Be honest
How do you really feel about female protagonists?
I love them, but they have to be cute.
>>340338978
This
>>340338897
Female protags are fine as long as being female isn't the only thing about them. If they just behave like male protags but with a grill body, it's dumb as shit
I prefer them if they're decent characters because girls are usually more interesting to look at than men. Poorly written, bland, or completely unlikable female protags on the other hand are worse than any male protag.
>>340338897
Wasted potential most of the time. My sperg makes me completely unable to associate with playing female characters; it simply feels wrong and boring and I can't insert myself into the world at all.
It also makes no fucking sense 99% of the time.Men are always proven to be more powerful. No, don't bother arguing me about being misogynistic or whatever the hell, I LITERALLY do not care about such things, I just feel like it's a true fact and every time anyone argues about it it ends up being the correct opinion.
>>340339157
>If they just behave like male protags but with a grill body, it's dumb as shit
What the fuck are you talking about, idiot? You want to play a game about cooking barefoot, or nursing babies?
Like this
>>340338897
Well, I'm not a raging, flaming, flamboyant homosexual so I prefer them. I can see how /v/ would hate them, being full of assgaping queers and all.
>>340339386
ha ha good one friend
>>340339378
>People kill God by ripping him apart with telekinesis
>"Ugh no way a man would ever lose!"
Yeah okay autismo. You fucking misogynist.
>>340338897
Depends; are they a "female protagonist" or a protagonist who is female?
>>340339396
For a western studio they did a good job on dread girl
>>340338897
don't really care as long as they're a tolerable, good character.
also a big plus if they're fappable
>>340338897
Never gave a shit, and now that you mentioned it - I still don't give a shit.
>>340339396
those are braids, not dreads
>Western women
Largely shit, with a few exceptions like Overwatch women.
>Eastern women
Usually decent, very few instances of "discount men" females unless it's part of their character and is actually fleshed out beyond "she's not like other grils!"
>>340339572
They're ugly is what they are.
Change it.
as long they're hot and/or cute
If women can handle male protagonists then men can handle female protagonists.
>>340339562
So much this.
As long as they're not just using brand recognition for said female character. She needs to be able to stand on her own 2 feet in terms of characterization.
Comics and movies have been having a bad habit of this, what with fem-thor and now the new female ghostbusters.
Is the game they're in any good?
Do they have a personality that doesn't make me want to smash my head into a brick?
Are they not childish?
If they can get most of these right, they're fine.
Otherwise I don't care.
they're fuckin boring but, whatever keep doing the gender equality thing. eventually there might be better games.
i want a game like alan wake with a female protag.
>feminists complain and call video games sexist
>female protag games sell the worse they have ever sold
Ayyy lmao
>>340338978
/thread
>>340338897
I don't give a shit if they don't pass 100% of the game complaining how strong and femi shit they are
There pretty forgettable and shallow like most videogame protagonists.
As long as she cute or hot and her personality doesn't revolve around her gender it's ok
>>340338897
Kat's cool.
Yorha can be either a non-character or a fucking nutjob. Hopefully the latter.
Emily might be cool.
Faith and Lara are vanilla, nothing characters
Recore chick will probably be a non-character.
Zero dawn chick will probably be shit.
Evie is shit.
I have no reason to hate or like them more or less than a male protag.
What I don't like is how female protags almost always carry this baggage of having to prove themselves or be special simply because they are female. We've had decades of dumb generic buff white guys as the MCs, if games want to start throwing other variations in that's fine, but don't feel that you suddenly have to start making a bunch of unnecessary backstory just because your MC is no longer a white guy.
>>340339396
ftfy
>>340338897
they usually feel pretty stiff/boring
lack humor and charm most of the time, they act like men, without their good qualities
>>340338897
They're good every once in a while, like Samus and Bayonetta, otherwise they are often forced and lame and being female is usually their gimmick and focus which is entirely the opposite of what their character should be about.
>>340340315
stop
>>340340315
Get rid of the dreads/brains/nignog shit and she's qt yeah.
Also you removed my exclamation points I used to rank the cute-scale.
>>340340078
>>340340303
It's a defense against the "well a real woman couldn't possibly do better than a man/do this stuff" crowd.
Love 'em.
Sex sells, and the sooner the game companies get back to this, the better.
I don't really care. Only thing that really matters is whether or not the character is good.
Problem with a lot of female characters these days is that people are super terrified of making them anything other than tough and independent. Same shit happens with male characters, but you see very few games with female characters who actually have flaws. Feels like it happens even less with female characters because people are scared of being called sexist. Stereotypes do exist sometimes, yet I feel like we only see the stereotypes for men these days. At least in western games.
>>340338897
They are cute, a cute!!
>>340338897
I like some and dislike others, same as male characters, desu
>>340340549
And it makes every single one of them look like a fucking joke instead.
I don't mind them as long they're well written
Also this
>>340339525
never EVER has there been a good-written female in gaming
>>340339912
Interestingly, horror seems to have a lot of female protags and usually really good ones. Don't know why that is, maybe so you feel a greater need to protect her.
>>340340769
You look like a fucking joke
>>340340769
Every single one?
>>340338897
They're fine if the writers/devs don't expect me to give them applause for it.
Part of why Heather is the best female protagonist in gaming is that her gender is an important part of the story but the game isn't constantly patting itself on the back about it.
She has a reason to be there and it isn't just for diversity points or titillation.
>>340340819
>>340340901
Name one character that pulls it off without it looking forced as hell.
Nope.
Most of them are forced one dimensional ARGH SO FIERCE sjw pleasing bullshit.
>>340340462
have you ever seen dreads before
It's more difficult to connect to them, and usually the writing in their games is horrid, and they are only a tool through which the developer tries to shoe in "feminism" by making them "lol they are women and they are great and perfect and my mum". It's great though to be able to connect and care for a female protag, since it takes a lot more effort.
>>340339396
>Rape Ugly
What did he mean by this?
why did they have to make faith an ugly tranny?
Don't care about them as long as they're not pretentious
>>340340819
Never ever has there been a good written character in gaming.
Fixed it for you
The list of WELL written male characters is just as short as the female characters
>>340340549
Wouldn't it be more effective if, instead of deliberately framing a woman as proving herself to her male peers, she just did her fucking job without a fuss? That would be a much better way to normalize female protags.
>>340340830
Everyone can be a victim but people get so up in arms if women get "forced" into things for diversity's sake. Female soldiers? Yeah right, like those exist. Female leaders? Please.
>that fucking monkey on the right
The hell lads? In game she looks fine desu.
>>340341057
"She" is going to rape your ass
>>340338897
who is the one in the middle?
skyrim assassin 2?
>>340341167
Dishonored 2
>>340341002
yap fuck all this sjw shit
>>340341004
Yes a dude I went to high school with was really in to Bob Marley and had dreads.
I put the /braids/nignog thing there for a reason. They're like caveman grease dreads not "I intentionally made dreads" dreads.
>>340341057
Mattress girl.
>>340340991
Of course not. This isn't an argument I, or anyone else, could possibly win because you'll shoot down anything and everything regardless of whether you've played the game because you're more invested in maintaining your position than in finding a female character that goes against your expectations.
>>340341167
Emily from Dishonored 2.
>>340338897
I don't really care if the characters are good. That being said, I'd take a retarded nepnep over any "I'm a brave" woman character type.
literally doesn't matter
>>340341103
thay didn't
>>340341218
>>340341262
so is what i said
>>340341002
>>340340928
I fucking love Heather. Seriously, it's one of the few cases where they managed to make a character that has some feminine stereotypes and flaws but is still cool to play as. So many games are scared of having characters act in ways gender may dictate at times.
>>340340928
She was who I immediately thought of when I saw this thread. Not only did they manage to make her a compelling female character, but a teenage girl who was likable without being sexualized. Considering how fucking insufferable teenage girls are in a lot of stories, I was impressed.
>>340338897
Would rather play as a dude most of the time but they can be ok.
>>340338897
As long as they're fun, who cares?
Fuck cute things in general, that goes for everything in the game though.
The hotter, the better.
>>340341320
they gave her caveman lips and nose
>>340338897
Where the top right beauty from?
>>340341476
They gave her KISSABLE lips~
>>340341493
Faggot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARHVKZ5K1b0
>>340341256
No, seriously, humor me. Give me one example.I won't reply after this because I need some rest. The thread's probably not up in 6 hours.
>>340341282
Yeah, I really hate those girl power characters that constantly need to remind you that they can do anything as well as the boys.
It's the current year and people need to stop treating femininity like some disease holding women back.
I prefer them in loli form.
I'll take a cute female protag over a male protag in literally any game.
Don't care as long as they're good. Mirror's Edge and Alien: Isolation did it especially right.
Apart from that, every game with character creation lets me have non-annoying female protags.
What I really liked was Saints Row 4 with the french voice. Gets me hard every time.
>>340338897
I think you should use whatever kind of character suits your game best.
I think story in videogames is like story in porn. It's a side dish, and if your game focuses on story, you're not using the strength of the medium.
In other words, there are concerns that go deeper than "IS THE MAIN CHARACTER MALE OR FEMALE?"
Feminists and apologists want female leads for the sake of female leads. This does zero justice to anyone. A "strong" female isn't dynamic. It's strong. It's generic. Everyone in a "power fantasy" is "strong".
To be fair, I'm not sure how to do it, but if you're going to tell a story, put it in the context of the gameplay. Make the gameplay tell the story. I'd be pleased as punch to play a FF game that made me feel empathy or fuzzy inside by means of the gameplay. But that's never been Square's style, I'm afraid, and if they put out an FF game like that, it would be unrecognizable as FF.But I like controlling a waifu, which is why, if given the chance, I'll make a female char that caters to my fetishes. If possible.
>>340341124
That would be if people were objective, but as anyone who is part of a minority, whatever that minority is, stepping into a new area finds is that they have to prove themselves better than the average to be seen as average, and they can't simply be present without explaining why they are.
How many people here would raise a fuss and ask why there's a white male soldier on the cover? Probably pretty few. How many would flip their shit over a black female doing the same and scream about forced diversity and the like, nevermind if she just does her job in the game itself? It's stupid, but that's how it is. Hopefully eventually things'll change so that no one need explain themselves but we've still got plenty of people who constantly and vehemently argue that women have no place as protagonists because women aren't as good as men.
>>340338978
This.I also enjoy guro art of them
>>340341476
well she is half white
Okay.
I'm automatically more interested in a game if it has a female protagonist. Doesn't mean I'll like it and play it though, because some games are SHIT
>>340341564
if you like kissing men with nigger lips
>>340341836
Reminder Sayaka is best girl. Yuu a shit.
>>340341773
fuck off
Female protags are great, except when done shittily. Note that this applies to any kind of protagonist.
>>340338897
I think that they're just trying way too hard. All of them feel over-designed and needlessly gritty. Best female protags are the ones I make in character creation screens.
>>340341836
i can't self-insert as a female so its more difficult for me to get into one
but if its a good game then its all good
>>340338897
great in persona 3 portable
awful in literally every other game i've played
>>340341905
Her lips aren't that big.
The nose is, though.
Recettear and Mirrors Edge were both female protagonists technically, but it didn't feel like it was a big deal or forced. Nowadays it feels deliberate and unnatural.
>>340341925
Did I say something that offended you?
![maxresdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mUZXHx3.jpg "maxresdefault[1].jpg")
>>340342061
recettear?
>>340338897
I'm hype as fuck for Horizon: Zero Dawn. And the main character is hot. I am very into this recent trend of women having what I can only describe as "barbarian" hair, all wavy and wild with braids and shit. Don't know how else to describe it but I hope it keeps happening.
>>340342150
no its shit
>>340341678
>Feminists and apologists want female leads for the sake of female leads. This does zero justice to anyone.
Serious question: let's say that every female protagonist created in, say, the year 2017 is good/does her job, she's a character first and a woman second, she's competent and interesting and well liked.
And there are 0 males characters made that year. And the same thing happens in 2018: wonderful female characters and 0 male characters. And same thing in 2019, and so on and so forth.
Would you be happy?
>>340342268
Are they hot?
I'm ok.
>>340342234
No, its sexualized animu gore. You're thinking of scat.
>>340342325
Irrelevant unless you only like male characters that are hot.
>>340342268
it would be true equality
So what game is bottom middle?
>>340342393
So...yes or no?
Two scenarios
1) realistic setting, woman is portrayed realistically, A Okay why not. It complies with its own logic. Or internal logic even.
2) rediculous setting: doesn't matter.
>>340342393
But anon, one of the big draws of women is physical beauty.
So answer the question, are they hot?
>>340342268
>Would you be happy?
It'd be weird to not have ANY male protags, but good writing is good writing.
>>340338897
So long as their only trait isn't "I'm a girl" they're ok I guess
>>340342461
Do you only choose male characters that are hot?
>>340342528
Yes.
>>340342528
I find the males attractive, yes.
>>340338978
100% this
>>340342508
How is that different from "I'm a guy"
>>340342558
Then sure.
>>340341923
I can understand why you might say that, but I don't agree with you.
Amanda Ripley in Alien Isolation is probably the only well written female protagonist I can think of, which I suppose is par for the course since her character's mom in the movies is still a strong example of how to do it right as well.
Female characters are best in games that are more lighthearted or take a somber approach
If they are in action games, they make great additions when they're NOT front line melee types. I find that everyone of them in that class tends to be written like they're trying to prove something which is eye-rolling at best, or we're just willfully ignoring a 110lb girl going toe to toe with some axebiting giant. It just makes me lose respect for the men she's supposed to be fighting, like I can't take it seriously.
Magic, ranged, and support are typically the best classes they can be in action games, it's like when the writer realizes this then he/she focuses on just writing the character and everything that makes her unique instead of trying to shoehorn in a character who's only purpose is to emasculate her male counterparts.
>>340338897
I don't mind because I'm not a niGGer
>>340342626
Then I don't mind.
>>340342380
you must love mortal kombat
>>340339157
But apparently this is what rad-fems wish the real world was like. It's why they keep pushing for women in combat roles in the military, regardless of how every woman washes out in training. Bonus laughs for how far they have to bring standards down in training and the women still wash out in combat centric army basic and marine boot.
No matter how many times this happens, rad-fems are still demanding women Deltas, women Special Forces, and women SEALs.
>>340342702
>I cant take fantasy seriously
>>340338897
If they're well written and their character isn't just "I'm a woman" then I'm good with 'em. Basically, same rules for any character.
>>340342745
I actually haven't played an MK game since the PSOne days. I haven't bothered to pick up a newer title.
>>340342708
is roody-poo still filtered on this website?
![latest[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/TLZiIIm.jpg "latest[1].png")
>>340338897
>FemC's like Kat
Godlike. Perfectly fine. She's both cute and unique. Can't beat that.
>Faith
Terrible. Boring and ugly, only "redeemable" adjective is that she's a female. Fucking useless and unintuitive. Clearly just braindead devs that can't write an interesting character or resort to pandering to make up for lack of creativity. Please burn it.
>>340342616
Because the "I'm a girl" comes off as cheap pandering where as "I'm a guy" is just lazy writing. Both are bad. Even bad characters like lightning are at least better than "I'm a girl" characters because even tho they're shit they still have more effort put in to them
>>340338897
>tfw games with female protagonists are shit because feminism.
>tfw games with female protagonists have shit sales because feminism
>tfw feminism destroyed good games with female protagonist.
i wonder when feminist realize they are living Heart of Darkness on real life.
>>340342827
All fantasy pulls a bit from reality, it would be retarded to say that once you insert an unreal element then suddenly every real element goes out the window.
You still have to find some common ground.
>>340338897
I'm fine with them. What would be the problem?
I think the only thing people don't like is having female or gay protags shoehorned into roles for the sake of diversity.
Instead of cool new black woman hero to rival Storm, we get a black woman version of Batman or some shit. It's lame.
>>340342959
people will believe the impossible, but not the improbable
>>340342949
Comic book girls are the best girls. Rogue, Hope, Emma Frost, Spider Woman are hot as fuck.
>>340338897
I usually enjoy female protags in games created by japanese devs, they are not afraid of being feminine and sexy and I know that there is not a single drop of agenda on it.
>>340342927
nope
>>340338897
the same i feel about male protaganists
they should look cool and be good characters
The only time I'll accept "fighter" women is when the game is intentionally stylized so it's believable or she actually looks and behaves like she belongs in her role instead of being incredibly impractical in build/physical appearance (think ME1 Ashley vs ME3 Ashley). Otherwise I prefer female protags to be squishy i.e. wizards, reporters, rogues, average women who handle situations like average women could.
I never play games with female leads because I can not immerse myself into the character at all.
Elena from the Uncharted games is the single greatest, most realistic, best written female character in all of gaming. Prove me wrong.
>>340343130
There is an agenda, just not a western one
>>340339157
>If they just behave like male protags but with a grill body, it's dumb as shit
>The heroes are fighting against an unstoppable army of killer robots or some ancient eldritch god
>Bu-but anon, the female character isn't acting girly enough!!!
Retard
is there a picture without the rag??
I can only find some concept art where you can see the full face but the eyes doesn't look anything like they do here so it's not reliable.
I need to know exactly how cute she is.
>>340343205
No, play Theresia: Dear Emile.
>>340343031
Who is above bottom left?
>>340343130
what the fuck are you talking about name one game with an agenda
>>340343193
>women have minds completely unlike other humans
?
>>340338897
makes no difference to me. if theyre written well theyre good, problem is often feels like theyre shoehorned in or the writers are jerking themselves off the whole game for having a female main for the whole game
>>340343209
The agenda of making a game fun they're proud of isn't a bad one.
>>340343193
>>340343310
Yes there have been studies showing that shocker men and women think differently. To suggest otherwise is asinine
They're cute.
>>340343273
I wish my mom was an autist executioner.
it doesn't help that videogame characters are written like shit.
Since we're used to men being protagonist for a fuckton of time, we don't really notice their shit writing and we give it a pass subconsciously.
But when a female protag is introduced, people start analyzing it more and realize that they are usually shitty.
Another thing that sucks is that developers put priority in the gender instead of the quality.
>"Just because im a girl doesn't mean i CAN'T fight, you know!"
I dont understand why devs think this is a good line. Yet it just keps getting used over and over again. It's the classic "AHHH LOOK AT THIS BADASSSS GIRL" clichè shit.
>>340343130
Japanese female characters are just as awful. Every single one of them is a walking clichè, not like males are any different. Japanese games ARE a massive clichè, save for few.
>>340343443
in slight variations, not as alien mindsets to one another
![Zero-no-Tsukaima.Louise.640x960-6[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0idiH0I.jpg "Zero-no-Tsukaima.Louise.640x960-6[1].jpg")
>>340343130
>zero
good taste and one of my earliest waifusfuck i don't want to know how old this chinese cartoon is now
>>340338897
>Look at thumbnail
>2nd one on bottom, the miner chick, looks like a snowman with a creepy-as-fuck ear to ear grin in thumbnail
>>340343193
so do you only play games where the main character is a fat lazy basementdweller?
>>340343714
>no argument>also wrong
i win!
>>340339396
you cant even see her jaw though
>implying Dishonored girl isnt the cutest of all of them
>>340340303
Picture unrelated, I presume?
I thought Aqua was pretty well done, which fucking amazed me because the game was Kingdom Hearts
>RPG's with morality systems that let you make a character
>Always make a female character for my evil playthrough
I'm sure that says something about me
>>340343348
That's not it. And weeb games are trash anyway so you're wrong by default. The agenda is the opposite of what's happening elsewhere, essentially trying to reinforce current gender roles so they stay the same in the face of rising women's rights movements in Japan.It isn't working
>>340343696
Don't get so defensive
>>340343714
Butthurt retard detected.
>>340343849
Honestly considering Dishonored's art style and what women typically look like Emily is a 10/10
>>340338897
I have no issues playing as one. Even when I'm given the option between male/female protag I will go female first in most cases (ie. Tales of Xillia).
>>340340315
whats the game on the top right corner? looks like a good game.
>>340343714
Not an argument. Get thrown over the wall, idiot. MAGA.
>>340343861
So much bullshit in a single post, that has to be bait
So I was watching a streamer play the new Feminist's Edge today, here's what I immediately picked up on:
>faith's handler is a man, but she never follows orders because she's too stronk
>the irony of EA making a game about an evil huge corporation completely escapes EA
>the bad guy is an evil cis white male
>the bad guy is surrounded by competent women
>the bad guy's chief scientist is a women in white, his chief of security is a woman in white, the bad guy wears black
>in the aforementioned scene, the female chief of security wrecks a ninja male twice her size, he is armed with a blade, she is armed with her stronk bare hands
>all of the women are ethnic with very few white women
>whites are reserved for two categories: evil, or sympathetic white male feminists; no in betweens
>the token socially awkward hacker is a female PoC
>also, female software wizard...BLACK female software wizard
>all of the male feminists who associate with the main character are pussies and play everything safe
I gathered all of this and a few more things from watching 15 minutes of this ham-fisted feminist wet dream. The day that EA files for bankruptcy or is bought out by the Chi-comms, I will smile.
>>340338897
I'm indifferent to them.
They're fine, sometimes good, just as long as they have a reason for being female, just as male protagonists need a reason for being male
Obviously it doesn't need to be major, but something better than "we need more female protagonists"
Although that being said i'm in the market for a game with a reasonably well written female antagonist that gets her shit pushed in at the end
GLaDOS does not count
I'm fine with them desu, even when the game makes them one man army badasses like all the male protags taking down droves of armed men. It's just video games. I dont know why so many on /v/ got triggered by that black buff chick beating and outta shape Nathan Drake in a fight.
I dont care all that much for attractiveness unless the developer tries to make a woman with sex appeal and fails miserably (See: Most netherrealm games). Seems the japs and the polish are the only ones who know how to model nice women with sex appeal (when they want to add it).
Pic related is what needs to stop. Model a nice looking woman first, then remove clothing.
>>340343309
tits or gtfo
It's funny that people will say they "can't get into" female characters because of a different mindset, but they'll typically have no problem playing as characters from GTA, Saint's Row, Max Payne, or other games where the protagonists are disturbed. So either women are more alien to them then psychotics, or there is a severe retardation present
>>340338897
If they're a hero that happens to be female, that's fine. If the game becomes an emotional shit show because the character acts like they're on their period all the time that's when it's annoying.
>>340344061
Nier Automata
>>340344113
>>340344189
Don't get so defensive
>>340344106
can you refute anything they said
ill be you exactly 5 freedom internet dollars you can't.
love when they are mutilated or raped
>>340344113
>Feminists are now calling Bernie Sanders sexist for saying in the race and not just letting Clinton have the nomination
>>340342268
I'm the guy you're replying to. Yes, that's fine.
>>340344168
thay got better
>>340338897
If they're done well then good. If not then bad. That's all there is to it.
>>340344189
I don't think there are any non-psychotic video game characters. No well adjusted person has such a disregard for human life. That they can kill a hundred thousand dudes and still believe they're morally right.
>>340344113
>>340344189
>>340344301
It doesn't even make sense in regards of normal people.
Can a man get into the mentality of every other man on earth and understand him? No
Can a man have more things in common with a woman close to him than a random man? Yes
For roleplaying characters you should choose how you want to play, but with set characters in set stories it's literally meaningless who you play as, you're watching a story unfold.
>>340344113
all that happened in 15 minutes?
>>340344363
Yes, but there are different flavors of feminists like the different species of necrophages. While the older bull-dykes support Hillary, the younger generation who believe rape culture is a real thing know about Bill's past and how Hillary led the charge calling his victims and love interests "cheap whores."
Remember, the new age feminists all believe that if a woman claims she was raped, she absolutely, undoubtedly, 100% was, and it's misogynistic and evil to even ask questions or bother with an investigation or trial. These new young feminists are Bernvictims.
>>340344189
Or characters that are alien/nonhuman.
Why can't we have a female protagonist like Simon from SOMA?
>Fish out of water
>In deep denial about their role to play
>Ignorant about almost everything technical>Causes their own doom at the end
MRAs will deny female characters be anything other than fucktoys or objects. Modern pandering writers will make female characters without any depth than Beats People Up and Is Always Right. This is why videogame writing is mostly utter shit: an unwillingness to create characters that feel real, opting for characters that push a mindset or are too bland to stand out.
Writers want vidya to be treated as art? Push some fucking boundaries already
>>340344363
>he's not man enough to vote for a woman
Why is so much of her campaign based around her being a woman?
>>340344412
Except then they took out the sexy costumes.
There's no winning with western devs.
>>340344189
this is a strawman, also I dont care who I play as if the game is good
>>340344363
>being a bernie suppoter
Hahahahha
>>340338897
>>340338978
preety much this
>>340344287
Is he wrong though?
>>340338897
i feel like DIAMONDS
>>340340315
>>340339396
for everything whats wrong with Syndicate, you can't blame this QT3.14
>>340344905
>I don't care who I play as
>responding to the anon talking about people who state they cannot play as women
Bear in mind that anons in this very thread have stated as much, so no, it's hardly a strawman.
>>340344905
If you actually didn't care you wouldn't get so defensive. Perhaps he is talking about people like you?
>>340344939
Yes, he is wrong.
>>340338978
This.
>>340338897
Well, the camera is always behind the character, so at least one can look at their backside for the game's entirety.
As long as the female protagonist isn't the mc of a previous game that had a male mc. I always view that as just pandering to women and waifu fags and won't touch it.
>>340344189
>>340344632
I don't understand it either. You're not a part of the story, you're a spectator. I'm not a fan of the immersion argument. I get immersed all the time with female protagonists.
Of course, I'm not average, I read and watch a bunch of shoujo stuff despite being a dude.
>>340344898
that ad was fake you retard but i guess that's hard for you to figure out because you get your information from pol
jesus christ americans
>>340345079
And if the opposite happened? Would you consider that pandering and not touch it?
>>340342796
Rad-fems are morons, just like all extremists.
>>340343607
Yeah, she is the best, I totally love her tsun tsun and wish I could be her dog and occasionaly bully her.
>>340344902
no thay didn't
>>340344683
Yes, cutscene early in the game where the evil white male "Kruegger" and his head scientist and security are introduced. Shortly after, the streamer escaped the building and fled to the safe house where the black female hacker went on some Adorably Nerdy and Competent Speech™. I stomached watching him do a bit of free roaming for a few minutes where he ran through a building evading guards. He double punched a few guards to death, those that he ran around shot bullets that went through the main character in a bullet time sequence.
The political left doesn't do nuance, the radical left is even worse as evident in this abortion of a game.
>>340338897
they better be nude mod ready.
>>340345015
I dont defend strawmen regardless if it agrees with my views or not.
>>340341320
she looks like a dude from an emo band
>>340345079
Only time this has happened that I can think of is The Walking Dead. Any other examples?
I don't care at all, but some of it is incredibly forced
>>340345131
Yes I would since you're now trying to pander to the lowest common denominator.
>>340338897
i tend to not play games with a set protagonist so i dont really care more if its a woman or man
>>340338897
if they're written well then thats cool. if they are just shitty guurl powar bullshit characters then the games story probably isnt worth paying attention to anyway, so as long as the gameplay is good its fine.
>>340344928
I would prefer good looking characters sure but I would also like them written well.
The reboot Lara whines half the time and the other half she has an asthma attack while spewing, " I need to (insert action here)"
I don't know about Emily in Dishonored 2 yet but at least she may have some fucking personality outside of an Electra complex from hell.
Actually I think that is the problem when most American and Western European devs try to make female protagonists, they focus on appearance and give them all an Electra Complex as a lazy fucking shorthand now a days.
>>340344898
Because that's all she has to bank on. She's corrupt, unintelligent, and an ineffectual leader at best. Most people see and realize this so she and the rest of her Democratic supporters are pushing hard on the "elect the first female president!" schtick to try and counter all that, which above all else will probably win most liberals over because blindly trying to force "equality" is like catnip to them. Can't let Bernie, an old white CIS man, get the vote despite being a much better candidate in every way.
>>340345378
>forced
Translation: It doesn't pander to me
>>340345196
>that
>sexy
Literally all MK9 girls had hotter/sexier costumes.
Where's the meleena bandage costume at?
>>340345242
>"Kruegger"
>german surname meaning building-keeper
>keeps a building housing a corporation
Another thing I wish would die: predictable naming conventions. I swear to fucking christ if I see one more mysterious person/thing named Pandora...
I want to fuck them, and I like to imagine how sweaty and smelly their feet and armpits are getting while running around.
I love them.
>>340345324
Final Fantasy X-2
Castlevania order of Ecclesia
>>340342708
my only issue is the generic tribal tattoos, other than that, actually looks good.
>>340345467
stay mad fool
>>340338897
i don't mind as long as i can make a whore out of her
>>340344960
You can because her entire existance is centered around a certain loud minority of political activists making a fuss about there not being a playable female Assassin, thus causing them to split the abilities of one character into two.
Also you notice how they changed that little disclaimer at the beginning of the game?
>>340345017
Elaborate for me please, I have no interest in playing the game but I would like to be informed if the need arises to discuss it.
>>340345642
>You can because her entire existance is centered around a certain loud minority of political activists making a fuss about there not being a playable female Assassin, thus causing them to split the abilities of one character into two.
Yeah but who's fault is that: the fans for demanding things, or Ubisoft for implementing them?
For all the hubbub surrounding Tracer's ass pose, the biggest issue is that Blizzard kowtowed to ONE PERSON and their reddit shitpost
Fans will ask all kinds of dumb shit from developers, but only the bad ones will take it so far
>>340345627
This
>>340338897
I honestly do not give a fuck. As long as they are written well, and frankly, nice-looking.
I can't take the how the west draws their females. If they have that big of a jaw just make them men then. It's always the goddamn jaw line for them.
![latest[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ijnGdfD.jpg "latest[1].jpg")
We need more old hags desu
>>340345552
>this is the state of "sexy women" in western fighting games
Enjoy your scraps. Just remember that when twitter or tumblr bitches enough westen devs are the first to buckle under pressure.
>>340343253
kek u funny xD
>>340345516
I blame comic book fags for the whole "predictable naming" thing as you call it. I never got into comic books because I felt like I was being spoken down to like a retard by the writers; it wasn't until I was older that I realized the writers for comics are just socially crippled retards to begin with.
>hurr da backstory is that dr. william glaciertooth is hit by a radioactive snowstorm and becomes a villain who shoots ice from his hands, dr. icekill!
>>340345862
>>340345627
>>340338897
I don't mind them if they aren't trying to push some sort of SJW agenda
aka any female protagonist from a Japanese game
>>340345740
>spoonfeed me so I can shitpost
>>340338978
Nah, fuck cute things. Protags have to be badass no matter the gender.
>>340338897
keep em cute and coming.
>>340345465
If you say so
>>340345923
are you pretending to be stupid
