Female lead characters r more masculinised in games than even movies. This is why people don't care about the difference, they are written, designed and programmed by males so Lara / Metroid / Perfect dark chick are generally always Ripley style, male character, but with a pussy.
Freud is spot on about narrative viewpoints always representing the male gaze, etc. Ask a straight girl what she thinks and she might not even see any difference. Ask me, theres no difference and i don't care bcoz im a chauvanist.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
