One of the best games of the last year was Beyond Good and Evil, whose heroine is a green-haired teenager anybody, men or women, would identify with.
Highly recommended, good for 12 yro and up, and it is now being sold for 10 euros in re-edition! -- javier Andrew Suffield wrote: > 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. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
