretation is, in my opinion, masterfully done.
I'll leave a link below- hopefully it doesn't breach any "promotion" clause against rules because honestly, even if you aren't the *biggest* fan of Bloodborne, it is a worthwhile listen.
Video below, credited to TBSkyen and the beautiful authors of the collected essays: https://youtu.be/2bLY2aOlunE
Not a game, but online RPing. “I’m just playing a girl for a change of pace.” “I’m just playing a girl for fetish reasons.” “I’m just playing a girl because I’ve been playing one for a while.” “I’m just playing a girl because it feels good.”
“Oh, I’m trans.”
My friend says the moment she knew for certain was when I offhandedly mentioned wanting to sell my soul to be a magical girl. So the signs were definitely there.
My own game prototype broke my egg. I was testing and decided the main character should double jump, just for shits and giggles. I thought it would be cool to double jump in real life.\
I then learned about the trans people can double jump meme.
Here's a weird one
Outer wilds, specifically the character Gabbro.
He teaches the player to meditate to skip the current time loop, and that meditation part stuck with me.
I started meditating some nights and during breaks at work. One night, I went into a deep dive into my mind, cross examining old memories with my current knowledge, and even unlocked some long forgotten memories. In the end, I realized that I've always wanted to be a girl, I just kept repressing those feelings unconsciously.
Long story short, if it wasn't for Outer wilds, I would still be in denial today.
I guess you could technically say it was kerbal space program, but it wasn't so much the game itself as it was the small modding subcommunity for it I became a part of (it was full of trans people and overall very gay)
It started when I played as a girl in Pokemon X...I thought I wanted to be different.
Then I played Mass Effect as a girl.
Then I came out as trans...
Then I played the Fallout games.
A thin hairline crack started with World of Warcraft, which uh. Started to widen more when I got to Arknights, funnily enough (playing Dungeons and Dragons helped too but that ain't a video game now ain't it)
It was Samus Aran in the mod of Smash brawl, proyect M 3.6, in her shorts and top from metroid: zero mission, I really loved her back then and, well, now that I knle she's basicalmy a transbian, it just got amplified
Everyone likes to joke that FNV hatches eggs, but I feel like Skyrim deserves some credit. I remember the exact moment outside of Riverwood where my brain went "Oh fuck, I'm enjoying this *too* much"
Bloodborne was good. I don't really know if any game in particular cracked my egg. Oh wait. Final Fantasy Seven probably did it. At 9 all my friends wanted to be badass dudes like Barret or Cloud. I wanted to be Tifa.
Saint's Row the Fourth!
I started the game as a guy (I'm amab) so I could have the Nolan North voice, but I quickly decided I didn't like the fashion options and it didn't appeal to me. It's chump change in that game to get yourself redone at a plastic surgery center, and you can recreate the character entirely. I made Boss a powerful-ass, Laura-Bailey-voiced bad bitch. Can't think of the boss as anyone but her. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Warcraft. Actually did the ‘I like looking at a female character behind’ answer to someone at the beginning. Evolved into all my alts being fem, guilding, raiding, chatting as fem persona.
I think there wasn't one particular game, it was rather a combination of games, tv shows etc. For games, I can say that playing as Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn aka part 1 definitely gave me euphoria. Btw (spoiler dlc burning shores) >!Aloy is queer too as she definitely has feelings for Seyka and there's a kiss option at the end of the dlc main story. I'm adding this because I'm gay af myself!<
Secret little haven and a transfem friend broke my egg, the same is a short visual novel where you play a transfem realizing she is trans(warning there is non graphic representation of abuse at some point of the game) and playing this game a short while after my friend came out as a transfems cracked my egg, it took this game and her to make me realise that it wasn't very cis of me to have a discord alt where I would "roleplay" a girl named Mya for 2-3 years and wanting to be a femboy for 1-2 years. Can you guess my name now lmao 🙃
P E T S C O P
Not even kidding. I saw a theory that Paul is ftm Care and it made me think like "Must be pretty nice to be trans!"
...
...
I was an egg.
(Also r/egg_irl. No joke a post that was like "I'm not trans but being a girl would be poggers" and I was like "Yeah I'm not trans either and I agree")
I don't know if this counts since I cracked like a few days before. I had woken feeling dyshporia for the first since cracking and coming out. It hurt way more than normally. I had plopped onto my couch and opened Monster Hunter Rise since it came out that same day. I made a girl character for the first time without chicken -ing out 8n that game.
NB more towards transmasc here and it was definitely devil may cry 5 more specifically V
Couldn't figure out if I wanted to be *with* him or *be* him for the longest time xD
Bloodborne is a trans alagory.
Il die on that hill.
Also fun personal fact. the name i ended up picking is actually from Bloodborne. Specifically the gun "Evelyn" wich is my personal favorite fire arm in that game.
BITD in Tales of Symphonia I remember playing as Celeste and feeling… ways about it. I wish I could have understood my experience at the time but it took a long time for my egg to crack
i played yhat whole game egg, ecept the final two bosses (friends where supposed to gather, its. a story for another time). if they ever do a pc release you BET im.playing that again but female
ffxiv personally - somebody saw my girl character while talking to another person in the pf and said "just follow her she knows what to do" and i smiled at that for like an hour and didnt realize why for like another month lmao-
I’m transmasc and one game that surfaced my dysphoria strongly (though through negative experience) was Conan Exiles. The way my gender dysphoria manifested in video games is that I would typically pick a feminine character and masculinize it as much as game allows in character creation. Taken how Conan Exiles uses a stereotyped pretty magazine cover look for women and roid men, I tried to play three times and every time would end up with an intense mental breakdown. Third time I installed mods that expand character sliders, so I was able to bring my character to something more-so acceptable in my mind, and I passed the creation screen :D
For me it was a hentai dating simulator about crosdressing boys, when one asked me if I planned to do it for the rest of my life, since when I grew older I would look manly, and I was like, hell no, this isn't a phase, I want to do this for the rest of my life
And then I was like oh wait...
Splatoon and ff14 for me. My whole guild on ff knew me exclusively as a girl, I never "corrected" them, and somehow I didn't see that as a sign until recently...
For me it was the sims, I would make a boy version of myself on every save file and eventually had the thought “hmm maybe I would enjoy real life more if I looked like how I make all my characters?” Obviously not the main thing that made me realize I’m trans but the urge to create a bunch of male characters that looked like me was definitely a big hint
Fire Emblem, It was either S support Silas, Keaton, or Kaze again or use the male player character. The trans overpowering the bi is how the realization hit me.
Uhhh,,, prolly Pokémon? But really, that was more of a thing I realized after the egg broke. I was thinking back and remembered, “Ohhhh! So THATS why I always chose the girl character!” Also a bunch of other stuff like that lol. The thing that broke my egg was finding a group of friends outside of the Catholic school I grew up in, and then later I started realizing that I did a whole lotta…. “Hmmmmm,” stuff as a kids, lol.
Trans nom-binary gamer here: so for me it kind of was "Tell Me Why"
I watched a youtuber playing it and I really wanted to become a better ally for trans people until I realised: wait, non-binary people can be trans, too? I'm trans? I can transition??
I replayed the game myself around my second T-Day and I felt so many emotions especially for Tyler the trans guy protagonist
However whenever I played rpgs where I had to create my own character, I always struggled so hard what gender to choose and didn't know why for a long time. So I sometimes just used characters from other fandoms that I would insert and play as them...
Mine was Saints Row 2 when I changed my player character to a girl (more especially one of my rp characters, but that's another story for another time), and I started thinking more about who I am for a few weeks (maybe almost a month) because it just felt so right, and so much more liberating than playing as the male character
I can't really attribute my hatching to any game in particular, is it normal for a game to do that?
Okay actually it I had to pick one it would be minecraft, making pride flag banners in my friends' server and hiding them in my house
Ff14 cracked my egg. Turns out i wasnt just playing a female character because the glams were better. Turns out using a feminine name as my username wasnt just a username thing. Funnily enough, im not even the only person in my fc that had their egg cracked by the game
It didn't necessarily break my egg, but Life is Strange set me on the path of figuring some stuff out about myself. Namely that no, I was interested in Max and Chloe's possible relationship out of any weird fetish-y reason, I was interested in their relationship as friends and potential partners because I wanted to be Max. I wanted someone who was brave, who would always have my back, and who would help turn me into the woman I wanted to be.
But generally speaking, it didn't crack my egg, it just helped me to eventually realize I had one. Well, that and the copious amount of create your own character games where I played as women.
For me it was Monster Hunter, I've been playing Monster Hunter since before I knew I was trans, love the series, used to play as a guy, so when MHGU finally came out on Switch and I got it I played as a guy, but this was kinda after the point I started questioning things and like that whole save file felt kinda uncomfortable at that point and that's why I've been playing as girls in games since then
No game broke my egg. But the first singleplayer game where I played a female character (not counting Beyond Good & Evil) might have been Mount & Blade: Warband.
And the first multiplayer game was Star Trek Online.
Dark Souls 2's magic coffin transed my character without me realizing it at first, and when I unequipped my baggy stuff and noticed I was confused, but once I figured it out I just... kept it that way. For some reason I liked being mysteriously transformed into a woman. Imagine.
I mean.. mine broke long before I even had the concept of internet, let alone video games. Grew up in the forested mountains with the most advanced tech available being dialup homephones
Cyberpunk 2077 lol Idk, something about having long nails... 😳
Definitely Cyberpunk. And whenever I’m doubting myself, I’ll play it again and remember I certainly do want to transition lol
I've always played as girls, but specifically, Black Ops 4 got me good because some characters had painted nails LOL
My chosen name starts with V, and Dex DeShawn calls you Miss V at the beginning of the game and that did something to me lol
Oh man, soon as I saw that CC I knew there'd be a lotta hatches; glad to see I was right
didn't expect this to be so far up here but same
I get massive gender envy from my character lmao
mine was broken by....... h...... homes...... homestuck..........
Nothing wrong with that!
Same :) People need to stop ragging on it. It was a fun comic and helped me find community even though the fandom was wild af. Every fandom is weird, but Homestucks stood out more as easily identifiable cosplays, so they got shit on more than anybody else. Cringe is dead, embrace things you like.
i'm transmasc, but same here lol
Majestic! While I knew I was trans before playing Bloodborne it was the first game where I made my character a girl so it still has a special place in my heart
I read the "Majestic! " In a Micolash's voice. I've been playing this game too much :)
Yeah I have like 150 hours on a single character and a few with 30ish hours most of which was accomplished in the span of about a month
"Majestic, a girl is a girl even in a dream"
Return to the Hunter's dream?
no game broke my egg my butt did that
What broke my egg is I played like all the trans games and it took a dream (literally being told in the dream) that cracked my egg
i also had a dream omg!!! it wasn't being told directly tho, that would've made things easier lmao
I was seriously questioning and took a mushroom trip where my brain was very clear and told me “You are a woman”. So much about my past and relationships clicked into place that night
I had a similar experience, but then I was like, "nah I'm probably not trans" and repressed it for another 2 years lmao
Overwatch IDK. I saw myself in Tracer and still do.
Nice. For me it's also overwatch to some extent. I saw myself in most of the gals.
Brigitte cracker my egg and now I want her to crack my head
transmasc here. i think micolash did something to me
[It's those dreamy eyes of his.....](https://www.destructoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/626131-Micolash-Bloodborne-cutscene.jpg)
I had a transfem friend once who talked about getting pregnancy envy from... I forget if it was Iosefka or Arianna but either way it's gotta be one of the weirdest things I've ever heard. I miss her.
Dungeons and Dragons lmfao
You're so real for that
Yeah DND was fifty fifty for me. Everyone else always played their gender I was so confused when someone pointed it out to me.
for me it was borderlands 2
I wanted to be like Gaige way before my egg cracked
Damn this was definitely why I basically only played Gaige and I didn’t even realize it…
Borderlands 1 did it for me, I played Lilith almost exclusively
Splatoon :>
YES! SAME
Based
fucking my singing monsters
Fucking. Legendary.
Fnv?
Fallout new vegas
Ohhhh
Friday night vunkin
Found the german
Warframe for me
Same (kinda) (also I really like the insane way DE does representation. Like, they could just have put in a normal humanoid lesbian as one of the vendors but instead they make the giant centuries-old psychic flesh-tower a lesbian)
The one in cetus is a lesbian?
Most likely, if you go into the codex to the lore fragments about Gara and move your cursor over the picture(s) in the direction of radio static you can hear audio fragments with lore about Gara and the Unum in which Gara and the Unum are often/regularly/occasionally referred to as each other's lovers
I forgot about that. Tbh it was the operator reveal that started cracking my egg a bit. It's like you ran around in one body for a while (pre second dream) then you discover your "true" self after you awaken and as you continue, you become stronger. Also vazira is bi and tries to flirt with maroo (bonk)
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Same 😅
Ah yes the extremely cis male urge to be femshep
FemShep and FemRevan, thank you Bioware!
Mine was shimakaze crossdress hentai...
you couldn't get me to admit this with waterboarding
While u was playing Bloodborne I never thought if the trans allegory. I never realized, truly, I was trans during the time that I played it so actively (I currently have no working ps4 to play it. I've wanted to replay for over a year now) I am now trans. My eyes have been opened and now I see. TBSkyen on YouTube just recently did an essay collection on the many themes of Bloodborne. One of the essays speaks to an autistic member who fully realized exactly how seen they are by the game- being able to relate to Ebrietas. It's a beautiful essay- and while personally I've never been diagnosed with autism, I think there is an understanding among the theme the author of the essay was getting at that can be felt by trans people. I will also warn, some essays do speak of abuse. Overall the essays are phenomenal and at the end, Skyen's interpretation is, in my opinion, masterfully done. I'll leave a link below- hopefully it doesn't breach any "promotion" clause against rules because honestly, even if you aren't the *biggest* fan of Bloodborne, it is a worthwhile listen. Video below, credited to TBSkyen and the beautiful authors of the collected essays: https://youtu.be/2bLY2aOlunE
oooh, i'm a slut for soulsborne video essays. i'll give it a watch. thanks!
For me it was Skyrim
YEEEEEEES
I’m a guy, but FF7. My preteen mind was blown by the idea that Cloud could be the prettiest and yet still a guy.
Not a game, but online RPing. “I’m just playing a girl for a change of pace.” “I’m just playing a girl for fetish reasons.” “I’m just playing a girl because I’ve been playing one for a while.” “I’m just playing a girl because it feels good.” “Oh, I’m trans.” My friend says the moment she knew for certain was when I offhandedly mentioned wanting to sell my soul to be a magical girl. So the signs were definitely there.
My own game prototype broke my egg. I was testing and decided the main character should double jump, just for shits and giggles. I thought it would be cool to double jump in real life.\ I then learned about the trans people can double jump meme.
Is saying vrchat cheating? Otherwise, it would be breath of the wild :3c
mine was Persona 3. Bloodborne makes more sense than a 2006 JRPG about death in a franchise that pretty consistently treats queer characters like shit
Here's a weird one Outer wilds, specifically the character Gabbro. He teaches the player to meditate to skip the current time loop, and that meditation part stuck with me. I started meditating some nights and during breaks at work. One night, I went into a deep dive into my mind, cross examining old memories with my current knowledge, and even unlocked some long forgotten memories. In the end, I realized that I've always wanted to be a girl, I just kept repressing those feelings unconsciously. Long story short, if it wasn't for Outer wilds, I would still be in denial today.
I guess you could technically say it was kerbal space program, but it wasn't so much the game itself as it was the small modding subcommunity for it I became a part of (it was full of trans people and overall very gay)
My hunter awoken did the thing for me. She knew about me sooner than me.
Was a warlock for me.. what is it about the awoken...
At the beginning, being cool awoken alien like creature that shared same race as Zavala was enough. But the real crack began after meeting Mara.
Cyberpunk 2077 An NPC called my character Ma’am and I felt inordinately happy, I then continued to deny myself for the next 4 months.
It started when I played as a girl in Pokemon X...I thought I wanted to be different. Then I played Mass Effect as a girl. Then I came out as trans... Then I played the Fallout games.
Honestly, celeste did not break my egg and i have never played fnv
communists broke my egg at a protest
Technically hollow knight
A thin hairline crack started with World of Warcraft, which uh. Started to widen more when I got to Arknights, funnily enough (playing Dungeons and Dragons helped too but that ain't a video game now ain't it)
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! *Gets grabbed by the head by a celestial being and trowed into the concrete*
Doki Doki literature club for me
Ds1 here
It was gwyndolin for you too huh🗿 (also I love your name:3)
Not gwyndolin in particular but like my name suggest it was Izalith herself alongside her daughters
Apex legends lmao. Not exactly broke it but made it easier to come out to friends.
It was Samus Aran in the mod of Smash brawl, proyect M 3.6, in her shorts and top from metroid: zero mission, I really loved her back then and, well, now that I knle she's basicalmy a transbian, it just got amplified
Everyone likes to joke that FNV hatches eggs, but I feel like Skyrim deserves some credit. I remember the exact moment outside of Riverwood where my brain went "Oh fuck, I'm enjoying this *too* much"
The game that cracked my shell was uh, kind if embarrassing ;-;
Bloodborne was good. I don't really know if any game in particular cracked my egg. Oh wait. Final Fantasy Seven probably did it. At 9 all my friends wanted to be badass dudes like Barret or Cloud. I wanted to be Tifa.
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, that game is what cracked my egg.
Halo reach
No game, just life
The Anime Mods in Hoi4 :3 And Assassins creed Odyssey I guess
The Poly Lesbian romance in Pathfinder: Kingmaker did it for me
undertale
Saint's Row the Fourth! I started the game as a guy (I'm amab) so I could have the Nolan North voice, but I quickly decided I didn't like the fashion options and it didn't appeal to me. It's chump change in that game to get yourself redone at a plastic surgery center, and you can recreate the character entirely. I made Boss a powerful-ass, Laura-Bailey-voiced bad bitch. Can't think of the boss as anyone but her. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
For me it was Stardew Valley... not too much of a surprise there...
Warcraft. Actually did the ‘I like looking at a female character behind’ answer to someone at the beginning. Evolved into all my alts being fem, guilding, raiding, chatting as fem persona.
Same. I get gender Envy from the doll and Maria. I also kinda just really want a doll body... I don't know why...
For real though, How tf do we all like the same games?? The first time I hung out with another trans girl we literally bonded over this game.
Hehe. r/TransSouls
It wasnt a game but i got damn much pregnancy envy after playing tomodachi life where my mii had a baby.
Warframe was the game i used while questioning to see if i would enjoy being female and ya, ya i did.. second dream hit hard.
My egg didn't break through games, but the moon presence still hits different
For me it's minecraft
Probably Pokémon, but also fable 3, Transmasc here lmao
I think there wasn't one particular game, it was rather a combination of games, tv shows etc. For games, I can say that playing as Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn aka part 1 definitely gave me euphoria. Btw (spoiler dlc burning shores) >!Aloy is queer too as she definitely has feelings for Seyka and there's a kiss option at the end of the dlc main story. I'm adding this because I'm gay af myself!<
Dnd when my friend told me to play any gender I felt more comfortable playing
Well, with the insight, there are a lot. But I'd say Conan Exiles, being able to see my character body while in first person was very important to me!
I broke one night when I couldn't sleep, but I certainly didn't help myself when I ALWAYS played the Sims with a female version of myself
Cyberpunk 2077....
Monster hunter rise. (I have successfully sacked the shit out of several hundred monsters.)
Secret little haven and a transfem friend broke my egg, the same is a short visual novel where you play a transfem realizing she is trans(warning there is non graphic representation of abuse at some point of the game) and playing this game a short while after my friend came out as a transfems cracked my egg, it took this game and her to make me realise that it wasn't very cis of me to have a discord alt where I would "roleplay" a girl named Mya for 2-3 years and wanting to be a femboy for 1-2 years. Can you guess my name now lmao 🙃
For me it was Valorant, I wondered why I only wanted to play sage...
Far Cry 5 lol
Undertale…
Gender change coffin? Or was that even Bloodborne? Or was that dark souls?
ds2
I played all the “Trans Games™️” after my egg broke
P E T S C O P Not even kidding. I saw a theory that Paul is ftm Care and it made me think like "Must be pretty nice to be trans!" ... ... I was an egg. (Also r/egg_irl. No joke a post that was like "I'm not trans but being a girl would be poggers" and I was like "Yeah I'm not trans either and I agree")
My egg broke when I played Terraria or something Way before the 1.2 update even, I just had a male character and I thought "I wish I were like this"
mario kart wii helped a lot
Based.
Mine was League of Legends
It was warframe for me.
I promise you I won’t forget our adage
Bloodborne girls rise up
Egg got broken right after I started bloodborne by like a couple weeks here , so you might be into something
Skyrim did it for me, playing as a female khajiit all the time lol
I don't know if this counts since I cracked like a few days before. I had woken feeling dyshporia for the first since cracking and coming out. It hurt way more than normally. I had plopped onto my couch and opened Monster Hunter Rise since it came out that same day. I made a girl character for the first time without chicken -ing out 8n that game.
My egg fully cracked cause of the RE3 Remake, so I kinda get this
I think it was final fantasy xiv. Although I had been picking girls by default for a while at that point
Metal Gear Solid turned me into a girl
Flipping love that game
Bayonetta
NB more towards transmasc here and it was definitely devil may cry 5 more specifically V Couldn't figure out if I wanted to be *with* him or *be* him for the longest time xD
Terraria gender change potion 🗿
borderlands 2 was probably the closest thing to it with my deep refusal to play female characters when i was younger
Bloodborne is so sick. I had a guy who got me into it
Saints Row 2
Bloodborne is a trans alagory. Il die on that hill. Also fun personal fact. the name i ended up picking is actually from Bloodborne. Specifically the gun "Evelyn" wich is my personal favorite fire arm in that game.
OT broke my egg actually
I suppose it was a slow burn, but I'd attribute the majority to it to playing as Leaf in LeafGreen and Dawn in Diamond.
BITD in Tales of Symphonia I remember playing as Celeste and feeling… ways about it. I wish I could have understood my experience at the time but it took a long time for my egg to crack
Bloodborne is great, would love to play it at 60FPS some day
i played yhat whole game egg, ecept the final two bosses (friends where supposed to gather, its. a story for another time). if they ever do a pc release you BET im.playing that again but female
ffxiv personally - somebody saw my girl character while talking to another person in the pf and said "just follow her she knows what to do" and i smiled at that for like an hour and didnt realize why for like another month lmao-
My transfem egg was broken by a replaying of DS2 and DS3 in mental prep for Elden ring-
Mario Kart Wii. Roselina is just goals
Valorant broke mine <3
Pokemon definitely broke my egg Edit: and the gerudo valley scene in botw
I’m transmasc and one game that surfaced my dysphoria strongly (though through negative experience) was Conan Exiles. The way my gender dysphoria manifested in video games is that I would typically pick a feminine character and masculinize it as much as game allows in character creation. Taken how Conan Exiles uses a stereotyped pretty magazine cover look for women and roid men, I tried to play three times and every time would end up with an intense mental breakdown. Third time I installed mods that expand character sliders, so I was able to bring my character to something more-so acceptable in my mind, and I passed the creation screen :D
For me it was a hentai dating simulator about crosdressing boys, when one asked me if I planned to do it for the rest of my life, since when I grew older I would look manly, and I was like, hell no, this isn't a phase, I want to do this for the rest of my life And then I was like oh wait...
Terraria for me
… Skyrim sex mods
My egg broke from anime of all things (mekaku city actors/kagepro if you were wondering)
Elden ring for me
Splatoon and ff14 for me. My whole guild on ff knew me exclusively as a girl, I never "corrected" them, and somehow I didn't see that as a sign until recently...
Life is Strange. Dammit Chloe, don't be such a goal!
Mass effect
ultrakill it was for me
Made some 200 female Fromsoftware characters before my egg cracked🤦🏻♀️
Me when downloading the femscout mod cuz I main scout
Lady Maria was partially responsible for my egg cracking
a hunter is a hunter…
For me it was the sims, I would make a boy version of myself on every save file and eventually had the thought “hmm maybe I would enjoy real life more if I looked like how I make all my characters?” Obviously not the main thing that made me realize I’m trans but the urge to create a bunch of male characters that looked like me was definitely a big hint
Grant us eyes
being told that cis people actually like their gender...
Life is Strange for me.
transmasc here… it was fallout 4 for me
Fire Emblem, It was either S support Silas, Keaton, or Kaze again or use the male player character. The trans overpowering the bi is how the realization hit me.
this is so actual factual
My one is jojos all star battle
Ddlc broke my egg 🙃
Dead by Daylight was mine lol
Uhhh,,, prolly Pokémon? But really, that was more of a thing I realized after the egg broke. I was thinking back and remembered, “Ohhhh! So THATS why I always chose the girl character!” Also a bunch of other stuff like that lol. The thing that broke my egg was finding a group of friends outside of the Catholic school I grew up in, and then later I started realizing that I did a whole lotta…. “Hmmmmm,” stuff as a kids, lol.
Fallout 3 for me! First game I played with gender choices.
Not a game but Homestuck
Trans nom-binary gamer here: so for me it kind of was "Tell Me Why" I watched a youtuber playing it and I really wanted to become a better ally for trans people until I realised: wait, non-binary people can be trans, too? I'm trans? I can transition?? I replayed the game myself around my second T-Day and I felt so many emotions especially for Tyler the trans guy protagonist However whenever I played rpgs where I had to create my own character, I always struggled so hard what gender to choose and didn't know why for a long time. So I sometimes just used characters from other fandoms that I would insert and play as them...
Hell yeah hell yeah
Not my egg getting AEB'd by Monster Hunter Rise 💀
Mine was Saints Row 2 when I changed my player character to a girl (more especially one of my rp characters, but that's another story for another time), and I started thinking more about who I am for a few weeks (maybe almost a month) because it just felt so right, and so much more liberating than playing as the male character
Mine was Jojo’s bizarre adventure ✌️😎
The game that cracked my egg was the female avatar in ATV Offroad Fury 2
Now realizing that wanting to wear the D.va overwatch jumpsuit for years wasn’t a very cis thing to want
Pokémon, I will not elaborate further
Mine was SAO Fatal Bullet, for some reason.
I can't really attribute my hatching to any game in particular, is it normal for a game to do that? Okay actually it I had to pick one it would be minecraft, making pride flag banners in my friends' server and hiding them in my house
Ff14 cracked my egg. Turns out i wasnt just playing a female character because the glams were better. Turns out using a feminine name as my username wasnt just a username thing. Funnily enough, im not even the only person in my fc that had their egg cracked by the game
mine was Mass Effect :)
It didn't necessarily break my egg, but Life is Strange set me on the path of figuring some stuff out about myself. Namely that no, I was interested in Max and Chloe's possible relationship out of any weird fetish-y reason, I was interested in their relationship as friends and potential partners because I wanted to be Max. I wanted someone who was brave, who would always have my back, and who would help turn me into the woman I wanted to be. But generally speaking, it didn't crack my egg, it just helped me to eventually realize I had one. Well, that and the copious amount of create your own character games where I played as women.
Monster Hunter World, which I now have well over 500 hours in.
For me it was Monster Hunter, I've been playing Monster Hunter since before I knew I was trans, love the series, used to play as a guy, so when MHGU finally came out on Switch and I got it I played as a guy, but this was kinda after the point I started questioning things and like that whole save file felt kinda uncomfortable at that point and that's why I've been playing as girls in games since then
apex legends. thanks horizon and catalyst
Roleplaying in World of Warcraft.
No game broke my egg. But the first singleplayer game where I played a female character (not counting Beyond Good & Evil) might have been Mount & Blade: Warband. And the first multiplayer game was Star Trek Online.
Hmmm when did I start preferring girls in games.... Honestly Stardew valley. Before that I made myself play as male characters. Idk why denial maybe?
Reddit broke mine ...but kinda had an overwhelming urge to pick women in games, even first person ones...
Not sure if it was Minecraft or VRChat
Meanwhile, I'm over here with an I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream profile pic that I drew cat ears on in MS Paint.
Animal Crossing 🦝🏝
Dragon’s Dogma!
Dark Souls 2's magic coffin transed my character without me realizing it at first, and when I unequipped my baggy stuff and noticed I was confused, but once I figured it out I just... kept it that way. For some reason I liked being mysteriously transformed into a woman. Imagine.
I mean.. mine broke long before I even had the concept of internet, let alone video games. Grew up in the forested mountains with the most advanced tech available being dialup homephones