On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:46:35PM +1000, Pia Waugh wrote: > Just a quick comment on this, I don't think that the cars and guns > thing is what puts girls off some games, it is the ridiculous pigeon-holing > of women in those games that leaves the bad taste. I loved playing quake, > doom, wolfenstein, metal slug and a bunch of other shoot-em-ups as a kid, > even though there were next to no "normal" looking women in them (with the > exception of metal slug :), but now most women in games are portrayed as a > prize or a sexy enemy.
Clearly you play the wrong games :P Most of the best ones in recent history have either had strong female protagonists or principals (Phantom Brave, Disgaea, Xenosaga, Final Fantasy X-2) or simply been ambivalent about the gender of the characters (typically because they have no plot; such games either allow you to pick the gender or simply don't indicate one). Now, if you're talking about *bad* games, then you might see something more like that... but they suck, what did you expect? There will always be more bad games than good ones. I can think of very few games like you describe that were actually decent. Prince of Persia comes to mind. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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