For a long time I’ve wondered why, except for Nisha, there are no female enemies in BL. Now, I know that some of you might say… “We already have psychos in the game!” Seriously… I think it would add an extra dimension if there were female marauders AND female psychos. The dialogue possibiliteis are endless. Female nomads, goliaths, Hyperion engineers, midgets…
Is there some kind of policy or guideline that says “No women”?
I think it has a lot to do with Pandora originally being a mining/prison colony.
I wouldn’t mind seeing female enemies, but I’m really more interested in female PCs. Couldn’t give a damn what I’m hacking it, it’s who I’m hacking at them with that gets me warm and fuzzy inside.
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Judging by the voices, there are at least some female scavs. Hard to tell in those spacesuits, though…
Seems to be same for most action games. There’s probably plenty of reasons:
For one, it’s because in real world, many enemish occupations like gangbangers, police and soldiers are predominantly men. So guess it just doesn’t occur to makers to make female enemies to fight aside from bosses.
For two, it would require additional models and voice acting. Most devs are probably too lazy for that.
For three, my bad if I’m wrong but shooter games are also still predominantly male field. Guess makers assume that we men just don’t like shooting women. Or burn them with fire and acid and hear their screams of agony. Also while, f.e. Saints Row the Third had female enemies, I for one found myself more than once checking out them well-stacked female Morningstars’ corpses. And then felt like a creep about it.
But personally I wouldn’t really care if we had female mooks in the future games. When they shoot at me, i think about shooting back and not some old-fashioned chivarly code.
I vaguely remember a comment about Bandits growing out of the ground or something since there are so few female bandits.
Can’t remember who posted it though, since it was a few years ago.
Because people would freak out that we’re killing women. Because people have to take every little thing as something offensive now. Because people are too politically correct anymore to have fun.
^ Huh, I always preferred Paragon male shep and Renegade femshep…interesting (might be that most of my Renegade play has been in ME2, where many of the Renegade choices are just so damn fun).
Hahaha, my personal favorite is punting that ■■■■■ guard in Dantius’s tower off the ledge. (Bonus points if you have Jack with you because she has a short comment about it)