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The Male Stereotype in Video Games

Skye on TGC writes: Females have always been a smoking subject discussion of character portrayal, especially amongst the male gamers. Although most women still disagree with their stereotypical depiction, there are also men who are unhappy about their male counterparts. While it is true that the hyper-sexualised female gains extensive votes from the gaming industries majority (which still happens to be men) for their appearance, a lot of attributes of the stereotypical male suit the story being told. No matter what the plot content may be, most video games revolve around a threatning disaster where a strong soldier is required to save the day.

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jc485734280d ago

This wouldn't happen if gamers were more mature. Half of gamers don't really care about stories or character development. They only play play play.

an0nym0us4280d ago

There's really not that much character concepts that are "marketable" from the majority's "EGO". So we gotta suffer, with played out characters who were developed by anti-social people.

These generic character designs, are nothing more then easy buttons from developers. The problem is when they try and pass it off as serious designs.

Amazingmrbrock4280d ago (Edited 4280d ago )

I just like to think gaming is still in the jason and the argonauts period of writing. Which if you don't know about it is the ancient greek story about the guy and his crew who go questing for the golden fleece. They battle a bunch of monsters and get kicked around by gods before jason triumphs in the end.

As stories go though it's pretty light on characterization. Which is to be expected with something written in 3000 bc give or take a few hundred years.

So yes I'm saying gaming is about 5000 years behind novels on a general story telling level. Though it seems to be advancing quickly since it has all the great works of art to look up to.

Lord_Sloth4280d ago (Edited 4280d ago )

It doesn't really help that when a character shows any level of vulnerability (Raiden of MGS2) they get crucified by the masses for not bench pressing trucks and for not chewing cigars.

It really limits the types of "characters" we're allowed to see in the media.

As it stands we have smart asses, and hard asses. Nothing else.

Amazingmrbrock4280d ago

Back when it came out I played through mgs2 and didn't have a problem with it. I was actually quite surprised when the hd versions were announced and everyone was complaining about raiden. I theoretically understand the point the complainers make but in realistic terms they just come across as having low self esteem.

Real men don't whinge about anything. Everyone stop whinging about all the things. ;)

goldwyncq4280d ago

The only legitimate reason I see why people hated Raiden was him replacing Snake. I actually liked him more before he became that emotionless, cyborg ninja in MGS4.

ThanatosDMC4280d ago (Edited 4280d ago )

Male hero has to be bald or almost bald. Lots of games with barely any hair heroes or has a scar or tattoo.

Why cant they be like CJ or my green tranny character from Saints Row the Third?

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2625d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905069d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5069d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905069d ago (Edited 5069d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5069d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5069d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5069d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495069d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5069d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5069d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2660d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One