Ok so a lot of people are upset none of the characters in the new Assassin's Creed are female. I don't really get into any big research on this but I kinda see justification in them saying it'd be difficult to make a character female because to me it could make sense. Their stupid budget excuse doesn't but the idea could possibly.
I am designing a game in Rpgmaker in my spare time. Nothing special, just a small project I do when I can and have the interest to work on it versus spend my time doing something elss. However it does make me realistically glimps into the work involved to make another optional main character. The main character in my game is female and while it would be simple enough to make a choice at the beginning of the game to replace her name, sprite ect with a male version it would be quite a taxing chore to change dialog and ect.
Not only that but other characters treat her like a woman, and she has woman mannerisms. She isn't a silent protagonist blank slate. I would have to change entirely dialog and entire cut scenes to place a male main character and re-invent relationships he has with other characters around him.
I've been hearing a lot of grief over Cia in Hyrule Warriors but I really like her and think she'll probably be a cool character. It's obvious Hyrule Warriors is going for a darker, more mature story in this game and Cia's appearance is simply 1 step in that direction which is fine. If all the females looked similar in design or they put a lot of advertisement or unnecessary emphasis on her appearance, then yeah it'd be a problem but both Zelda and Impa have quite nice designs as well, and what I like about all these characters. They all have nice designs that I would believe to be a strong, self respecting warriors without shunning their gender.
I think a character can still be a male or a female character without making them absolutely devoid of gender. Women have very different priorities, wants, needs, concerns and means of dealing with problems than male characters and bringing these details out strengthens a character's design. I don't want the main character in my game to be male, I am telling a story in my game and I chose the genders of each character for specific reasons among everything else about their appearance and personalities.
So I mean, yes I myself would like a female assassin in the upcoming Assassin Creed game but I really wouldn't join a big uproar if there isn't 1 and really if they just make an emotionless genderless female assassin that acts no different and is treated no different by the people around her then who cares what her or any of the other assassin's gender is in the game. Historically I'm sure there were much more male assassins anyway. If Ubisoft doesn't actually care what gender their main characters are then it might make more sense to make them all male.
And maybe they may have wanted to tell a story with all male assassins and a female assassin would change the tone or affect the story in other ways... maybe, personally I actually don't think this will be the case at all. I'm pretty sure they have very little love for the details in their story after 4+ squeals and are more going through the motions at this point.
I'm not saying the game wont be good. I'm sure the game will be fine and the story will be fine, maybe even fantastic, what I'm saying is I also bet it was written very quickly and if something came up where they had to cut an entire character or entire scene in the game they would cut it without a 2nd thought which if you've ever tried to write a story yourself that you care a lot about, would weigh heavily on you because it wouldn't be the story you wanted to tell.
I am designing a game in Rpgmaker in my spare time. Nothing special, just a small project I do when I can and have the interest to work on it versus spend my time doing something elss. However it does make me realistically glimps into the work involved to make another optional main character. The main character in my game is female and while it would be simple enough to make a choice at the beginning of the game to replace her name, sprite ect with a male version it would be quite a taxing chore to change dialog and ect.
Not only that but other characters treat her like a woman, and she has woman mannerisms. She isn't a silent protagonist blank slate. I would have to change entirely dialog and entire cut scenes to place a male main character and re-invent relationships he has with other characters around him.
I've been hearing a lot of grief over Cia in Hyrule Warriors but I really like her and think she'll probably be a cool character. It's obvious Hyrule Warriors is going for a darker, more mature story in this game and Cia's appearance is simply 1 step in that direction which is fine. If all the females looked similar in design or they put a lot of advertisement or unnecessary emphasis on her appearance, then yeah it'd be a problem but both Zelda and Impa have quite nice designs as well, and what I like about all these characters. They all have nice designs that I would believe to be a strong, self respecting warriors without shunning their gender.
I think a character can still be a male or a female character without making them absolutely devoid of gender. Women have very different priorities, wants, needs, concerns and means of dealing with problems than male characters and bringing these details out strengthens a character's design. I don't want the main character in my game to be male, I am telling a story in my game and I chose the genders of each character for specific reasons among everything else about their appearance and personalities.
So I mean, yes I myself would like a female assassin in the upcoming Assassin Creed game but I really wouldn't join a big uproar if there isn't 1 and really if they just make an emotionless genderless female assassin that acts no different and is treated no different by the people around her then who cares what her or any of the other assassin's gender is in the game. Historically I'm sure there were much more male assassins anyway. If Ubisoft doesn't actually care what gender their main characters are then it might make more sense to make them all male.
And maybe they may have wanted to tell a story with all male assassins and a female assassin would change the tone or affect the story in other ways... maybe, personally I actually don't think this will be the case at all. I'm pretty sure they have very little love for the details in their story after 4+ squeals and are more going through the motions at this point.
I'm not saying the game wont be good. I'm sure the game will be fine and the story will be fine, maybe even fantastic, what I'm saying is I also bet it was written very quickly and if something came up where they had to cut an entire character or entire scene in the game they would cut it without a 2nd thought which if you've ever tried to write a story yourself that you care a lot about, would weigh heavily on you because it wouldn't be the story you wanted to tell.