Poll of the Day > Do gamers actually hate women in games?

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Smarkil posted...

I can't think of a single game where a woman who was a main character was not attractive.

Fat Princess is the first thing to jump to mind.
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Even fantasy settings tend to be based on some realism. Usually you have a few fantastical elements and the rest is just real-world or a variation thereof. However, you don't need statistical equality anyway since you can have exemplars (who, at their peak, are stronger than many males yet still weaker than the strongest of males)

And within fantasy settings there's something of an expectation that even non-human creatures will have *some* sexual dimorphism, whether it's a matter of one gender being larger or having more color.

Well, here's the way I see it. I'm playing a game in which I just fought off a sentient and moving wall after dealing with a swarm of sharks that swim through the land itself while fighting alongside a rabbit-eared woman and I have someone who is dealing more damage with their fists than someone else slinging grenades and using guns. If, after all that, my 'problem' is that a woman is just as strong as a man; my priorities are MASSIVELY askew! Even in more 'realistic' games I just simply don't give a fuck as my focus is not on if a woman can beat up a man or not but, rather, on if my crops will grow right or how to pull off a good combo or whatever else.

My only issue is when people try to tell me that, in real life, a woman is just as strong as a man because we know it's blatantly not true.

I can't think of a single game where a woman who was a main character was not attractive.

Well first off 'attractive' should be better defined. Freddi Fish sure as hell wouldn't turn 99.999% of people on even if she's the damned sexiest fish in the ocean. I don't think a feminist is thinking about game starring distinctly non-human leads when they whine about this. However, even among the 'human' leads, what exactly 'counts'? I'm pretty sure custom characters can be ruled out; but what about a game that stars, say, a 12 year old girl? Does that count? What about 15 or 17 or 18? What about games from older eras when things were very pixelated and largely up to imagination to fill in the blanks? Technically Pauline in the original DK could have been as ugly as sin but made up for it everywhere else as far as the game graphics were concerned. I know the cabinet make it clear she was pretty; but my point is... What actually is 'attractive' in the first place? Can I say that Talim isn't attractive because she's 15 but Natsu counts because she's 17? Not to mention what actually constitutes a 'lead'? Milia and Jude are both lead characters in Tales of Xilia but does it not count because it's a joint lead?

*sigh*

In other words... It's way too vague to actually argue against in the first place.
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Zeus posted...

Smarkil posted...

I can't think of a single game where a woman who was a main character was not attractive.

Fat Princess is the first thing to jump to mind.

Mass Effect: Andromeda sprang to my mind. Especially since people (probably accurately) accused BioWare of deliberately making the female characters less attractive than the males because they went deep into the SJW weeds over their last few games.


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