OVERSEXUALIZATION OF FEMALES IN GAMES

Yeah, most women just prefer bishies to look at. ^.^ Or is it just me?

As to games and the sexualisation of females within them, there is really just one thing to say: Romance is dead. Most stories focus around getting the two lead characters together, but they forget that the audience isn't completely stupid and hitting them over the head with sexual references and innuendo between said characters can be overkill. There's really no relationship build up any more (if there ever was) and most relationships within games are either romantic (pffft) love and/or sibling love. You hardly ever see a game where a guy and a girl are close friends that don't step past that base, or without a love interest at all.

Then again, most RPGs and other games were (are?) mainly played by men and sex sells. Really the industry is out there to make a buck and if they have to be a bit risqué to do so, so be it.

And if I don't make sense at the moment it's because I am bone-tired.

I don't even bother touching the subject, actually. We're saving the world from demons, people! There's no time for sex!

Besides, I prefer my female heroes to be either butch or old because that is a strong indicator that the writers/creators actually put some thought into their character AND made them capable in some way. Kreia from KOTOR II was an awesome character (probably one of my fave all time). A female hero should be able to kick your ass and then chug a mug of ale.

How would you know that until you started up the game? Is it like, you start up the game, get past the intro, and after the first dungeon, and our hero Alex has a conversation with Ashley, and the news hits you like a ton of bricks and you go 'ALEX IS ALREADY TAKEN? I'M SHUTTING THIS DOWN IMMEDIATELY'

Well, why is that? I'm not lambasting you or anything. :( I'm just curious.

Well I mean, I know that's a preference and all, but outright not playing games that have relationships already established? That seems rather limiting! Especially considering the saturation of games nowadays where Joe meets Jane, there may be a lot of interesting gems out there where Joe already knows Jane (like FFIV, for example), and instead the characterization between those characters focuses on the maturation and maintaining of the relationship as opposed to them just meeting.

There are a lot of ways to enjoy a romance, a relationship, or a brotherhood, and just limiting yourself to one way can have you missing out on a lot of fun!

video games are made by blokes in pubs

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You hardly ever see a game where a guy and a girl are close friends that don't step past that base

Actually, isn't it exactly like that in most JRPGs? Even in the cases where the girl has an obvious romantic interest in the guy, the former is too much of a coward to admit it, and the latter is usually too dense or innocent to realize (kinda ironic if you stop to think about it).

That still isn't "close friends". That's more of "sexual tension all over the place". (And unanswered love and all that other stuff that sitcoms are made of)

There's not a whole lot of "we're really good buddies. Rock on!". You'll find that with the hero and his sidekick. But the sidekick in this case is never of the opposite gender.


But yeah it's true. Love usually isn't a big part of the RPGs. It's like action movies. Somewhere between the second and the third act the guy and girl get together but it's not really the point, instead it's just the short downtime before the Final Showdown.

I tend to use a lot of female main protagonists in my games, simply because I don't see them used that much in other games or anywhere else in the entertainment business. I try to portray women based on their character, and not their appearance and features. I hate hate HATE damsels in distress, or any other situation where women are portrayed as weak and dick-hungry. Needless to say, I sometimes tend to fall into that trap almost unwittingly. I can admit that I'm pretty much as horny as most other nerdy gamers are, and don't necessarily mind seeing big-busted whores. As a result, however, those characters become nothing but eye candy for me, and I overall lose any reason to care about that character (many of such are also portrayed with annoying personalities).

I say, for a sake of having a voice, that you should keep the sexualization with women at a minimum. While we are trying to entertain, we should also make content as believable as possible.

Fact of life:
> Most girls often do not initiate relationships with the opposite sex, especially when they haven't known that person for a while.

> Unless they are going to some club, girls will almost always dress decently in public, nothing that shows the bare, full midriff.

> Girls have just a variety of personalities as men do, not just "Shy and peaceful" or "bad tempered and whiny".

Hope that made sense... Oh and lol @ revengatard.

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b) kef should just not post. I am sure he will not mind. =p

that's... too cruel...