I have not played Fable or Fable2, but the first one was infamous (for certain values of "infamous") for billing itself as the game where you could be anything you want! Anything! Except female.
I'm given to understand this has been rectified in the second one. I haven't played it because it is new and thus expensive, and it doesn't sound too much like my sort of game.
Video game marketing is AWFUL, even for good, non-sexist games. It really does piss me off that for a hobby which is ~50% women, all the marketing is skewed towards horny 18-25 year-old white men. Which is why I pick games based on (1) what my friends say about them, and (2) familiarity with the studio putting the game out, and not on ads.
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Date: 2008-11-09 03:59 am (UTC)I'm given to understand this has been rectified in the second one. I haven't played it because it is new and thus expensive, and it doesn't sound too much like my sort of game.
Video game marketing is AWFUL, even for good, non-sexist games. It really does piss me off that for a hobby which is ~50% women, all the marketing is skewed towards horny 18-25 year-old white men. Which is why I pick games based on (1) what my friends say about them, and (2) familiarity with the studio putting the game out, and not on ads.