Female Leads In Games

[Shiken]

pearljammer said:

Shiken said:
Can't play as a female character so I am very annoyed with Horizon cause it looks fantastic. As I have said before I play games to emerse myself in stroy, but I can't do that as a female character. I could not complete Dino Crisis, RE3, early Tomb Raider games (I did beat the reboot, so that says a lot about that game), Metroid, Bayonetta, Heavenly Sword, etc. I have played these games and always lose interest half way through due to lack of connection with the protagonist. I am all for a gender option or parts where you would play as a male mixed with parts featuring a female character (example TLoU or even a true 50/50 split), but strickly female leads are a problem for me.

My loss I guess...=(

I'm genuinely curious. I can understand why someone may have issues with immersion in some cases when it comes to gender, but not sex. In a game like Mass Effect or Metroid, sex could be interchangable with no significant differences.

The sex gap breaks the immersion while playing as aliens, unnaturally muscular males, frogs or any other type of animal, toads or any other thing doesn't? Or do you play games solely as male humans? Which of course then raises more questions. Will you play only human males for which you can appreciate their motives and perspectives?

It is not quite as black and white as that.  I can portray myself as any mythological creature in a game be it human, elf, orc, or beast so long as it is a male character.  The thought of portraying myself as a female just does not interest me and leads to a lack of connection to the world I am trying to emmerse myself in.

 

I know you can say the difference between playing as a non human character or a female human may be minimal, but for me it is not.  Even in the Tomb Raider reboot I had to pretend I was watching a movie to get through it, while in Uncharted I can actually portray myself as Nathan Drake.  And even with a great game like TR, the difference in portrayal impacts the overall feel pf the game for me.

 

I am not alone in this, nor do I have anything against females leads.  They just keep me from enjoying my personal experience with the game more often than not.