Is a game made better with a hot chick in it?

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Is a game made better with a hot chick in it?

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Or a hot chick PLAYING it ;-)

Seriously though, as mostly male gamers do we appreciate having the complimentary babe characters to play with? Such as in Starcraft the medic and valkeyrie pilot.. grrrrr. Or the rogue in Diablo? Or the ninja-looking girls from Soldier of Fortune?
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Seriously though, as mostly male gamers do we appreciate having the complimentary babe characters to play with? Such as in Starcraft the medic and valkeyrie pilot.. grrrrr. Or the rogue in Diablo? Or the ninja-looking girls from Soldier of Fortune?
Call me old fashioned, but Ms. Croft has always set my dogs a'barkin'.

Especially since my ex GF once told me that Angelina Jolie was so attractive she would have gone bi for her... :P
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Seriously though, as mostly male gamers do we appreciate having the complimentary babe characters to play with? Such as in Starcraft the medic and valkeyrie pilot.. grrrrr. Or the rogue in Diablo? Or the ninja-looking girls from Soldier of Fortune?
Call me old fashioned, but Ms. Croft has always set my dogs a'barkin'.

Especially since my ex GF once told me that Angelina Jolie was so attractive she would have gone bi for her... :P
Bah. Lara Croft has NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING on Jun'ko Zane from Freelancer.
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Now while attractive women can make it persay more fun.

Better I doubt it...and Juni is a cutie...and better formed(sorry Croft still is a tad bit too large.)
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Ghost Rider wrote:Now while attractive women can make it persay more fun.

Better I doubt it...and Juni is a cutie...and better formed(sorry Croft still is a tad bit too large.)
Plus Juni is one of the few female characters with a decent ass. And when it comes to asses, Juni's is spectacular. :twisted:
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Pah. You're all horribly mistaken. Simply the best game female is Elain (IIRC) from the Monkey Island games.
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RE: Is a game made better with a hot chick in it?

Yes, but only if they don't try to replace gameplay with CG tittilation (unless we're talking about "hentai" games, where it's pretty much a case of "what gameplay?").
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Well it's not a good sign if you have to rely on boobs to sell the game, but I'm all for hot chicks as a treat for gamers. Kind of like how good graphics should never come at the expense of gameplay.
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Who's Juni?
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It's alluring for a guy to play as a girl. :P
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Trytostaydead wrote:Who's Juni?
The hottest ass in the Sirius sector. :D
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I think Sakura in CnC Renegade is amusing as the comments that Havoc makes are so wonderfully inappropriate.

And Julie(?) in Impossible Creatures. Object of sexual desire and focus of sexism. Wonderful.
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Shinova wrote:It's alluring for a guy to play as a girl. :P
In multiplayer, I think there's also a psychological effect.
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Darth Yoshi wrote:Well it's not a good sign if you have to rely on boobs to sell the game,
DOA Voleyball, anyone?
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Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
Darth Yoshi wrote:Well it's not a good sign if you have to rely on boobs to sell the game,
DOA Voleyball, anyone?
Quiet, you. I want that game. That is, if I had an X-box, and if paying $250 for a game weren't stupid.
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Darth Yoshi wrote:
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
Darth Yoshi wrote:Well it's not a good sign if you have to rely on boobs to sell the game,
DOA Voleyball, anyone?
Quiet, you. I want that game. That is, if I had an X-box, and if paying $250 for a game weren't stupid.
Bah. Those girls have ridiculously huge breasts and no asses. It's an Island of Lara Croft clones.
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Not neccessarily. Look at Space Quest III. The closest thing you had to a girl was Elmo Pug. Enough said. Or Castlevania III. Sure, Sypha was a girl, but she always wore those heavy robes. Not exactly the most stunning of cover girls.
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Trytostaydead wrote:Who's Juni?
Junko Zain is a Liberty Security Force officer from the game Freelancer. She's rather attractive.

That said, Lara Croft's latest incarnation does look good.
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I personally don't think attractive female characters really affect my opinion of a game, but they are good eye candy at times. Video games have the advantage of being able to make women as attractive as they want.
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weemadando wrote:Pah. You're all horribly mistaken. Simply the best game female is Elain (IIRC) from the Monkey Island games.
Elaine Marley was completely FUBARed, and not in a good way, in the latest MI episode.
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Baron Mordo wrote:Not neccessarily. Look at Space Quest III. The closest thing you had to a girl was Elmo Pug. Enough said. Or Castlevania III. Sure, Sypha was a girl, but she always wore those heavy robes. Not exactly the most stunning of cover girls.
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Eleas wrote:
weemadando wrote:Pah. You're all horribly mistaken. Simply the best game female is Elain (IIRC) from the Monkey Island games.
Elaine Marley was completely FUBARed, and not in a good way, in the latest MI episode.
Not that badly, she's still a wonderfully feisty and highly amusing character.
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weemadando wrote:Not that badly, she's still a wonderfully feisty and highly amusing character.
Bah. Not only does the so-called "new" engine devolve the experience down to Spectrum level, the series has plainly lost all its former spirit of innovation and humor. If I had any tears left for Monkey Island, I'd shed them now.
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Come on guys, how many of you when Ultima Online came out had a women character running naked through the streets??
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