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They seem to have this odd notion that gaming should be male only and that everything should be male only. Where I live it's even seen as wrong to be anything less than a man, the amount of male enforcement as I was growing up was horrible, the whole 'Be a man! It's the greatest!' thing was beyond a joke, still is.
After years of putting up with a heavy male focus in games, the rare chances of a female lead, even gender choice, is refreshing from all of the virtual testosterone, bad enough in real life.
But it's still something that needs a lot of improvement, like not having the female lead/female choices as little more than eye candy with gravity defying bounciness.
It was a Bioware game that got me back into gaming when I began to give up due to the heavy focus on male leads, Knights Of The Old Republic 1. A friend suggested I try it, even though I hate Star Wars.
Fell in love with the game within the first hour, and having the gender choice was great, I was worried that like the movies the game was inspired from that it would be a forced male only character, like Force Unleashed is.
And when I found that Oblivion and Fallout 3 had gender choice, something which is still a rarity on the 360 when you take into account the sheer number of male only characters for that machine in comparsion to female characters and gender choice, I was overjoyed.
And then there was Saint's Row 2 doing something that not even Rockstar has the creative skills to do - it had a gender choice and the female choice turned out to be a lot better than the male due to the fun voices used, better clothing selection and the fun fitting a female lead a lot better than the male.
Yet whenever I mention that it would be nice to see more female leads, more gender choice in gaming more often, the majority of the responses from males is shocking due to the sheer hate there tends to be towards the idea.
It's like they fear the idea of progression for the gaming industry, the idea of change.
Never a good sign.
I definitely know that if I had seen the trailer and never known that there was a choice of gender for the main character and knew nothing about Bioware and their games, my first thought would have been 'Oh, yet another manly man hero saves the day game, ho hum, guess I'll skip that and save being bored to tears by the same old nonsense I've seen many times before'.
That's how I felt with Origins, before I knew there was gender choice, I was worried that they were just going to make it a male focused RPG like Risen and Two Worlds.
Thankfully after some research I found there was gender choice and kept up to date on the game till it's release, now I'm so hooked to the gme that I've had to force myself to take a break from it again. Made one very deadly female mage who loves to fry and zap her targets with a mixed combination of Inferno and Tempest.
Great fun.
Modifié par ReinaHW, 18 août 2010 - 03:39 .
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You'd think since these geeks played DA and alot of them rolled fems, and most men I know rolled a femshep....that they would make a trailer or atleast a single concept art of femhawke.....
