FellowerOfOdin wrote...
Most players are male and while the amount of female players might be higher compared to other games, male players still represent the vast majority of players...and while porn covers normally have females on the DVD covers as they want to appeal to males alone, the attraction factor simply does not work in the case of Dragon Age II.
Female players, get your flamethrowers ready.
First of all, FemHawke has short hair - considering the average male, this is a negative attraction factor. Women with long hair are, in average, considered to be more attractive. It is quite certain that this is because of evolution as long hair usually was an indicator for good health and thus fertility. While nowadays, a lot of women have short haircuts and thus it's more appreciated by men, the average male still prefers long hair.
In a video game, however, you want to have fun by playing a great game with a lot of action (in this case) that is not limited to your right hand and your joystick. It's all about the classic save-the-day gameplay, the feeling of you being a great guy.
FemHawke is not a good way to represent this action. Hawke is a bearded, grim-looking and muscled guy (with a terrible voice actor) who wields that weapon and looks quite badass. He relates to the generic kickass guy and all the male heroes in history / mythology.
When you think of great heroes, you don't think of a woman. How many women are there well-known for heroic deeds? For having fought great battles and led great armies? Zero.
Some might mention Joanne D'Arc but in the end, she decided to go for a coward's death and wasn't well-known for her combat skills either, some documents state that she preferred fighting in the second row and had serious trouble fighting stronger foes...plus she was French. Seriously, no offense, but when you think of success in war...France certainly does not come to my mind.
Anyway, even with her as one sole example, she still faces endless hordes of great male heroes representing badass action and military success. Dragon Age: Rise to Power is heavily focussed on supposed-to-be-stylish JRPG combat...heavy combat focus? Exactly. And if I had to advertise a combat-driven game, I'd rather choose a cover that features combat and action and attracts to most players.
Could you imagine a CoD cover with a female soldier on the front? Just image the reactions.
So...no offense FemHawke players, but Hawke still beats you in being the more charismatic and convenient cover choice.
This being said, FemHawke is a very important character in the Dragon Age series. I mean...when Hawke goes out fighting endless hordes of bandits, templars, bandits, darkspawn and bandits, someone has to stay home and make sandwiches.
As far as I'm concerned, female Hawke, female Shepard and my female Warden, are for me, the canon characters of those games. They fit the games so much better than a stereotypical bland male lead with a chin that can cut through steel, and a terrible voice actor.
Also Joan of Arc wasn't a coward, she was actually very brave and charismatic, she had very strong convictions and truly believed that God was working through her to bring peace to the land.
The nobles of France and England didn't like that, they were terrified of her, and she was betrayed by the French nobles and set up, the English then caught her and executed her as an example to anyone who dared to do what the nobles, who had started the conflicts in the first place because men in England claimed that the French throne belonged to them and men in France claimed the same thing, so it led to a great of bloodshed, then truce, followed by more bloodshed for over a century.
There's also Bodica, a brutal woman in England who led the people in arms against the invading Romans. Plus Cleopatra who used her charms, her intellect and her cunning to control a culture. And Troy who's great beautiful led to war.
Men have fragile egos, they like to be the centre of attention, have all the glory and be the hero, if a woman does something that is usually stereotypical of the male gender a great deal better, the males end up feeling like they're under threat and react to save face by making sure that no woman can do anything that can harm their fragile egos.
Comes from the male upbringing that enforces that males are superiour, when in reality they aren't, they have some advantages, but also disadvantages. Just like women do, that's why when both sides work together they can do a lot more by combining their stengthens and weaknesses than they can alone.
Neither is superiour and neither is superior, only a misguided, backwards way of gender stereotyping tends to make it seem like everyone must be male, when in fact male and female need to work together due to the nature of our individual spirits.
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