Kaito-kun wrote:The only three female leads that really jump to my mind would be old Lara Croft, Samus Aran and Chell from Portal.
When you think about it, the original Portal doesn't feature any male characters at all which I think's pretty interesting. (Unless you count Rattman)
Makes you realised how male dominated this industry is. It's a shame; I sometimes prefer playing as female characters.
Chell and Samus are pretty much non-characters and could be any gender really. Though I'd say they're a lot better than characters like Bayonetta and Juliet Starling.
Of course, what made me bring it up in the first place is a tweet a while back from one of the costume quest designers who said the game originally only had a girl character but publishers said they had to have a male one as well.
Going back to sexuality though, both "areas" seems to have troubles with it but for different reasons. Western devs will likely probably try and make a strong homosexual character, but then undermine everything by drawing too much attention to it. It's like the "game guuurl" effect where they just seem like attention seekers. Meanwhile Japan will just make them characatures.
Although I say that I think Atlus probably came the closest to having a well written and mature story arc about sexuality with Kanji in Persona 4. And then they fucked it up at the end by not giving it any resolution and just saying maybe he likes both? Oh but the reason he thought he was gay was because he fancied a boy, but it's alright because the boy is just a girl dressed like a boy.
