Call of Duty: Women at War
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believe it or not most gamers are men and so when a game comes out it is targeted towards a male audience in fan service and game play.
Aww, while reading your entire post I prepared myself to crush your dreams about the role of female gender on a battlefield. If you are looking for not-oversexualized fighting women, try Call of Duty 2. If I remember the soviet campaign correctly, there were female conscripts, but rather among lower ranks, yet still you hear them shout warnings and stuff. Speaking of which, I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this, but russians during II World War had entire brigades consisting entirely of conscripted women. (now how to avoid being sexist) This concept got discontinued, as female units were, (how to politely say it) "less reliable" than their regular, male counterparts in battlefield conditions. Men were also considered more disposable then women. Still, women used to serve in more supportive roles, like medical or communication.
EDIT: As I'm reading this topic - there's one thing y'all need to know, despite what Hollywood shows you(Enemy at the Gates is a fucking horrible movie), and what was in CoD2, even in Red Army women were extremely rare in regular frontline formations - except for the aforementioned instance, pretty often there were no women at all. For the same reason there were no women in various navies through the history - (I bet OP will call me sexist with this statement) having a bunch of men, under high stress, along with few women, is pretty much an explosive combination - except for more obvious "something not nice might happen", instead of brother-in-arms, their superior would have to deal with rivalry amongs them. Someone mentioned about mixed tank crews - no, there were none, unless some radical conditions happened, when a casuality couldn't be replaced.
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Holy Ravioli. If it were Team Fortress 2, I'd have your ass banned from the server instantly. I absolutely fucking hate pocket-white-knight-medics that spawn almost instantly once any player reveal itself as a girl.
EDIT: By the way, it's quite sexist to think that battlefield-capable woman would actually NEED your help, isn't it OP?
Call it a fetish, call it a quest for some originality and diversity in this sausage fest that is FPS games. Whatever! I just thought it was weird that I didn't see a single female combatant supportive role or otherwise, in MW2 and many other FPS games.JimmyBassatti said:
Dude! I'm a gamer not a soldier. If I were a soldier I'd be trained to treat a female soldier like another other soldier. I'm also not some white-knight. I was referring to single player campaigns. I don't care abut chicks in multiplayer. they're usually the first to go. But my female NPCs in FPS games are rare, and I treat them as such. If I have a disposable team, I do my best to protect the chick. I won't go do a level a 100 times over to ensure her survival, but I'd spend that extra clip protecting her as opposed to some other no-neck, square-jawed grunt.Doktor Merkwurdigliebe said:
Dude, I'm not gonna be lusting over some chick in full armor while have my ass blown off by militants. I barely had a chance to check out the scenery in COD6, let alone scope out the sexy civilians in the airport. It would just make for an interesting emotional/psychological change to the usual nameless, square jaws grunts that I'm bunched together with in every other 'realistic' FPS. I've lost all form of compassion for those guys, I dunno how I'd feel if one of those were a girl, since I haven't really experienced that before, ya dig?JimmyBassatti said:
Referring to women as 'chicks' is a force of habit. Sue for being less than Shakespearean in my choice of vocabulary.
And regarding the chick taking out armies in night attire (you forgot to add that she wields a mighty black dildo). I probably should have added this to my post..
/sarcasm
The women in MGS games are kick ass deadly. But that's a fantasy combat game which strays from reality moreso than the already fanciful CoD series.
I would think seeing too many women in war games would be a little odd, perhaps silly. But maybe include more females or have the option to play as a female in MP. In the rainbow six games you could play as a woman, and that worked well. But that's more a police role, than a combat role.
I would think seeing too many women in war games would be a little odd, perhaps silly. But maybe include more females or have the option to play as a female in MP. In the rainbow six games you could play as a woman, and that worked well. But that's more a police role, than a combat role.
You've actually hit upon one of the main reasons women don't show up on the front lines: countries like Isreal have tried women in front line combat conditions, and what happened is fairly similar to what you are saying. Men were getting themselves killed, trying to be chivalrous and overprotective whenever they sawa female comrade get into trouble. It wasn't actually the women's fault, but the men just couldn't stop trying to be like heroes around them and getting themselves killed.
But all that aside, yes I wouldn't mind more women in the realism-free, videogame depictions of combat. The annoying thing that inevitably happens when a female character is introduced, there is loads of irritating "flirty", "comic-relief" dialogue, so seeing a game that can implement female comrades without the cockteasing would be welcome.
This picture is probably gonna get me labeled as a sexist bastard, but I couldn't help it because of the name of the thread xD
*readies riot shield*
OT: I can only think of the chick in COD 2 in the soviet campaign, the female resistance member that dies in COD 3 and the female chopper pilot in COD 4...
*readies riot shield*
OT: I can only think of the chick in COD 2 in the soviet campaign, the female resistance member that dies in COD 3 and the female chopper pilot in COD 4...
So, basically, you demand equality in virtual battlefields, yet you would care about women more than men? My chap, THIS, is sexism.rompsku said:
You really need an entire GENRE to yourself? I mean it's not like there won't still be games that are entirely centered around males...BrionJames said:
And saying women can't be frontliners because of their period is a pretty silly reason not to have them in games. Plus, havn't you guys ever heard of The Pill? It makes it possible to postpone a period for over a week, should it be scheduled close to a big event. So as I said... using that as a reason why they can't be in games is pretty stupid.
One of the main reasons why most women are smaller than men is because small women have long been preferred for making babies and being housewives. Remember the old joke about how women have small feet just so they can stand closer to the stove?
There are tall women, monstrously huge women who will be able to carry just as much if not more equipment than most males. If size matter so much, then surely these women should be preferred over skinny male tweens?
Thanks for pointing that quote:archvile93 said:
1)CoD is far from being realistic.
2)OP clearly hasn't played the original Operation Flashpoint, or ARMA, because you wouldn't even notice that there's a woman somewhere over there - because of the distances the combat takes place in OF. That horrible shit which Codemasters spurted out lately doesn't count.