Tango Bango

"Why present players with yet another heterosexual, white, cis male character out on a mission to rescue his love interest/take revenge/clear his name/save the world? We’ve seen that before. I’d like to see game companies innovate in the area of characters and story, and specifically telling the stories of protagonists that have rarely been told, or have not been told at all."

"Many female video game characters are, unfortunately, designed primarily to be aesthetically pleasing to the straight male primary audience (and in many cases, the straight male game designers and artists). Far too many games have the problem of “Wait? That’s meant to be armour? I thought it was lingerie!” for their female characters. Male characters get tough leather or iron armour whereas female characters wind up in a skimpy piece of cloth that wouldn’t keep you from catching a death of cold, let alone serve as protection against incoming arrows or fireballs. This leads to a lot of male players creating female characters for no reason other than to ogle their pixelated behinds. I’ve even seen guides to in-game trading that explicitly recommend that the player creates a female character to get extra trade, and that they should pretend to be female and helpless to make other players ore willing to trade with them. The author of this particular document didn’t seem to realise either that some of the players might actually be female or the females are not generally helpless and pathetic."