Girl Gamer's Opinion

[SomeBritishDude]

Sex sells. Thats the bottom line here. The gamer comunity is mostly made up of young men, and therefore games try to attact them. How do you attact a young adult male? Sexy fantasy women wearing next to nothing.

Is this lightly to change much? I doubt it. Even outside the games industy, movies, tv, comics, advertising, the attractive women is what sells things. Its sad but true. Guys get protaided in the same way sometimes, you especially see it in chick flicks.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Not all female characters in video games are oversexualized (though I will grant you MOST of them are). Alyx Vance is the total antithesis of this.

Alyx Vance isn't exactly what you'd call ugly though is she? It's strange that one of the least beautiful women in gaming is still very good looking

 

[anNIALLator]

What I say any time the subject of sexism in games comes up - ALYX VANCE

 

[Simski]

Not all female characters in video games are oversexualized (though I will grant you MOST of them are). Alyx Vance is the total antithesis of this.

Alyx Vance isn't exactly what you'd call ugly though is she? It's strange that one of the least beautiful women in gaming is still very good looking

She's far from ugly in my opinion, she is however still one of the most realistic looking and acting female I know in gaming.
Luckily she's also not a person in gaming that you hate for example taking credit of your work, or being too "don't stare at me with your filthy male eyes" kinda girl.
She acts human.

 

[Slash12]

What everybody else said... These threads have been made countless times and both men and woman are made to look very exaggerated in terms of their appearance. What I want to know is what people mean by games that are for the female demographic... What exactly do you have in mind? I don't see how they can change games that much to make girls automatically like them.

 

[Atrer]

I think that it can be overdone, just like the overly macho men in Haze. I just try to not bother myself with it.[/quot

I thought the machoness was a parody of other games of the like in Haze?

 

[Librarian Mike]

Next we'll hear women complaining that the interior design is just sooo ugly in [insert survival horror game].

The funny thing about responses like this is that it hammers home the point that video games do, by and large, have problems with how women are represented. Come on fellas, let's not turn this into an old boys club.

 

[Atrer]

Fair enough.

Gotta watch these threads.. eventually they'll just end up with everybody argueing and eventually descend into something that, if said out loud, would sound like several angry chipmucks gnattering at eachother.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Ive have done my blaming for today but I guess I could do one more. When women stop wearing so many bikinis, Shorts that double for panties, Tight shirts to show off their cleavage, Etc. That will be the day when I say video games should give up the traditional rolling of, Busty lady 9,000.

(Yes i'm saying the traditional apparel of women is more for catering towards men wanting to fuck them.(To be blunt.)

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

I think that it can be overdone, just like the overly macho men in Haze. I just try to not bother myself with it.[/quot

I thought the machoness was a parody of other games of the like in Haze?

And the fact they are on steroids MarkX.

 

[Apone]

To the OP. Yes, that is how women are generally portrayed in video games. But when was the last time you saw a male lead that wasn't muscle bound or just another dark haired- chiseled jawed- one liner spouting american. It's the way it is. They are fantasies and that is what the companies think we as consumers want. An idealised fantasy character.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Ive have done my blaming for today but I guess I could do one more. When women stop wearing so many bikinis, Shorts that double for panties, Tight shirts to show off their cleavage, Etc. That will be the day when I say video games should give up the traditional rolling of, Busty lady 9,000.

(Yes i'm saying the traditional apparel of women is more for catering towards men wanting to fuck them.(To be blunt.)

Lmfao.

Yeah, the blame lies squarely on those evil slutty women. They're all hussies! Ooga booga!

Men arn't better, Brad Pitt is like that. Buff and shit and could probably snap your neck by expelling air from his windpipe.(And don't say women don't like buff men, That would be like blasphemy.(Unless your rich/Buff as hell you have to go for more modest women.)

When have you ever seen modest women achieving something and being well known?(And you can say the same for men, Bill Gates being on the other end of the spectrum and all.(My only known example don't sue me.)

 

[GothmogII]

Fact is, no matter how sexy someone may find them, muscles look like armor, while soft curves look like vulnerabilities.

It's a matter of sex appeal being asymmetrical which makes it difficult to depict a woman as both valuable and not objectified, because the things that make a woman valuable also signal that she's an object of desire in a way that just doesn't apply to men.

That's not entirely true eg:
Vanessa from Virtua Fighter 5, debatable I guess whether or not she could be considered a sex object, but I didn't get that vibe, just that she was a tough woman who just happened to have a lot of outfits where her shirt was open.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

There is a double standard here.

Usually women that complain about this issue do not complain equally about the misreprentation of both male and female figures in videogames. It definitely makes the implication that they want their eye candy but don't want men to have theirs.

This arguement would be more valid and consistent if it was made about all characters in games and not focused in a sexcentric (wordsmithing, I know) fashion on the debater's own gender.