Naughty Dog says gender/minority debate will push industry forward

[outlawauron]

Euphoria14 said:

outlawauron said:

Euphoria14 said:
I would love to see more female leads in gaming and will be glad if Naught Dog moves in that direction. I'm tired of the muscled up stereotypical males. I don't ever want to see main characters like Marcus Phoenix again.

We need more strong women. That is why when I play games where you can choose your own character I almost exclusively create females.

So many people view them as inferior (Why that is, I don't know. They live longer then men for a reason you know?) and just having them being the driving force of an adventure feels so fresh.

Marcus Phoenix was a bad character because he was bad character.

I really don't care at all who the main character is, just as long as they're well developed and a good character.

It cannot be argued though that for decades it has always been male, male, male, male. Now we get buff male, buff male, buff male, buff male. It's tiring.

 

We need more diversity. We need more Lara Croft's. We need more Terra Branfords. We need more Celes Chere's. More Ms. Pacman's!

I find that a lot of big games have primary female characters. All of these have released or are going to release a new game in the past year or so. FF13 series, Aterlier series, Beyond 2 Souls, the newest Tomb Raider, Remember Me, Lolipop Chainsaw, etc. Also all of pick your own character WRPGs have get left out of the convo. Then you also have smaller games like Shantae, Contrast, Gone Home, etc.

Ironically, Western developers are the ones who don't have many female protagnists or main characters, but that's because characters and story largely take a backseat so you have hollow or faceless main characters. I don't really think it's a product of sexism though.