Female Leads In Games

[Aeolus451]

DeduS said:

the-pi-guy said:

That's not very simple at all.

Do you have a desire to play as a monster?

When you play Uncharted, do you desire to be in the shoes of an adventurer who gets shot at?

The gender of a character really doesn't matter.  It's just a label to describe what parts a person has.

Why do you have such difficulty playing with different parts, particularly when inhuman creatures have more different parts than woman do?

I'll try to explain it, since I have the same problem as Shiken in regards to playing as a female character.

I first encountered it with Final Fantasy X-2. Some of my friends (me included) were annoyed that the playable characters were all female while others didn't care - so we wondered why and discussed it.

We came up with the following: there seem to be 2 types of players.

(1) Some people take the character that is given to them and play as that character - it's like a book or a movie to them. The character has it's own personality and the player just role-plays as that character. Players like that won't have a problem playing a character of the opposite sex.

(2) Then there are players like me (and Shiken I guess). They don't really role-play - they project themselves on the character. They view the character as a representation of themselves, which obviously leads to difficulties when you have to play as the opposite sex.

 

I can understand that. In games like where you can fully customize your character like fallout, elder scrolls, mass effect and dragon's dogma, I'll make the character as close to myself as possible but I'll change some things of course but I'll never pick female as my character's sex.

In games like the TLOU, horizon, tomb raider, GOW and MGS, I'll play the character as is and to me, i'm not them and they are not me.