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has anyone ever played a game and thought "this is strange there is no woman in this." well i was reliving goldeneye and perfect dark on my N64, when i thought this very same thing. So i thought long and hard about woman in games and Only 2 sprang to mind. Who are these u are wondering well they are the characters who are made to look like they are good looking and strong..... Lara croft and Joanna dark!!!
Well i thought this must be strange to woman in games and made to look similar in beauty and cunning.
Isnt this a bit sexist though? It makes woman look like a object!!
Please respond as this is my first ever time on gameaday!
Well i thought this must be strange to woman in games and made to look similar in beauty and cunning.
Isnt this a bit sexist though? It makes woman look like a object!!
Please respond as this is my first ever time on gameaday!
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Ms Pac Man. Burn all the pink bow ties.
I think developers are starting to address this issue more and more. However, the end factor is profit.
As a male gamer, I don't mind playing with either a male lead (Jack Wade/ John McClean/ Solid Snake /Cloud Strife) or a female lead (Lara Croft/ Oni/ Claire from Res Evil/ Any female character in an RPG like Diablo or Baldur's Gate). As long as they can shoot something. So male or female, it doesn't matter. But bodies sell games, so it's always helpful if you're playing a female character that her appearance appeals to you.
Female gamers, on the whole, are into different genres like puzzlegames, sims, adventures, and tend to avoid the more violent combative games like shoot 'em ups and beat 'em ups, so on the whole the type of character they'd pick doesn't really come into it that much.
So as long as about 59% of the console gaming population are male and young, developers will continue to provide them with jiggly eye fodder as female lead characters and steroid pumped musclebound freaks as male lead characters.
Men could equally say "Hang on! Not all of us are built like that!" but then we'd end up with accountant type pen pushers as lead characters, which just wouldn't have the same appeal to it if you had to equip them with a chaingun, for example.
As a male gamer, I don't mind playing with either a male lead (Jack Wade/ John McClean/ Solid Snake /Cloud Strife) or a female lead (Lara Croft/ Oni/ Claire from Res Evil/ Any female character in an RPG like Diablo or Baldur's Gate). As long as they can shoot something. So male or female, it doesn't matter. But bodies sell games, so it's always helpful if you're playing a female character that her appearance appeals to you.
Female gamers, on the whole, are into different genres like puzzlegames, sims, adventures, and tend to avoid the more violent combative games like shoot 'em ups and beat 'em ups, so on the whole the type of character they'd pick doesn't really come into it that much.
So as long as about 59% of the console gaming population are male and young, developers will continue to provide them with jiggly eye fodder as female lead characters and steroid pumped musclebound freaks as male lead characters.
Men could equally say "Hang on! Not all of us are built like that!" but then we'd end up with accountant type pen pushers as lead characters, which just wouldn't have the same appeal to it if you had to equip them with a chaingun, for example.
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has anyone ever played a game and thought "this is strange there is no woman in this." well i was reliving goldeneye and perfect dark on my N64, when i thought this very same thing. So i thought long and hard about woman in games and Only 2 sprang to mind. Who are these u are wondering well they are the characters who are made to look like they are good looking and strong..... Lara croft and Joanna dark!!!
Well i thought this must be strange to woman in games and made to look similar in beauty and cunning.
Isnt this a bit sexist though? It makes woman look like a object!!
Please respond as this is my first ever time on gameaday!
Well i thought this must be strange to woman in games and made to look similar in beauty and cunning.
Isnt this a bit sexist though? It makes woman look like a object!!
Please respond as this is my first ever time on gameaday!
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