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World of Dudes Online (Would you play an MMO that only had guy characters?)
MrMxyzptlk
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Would you play a game that didn't have any female characters whatsoever? Incredible graphics and gameplay but...everywhere you look there would be a sea of men...
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Whatever, i don't mind. Females only, i would do that too.
But i would never play a game that only has furries.
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I will be playing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36MPdI_9CCg&feature=fvst
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The entire Fellowship of the Ring was male and many fantasy stories center on male heroes. I don't think it would be odd. It would be odd that a company actually made such a game, but play-wise, it wouldn't be an issue.
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I would give it a try if it were a really fun game. I've played a lot of single player games over the years where the character I was playing was a guy. That didn't take away from my enjoyment of making aliens explode or slicing-and-dicing my goblin foes. I just don't know how many other women would go for it.
Exactly. Whether or not Player's are allowed to create female or male characters is only one part of many many features that a MMO needs.
I would actually be more upset about character's not being able to jump or swim than to have only male characters as the only gender. I am more concerned with what my character can do in a MMO rather than being concerned about virtual gender and all that... since gender in a MMO is fluff unless gender directly impacts the story.
I am a guy in real life, I bet some Lady Gamers would see this differently of course.
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I would definitely play it, but I prefer that all games have female characters so that it will give the ladies a reason to play games with the guys. I will never understand why people play cross gender toons, but to each his/her own.
I could not think of a rational reason for there to be such a game, as such - I would not have to worry about it. If somebody were to make one without sufficient reason as to why one could only make a male character, I would have to pass.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
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Problem is with so few female gamers it would not get many subs.
Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
if it's general gaming, sure. 8 and 16 bit era it was pretty normal for there to be just guys(mario, castlevania, shinobi, ninja gaiden), or anthropomorphic animals(sonic, earthworm Jim), or blobs, even bubbles <.<
Hell on the PS1 I was a heavy Armored Core fan. there was no humans
MMO wise, I'd say I'd have to have the option though.
IT'S RAINING MEN!!!!
Sorry...
.... Somebody had to do it eventually.
Incidentally, if the male avatars were both attractive and suffciently emasculated, such a game would have not problem finding female players. The trick is making the avatars totally none threatening to preteen and teenage girls.
Easy to do, just make the guys girly, like all the boy bands in the world are.
Sure, as long as the avatars were decent.
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It would actually be more realistic, so I would see it as more of a plus to be honest.
Probably not. It always used to annoy me when I was a kid that I had no choice but to play male characters in games. I'm female and I almost always play female characters. And I always want to have the choice to do so.
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Depends. It's the same when some variety is always taken away. Would you play an MMORPG without open air areas? Would you play an MMORPG without any sea/ocean/rivers/lakes etc in it? Sure, if the rest is good enough. But if there are two equally fun MMORPGs, I'd play the one with more diversity.
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
But would there be cake?!?
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Sure, good gameplay easily overcomes that limitation.
However, there will always be people trying to work around the system. Reading the various comments reminded me about an article on how Pixie Hollow (a Disney mmorpg) used to have only female characters and how some players created tomboy characters in order to play as boys.
I like diversity but I wouldn't mind an all guy online game. Like someone mentioned before, it was not so long ago that male characters were the only choice that you had and no one cared. I think Samus might've been the first main female character and then Lara Croft really put female characters into the spotlight.
When you look at a new MMO game cover/ad you'll usually find a skimpily clad woman wielding a sword or sceptre. I'm just wondering how much does this influence you to try the game out.
my thread beats urs
the internet is dominated by males yet my thread gets the most attention, and some awkward feministic disscusions.
Not if it was called World of Dudes Online, it brings to mind unwanted images of Top Gun.
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Lol that is pretty interestinglol, well Gears of War did this and not many people noticed, in the lore all the women are too busy making babies to fight, its changing for the third apparantley. As long as their are some female NPCs around i dont see why it could work, if you dont want female NPCs then your going to have to make some pretty interesting lore about how males procreate via mitosis or cloning or something... >.>
If it fit the setting. Saying females can't join in on the quest because "x reason" such as because only "men fight", or something, would be very silly.
I definitely noticed the lack of females in gears of war. It would've been nice to have thrown in a female character for variety but ill guess we'll just have to wait for part 3.