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by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, September 28, 2015, 14:24 (3478 days ago) @ narcogen

My point is that when such imbalances are obvious even within a work that is nowhere near as overtly sexist as the worst of them, things can (and should) be much, much better than they are.

The key is not to have 'balance' within individual games, but to have balance across all games as an aggregate. Not all stories benefit from adding in characters of another sex or gender. The last thing you want to do is to throw in a woman just because. In a way that is worse. It all depends on the story you are telling. We don't benefit from counting women; we benefit from having more stories told with a female perspective to begin with. The fact that you can choose the sex of your guardian, the main character, already says that the sex of the characters in the game universe means nothing. But look at Life is Strange. Change any of the major players, and you have a very different game.