Female Leads In Games

[Esiar]

pokoko said:

Esiar said:

I feel like some games have female leads for the sake of having female leads, and not because they think that should be the direction of the game. Not Tomb Raider, but perhaps something like that Dinosaur Robot game  that was announced at E3. Like to make it more "unique", and like it is breaking gender stererotypes like guys being the hero.

I dunno, it just seems like that to me.

You've gathered that without knowing the first thing about the story?  Do you have anything at all upon which to base that conclusion?

That aside, we know that for years we've been getting male character leads just for the sake of having male character leads.  So what if someone is pitching an idea for a female character because it's a bit different?

My personal opinion is that I want the final product to be true to the writer's vision.  If they wrote the story around the character being male then I want it to stay that way unless there is a good reason to change.  Likewise, I don't want a female character to be changed just because a businessman at the top is scared it will affect sales.

It is just based on a hunch, really. It just feels like that to me. Not grounded upon evidence. So I'm not certain, but it just seems like that for me

But I agree with the bolded part. It would suck to have an idea in your head, and when you want to make it happen, you're forced to change something you don't want to change.