08-05-2013, 01:53 PM
You are make the point I was (most likely failing at) trying to say. When we talk about a character, the sex is what most of us drive on. The female has to be the love interest, beautiful, and/or helpless, unless next to the hero. The male has a whole verity of things he can be. He can be handsome or ugly, smart or dumb, ect. Females rarely have a large chose of being less than beautiful. Name three woman that are average to ugly that are the hero (Mileena doesn't count).
It's not about looks either, it about how the character acts. Take Duke Nukem for example. You brought up Duke being a dick, but I bring up that the Twins really deserved it. They are just there for sex jokes and being sexy with no character to them. And yet we are suppose to feel bad when they die? I don't know about you, but I cheered when they died. As for Samus, she is only a good character when she does not talk, according to everybody ever. I say shut up and let a female tell us why she's sad and not have us look at her like a bitch in a space suit. I find the best of her stories are fusion, Super, and another one that I can't think of at the moment, since there are at lest three games that show us interacting with other things to show off her personality (has had a friend once, has a mothering nature to her, and works well in a team). With games like the original game and prime, she looks like a one (wo)man army that cares very little about anything. I know it's a take on aliens, but Ripley at lest had people to work on for most of them movie to show us who she was. Most gamers like her because of the zero suit anyway.
It's not about looks either, it about how the character acts. Take Duke Nukem for example. You brought up Duke being a dick, but I bring up that the Twins really deserved it. They are just there for sex jokes and being sexy with no character to them. And yet we are suppose to feel bad when they die? I don't know about you, but I cheered when they died. As for Samus, she is only a good character when she does not talk, according to everybody ever. I say shut up and let a female tell us why she's sad and not have us look at her like a bitch in a space suit. I find the best of her stories are fusion, Super, and another one that I can't think of at the moment, since there are at lest three games that show us interacting with other things to show off her personality (has had a friend once, has a mothering nature to her, and works well in a team). With games like the original game and prime, she looks like a one (wo)man army that cares very little about anything. I know it's a take on aliens, but Ripley at lest had people to work on for most of them movie to show us who she was. Most gamers like her because of the zero suit anyway.