Gaming Companies: We Need Better Female Characters
The gaming industry has some issues, but one issue they could fix easily is how some female characters are portrayed and treated.
From the young and innocent age of three years old, I have been exposed — or played — video games. Video games are a huge part of my life. To this day I would consider myself a gamer despite in recent years I only play a handful of games. You only have to look at how many hours I’ve played The Binding Of Issac Afterbirth+ and Slay The Spire to see that — which is, by the way, almost 2300 hours and 571 hours respectively.
The fact remains that I’ve seen — and played — plenty of games over the past two decades of my life. And thinking back to everything that I’ve been exposed to gaming-wise, I’ve noticed a few things.
Specifically with female characters and their development over the years.
From a consumer standpoint, there aren’t many prominent females characters. At least when you compare them to the number of male prominent characters.
This isn’t to deny that there are no female characters at all. There are great characters in Samus Aran, Lara Croft, Tifa Lockheart, Jill Valentine, and Princess Zelda, amongst many others.
