Thalstarion
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Tomb Raider started with a woman as the protagonist and kept a woman in the role of protagonist with every subsequent game. That courtesy doesn't often extend to franchises with an established male lead these days.
They are often retired or killed off and replaced with a woman.
You can go to various DEI pages for various companies committed to the cause and read through their policies of subversion. Sometimes it is subtle. Other times it is not - though they love and frequently seek to shove women into roles that do not suit them at the expense of men.
To the point where many games, even those not obviously compromised, now have women serving as city guards, blacksmiths, engineers, construction workers, military leaders and so on. Do exceptions exist in the real world? Certainly - but they are very few and far between and it is overwhelmingly men who shed blood, sweat and tears.
I know a decent number of men who do not care for the idea of playing as women in video games as a personal preference, myself included. Though there is a healthy balance to be struck and one that is no longer respected. In recent years there has been a sharp rise in the number of female protagonists. A game that goes the fan service route like Stellar Blade will sell much more than Concord or Dustborn by virtue of not having an ugly protagonist but it still won't prove as successful as, say, Black Myth: Wukong which has a monkey as a protagonist because...again, most gamers want to play male characters.
They are often retired or killed off and replaced with a woman.
You can go to various DEI pages for various companies committed to the cause and read through their policies of subversion. Sometimes it is subtle. Other times it is not - though they love and frequently seek to shove women into roles that do not suit them at the expense of men.
To the point where many games, even those not obviously compromised, now have women serving as city guards, blacksmiths, engineers, construction workers, military leaders and so on. Do exceptions exist in the real world? Certainly - but they are very few and far between and it is overwhelmingly men who shed blood, sweat and tears.
I know a decent number of men who do not care for the idea of playing as women in video games as a personal preference, myself included. Though there is a healthy balance to be struck and one that is no longer respected. In recent years there has been a sharp rise in the number of female protagonists. A game that goes the fan service route like Stellar Blade will sell much more than Concord or Dustborn by virtue of not having an ugly protagonist but it still won't prove as successful as, say, Black Myth: Wukong which has a monkey as a protagonist because...again, most gamers want to play male characters.
. Geralt coming back to the Northen Kingdoms at all is a retcon, the books are clear that he’s never seen again after dying the first time. If you’re a lore autist then CDPR has been dumping on the books with every game. Ciri is special because she’s unique, but they introduced another Child of the Elder Blood in W1 with Alvin. The fact that it takes until W2 for anyone to tell Geralt about Yen and Ciri is insane if you’ve read the books, that would be the first thing Dandalion asks about. All the monsters that are so prevalent in the games is lorebreaking, by the time of the books the only thing left to kill for Witchers are Drowners and nekkers. Yet somehow a freaking Kraken shows up in W2. Monsters are all over the place and there’s plenty of Witcher work to be done - because it would be boring as hell otherwise.
