Are women over-represented in video games?

[Darc Requiem]

the-pi-guy said:

Women are not over-represented. Quite the opposite. I think contrary to the poll options, those ideas have more to do with a vocal minority.

Darc Requiem said:

If you are going to put a game in historical setting, you may want to abide the setting.

Why does a piece of fiction have to adhere to the facts?  Battlefield isn't claiming to be 100% accurate representation of the past.  

What about The Order?  It was set in a "historical" setting.  Yet there were apparently werewolves and sci-fi weapons.  

Battlefield has as much of a Civic duty to historical accuracy as The Order.  Both games are works of fiction.  

DarkD said:
No woman aren't overrepresented in games, that has nothing to do with the complaints people have. The complaint is that these games are bending over backwards to shove politics into their games and then show it off like a circus event. E3 is supposed to be about cool video games, it's not a gay pride parade.

Tell me, when you go onto a game like Slither.io, does it not bother you that about a fifth of the players have names like "Trump is King" and other more derogatory political messages? I honestly can't stand them.

In all honesty, republicans are ENORMOUS hipocrits on the matter because I see them doing it far more than I see any liberals doing it. But as a liberal, I refuse to stoop to that level and I will happily call out the bullshit on my own side.

The Last of Us 2 is not a gay pride parade. Sure, you can make Ellie gay, but why is that being advertised as a core element of the game in the reveal trailer?

Gay people have nothing to do with politics. They are real people who would like to see more diverse characters, some they could relate to. Being gay isn't being treated as a core element of the game, it's part of Ellie's character.

The Order and Battlefield aren't the same thing. Poor comparison. Works of fiction don't have to adhere to the facts, however Battlefield has made it a point to adhere to the historical time period it takes place. It's predecessor went back WWI and it's campaign focused on real battle units using only the weapons of the period. Battlefield isn't Resistance, The Order, or even a further outlier like Valkyria Chronicles. Those games tell you from the outset that they aren't shooting for accuracy. That aside, the situation is completely unnecessary. It's WWII game. There was country, Russia, that had women on that did serve on the front lines. Having a someone with a prosthetic limb on the front lines of game that only uses weapons of the period is just silly at best. The things she does would be difficult to do with prosthetic's of today. Why not add rail guns, stealth fighters, and hover packs too.