Inclusive Video Games

March 29th, 2019

Growing up video games always seemed to revolve around the same type of lead character, and that is a confident strong white male. This is controversial, due to the fact that the games are leaving out a large group of the people that play their products. As consoles and games keep getting bigger and more available to the public, game developers need to realize that there are more people that should be thought out for. Reaching out for more diversity in the gaming industry would not only be more beneficial for our society as a whole, but it can be more lucrative and rewarding for the businesses that create these games, because now they are hitting a larger audience. With gaming there are so many different games to be made and played, people can literally make whatever game they want. But these should be regulated, the way that some games incorporate different characters is very questionable. For example, the ways in which many games incorporate their women characters is very degrading. These characters are only wearing bikinis and are meant to look like a model for a game that requires shooting. Now why would this character be wearing something like this, in a situation like that? Why not instead have her dress the same way as the man in the game, like someone who is ready to go to war. This is done to be more appealing for the mail audience. But what about the female audience that wants to play the game too, why do they have to be shut out from playing the game because of how characters are portrayed. Personally I don’t think its fair. I don’t think most men would want to play a shooting game, where the main guy is only wearing a speedo. Games are so advanced now that people should be able to customize and pick the character that they want to use, rather than just being stuck with one person. Hopefully we can start moving in the right direction and cut out this degrading nonsense of how character are perceived and move to a new time in the industry where everyone can feel comfortable to play a certain game.