*gasp* New Nintendo IP in the works?
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DonnyBaker
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I did not know that Nintendo was going to get into the "Internet Provider" market? Hopefully they have a fast cable modem instead of using an old 56k modem like they do with their game system.
They need another chick., Samus isn't enough.
Make a cool chick character who has to rescue a guy, give little girls something to get them into gaming, while make it interesting enough for guys to play.
Make a cool chick character who has to rescue a guy, give little girls something to get them into gaming, while make it interesting enough for guys to play.
They sort of had that with Perfect Dark. And then they let Rare run away with it
No gun though, Samus has guns, they need to make a chick epic platformer.
what about wii - X... wii sports, wii sports resort, wii music? is that it for "Wii-X" games that use the mii's? maybe it's time for the evil wii's to show up, the Wa-wii's
The reason more girls don't play games is not because the character on screen is often male. That is the kind of reasoning a game company executive would make just before releasing a pile of shit.
In my experience, women like puzzle games, music games, anything interactive they can play with friends like party games, and they like some of the more broad platformer games like Mario and Banjo, etc. The don't like ultra-violent, and they don't like super-complicated, they like stuff that's easy to pick up and just play without a lot of instruction. Most women look at games as an occasional diversion, not a hobby to put hours a day into. Think of all the "girlfriend hates that G-D videogame" stories and tell me the average girl would ever place a game of Halo above hanging out or talking with friends. My wife will sit and play a puzzle game or Mario on her DS all afternoon, but she doesn't last 5 minutes when I try to get her to play some Halo or MW with me. She scratches her head over stuff like RTS games.
Now, is this a lot of perception and social engineering? Of course it, however putting boobs and long hair on those pixels isn't going to make women give a shit any more than they would other wise.
And before someone says it: no, I don't mean all women, don't be stupid. And no, the geeky girl on G4 is not representative of the majority of females either.
^Geeky guys aren't generally representative of the majority of men either, but those games still sell a fuckload.
It's not for a cheap pander. That's not the type of girl character I'm talking about.
It's just to make things less of a boys only type thing. Microsoft realized this, and so now you're getting more female characters in both Halo Reach and Gears of War 3.
The goal isn't to get more girls into gaming so much as it's to lesson the any kind of "No Girls Allowed" clubhouse feeling.
All the big "epic platformers" are male
Mario & Luigi
Donkey Kong
Kirby
Link
Kid Icarus
"Epic Mickey"
And for the most part, none of those games are overtly Masculine. They're pretty gender neutral in plot and premise. So why no gender neutral platformer with a female character?
It worked for Lara Croft before they let that franchise go to shit.
The only one I remember being cancelled is Project H.A.M.M.E.R.
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There's always Jody Summer:
My ride of choice, incidentally.
Bring back Dixie Kong and her helicopter ponytail!
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Probably not. Of course, both of those characters are basically male fantasies.
Your point that you can't just plop a female protagonist in place of a male one and have the game become 'girl friendly' or whatever - if that's even a desirable goal - is well taken. And certainly, for the most part, male characters in games don't fare much better than their female counterparts. What I don't understand is the latent hostility some folks seem to have towards the idea of female NPCs who aren't just there for eye candy. It's not like anyone is talking about making Master Chief a chick or anything.
A couple random observations:
Dixie Kong is more interesting than Diddy Kong as a partner for Donkey Kong by mere virtue of her hair introducing a unique gameplay mechanic.
One franchise which is kinda schizophrenic in the audience it attracts are the Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball games: horny teenage males for the presentation, and prepubescent girls for the game itself.
I don't recall it ever being indicated one way or the other? Certainly it's entirely irrelevant.
In Portal 2 you play a robot. At least in the cooperative campaign.
^Yep the character in Portal is a woman, you see her when you exit the first chamber, and any time you open two portals so you can look through and see yourself. And in the single player of Portal 2 it appears you play Chell (the character from the first) again.
There was also a dister game and maybe something else.
My point was Nintendo is like "The Wii will be so different!" and then they canceled the new IPs to mainly make shit sequels.
^Day of Disaster came out, I have it right in front of me.
