[QUOTE="toxic_jackal"][QUOTE="jeremiah06"]
...not sure if serious... all of the npc's in skyrim are ugly...Smokescreened84
Tell that to all the discussions I have seen on the gamefaqs Skyrim forums over the past few months. How much talk on how good a female NPC looks, especially with Aela, Jenassa, Mjoll, or hell, even Lydia? How much talk of playing as a female character just because they "look good?" Not to mention, all the sexual innuendo I see on their posts. I don't play female characters because I want to stare at them and have imagination sex with them; I play a female character because I am a female and therefore can relate to a female character.
To me, male gamers sink real low to imagine having sex with pixels and therefore an illusion.
I feel the same way, I can't even bring myself to play games that are male lead only anymore, it's hard to relate to a male lead when you aren't a male. If I can't play as female - and I don't care for the rare multi-player and co-op that might, maybe, allow for that option - also very rare - in single player then I'm not going to waste my month nor time with such a generic game. And it's annoying how females in games are portrayed as sex toys, the damsel in distress, the useless support role, the victim and the NPC background character and once in a while the villain while the usual un-creative boring male lead is being forced yet again. The industry, as well as many male gamers who keep demanding male lead only, really need to grow up and allow for progress for a change instead of holding progress back and doing the same tired thing over and over again. Yet if you suggest such a thing you get seen as 'sexist' and 'feminist' by those who don't even understand the meaning, and I'm not either of those, I'm just sick to death of seeing the same lack of imagination all the time with the whole 'be a man, man only!' nonsense that is still being enforced. That's what tends to be turn me off. Well I do think that the media in general also makes guys look a bit ridiculously handsome and capable compared to the real deal for the most part, but I think the issue of games and comics and such portraying women as sex objects is changing. Now its really only used in more comedic games or games focused on a less realistic vibe (like Duke Nukem, and to a lesser extent, Batman).
Though I wouldn't stereotype all male gamers as being disrespectful misogynists, and I'd say that women tend to be portrayed incredibly favorably in many games like Gears of War, Rainbow Six and Mass Effect, and that if a few loudmouthed lonely teenagers online want to make a big deal of an attractive portrayal of a girl in gaming on internet forums, people shouldn't make a fuss about it. For the most part, many games are alllowing you to play from a variety of different people of different backgrounds, races and gender, and so people don't have to get so worked up over a dying trend that only a select vocal few support online.
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