Actually both serve a point as both exist as resecure or combatant either in smash bros or super princess peach it fits in quite well that even the hated for being helpless character are a fallacy in that reguardsAzure Sky said:
When will game developers realize there are female players too?
- Thread starter DarkHuntress
- Start date
Recommended Videos
The one whom is close minded here is you.[/quote]warrcry13 said:
Wait how? I was just saying that it doesn't matter to me as long as it is a fun game or had an awesome story. How is that having a closed mind? Sure there isn't much, but I would never complain about it.
I don't understand why gender choice can not be left up to the player. JUST give the player a choice.
These are GAMES by the way, not reality. So you could just as easily have a female character in Red Redemption as easily as you have a male.
There are female combat officers, firemen, soldiers, fighter pilots, police, assassins, spies even leaders of countries and that's in the REAL world! Why not in the game world????
Just give a choice to play male or female.
These are GAMES by the way, not reality. So you could just as easily have a female character in Red Redemption as easily as you have a male.
There are female combat officers, firemen, soldiers, fighter pilots, police, assassins, spies even leaders of countries and that's in the REAL world! Why not in the game world????
Just give a choice to play male or female.
1) You are saying it yourself. Now answer my question.Zeithri said:
2) "There's always a female character of a male one. No exceptions." You are making things up if you're calming that it says that'll work. When people write stories gender often play a big role in it. Like Harry Potter being a boy. Him, being male, is quite a big part in the book and if he was a girl, it wouldn't be the same.
There was a large article on why developers don't have female leads in with the male leads, it mostly has to do with a lot of work and a lot of money. It was in Game Informer
Men and women walk differently and move differently so you need 2 different sets of motion capture, then you need two different voice actors and then you need the other voice actors to do another take for saying what gender the character is. This doesn't even include modeling the character or possibly having different articles of clothing. This is all time and money that drops on the game.
Also there's a lot of games with female leads, there's less than games with men leading but that's not to say there isn't tons of female leads on the list.
Heavenly Sword, Metroid series, Valkyrie Profile series, Mass Effect series, Persona 3 Portable, Saints Row 2, Borderlands, Left 4 Dead Series, Final Fantasy XIII, Diablo series, Torchlight, Sacred series, Pokemon, Parasite Eve series, Resident Evil 1,2,3,5, Killer 7, Bayonetta. And these are only the games I have, I'm sure there's more that I'm just not listing.
Men and women walk differently and move differently so you need 2 different sets of motion capture, then you need two different voice actors and then you need the other voice actors to do another take for saying what gender the character is. This doesn't even include modeling the character or possibly having different articles of clothing. This is all time and money that drops on the game.
Also there's a lot of games with female leads, there's less than games with men leading but that's not to say there isn't tons of female leads on the list.
Heavenly Sword, Metroid series, Valkyrie Profile series, Mass Effect series, Persona 3 Portable, Saints Row 2, Borderlands, Left 4 Dead Series, Final Fantasy XIII, Diablo series, Torchlight, Sacred series, Pokemon, Parasite Eve series, Resident Evil 1,2,3,5, Killer 7, Bayonetta. And these are only the games I have, I'm sure there's more that I'm just not listing.
I'm a girl and I prefer male characters over female, though that may have something to do with female characters tend to be over-sexualized and not well writen. It could also be that I find men more atractive. 
meryl silverburgh - commanding officer - metal gear solidDarkHuntress said:
Tanya Pavelovna - Russian Sniper - Cod: Finest Hour
natasha volkova - soviet commando - C&C Red Alert 3
Darci Stern - Union City Police Officer - Urban Chaos
Rubi Malone (wet) or Violette Summer (velvet assassin) both basically assassins
Cate archer - female spy - The operative: No one lives for ever
http://www.futuregamez.net/ps3games/vanquish/vanquish4a.jpg
Female president from Vanquish
Seems to me many people in this thread are confusing female protagonists to actual characters a female player would want to play AS. There's quite a difference there actually, meaning that for instance , Bayonetta may be a female lead but she is nothing more than a pair of boobs and borderline nudity. Good female leads that actually add something to the game and not there only to appeal to testosterone-filled boys (which i suspect are 99.789% of the people posting in this thread) are VERY few and far between. Don't tell me about that gal from Portal because that's not a character fellas.
But DarkHutress, I think you're overreacting a bit. It's not feasible for EVERY single game to have a female lead instead of a male, even as an option. Development costs are highe enough as they are, and I very much doubt a female lead would react the same way as a male one to the same situation, not to mention the need for new animations and suhlike, which only leads to increased dev costs etc etc. RPGs may do, but that's their structure, it allows for such things.
Although it would be kinda fun playing something like, say, Prototype with a female lead. With a gravelly voice. Wonder who would actually play as her though.
But DarkHutress, I think you're overreacting a bit. It's not feasible for EVERY single game to have a female lead instead of a male, even as an option. Development costs are highe enough as they are, and I very much doubt a female lead would react the same way as a male one to the same situation, not to mention the need for new animations and suhlike, which only leads to increased dev costs etc etc. RPGs may do, but that's their structure, it allows for such things.
Although it would be kinda fun playing something like, say, Prototype with a female lead. With a gravelly voice. Wonder who would actually play as her though.
No the confusion is why are people saying that Female MC don't exist when they are talking about something else, the orginal post had nothing about wether the female characters were liked by females only that female MC were nowhere to be seen which is false.MasterV said:
A lack of compelling female characters is a compltely different statement to saying that there are no female characters.
What I find strange is that clearly male and female characters can be marketed to appeal to men and it works like a charm, but someow the only way to appeal to women is something that can only be achieved by having female characters ignoring that nearly every female character is male affiliated.
Reality is nothing of this has anything to do with the gender of protagonists since males clear accept both because both male and female character can have qualitys that men like
is not logical to suggest that women can only accept female leads why should a game with a male lead be completly unable to appeal to a female audience you could quite easily create a game with zero females and still appeal to a female audience
I wonder why bored middle aged housewifes watched this movie
Maybe because the Developer of the game has a story they want to tell and characters THEY want to show?DarkHuntress said:
And those characters happen to be a specific gender?
And as for your second point.
This man has answered you quite nicely.jamesworkshop said:
THEY DO EXIST.
There are powerful Female characters and Main Characters, Politically and Physically, in the Game world.
Sorry OP, sometimes you don't get a choice.
...There are female players too?! *gasp* MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE!
Joking aside, I guess I just never really thought about it. I don't really care about the gender I play, and I find that for some reason in things like RPG's and that, that I seem to actually prefer to play as the female character. But then again maybe I'm just screwed up in the head :/
Joking aside, I guess I just never really thought about it. I don't really care about the gender I play, and I find that for some reason in things like RPG's and that, that I seem to actually prefer to play as the female character. But then again maybe I'm just screwed up in the head :/
1) My question was, is it strange that game developers try to make money. I don't think you got my example. Since there is more money to be made with a male character, they make male characters. Why? Because as we said, most gamers are male, and they can relate more to them.Zeithri said:
2) Why I ask you? Why? They'll just have to work extra, re-writing the story, and as mentioned above, taking a step away from the target audience. Can you tell me why they should think like you said?