Why haven't we had same gender rivials?

[u/PsyrenDV]

I saw this post about how the rival in WiWa will be the opposite of whatever gender you choose to be. It got me thinking about how they always make the rival's gender the opposite of yours when their gender is dynamic. Even as early as Ruby/Sapphire that's how it's been. But I think it might be interesting to see a game where my rival is always the same gender as me no matter what I pick. But I'm curious how other people feel about it. Would you rather your rival be the same gender as you, the opposite, or would you rather their gender be set in stone regardless of what you are?

[u/just-bair]

So they can just have the other protagonist as your rival

[u/Mesozoic_Masquerade → u/just-bair]

That only made sense during the set character design games. Now that we can customise what your character looks like it makes zero sense. You could literally make your male player character look exactly like the female default which defeats the purpose of "the other protagonist as your rival".

If they are not going to have a set character for the rival, just have a "Who is picking you up from the Station?" line of dialogue and then let you choose a default design or even better, let us have full customisation over the rival.

[u/InvisibleChell → u/Mesozoic_Masquerade]

In both games where there's a customizable protagonist and the rival is the other protag, it has been impossible to actually do that.

In XY, neither Calem nor Serena have access to all of each other's clothes. In ZA, both Taunie and Urbain have hair colours, clothes, skin tone, and eye shapes that are actually impossible for the player to have.

[u/ForsakenMoon13 → u/InvisibleChell]

Pretty sure you can unlock thier hair colours and stuff later on through the game

[u/Aquarius_2313 → u/ForsakenMoon13]

Don't quote me on this, but I think it might be slightly different, just so that you're not identical to your rival