You honestly can't see how "buddies" party can have a unique mood, that is different than any other party? like, "brothers in arm" or anything else. It is not just about comradeship, I was giving an example, a possibility. There are a lot of unique opportunities as I said. Let me give you a hint:

Now, how cool is that, it doesn't get any more "manly" than this . Swapping the gender while having the exact same character will not make the party more diverse story and RPG wise (as you seem to be suggesting). There is much more to a character than the look. These characters can "well-develope" just fine. Not matching your preference does not exclude them from being human-like.

I think my point is clear now. To each his own :)

Can't fucking wait for this game...

I might be completely off but I'm pretty sure they're all Japanese. Its the same with anime and manga, Japanese people portay themselves like that. Again, it might be stated otherwise, but I don't think so.

Not that it matters much, I guess.

Woman can't be "buddies" with  men? Also the whole point is that by having a female you can have a different character who has some different problems but who can also be a close friend rather than a love interest - not a swapping of the same character's gender. 

They can, in a different way. Different kind of relationship. Also, men have different kinds of problems. Hell, each person has his own different problems.

If the gender of one of the characters was swapped we wouldn't be arguing, even if everything else about that character (which we don't know much about yet) remains the same. That my problem with your argument. 100% subjective situation, but you insist it is objectively better to have female. All I'm saying neither is objectively "better".

Can we move on please? This is getting tiresome

Making a game is hard. Very hard. Designing a good game is even harder. FF XV game's designer decided to have characters like this, with this quantity and genders. Its his vision, and his/theirs vision should never be corrupted or the final work of art would be tainted and not replicate the original vision. If you like it, great, if not, move on. Appeasing to anyone else will just harm the game, so let them do what they do best, which is make games, whether they are good or not.

I don’t think that because the game doesn’t have female characters then the developers should be considered as discriminators or misogynist. I think an all-male group is a different approach and it should be interpreted just as that, another approach. Besides, FFXIII, XIII-2 and XIII-3 had female leading characters, so I think is fresh to have an all-male group for the next installment xdd. And even if there won’t be playable female characters that doesn’t mean the game will lack diversity. Maybe, story wise, the females will play big roles, or be the most terrifying enemies, who knows. xdd. I think that what they should add is like another species playable character, I think the last one was Fran from FF12. xdd. They should make a world or universe not just of human kind as the only smart species for the next game xd.

All that info sounds interesting, I'm really looking forward to this game.