Weekend Confirmed Episode 20


Weekend Confirmed Ep. 20 - 08/06/2010

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  • My thoughts on the "female lead" issue:

    1) I'm a huge fan of "strong and not-super-sexualized" female lead in fiction.... this is strongest for me in books and movies, but also applies to games.

    2) I agree with Brian that most lead characters in games are so thin, it hardly matters... what he didn't say, was that this is very much on purpose in most cases. Think of how many RPGs start you out with some kind of amnesia.... the point is that if the lead is really going to be "you" the game cannot tell you who you are... that's for you to determine via game play.

    3) But the issue is complicated, because some games do allow you to play more fleshed-out characters. Heavy Rain, for example, allows you to play a weak male character, a strong female character, a hard boiled male character, and others. These characters were richer, but note that being male or female wasn't an issue. They were just characters.

    4) Ultimately, the whole women's movement thing is still confusing simple issues, in my opinion. I suggest seeing people as people and also allowing people to be sexual and sexy: both male and female. Humans are sexual creatures, and there has never been anything wrong with that.

    For me, the issue of talking about gender is similar to the "race" issue: some things get to the point that talking about them does more harm than not talking about them. The reason is that true equality means realizing that pointing differences out is part of what stops the issue from being equal, and simply allowing people to what they are.

    The essence of any person will always be much more important than their skin, genitals, or other surface issues.

    Any well written characters will be interesting, and the sex is irrelevant. Which is essentially what Brian was implying.