But who buys the condoms...?

I also completely agree with post about male leads becoming a bit bland and Very similar to each other. Female characters look better and very different from each other, they seem to offer more "character" so to say

Is it really that hard to relate to women characters???
Is it really harder to relate to them than to men???
Is a character's race as important as their sex/gender???
If Nathan Drake sported a kippah, would it be harder to relate to him???
What if Lara Croft had a bindi???
Would Mario be less of an iconic character if we found out his mother migrated to Italy from North Africa???
Would small changes like these really affect our ability to connect with the creations of our favorite developers???

Video game developers should be free to cater to feminist/PC ideals if they so choose. If their decision is well received, good for them. If they go too far and it backlashes, I hope they learn their lesson.

There really isn't much to discuss on this matter.

Scalebound is a new IP, and has a male lead character I think. And I don't really think it has much (if at anything) to do with "feminists" influencing devs, I think they make the games they want to. So what if we have a short period where coincidentally femally main chars are in the majority?

Developers make games to make money. They couldn't care less about feminism or being PC, as that doesn't translate to sales.

The ND developers even had to fight to put Ellie on the cover instead of (only) Joel. In other words, they knew that that would probably lead to fewer sales. You think companies would throw away money just for the feminists to like them? Give me a break.

This is by no means a trend. Just a person being uncomfortable playing as a female character (for whatever reasons).

Why is gender such a big deal? Perhaps it's just me but out of all the characteristics, attributes and actions of the video game characters I play as the gender is the least of my worries.

My question is, how are you able to play any game while staring at butts the whole time?

"No, no, I swear; I just like the way my foot tastes!"
-OP-

Female sensible adults just don't play good characters. A typical male can be funny, aggresive scary tough etc. While a lot of those traits have to be very specific to get right on a female.

When you shove a kid in there, and you sell the kid as a manly female, like ellie and jodie, it generally fits the character.
Infact the worst part of beyond is the cringey moment when jodey is tryna be sexy...weirdly