What if Manhunt 3 had a female lead?

What do you think? Is this a direction you’d be happy with or are you already sharpening that pitchfork and creating online petitions?

[DedicatedDark]

lol. That would be funny as hell.

[Nitrowolf2]

What’s up with these “what if a game had the opposite gender role” article recently?

[Eonjay]

They are meant to be triggers for people who think they should be offended by women. The thing is no one is suggesting switching anything really but there is money to be made through clickbait.

At least switch it up make Lara Croft a dude, oh wait we have Nathan Drake.

What female protagonist/antagonist would be interesting as a man?

[ginganinja]

when someone says 'what if..' to something, it makes someone else think, hey, 'yeah, but hey, what if...' to something else.
Just folks using their imagination to let us see things we didn't know we wanted to see.

[Eonjay]

Serious Samantha? A female Sephiroth with the one wing would probably be dope. Bowsette of course.
Any more?

[PoSTedUP]

what if? i mean, it would be weird to me. in my mind women arent as well known for their dark gritty brutal killings as much as mens. so it would be less believable to switch it up now. if they make a completely new game with a women who did this stuff then thats ok. but let the men play their manhunt game as a man which is what they have always done.

[sampsonon]

@Eonjay:

what's funny are the dislikes lol.
people are so stupid. and i have little faith in humanities future because of it.

[Livingthedream]

click bait. that's all it is.

[neutralgamer1992]

This industry is going at full force towards SJW agendas

[rainslacker]

I think they'd be liable for copyright infringement, because I believe there is probably several porn movies with that name.

[isarai]

I would be indifferent, main thing that matters is, is she going to be an interesting character

[roadkillers]

You say indifferent, but there's a reason why I play Nathan Drake over Laura, picked Leon over Claire, and my favorite fighting characters are dudes. As a dude, they are generally more relatable. Plus I can't help, but end up staring at Laura's assets as she's going through a cave.

[ginganinja]

LARA!

[isarai]

That's your problem not mine, Saints row 2 i tried making a woman character just for sh*ts and giggles. found it to be quite a refreshing experience as i usually, like you, always played as guys. Ever since i dabble in making female characters every now and then, and enjoy games with a nicely crafted female lead cause it's just a nice change of pace. i also don't have the issue of getting lost looking at their "assets", not shaming or anything like that(nothing wrong with being attracted to the human form), just not something that happens to me when playing games. I acknowledge the "assets" are in fact there and in fantastic shape(talking to you Chloe Fraszer's bedonk), but i can get past that just fine and just enjoy the game.

[Eonjay]

You know it just occurred to me that Claire Farron (Lightning) was basically a female version of Cloud as she was certainly more masculine than just about everyone in FF13. I liked playing with her as much as Sarah in Part 2 who is the most feminine person in the game outside of Vinille.

I never put that much stock into the sex of the characters because I was more Interested in whether or not they had the ability to whip ass.

I would have a problem if a developer gave me a female that was too weak on principle or their sex.

[Cmv38]

I don't choose nathan of Laura because of gender. Uncharted is a better game. As far as modern games. But tomb raider 1 and 2 were amazing.

[sampsonon]

"You say indifferent, but there's a reason why I play Nathan Drake over Laura, picked Leon over Claire, and my favorite fighting characters are dudes"

because you like men and you are gay? nothing wrong with that but you should at least come out of the closet if you haven't already.

[PoSTedUP]

i liked clair over leon. drake over laura. favorite fighting characters are dudes though (baraka, kabal, king) i like a lot of the female characters though and pick the female characters in street fighter more than the men. picked a female in saints row4 because you could make her nakie ;). i wouldnt pick a female in a military shooter though. but i play as the jamaican medic chick in apex legends. if i had to choose i would switch her to a guy because thats what i am, unless the guy version was douche like mirage.

[Realms]

Some people are seriously disturbed I have zero problems playing a female character if that is the protagonist, I must admit that when given the option to create my own character it's often a male. I don't get the correlation between playing a game and not finding enjoyment simply because it's a female role. Samus revelation in Metroid was epic, Lara Croft is an icon, and now Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn have been great leads IMO when they are done correctly and not forced or shoehorn in they work just as any other character and above else the game has to be fun otherwise it doesn't matter who the lead is if the game sucks.

[FallenAngel1984]

What if Rockstar still made multiple games like they used to

[winter_hill]

IKR. Next gen we'll probably only get one new game from them and it will be GTA 6. And it will come out towards the end of next gen (after the remaster of RDR2).

[pinkfloyd1965]

Bully 2 you nub nut

[Movefasta1993]

I want a next gen midnight club so bad, if anyone can make a good street racer it’s them since ea have forgotten how to . La was amazing

[Gatsu]

That's the same with many developers these days... It takes a long time to create a game.

[EazyC]

Weird that. What happened to Bully, Midnight Club and the ever-elusive Agent? They have multiple studios, I don't see why the change

[King_Noctis]

There was an interview from awhile back stating that Rockstar planned to release at least one new game per year. So who knows, maybe they will make good of that promise someday.

[rainslacker]

What if, people stopped asking what if?

[TheColbertinator]

Doesn't matter who they put because Manhunt is a game to get your snuff needs dished out.

Who knew it was so satisfying to execute people with glass shards and plastic bags in a video game?

[PhantomS42]

Then it would be about my ex perhaps?

I couldn't imagine them trying to make a Manhunt 3. The backlash from news outlets and non-video game people was really high for the first two games and the internet was not even remotely as big or accessible as it is today plus with how easily offended the world is right now I just don't see it ever seeing the light of day.

[DaveZero]

Was not just people being easily offended though real life murders happened, one of them being in Britain. The two friends were playing manhunt and the one was obsessed with it, he lured his friend to some woods and killed him with a claw hammer. He had been fantasizing about acting it out and manhunt took the blame. For the first time you could really undoubtedly say a video game was the cause of a child being violent to a point it caused death.

There was so much happening around manhunt that this third game is going to bring trouble before it's released. It certainly needs tighter control so kids can't get hold of it because if proofed to be addictive, too damn addictive.

[JBryant0619]

Where was his parents?

[PhantomS42]

How old was he? Where were his parents? And how is having a mental illness that was never addressed the games fault? It has nothing to do with the game. It sounds like he had psycho/sociopathic tendencies way before Manhunt was released. Granted you do have a point about kids not getting it but out can't make ignorant parents suddenly be proactive in what media their kids are consuming, to them they are perfect parents and anything the child does wrong is automatically someone else's fault and video games are an easy scapegoat.

[PoSTedUP]

when i go into gamestop, i get ID'd every single time i buy a violent game, im 29. its the parents fault if little jimmy is playing violent games. i played them since i could remember, the only reason i was probably allowed to play them because i grew up in a very un-sober and insane environment. i was drinking heavy at an alarmingly young age. i had therapists when i was in elementary school that i would see regularly. my only problem was i was lazy and hated my teachers. there was really nothing wrong with me mentally, besides a few minor ticks. but if there was and it went unnoticed and i did something bad, its the Games fault? not my parents? not the therapists? not the school? not the relatives? not my own? thats a pretty bold claim.

[DarXyde]

They probably weren't old enough to be playing Manhunt, so there's that. Also the risk of mental health concerns and how they were able to get access to the game.

But I'm not going to blame them completely. I think, as gamers, we want to believe wholeheartedly that our hobby doesn't cause violent behavior. VR is adding another layer to the conversation entirely. It makes me think of gun control a bit: the research isn't there yet (thanks, CDC!), those who indulge tend to be the biggest apologists, and those making the argument that the problem is mental illness still can't seem to deny that the behavior is caused by violent games/ guns and still don't seem to care enough to actually address the issue of mental illness itself.

It's easy to say, "it's mental illness", but what are people doing to address mental illness?

I realize this happened in Britain, but the stigma of mental health is quite global in scale.

[Dark_Overlord]

Now now, don't spread misinformation, Manhunt had nothing to do with the Murder (despite what the media kept shovelling out). The reason was robbery.

https://www.gamesindustry.b...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/...

;)

[Realms]

This is dumb AF a game isn't going to make you do anything, nor will movies, books or even the internet. If you have thoughts of murdering someone they are rooted in a much deeper impulse that is formed in early childhood and in your family influences. Ted Bundy got away with murder for decades because people couldn't imagine that a charming, good manner and handsome man could possibly do the heinous acts he was found guilty of. The BTK killer was also a pillar of his community, my point is that sociopaths and murders don't care about murdering someone because they can't empathize with someone else's feelings of pain because they can't feel remorse. A normal person will think twice about his actions because they have a conscious that prevents them from committing these kinds of acts. A gun can't kill anyone it's an inanimate object until it's in the hands of a human then it becomes deadly.

[Bane35]

Dont matter because R* is not going to make another manhunt game not in this pc world we live in now

[DaveZero]

Yes they will and it's because a game like manhunt can cause that big controversy that no other game out there could, for that reason alone makes it an instant hit and must buy.

[Bane35]

Yeah we'll just have to see wont we

[NotanotherReboot]

What's with all these hypothetical " What if girl" articles?

[thejigisup]

No clue, but im tired of seeing them. These types of pieces should be in forums on Reddit or some other forum, maybe discord. If there were actual clues leading to there being a possibility then I could understand but this just isn't it. Let's say Yohei Shimbori tweeted that he considered getting equally skimpy outfits for the men in doa then a 'what if doa had skimpy outfits for men' article would make sense but he didnt, so there isn't. Manhunt isn't about gender or gender bias so I don't feel the need to care about whether it's a man or a woman. If the story is good, the game controls are tight, bug free, and the gameplay is entertaining then great I'll probably buy it.
Tldr
The next manhunt game protagonist should be a 6'8” 230lb of raw muscle transgender man that gets different finishers depending on what shoes he's wearing and modifiers depending on what purse, backpack or handbag accessory he is using as well.

[doritos]

I guess it depends on whether the character is going to crap on me being a white man.

[Shinox]

This game belong in the dark web of games , it doesn't belong in the public side of gaming.

[Hungryalpaca]

Go play my little pony.

[Smokehouse]

There would be no pitchforks because it would be a woman killing men. Nobody would care. You would probably write an article about how empowering and progressive it is. Where as if the game were vice versa then these same websites would probably be having a stroke. That's my take on the "what if". Gender would not matter to most, just the gender studies majors turned bloggers.

[WeAreLegion]

Sure. Whatever. Just make it.

[Shikoku]

What if prince's peach was really MTF transgender?????? Why the hell are people writing this crap

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Because currently the fade is that being female (or even thinking you are female) makes you special.

[EddieNX]

It would be called Girlhunt.

[Kavorklestein]

If manhunt had a female character then the only difference is the character would be female instead of male.
This article asks a pointless question and it is stupid.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

How can manhunt have a female lead? I thought only men perpetuate the worlds evil not women... /s Incase it’s needed

[MasterCornholio]

So a crazy feminist that hunts down men?

LOL

[SinisterKieran]

What if I cared?

[CobraKai]

Only if you can use her sexual wiles to get out of situations.

[antikbaka]

what of manhunt 3 was actually a japanese date simulator of snowlakes while they are falling down

[goldwyncq]

Feminazis would drool over it.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Is this what we're gonna do now? What if this character was female? What if that one over there was female? What if Super Mario was an amphibian?

[Asuka]

So?

[ocelot07]

I think these websites are taking a break from cross play news to "what if a female...." Pieces.

[Kavorklestein]

Seriously I agree haha.
"Journalism"

[Tross]

Rockstar and female leads don't exactly seem to mix well. They're probably the least progressive studio there is. Not going to happen, and if it does the world will end due to the Earth being thrown off its axis. Go back to playing Darksiders 3 if you want a franchise game with a number 3 in its title that switched to a female protagonist, and stop writing articles like this; they're getting old.

[Fist4achin]

How about instead of worrying what gender to put in a game, lets first make a great game idea and then fill in the cracks?!

[GameBoyColor]

Dont matter. She'll be a crazy killer, let's see how the media reacts to that lol

[Profchaos]

It wouldn't matter because with the massive improvement in graphics the game will never see the light of day.
Manhunt 2 didn't see the light of day in so many countries and it was even censored in the US the last place it would be.

The core game was actually very good for it's time and had better stealth mechanisms than most other titles of it's time but stealth doesn't sell well today

As for the lead as long as it works from a narrative perspective I would think care

[jwillj2k4]

Just make a good game and no one will care about the characters gender.

[DrShoe]

There's been a lot of these dumb articles lately. What if you just stopped penning them, game journos?

[BadElf]

Stop clicking on these types of pointless articles

[Hungryalpaca]

It depends how it’s handles. If it’s some scrawny 5 foot 2 blond cheerleader girl sniffing out 7 foot bodybuilders no one is going to buy that.

In the end.

No one really cares.

[sampsonon]

enough is enough with these clit bait articles man.

Come on guys, don't be so stupid. this is the 2nd "What if it was a woman" articles this week.
don't support this practice because it's just used to make money off of the weak minded. at least save your hatred of women for a real story.

god people can't be this stupid.

[ginganinja]

But I, and eveyone else, have to click on the articles and comment otherwise how will everyone know not to click on the article. I mean, if no-one clicked on the article then it wouldn't receive any heat and no-one would see it, and they wouldn't know they shouldn't be clicking on it.. and that's how 'they' win. It's madness, I tell you..

[sampsonon]

it's just a sad state of affairs.

[AK91]

If it did the SJWs would REEEEEEE incredibly hard at why a strong independent whamen would do such horrid things, I’m not even kidding they are only happy when female characters are perfect Mary Sue’s with no character flaws.

[nucky64]

i think a female lead in the hitman series would make more sense than manhunt.

[Handys17]

What if Tomb Raider had a Male lead?

[The7Reaper]

Couldn't suck as bad as Manhunt 2 but either way there's pretty much a 99% chance Manhunt 3 will never happen, not in this world that is offended at the drop of a pen.

[PiNkFaIrYbOi]

Doubt the game will ever be made they don't seem to care about any of their franchises besides GTA and Read Dead really anymore.

[GameStallion]

Palm smashes forehead.

[senorfartcushion]

Then you'd annoy the other side of the audience I e. Little boys and virgin types.

It'll be Ghostbusters 2016 in game form.

[moomoo319]

Get these bullshit articles out of here

[RDOUBLE]

Then wouldn’t it be WomanHunt

[GortJester]

Who cares, as long as the game is awesome...

[THRASHMOUTH]

I wouldn't care, as long as I get a Manhunt 3. I'd just hope she fills the role, but RStar is pretty good with character design.

[Samus707]

This same article was written about God of War a week ago.

[psuedo]

We have female bowser and everyone wants to bang her.

[DreadGara]

What if Terry Bogard was a girl in a fighting game?
Oh shoot, he already became one in SNK heroines...
Better avoid calling him sir guys....or else..

[Realms]

What if? Insert buzz trigger word. These fools need get more creative with their click bait articles. Nobody cares about the gender of characters only those that purposefully antagonize the opposite to get reactions.

[Cmoney007]

Time to add some questions:

What if we actually got a Star Wars game that the fans deserve?
What if EA never bought Bioware?
What if many people were not obsessed with graphics?
What if certain games didn't have agendas?
What if RS finally brought RDR to PC?

[cyber_daemonx]

What would happen if they called it womanhunt. Outrage lol.

[william_cade]

Then it would be called woman hunt or manhunt, but it would be a women killing.

[mgszelda1]

Make the main character as woke as possible and probably they will be able to make it hyper violent.

[Flewid638]

Eli from TLOU is clearly going to be the lead in the sequel and she's just out there sneakin up on dudes and violently slitting throats.

No issue.

[AdmGenAladeen]

I don't give a s*it who it is, just give me the game already. In the meantime though I'll take a remake of part 1.

[AngelicToucH]

Christ sake...another SJW article.

[Juiceid]

I don’t care if it was big bird. I want gratuitous violence. I want to sit back and say, I can’t believe they put THAT in there.

[lazyboyblue]

If it was led by Rupaul and all customisation involved tutus, unicorns and rainbows Id still buy it and be grateful. Its manhunt.

[LucidIllusion]

Oh god *shotgun to the face*