The game cover is a nice girl, why...

[Viper]

why am I using a guy

[Sattos]

Originally posted by Viper:

why am I using a guy

heres a response without a insult, you can change your character's gender in the character creator at the start of the game.

[Viper]

Oh, thanks

[WolfWall]

I guess where not familiar with Illustration and how concept art or game art works, Sec if your buying games on character gender crinnnnnggggeeeeee, maybe read the menus and see you can change the gender, but i dont see how that factors in since non of it is reality its just a game

[Puncher D]

The new thing, a least for the last decade or so, is always put a female on the cover by default because they want to score oppression olympics points while avoiding accusations of patriarchy. Beyond that if the character you play is female or a choice then nobody of any consequence will complain.

[Hippopwnamus]

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I'm fairly sure that having ladies on the cover of the game has been going on a *lot* longer than the last 10 years. That guess at the reasoning is probably new though.

[amok]

Originally posted by Puncher D:

The new thing, a least for the last decade or so, is always put a female on the cover by default because they want to score oppression olympics points while avoiding accusations of patriarchy. Beyond that if the character you play is female or a choice then nobody of any consequence will complain.

You have not been a gamer for long I take it :)

See for example the cover for "Game Over" by Dinamic Software (1987) or the famous "Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior" (1987) cover with Maria Whittaker. There has been females on covers to sell games for as long as we have had games. in fact, there is less of it today.

[DJ Gershwin]

Originally posted by amok:

Originally posted by Puncher D:

The new thing, a least for the last decade or so, is always put a female on the cover by default because they want to score oppression olympics points while avoiding accusations of patriarchy. Beyond that if the character you play is female or a choice then nobody of any consequence will complain.

You have not been a gamer for long I take it :)

See for example the cover for "Game Over" by Dinamic Software (1987) or the famous "Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior" (1987) cover with Maria Whittaker. There has been females on covers to sell games for as long as we have had games. in fact, there is less of it today.

There have been females to EVERYTHING to sell them as long as there has been packaging.....where have you been?

[Darke]

Originally posted by Sattos:

Originally posted by Viper:

why am I using a guy

heres a response without a insult, you can change your character's gender in the character creator at the start of the game.

The problem is I can't seen to get any female faces. The random generator is great for male faces but every time it generates a female one it's more "male face with female hair", and it seems to pretty regularly generate a 5 o'clock shadow on them regularly too (I guess that's a face art thing). :/

Not that it really matters for a first person game I guess, I'll never see what I look like.