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5 Things Video Games Need to Stop Doing

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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

1) Stop making female protagonists overly sexual

 

 

Let's acknowledge the obvious here; the majority of gamers are male. I'm not talking about Wii Fit, Super Mario and that stuff. I'm talking about the people who log 10+ hours per session on Modern Warfare and then wonder WHY women don't like them. Those are gamers . . . and they are also men (not trying to sell us short here boys :P).

This is why games like Wet, Velvet Asassin, and Bayonetta  kind of puzzle me. I'll be honest, I would have a hard time liking a game with a female protagonist because I love characterization, and I can't relate with a female protagonist due to chromosomal issues.

This does not change just because my character's ass could carry a tea tray across a room.  It's also hard to focus on this aspect when several  angel/demons are attempting to shove a fence post between my character's breasts.

Now let's say that somehow these games are catering to female gamers and not horny, socially repressed male gamers. Is making all the characters bitchy Victoria Secret models whose combat attire would only be appropriate if they were undercover agents at a Spearmint Rhino club REALLY the way to reach out to this demographic?

All I know is, replacing Bayonetta with Dante really wouldn't detract from my experience . . . though it would be 10x more disturbing when his clothes flew off.

 
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Comments (3)
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August 04, 2010

About the AC2 part. That reminded me when Leonardo wanted to hug me, and I missed it. It actually made me feel bad. Also it seemed like every time I met him after that he felt so... half hearted.

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August 04, 2010

Bitmob loads way too slow for me to click on a 5 page article. Just for the record, whenever a website is open to the public, it is in a state of completion. It may say "Alpha" or "Beta", but it's all "Omega" to the user.

Me
March 16, 2011

Well said for some of the subjects but you did lack going into complte detail.
You should check out this article on cracked.com that is very similier to what your saying
http://www.cracked.com/article_18571_5-reasons-its-still-not-cool-to-admit-youre-gamer.html

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