Gender of the Lead Character

[Purple]

Well I just remembered my male friends being put off by FFX-2 because they didn't like the idea of playing as a girl.

That's why I started this poll

 

[Masamune]

It doesn't make any difference to me. It's all about the content. FFX-2 sucked because it was a lolanimu story, not because the lead was a chick.

 

[Sarcasm Orgasm]

I just naturally always preferred women characters, period. Something about their grace and agility. Heavenly Sword may have had mediocre reviews, but I loved it, and the lead was fucking awesome.

Then there's Tenchu. Ayame is overwhelmingly much cooler than Rikimaru.

Hell, I'm a guy. Of course I'm gonna prefer to USE women.

FFX-2 was a poor excuse to use female leads anyway. It's not the best example by a mile.

 

[Bonaventura]

Doesn't matter for me. Most games I played with female leads were adventure games, because they tend to have more mad MacGyver skillz.

 

[Alex]

What's the difference?

 

[Cthulhu]

First-person, I don't care. Third person, I prefer women - after all, you're the one that has to look at ass all the time, .

 

[kunoichi]

[quote author=Masamune link=topic=642.msg27447#msg27447 date=1236264120] It doesn't make any difference to me. It's all about the content. FFX-2 sucked because it was a lolanimu story, not because the lead was a chick. [/quote]
^ This. I don't give a damn as long as I enjoy the game for what it's worth.

 

[tangerine]

I don't prefer one over the other, but the best character ever is female. Samus.

 

[ForceStealer]

Makes no difference to me. And yeah, I thought more people were turned off of FFX-2 by the super girl-power charlie's angels stuff than the fact that the lead was female.

 

[Strangelove]

I don't know, I remember seeing a lot of "I can't play as a girl, how I am supposed to relate to that?"

 

[Max Payne]

Eh, it doesn't really matter. I enjoy playing as both.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

Dudes, because I can better relate to them.

 

[Channy]

Chicks. But chicks tend to run in a very annoying way. :/

 

[Super Mario]

Chicks who can kick actual ass and not animu BS.

 

[looneymoon]

I find that most of the games I own have dude leads, but I don't really care either way so long the game is good.

Though, the image of a kick-ass female lead sounds so much more appealing than kick-ass male lead. I guess that's due in part to the fact that I more often play as the male rather than the female. So... eh, kinda contradicting myself but whatever

 

[VincentReborn]

Doesn't really matter to me, so long as the game has a good story and is fun to play, i never really cared much for what gender i am playing as. I can relate to either male, or female characters, as long as the game itself is well thought out.

 

[ForceStealer]

[quote author=hitoshura link=topic=642.msg28054#msg28054 date=1236395322]
I don't know, I remember seeing a lot of "I can't play as a girl, how I am supposed to relate to that?"
[/quote]

I spent most of my time in FF6 walking around as Celes. And in Xenosaga, surprise surprise, KOS-MOS (largely because she had the coolest map-item-destruction moves).

 

[Cthulhu]

I find that most of the games have dude leads,

fixxed, it's not like there's a lot of choice, . I can only think of 5 titles with a female lead: FFX-2, FFVI / XII (but they both count only for half since both don't have a defined main character), Tomb Raider, those Samus games, and the upcoming XIII.

 

[Super Mario]

I spent most the time I could as Lilika in rogue galaxy, but only when she was very important to the team, and mainly because she's got a very awesome costume other than that, Deego or Steve or just Jaster.

 

[tangerine]

[quote author=Cthulhu link=topic=642.msg28110#msg28110 date=1236418863]

I find that most of the games have dude leads,

fixxed, it's not like there's a lot of choice, . I can only think of 5 titles with a female lead: FFX-2, FFVI / XII (but they both count only for half since both don't have a defined main character), Tomb Raider, those Samus games, and the upcoming XIII.
[/quote]
I thought that Terra being the main character in 6 was obvious.

 

[Cthulhu]

Only in that it was the one that one begins with in the game and who is a large factor in the main story - the other characters however take more of a leading role in the game, and each have their own storyline, which are given a lot more time than the characters in most post-XI games. XII's supposed main character (Vaan) played, relatively to the other characters in the story, a very small role, hence why I count that under the same category (albeit roughly).

 

[Max Payne]

I lol @the relating to the characters bit. I've never been able to relate to 3d characters who can fly and cut buildings in half and shit.

 

[Tennyo]

All that matters to me is that I have fun and that the lead doesn't annoy the crap out of me.

 

[Super Mario]

Well as long as they have good character development and such, they can cut buildings with pyrotechnics in the distance with a guitar solo for all I care.

 

[tangerine]

A crumbling city due to a deafening guitar solo in the heart of the rustling streets... "My mother died."

Yar, lame.