Well, I guess what I mean is that often the female characters seem to be mainly designed as eye candy for the guys. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for eye candy and I enjoy the female form a lot, but I can empathise all too well with the males and that's where I'm sort of in conflict with myself. Like enjoying it from a male perspective while feeling objectified from a female point of view... ugh, I hope that makes any sense at all.
So what sort of female lead would appeal to you?
Surely not not capable, but not exactly the main target audience of the genre. I personally violently dislike firearms, so "no thanks" to shooters. And FP? I my first person I actually see my whole body, not just a disconnected, distorted hand and if I had to walk around without seeing myself, I would just get nauseous and fall down, so I fail to see the fun in that. But I know that I'm a minority in that and it's my problem that I can't play any games that are otherwise promising but unplayable for me. Weird, if you think about it: I know there are quite a few people who get virtual motion sickness and others just prefer the old pc style, so companies cheat themselves out of a lot of customers by not giving a choice, though it's totally doable.
Have you played Mirrors Edge?
Still, girls nowadays do play other games than The Sims. RPG's are equally interesting for both genders, if the devs take it into consideration. And if the story is compelling enough to get sucked into, like The Witcher, where you don't play a generic male hero, but this unique anti-hero character. And there's strong women, too. And it has a considerable female fanbase.
So would you like to see a strong female anti-hero?
I hope we're hot hijacking this thread, but that the conversation is welcome.
Conversation is always all good in my book.
Also what games do you play on the PC?
