Females in Gaming

[Luke888]

AmericanAli said:

I noticed an annoying trend lately, a lot of game sequels or new ip's have female chracters as protagonists. Now this isn't something bad on itself but i have the feeling that a lot of developer force them selves to make the protagonist of their game a female just to be politically correct, i mean i have nothing against female characters being playable but in a industry mostly dominated by male people (yes there are a lot more males playing video games than females, don't kid yourself) to shift it's focus soley on female protagonist just to be politically correct or to avoid stereotypes in video games, just isn't right.
I mean i myself don't like it to play as a female character, that's mostly because i like to identify myself with my hero and i am really not so hot about the idea to spend 60$ to play as a female. And i do get a lot of flack for this.
Long story short, with the rise of feminist in our (western) society, i fell like their influence is reaching the gaming industry and i do not like it, not at all. Especially considering females tend to bash video games more than males.
So what's your thought on this? Did you notice that trend too? Would it annoy you to see your favorite franshise change it's protagonist to a female? And most importantly...does my view on this make me a misagonist?

Someone might argue that that can be said by any woman that plays Videogames, but honestly I feel the same.

Imho devs shuold just go the Pokémon route where you can chose your sex and NPCs don't care about it but act according to the relationship you have with them and not your gender.

The only exception should be canon characters that are icons of their own franchise such as Mario, Batman, Link (tough someone thinks that they might add Linkle to the next Zelda games I'm not positive they'll do it ) and so on...