Interesting article about female characters in games

[WarPiper]

@ iamaboringperson

hehehe, Yea I think we really do like the same games, I love that alice game, (and umm, yea she does kind a apeal to me, in a twisted kinda way).

[Atheist]

I'm sick of "political correctness". Never went for it in the first place. Does that make me a rude ignorant slob?

I'm being who I am.

For the people those games offend "BOYCOTT THEM!!!!!!!!"

It's not like it'll affect sales anyway, as anyone offended, DIDN'T BUY THEM ANYWAY!!

When we program WE MAKE OUR OWN PLACE AND TIME. Too bad for everyone else. If it bothers you, GET LOST!!!

AmigaOne! SW freedom is TRUE freedom!

[Lando]

Of course they make games with fit girls in them.  If they made a game featuring only Mandy Dingle lookalikes nobody would buy it.  The characters need to be aspirational for girls and attractive to boys.

Its no different from male game characters always being handsome and muscly.  You don't see Solid Snake or Sam Fisher with bald heads and big beer bellies and curry stains on their jumpers.  

[Lando]

Well said atheist.  Its political correctness gone mad.

You don't see Solid Snake or Sam Fisher with bald heads and big beer bellies and curry stains on their jumpers.

Coming to Amiga One soon -

"The Adventures of Fray Bentos Man"

Level 1 - Pie Eating Challenge
Level 2 - Mild/Bitter drinking contest
Level 3 - Darts Challenge
Level 4 - Wife Beating Final
Level 5 - Dole queue ficticuffs

Un-P.C enough for you? :-)

[Quixote]

mdma mused:

Level 1 - Pie Eating Challenge
Level 2 - Mild/Bitter drinking contest
Level 3 - Darts Challenge
Level 4 - Wife Beating Final
Level 5 - Dole queue ficticuffs

;-) Reminds me of "Redneck Rampage" on the PC a few years ago.  I never bought it myself, but it seemed like fun, in a Jeff Foxworthy kind of way.

Redneck Rampage is fantastic!

It's on Kazaa for the naughty people amongst us

you'll need VDMSound too for Windows XP

Redneck Rampage is fantastic!

It's on Kazaa for the naughty people amongst us

you'll need VDMSound too for Windows XP

[iamaboringperson]

im sure if a game had all blokes it would be much less appealing

Hey come now, Baldur's Gate is a great game!  I am a female myself and personally the emphasis on the breasts on the female characters do not bother me one bit.  I recently (around 3 weeks ago) started playing games which are associated with the company known as Wizards of the Coast... Yes I know that this logo is not present on some of the game boxes but Wizards of the Coast is the parent company to Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights.  These are Dungeons and Dragons games.  Nevertheless, I love all games such as this!
odin wrote:
Nothing ofcourse, that's also not the point of the author. What she's trying to say (amongst other things) is that sexism can ruin a game if you don't expect it in a game or if it's just placed in the wrong context. Like her example of Baldur's Gate.[/quote]

[Quixote]

Holly3278 helloed:

...I am a female myself and personally the emphasis on the breasts on the female characters do not bother me one bit.

:-D Hello, Holly, and welcome to Amiga.org!  We need all the lady members we can get.  Especially those who share that point of view.  Hope that you enjoy your stay.

[smerf]

Hi odin,

No use getting upset over big breasts and 1% brains, all women are this way until they get married, then they turn big, fat and ugly, and that 1% brain power drops by 3/4 % leaving only 1/4 of their brain left. Now picture this you are enjoying your 90% breast featured game on your Amiga when your wife walks in who is 300% breast and 400% waist (get the picture) and wants you to go to bed with her.  Now you remember the days when she was that petite 90% breast and then you turn to her and say I be down in a jiffy soon as I finish this game. OK.

When the sun comes up as you get off your computer to go to bed and your wife is getting out of bed to start her day you think back and say aren't computer games wonderful

Smerf

Look at most single women, they make you smile.

Look at most married women,  then try to keep from pukin.

[Quixote]

smerf smirked:

Look at most single women, they make you smile.

Look at most married women,  then try to keep from pukin.

:roll: Dude! Don't talk so disrespectfully about married women!  I'll wager long odds that your mother is married!

:lol: Unless, of course,  you want to gainsay that idea....

[bbrv]

Well, guys all I can say is that I prefer my AMIGA!

:lol:

Just Bill  :-D

[Bezzen]

I'm with odin on this one!

Some game companies still think that the average game player is 13 years old, geeky and has never seen a real girl before. The gaming audience changed dramaticly with the Playstation but some developers haven't really understood that. But then again, some older game players still haven't matured past that stage anyway.

It's nice however that Acclaim has found out the hard way with BMX XXX that sex doesn't necessarily sell. Oh, and they're getting sued by Dave Mirra as well for using his name in that crappy game.

I by the way got the beat 'em up game Tao Feng (by Studio Gigante) to review a week ago and they apparently thought that the "bouncing breasts"-feature of Dead or Alive was the most important feature to copy from that game.  :-o

[takemehomegrandma]

odin wrote:
Here's a rather interesting article on the perception of females in computer games. I for one agree wholeheartedly with the writer. Whenever I play a game and a female character is presented as 90% breast and 1% brain it ticks me off instantly.

Any other opinions on this?

And what about the male characters then, aren't quite a lot of them the lone-wolf, steroid-muscles-like-schwarzenegger, no-mercy-badass-attitude kind of guys? ;-)

I'd say that this stereotype perception in actiongames (and movies) is unisex, but in different ways.