lol… I like heels as much as the next girl… but, lets see the dudes wearing them running around or even better make the guys who make the game wear heels the entire time they’re making the game. Make them promote the game in high heels so they can feel how stupid it looks.

While were at it someone fire the artist on sacred 2 please.

While I don’t 100% agree with everything and have my own ideas and theories, you present your points with well formed evidence. A good read.

Anything worth doing is worth doing in heels? ;)

“It’s not any less corny when dudes up againts endless hoards displaying there abs as armor like in the movie 300,”

Pretty much – two sides of the same coin…or at least two coins of the same currency!

I am sick of unplayable female characters in rpgs. Who the hell runs around in 6″ stilettos saving the world anyway? It’s not any less corny when dudes up againts endless hoards displaying there abs as armor like in the movie 300, Why can’t chicks have armor that covers them eh? plus I fel old whe my avatar chick is half naked.

I am also tired of the big flopping booby physics and cheap marketing tactics with more substance then the actual game.

I’d like too see games mature a bit for my own sake. I think bioware is doing that a bit.

I’ve resigned myself a bit that I’m going to be running around in stiletto’s with big boobs or a unisex teenager questioning my sexuality. fun, fun.

The first few paragraphs of my post are about how the newly classified “female gamer” isn’t a gamer (yet?), and doesn’t really bulk up the current girl gaming community.

I then talk about how we girl gamers, by and large, like the games that many people outside our community consider to be “for boys only”.

Then I mention how men are just as idealized as women, but their idealizations – while physical – are not overtly sexual and that is what separates them as role models.

And finally, I say that women gamers are already welcomed into the community.

I’ll refer again to the summary I offer in paragraph one: Women aren’t in a constant state of taking offense at breast physics, we just know they’re not for us.

But again, your argument is that developers are pandering – which was what I said about those games to begin with. So really, we agree. ;) Marketing often leads to pandering, and pretty boobies are wholly marketable!

What you need to accept is when it comes to HD consoles,male gamers purchase more games than female gamers.So it’s not like developers don’t WANT to make the female character in games respectable in both appearance and dialogue,it’s just that when they actually do make the female character with breasts that aren’t the size of Mini-Coopers,well…let’s just say it leads to threads such as this one http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=killzone2&thread.id=301634

It’s called a Ps3,get one and you’ll notice the majority of the ‘high profile’ games on the platform have ‘universal’ appeal.

MGS4,Uncharted,LittleBigPlanet,Ratchet&Clank,you name it.