Nightdragon8 wrote...
I got a serious question, How many "females" not buy a game because there is not a male on the cover, or because there is a female on the cover?
because I would really love to see how many people honestly care about game cover art as "being the reason" for buying a game. because all the numbers aside, thats the REAL question here. and there is no poll that has been given as to "If ou see this on the cover will you buy it" sort of thing.
Cause as a gamer I could care less what the cover looks like. Its the same with CD's for music I could honeslty care less about the cover and more about the music.
I can't justify going out and saying "This cover looks pretty, I'll buy it!" and then listen to the music and find out I hate it.
If I wanna buy "Art" I wlll go out and find "Art" that I like and buy it.
This has a probably already been addressed by others, but I'm going to throw my 2 cents in anyway. I am a female gamer and I buy games based on the art. I'm the kind of person who judges books by their covers too, for what that's worth. Despite really enjoying DA:O, I didn't buy DA2 for over a year after it came out, not because of reviews (honestly, I hadn't really read many), or because supposedly it biffed or whatever, but because of the game art. Dragon Age was the first gaming franchise outside of Dark Ages of Camelot and Warhammer Online (which I only played because I was already familiar with the fluff from the table top game) that I actually got into, and I STILL was thrown off by the cover featuring only dude Hawke.
Why? Because the way the game is described (quoting here off the back of the game box) "You are Hawke, one of the few to survive..." Because I was presented with that information and a graphic of a scruffy dude as the protag, I assumed that you could only play as that scruffy dude, a big difference between the desription and artwork for Origins. The reason I eventually bought it- it was on sale dirt cheap at Target and I thought "Well, WTF, might as well give it a shot since I liked Origins. I guess I can deal playing a dude, but I'm bummed because I liked creating my own female Wardens in the first one."
And that's a shame because actually, I like DA2 BETTER than Origins, and the big thing holding me back is that the game was presented soley through a male protagonist's lense, and not offering even a glimmer of a female protagonist, or the fact that the protagonist was whoever you wanted them to be.
Reasons I won't buy some of the games mentioned in the videos posted in the OP- because they come across as focused on some douchey dudebro shooting it up for the sake of calling it a video game, because apparently "that's what sells." You know what also sells based on outdated marketing? Fast food. But video games AREN'T fast food, and we, as women ARE a growing demographic in the gaming industry, and therefore if gaming companies want to increase their sales and their audeience, then they need to learn to market more towards us as well. Why? Because THAT'S good marketing strategy. Using the same old formulas over and over again isn't going to increase the market; it's going to severely restrict it, and frankly, companies are missing out on a huge source of income by not making an effort to target at least somewhat towards women.
That being said, I plan on buying DA3 regardless of what, or who, is on the cover because I'm invested in the storyline now, but I hope if they choose to feature a protag, they feature both, or just use the inquisitor's symbol or something. Personally, I prefer when the games don't have the protags on the cover, because it allows for more imaginative thinking about the game for me. I don't even care to have the NPC's on the cover (although I like the silhouettes of the NPC's they used on the DA2 cover. I thought that was brilliant. If they had left out dude Hawke, and had just the silhouettes, I would have bought the game much sooner than I did).
And generally speaking, I'm more fussed about the portrayal/presence of women in video games in general than I am the cover art of games. The cover art is just a small thing compared to the bigger picture for me. But still...baby steps.
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