@padavid10 @urmomridesmydik "To say that an athletic and well trained woman wouldn't be as fit or strong as most men is total nonsense." Are you an absolute idiot or just half of one? What woman can bench press 300 pounds?
EVEN THE JAPANESE ONLY USE WHITE MALE CHARACTERS!!!! WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW AN ASIAN IN FINAL FANTASY?? NINJA GAIDEN HAS A WHITE NINJA!!! DANTE OF DMC IS WHITE!! THEY ARE ALL WHITE!!!
"An increase in diversity can lead to increased sales" This statement assumes that if you make a game with a non-white character, it will appeal to ALL non-whites. So an African-American lead will be embraced by the Chinese? Or Indians? And a Japanese lead character will be embraced by Mexican people? NO....the African-American lead character has more appeal to the African-American, the Japanese lead to the Japanese consumer, and so on. SO making a game meant to appeal to a small section of the population (any minority) will increase sales....really? How dumb is the author and the guy she is quoting?
SO where is this data showing the great diversity in gamers and that "women and nonwhites make up a massive percentage of gamers". Everyone says it and no one cites a source, or shows the data. Female gamers are in the minority, no matter how you slice it.
Because it's so convincing to see a woman beat up a man, or toting a gun with a chainsaw on it that probably weighs 25 pounds like in Gears. Girls in games are stupid and I never play a game with a female lead because it's DUMB. Take Gears for example, you got these big, burly, 6 foot something 200 and something pound mountains of men carrying serious armor and a gun that, like I said, would probably weigh about 25 pounds. But the 5'8" 125 pound girl can do everything they can do....riiiiight...
It's plain stupid. This doesn't mean all games with women are dumb, it has to make sense. Give her special powers, make the story support what she's doing in the game. Storm of the X-Men is super cool, Supergirl is great, Jean Grey, Rogue, etc... are fine. But a regular, run of the mill, human female doing all the physical stunts of a man....come on, DUMB.
This has nothing to do with female ability, they can do anything we can that's NOT PHYSICAL. A woman will never bench press 300 pounds, never beat up a man. Lucy Lawless got her ass kicked in a boxing match against Joey Buttafuco ina Howard Stern sponsored fight. That's a woman in peak physical condition against some fat, old loser that probably never worked out a day in his life.
So seeing them do physical stunts in games, for me, kills the immersion. I can only roll my eyes.
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