Pedro The Hutt said:
Friis said:
You mean like how the portrayal of violence in video games and the attitude towards violence in the gaming community and industry needs fixing? Cause we all know how much games and their depictions of violence is affecting our impressionable youth.
Nice try, but I wasn't implying that at all. What I want is games to be more friendly and inviting towards women. I've been in TF2 clans with players who were female so it's not like the FPS genre doesn't appeal to them, you just need to get it right. And having female character designs that are only supposed to impress teenage straight male gamers is not really going to achieve that in a hurry.
The reason I disagree with your original point is that you limit it to the depiction of female characters. I'd much prefer for characters of both sexes to be written better and have more variety. Your comment implies that the problem lies with female characters and not video-game characters in general. Or if you also believe that male characters are just as often lacking in actual character, that it's only worth changing this in female characters.
Most big game titles that aren't casual games have a predominantly male demographic, meaning that for the developer to have the best chance of immersing the most players into the game, they will mostly make male characters.
In the case of this specific game, the devs actually went out and directly asked their player base what they wanted the female characters to look like and went with a less extreme version of what the majority of their demographic expressed that they wanted.
"And having female character designs that are only supposed to impress teenage straight male gamers is not really going to achieve that in a hurry."
And here you go again with the idea that idea that video-games are actually affecting people's views on real life issues like sexism and violence. Well I'm sorry, but the anti-Violence in Videogames crowd has so far actually put forth a better case than you and feminism has about sexism... and that's saying quite a lot about how bad your case is.
