Saibh wrote...
If you don't understand, I don't think I could explain it to you. It's not something you care about, so I don't think you have the empathy to understand at all. I don't mean that as an insult, but you don't seem to get that women want to play an avatar they think looks cool; that looks tough and heroic. Not necessarily masculine or non-feminine, but able to hold her own. For most of us, we see breasts that big and think "ouch, back problems; I bet she has trouble running", as well as rolling our eyes that our character models have been idealized to match your (well, men's) fantasies.
mosaiclobster wrote...
I
think it's different because, as a rule, men are making video games for
men. There are quite a few female gamers out there, but there are very
few of us in game design and development. I'm in a game design class,
and I'm one of 3 girls in a class of nearly 30. It's easy for guys not
to care about male representation because there's a wider range of male
protagonists out there, and it's still (almost always) a guy's vision of
what a guy wants to play as. It's harder to just say "whatever" about
how women's bodies are shown in video games when we have almost no say
in how those bodies are rendered, you know? It's a totally different
perspective.
But the issue is that not everyone likes what they get to see or play in video games. It's a common issue that has nothing to do with the sex of the player. Everyone has his or her own preferences, and I hardly doubt Bioware will include extensive character creation capabilities just so everyone can be happy.
I can relate with this based on the fact that I am Chinese, and most heroes in video games are not Chinese, let alone Asian. However, I've realized long ago that it is not a big issue because this is a video game, and not a representation of real life.
You can argue that if Bioware
does include some amazing character creation capabilities it would satisfy everyone, however then someone is going to unhappy that certain NPC's didn't look like the way he/she envisioned. This is because everyone has a different perspective and preference, thus nothing should ever go 100% your way (if it does, you found your soul mate, gratz!) In addition, if the game is supposed to be more realistic, they have bigger areas to work on than this.
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