Poll: Would you play Deus Ex Human Revolution if it started Adriana Jensen instead of Adam Jensen?
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now say after me: there was no deus ex sequel till 2011.Zhukov said:
and if there would have been something like invisible war the female protagonist was the only good thing about it.
and that there could have been a situation for a male character to be use his sexiness to avoid crawling through vents.
OT: that would have been rather clever since the gender of the protagonist is super secondary in DE.
I haven't played and probably won't play Human Rev for a good long time (partly because the game itself doesn't compel me and partly because I've been watching a friend play through)... but while the poll confuses the issue somewhat, I am 100% in favor of more variety in female game characters / more female protagonists. Hear, hear.
Shamus never implied that people wouldn't. He just stated that developers cater for a target demographic, and they are the ones who tend to assume that guys want to play as macho men.
I am yet to meet any male who has been put off by having to play as a female character.
I am yet to meet any male who has been put off by having to play as a female character.
If it would keep the main character from being a whiny tool, then for sure!Powerman88 said:
I can't imagine a woman being able to say "I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS."
I prefer playing all games as a female protagonist, so yeah it'd love it. Not sure why but I really don't like playing a male character.
Would this woman still need fucking batteries to punch?
She would?
Well my opinion is unchanged: Fuck that game.
She would?
Well my opinion is unchanged: Fuck that game.
Hell yeah!Powerman88 said:
Although, she should be called Eve Jensen. Or Eva. Or Lilith, I guess. The Genesis metaphor doesn't work otherwise.
No, I've never really been comfortable playing the opposite gender, even in MMORPGs like WoW where some classes can wear a giant suite of armor and you might not even notice the character is a female. A friend would be like dude roll a female character, I would begrudgingly do so only to abandon the character later.
Edit: I would still "play" the game...I mean I don't think I've ever picked up a game that looked good and was like "oh god this has a female character, no thanks!" I'd rather play the male character than have to play a female one.
Edit: I would still "play" the game...I mean I don't think I've ever picked up a game that looked good and was like "oh god this has a female character, no thanks!" I'd rather play the male character than have to play a female one.
I'll have to stop you there for a second.Chemical Alia said:
Even though we as players know that she wasn't killed, as far as the story is concerned, that isn't revealed until around 10-15 hours in. If you didn't play for more than a few hours, then by no means did you reach the point where the story takes that direction. Up until that point, the motivations for Adam is finding out who is behind the attack, assuming that his girlfriend is dead.
Not to give the story a free ride, because around the later part of the game, it handles that story pretty terribly in every aspect, but the first two thirds of the game was actually the interesting part, and the gameplay was also great (albeit too easy and lacked some dynamic).
A new Deus Ex game with a female protagonist?
Yes.
A redo of Deus Ex Human Revolution with a female protagonist?
No.
I don't know why, but this is my gut reaction. I liked Adam Jensen. I liked almost every bit about him. Therefore, changing anything about him really is enough to give me hesitation.
Take this more as a "I like him as he was and wouldn't want to see them retroactively change anything about him" notion rather than a "I don't want to play a female protagonist one". I just feel that changing anything about the character at this point would only cause him to lose appeal for me.
Yes.
A redo of Deus Ex Human Revolution with a female protagonist?
No.
I don't know why, but this is my gut reaction. I liked Adam Jensen. I liked almost every bit about him. Therefore, changing anything about him really is enough to give me hesitation.
Take this more as a "I like him as he was and wouldn't want to see them retroactively change anything about him" notion rather than a "I don't want to play a female protagonist one". I just feel that changing anything about the character at this point would only cause him to lose appeal for me.
I guess it would come too close to the Ghost in the Shell anime to avoid any calls of plagarism, there's nothing wrong with a female protagonist but a carbon copy of Jensen's personality in female form may feel a little to similar with Maj. Kusanagi in that series.
Both cyborgs, both reserved, both in their 30s, both with issues connecting or identifying with the rest of humanity...blah,blah,blah etc.
The main difference I suppose to OP's idea is that the creator of the series had little interest in drawing anything other than petite women in their early 20s as main characters. So a 30-40 year old female's brain inhabits a mechanical shell of the form of a 20 year old - whereas I never saw anything like that level of tech in Deus Ex.
Anyone else see the similarities between Deus Ex HR and GitS?
I always found it odd that those two cops in the precinct talked about every other movie in the genre EXCEPT this one.
Both cyborgs, both reserved, both in their 30s, both with issues connecting or identifying with the rest of humanity...blah,blah,blah etc.
The main difference I suppose to OP's idea is that the creator of the series had little interest in drawing anything other than petite women in their early 20s as main characters. So a 30-40 year old female's brain inhabits a mechanical shell of the form of a 20 year old - whereas I never saw anything like that level of tech in Deus Ex.
Anyone else see the similarities between Deus Ex HR and GitS?
I always found it odd that those two cops in the precinct talked about every other movie in the genre EXCEPT this one.
