Huh?

Whelp, this is going to be an interesting comment thread.


From a Lore perspective, female characters are just as able to fight and be fought as male characters. That's true in ESO as well as the singleplayer TES games. The games have largely phased out the stats differences between male and female characters, and in-game there's no push to choose a male or female player character. Its pretty rare that there's a big effect on the storyline, and even TES 3 has only a few quests that change, IIRC.

From a player perspective, I find it disappointing to think of an Elder Scrolls game in which I could not play as a female character with the full range of a male character. Part of playing a TES game means the possibility of losing and dying. It would substantially diminish my enjoyment of the TES series if I could not play as a female character or they were infantalized. Is there any victory if there is no possiblility of losing? For context, my Vestige, Dragonborn, Champion of Cyrodiil, and Dragonborn were all female, and they accomplished their quests by overcoming the same sort of obstacles as a male version of those heroes.

From a game theory perspective, there's something about "Female characters are off limits" because we want to "respect" women that rubs me the wrong way. However good and protective the intentions are, it turns out to effectively mean "Ladies, you can't play characters who look like you." Or "Ladies, you can play characters who look like you, but if you do, you can't get the full game experience." In terms of real, practical effects, that means "Games are for men, Ladies, and you'd better play a male character if you want to fully enjoy this game." Which is an obvious problem in a role-playing game.

So I'm in favor of female characters being treated the same as male characters. Its lore-friendly. And it respects female gamers who want to play female characters and still experience the full version of the game.

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No doubt somebody will bite, but this is some ultra-low-effort trolling.

incredibly low effort troll attempt. #byefelicia

I'm just here for the popcorn.

As far as I understand, genders in TES don't play the same roles as in our patriarchal world. I mean, not always, it somewhat more complex. Now-now, I'm talking about times before emancipation, rooted in bourgeois revolutions. In our world the reason for emancipation was quite clear -- new brave capitalistic world needs more working hands. And here is the question, why is it so in Nirn? Presence of arcane arts could be one of the main reasons, I suppose. Also, the world of TES is much more harsh compared to ours. There are a lot of menaces of arcane nature in particular, which forces society to mobilize all people available. Could be the second reason.

But who am I trying to fool? It's just modern ideas influence in popular fantasy setting. Though, it could be logically explained.

Cygemai_Hlervu wrote: »

Why so aggressive, guys?? It's just a question with no intent to offend you! I was taught it is not polite to offend women and children. We have to take care and protect them. Weren't you taught the same? If not, I understand your aggression and I have no questions. In ESO we always are forced to treat female characters absolutely equally. But Skyrim suprisingly treats children characters properly. If it was irrelevant TES V would have never had that feature. What trolling or other provocative things do you see here? Are that you who smokes something out there to see some trolling? What's wrong with you, guys? Calm down. I won't discuss it cause it's a poll, not a discussion. Press the buttons there and be less agrressive.

But women (game or irl) are not children, so it doesn't make sense to make that comparison. Besides not every female character is a friend (or some are just plain annoying like that Wrothgar woman)

And maybe it's not okay to offend a woman, but if that woman works for the God of Brutality or other bad people, then I'd have no problem bringing her to justice

Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it?

The only real difference between a Male and a Female, is muscle mass.

Troll poll

The forums tried to warn you about this post. And still you persisted.

ArchMikem wrote: »

The only real difference between a Male and a Female, is muscle mass.

And the hotdog