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sc94597 on 06 January 2016
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A_Robo_Commando said:
sc94597 said:
A_Robo_Commando said:
sc94597 said:

I am still not seeing why there can't be a comradeship with a female character or two unless their view of a female character is a stereotypical love interest/feminine female. Representing genres as archetypes is bad writing. And I don't think the road trip trope is necessarily new to the genre. It just never was explictly represented as an actual road trip. 

 

There could be, and there's nothing wrong with that. Each Final Fantasy is different, and I think having an all male party is just one way this FF is trying to be different and stand out. All of their personalities will be decidedly masculine... what is the point of swapping a character's gender if they're going to behave more or less the same anyway? Just for the sake of diversity? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you. And "representing genres as archetypes" does not automatically make for bad writing. It depends on the context.

Because people are people and most aren't hypermasculine nor hyperfeminine. A female character can have a femine perspective and certain femine features without being a stereotypical woman. She could also have the same comradery that a male character has while retaining it. Ultimately though it adds diversity to the cast and can be interesting to have an intermixture of sexes without either being stereotypes. When somebody says the cast must be all male, it makes it seem as if they don't have the imagination to write a realistic female character that can have that same sense of comradery. My point is that there needs to be a better reason (plot-wise) for the impediment of role-playing  than, "a female character would lack comradery." 

So... because diversity. Gotcha. I mean, if that's your preference, more power to ya.

I didn't see the line about comradery on here. I agree with your position on that. Not that a reason is needed to have an all male party, but if you're going to have one, "comradery" is kinda lame.

I am not an SWJ. My point is that when I experience a story I like a diverse cast of well-developed, human-like characters. The statement "we chose a male cast because of comradary (euphemism)" shows neither a diverse cast nor well develop characters in my opinion.