The Rise of the Female Hero at E3 2015

Hmm, decent games but Gamespot forgot to mention that in most cases there is a male choice.

So it will be very interesting to see if the developers/publishers dare to run a real stat on how many pick the female option as their first run.

Because if it's anything like Mass Effect only 20% ever played as a female shep.

It's going to be a good year for diversity in games. WItcher 3 had almost every major character a likeable non-cliche female. All of these women headlining games. It's good!

As for the clearly sexist comments here, I guess that's par for the course for the vocal minority on gaming websites. Sad, but here we are.

I hate this diversity bullshit, if a game has a female protagonist, I am instantly turned off and pass on the game. No woman is going to run around and do feats of strength equal to a man. They are not strong enough to do all the shit they do in these games, like beating up a man, or carrying 30 lbs. of equipment and an M60. F'in ridiculous.

No one cares. The only games that will end up selling anything out of this bunch is Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed, and maybe Dishonored.

I was sent this the other day. I couldn't care less, but now I wonder if it's accurate, or where it came from.

Funny how people get all heated like this is a civil rights subject. These are just computer graphic characters in video games. If the people who are creating these games want to have a male character for their game then they should be able to do that. It's their game. If they want a female character, fine. If there's more of one than the other, so what? They're just games. Why does political correctness have to encroach on peoples freedom to create what they want?

I wouldn't even had thought about this had it not been an article.

I didn't see any short, balding, stocky male protagonists. George Constanza will not tolerate this.

I can't wait to play Aloy in Horizon. Looks like a great game and a great character.

You know what's sickening? This year's E3 had less females by a considerable margin than last year and yet all these game sites are acting like this year, they were the most diverse ever and whatnot.

Last year, we got articles complaining that there wasn't any diversity despite all the evidence against such claims.

and no, last year wasn't an oddity either. Women were always in games, you people only just care now because your bullshit narrative that they weren't welcome and being discriminated against is crumbling.

I'm actually a bit offended that there aren't any more to be honest. It's pretty sad that in 2015, female main characters still are not mandatory in every game. I don't think it should even be an option. Either have playable female main characters, or don't have the game at all. There is no excuse why the main protagonist should ever "have" to be male over female.

It's 2015, love stories should be including gay/bi/trans now. There doesn't need to be a hetero male hero trying to save a hetero female anymore. Why can't i be a woman trying to save a woman or an other?

It's inexcusable, and this is not a step in the right direction. They are including some female main characters to reinforce male dominance by showing us that it is their decision whether to include female main characters or not.

We need to boycott video games until either all games have a fully functional and fully developed female main character, or there are no games at all. We don't want half-assed "femsheps" or voiceless female MC's. This is not equality what they are doing right now, it's oppression.