This Colonial Marines petition business...

So, people have started a petition to get playable female characters included in the game.

My question is why this game in particular is drawing complaints about that? This is hardly the first game to focus on a male protagonist...

If it's the MP they have a problem with then you can apply the same argument to games like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2. I don't see any female characters in those games...

Well I guess the problem is that in the Alien/s franchise the main protagonist was a woman. And in Aliens the marine squad also included woman.

There's no female characters in CoD,BF,TF,CS,Tribes (at least I think),Doom and god only knows how many other FPS and TPS games.

Well I guess the problem is that in the Alien/s franchise the main protagonist was a woman. And in Aliens the marine squad also included woman.

chaplainDMK

This.

And Vasquez kicked ass.

Yup, main character in the movies is Ripley. Doesn't make a lot of sense to have male-only playable characters in the game. I thought the developers were such Alien fanboys? You'd think they'd have noticed something like that. ;)

Just another case of

Well I guess the problem is that in the Alien/s franchise the main protagonist was a woman. And in Aliens the marine squad also included woman.

chaplainDMK

So, is the real issue a question of loyalty towards fans rather than sexism?

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Well I guess the problem is that in the Alien/s franchise the main protagonist was a woman. And in Aliens the marine squad also included woman.

LoG-Sacrament

The female themes that go along with the Alien were originally designed to make male viewers uncomfortable :P

But yeah females in the Alien franchise were always portrayed as being on the same level as the guys. To have an Alien game that doesn't even give the option to play as a female Marine is just odd.

Aliens i can see, i love that movie and hoped that females would be included, as to CoD battlefield etc well, women arent allowed into infantry or artillery units

I hope people know that all this uproar over the game is likely to just give the game more publicity and therefore sell better.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a start of big movement to change the attitude towards females in all games XDTazzman1000

If you were a female gamer im sure you would get sick of playin as a man in every single game ever created so i can understand these complaints. Every game, especially Coop games should feature at least one playable female.

Ripley > any generic male character they came up with

[QUOTE="Tazzman1000"]I wouldn't be surprised if this was a start of big movement to change the attitude towards females in all games XDyellosnolvr

I usually stay away from these sort of threads, but considering the movies all had prominent female protagonists and even Prometheus (while not a direct prequel) had a female lead (and a very good one at that), so it's kind of odd to not have playable female characters in the game. Watch them end up being DLC with a statement saying how much they wanted to please their fans so here's a $10 DLC pack for a handful of characters.

I am fine without having females and I think it is a bit sexist if they say that only females should fight xenomorphs.

i don't see why everyone' so upset and making up lies of ripley being a pivotal character in the movies to justify their claims of needing female marines

ripley was a one-off character who was killed in the scene following the chestburster in alien 1 she never reappeared in any of the sequels

i don't know how people can confuse her with parker, the black guy, the only survivor and the hero of the next three installments

people just rewrote the movie in their delusional minds to jusify their feminist rages

i don't see why everyone' so upset and making up lies of ripley being a pivotal character in the movies to justify their claims of needing female marines

ripley was a one-off character who was killed in the scene following the chestburster in alien 1 she never reappeared in any of the sequels

i don't know how people can confuse her with parker, the black guy, the only survivor and the hero of the next three installments

people just rewrote the movie in their delusional minds to jusify their feminist rages

TheFallenDemon

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*reads again*

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I'd much rather see a petition for a streamlining of the game. F**king 4-player co-op, multiplayer, etc. Focus on one thing and make it good. I don't want dude-bro's smoking grass and farting in my ear while I'm playing this game that is so reliant on atmosphere and setting. Gearbox needs to remember that.

And blah blah blah I know the game can be played alone, but the structure will be such that the single player portion will suffer tremendously as a result of the co-op focus. Just look at Gears 3.

i don't see why everyone' so upset and making up lies of ripley being a pivotal character in the movies to justify their claims of needing female marines

ripley was a one-off character who was killed in the scene following the chestburster in alien 1 she never reappeared in any of the sequels

i don't know how people can confuse her with parker, the black guy, the only survivor and the hero of the next three installments

people just rewrote the movie in their delusional minds to jusify their feminist rages

TheFallenDemon

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i don't see why everyone' so upset and making up lies of ripley being a pivotal character in the movies to justify their claims of needing female marines

ripley was a one-off character who was killed in the scene following the chestburster in alien 1 she never reappeared in any of the sequels

i don't know how people can confuse her with parker, the black guy, the only survivor and the hero of the next three installments

people just rewrote the movie in their delusional minds to jusify their feminist rages

Smokescreened84

:lol: Did you miss the joke man?

As for no female characters in Aliens. I have bemoaned this in my latest blog. I simply cannot understand Gearbox's omission in this case as the franchise is built upon strong female characters. Even if you struggled with Ripley (being non military) you could not argue against Vasquez in Aliens. She is the only one that manages to keep her calm when all the other (male) marines are losing their s**t.

And... as a female gamer. Dammit I want to be able to play with a female avatar from time to time.... PUUUUHHHLEEEEAAAASE.

Normally I dont really care about issues such as this, but this is a game based on the Alien franchise, which has had a strong woman or women fighting the Aliens alongside the men in every iteration of the franchise, so it doesn't really gel with me to have none in the game.