Assassin's Creed Odyssey Dev Wants Future Games To Feature Male And Female Protagonists

@Roy023: Does not. Sorry about this; it should be fixed now.

@tom_cat_01: afaik there are plenty of those types of games you are talking about, why not change it up? you can always go back and replay them if you enjoyed them that much. this way nobody is saying "it's the same thing every year" anymore

@tom_cat_01: Assassin's Creed 1 is my favorite AC game. It was actually about planning and executing assassinations.

Now, it's just about you being Forrest Gump to history and following the glowing spots to where the devs want you to be, then pressing the buttons to kill the targets where the devs want you to do so. Oh, and 30+ hours of meaningless open world fluff.

@tom_cat_01:

No, Origins was excellent and the series needed to evolve.

@tom_cat_01:

Of course that's when the AC series peaked , everything that came afterwards was DLC skimming and extending the main game into real boredom.

@Sevenizz: "Maybe Hollywood needs to follow suit and have 2 versions of every movie with a version for both sexes"

The original Ghostbusters and the new one... They kinda did that allready.

@Nemesis7884: Uh, you do realize that RPGs and the like have had selectable-gender (and race, species, etc.) player characters since the early 1980s, right? The idea is that you define the character yourself, through the choices you make during gameplay.

And let's face it, the only really memorable protagonists this series has had are Ezio and arguably Altair, so it's not exactly like they're losing much with this approach.

@Nemesis7884: and this is all for the sake of diversity. Honestly its lazy, nowadays you have to have a black version for every white character or female version for every male character when it comes to iconic figures that existed for years, when instead they could create a new character who's black or female with their own unique story.

@Nemesis7884: your comment makes it sound like the weak writing and characters in some games are somehow due to the inclusion of women, which isn't true of course. If there's a problem with writing and characters, then it needs to be fixed instead of rooting out positive features from a game (i.e. diversity). Look at Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and how wonderfully it manages the female characters and writing (same goes for other Uncharted games except that you don't play as a female in them).

The choice about characters is a suggestion going forward not an imposition on previous games, so your examples about Geralt and Lara are not relevant. Moreover, it should be noted that some games are made around a character while in AC you get different playable characters in almost every game. Secondly, an open-world quasi-RPG game usually gives you a choice about your character anyway, so the element of choice is a feature of RPGs as well. Finally, by providing a choice over characters, the game does not take away your choice. You can play as a male protagonist and the fact that it is possible to play as a female protagonist has no bearing on your gaming experience.

@Tidus1012: Because they think they can make more money copying something else that became popular, and you sort of answered your own question because I think all of your examples are series where it worked. I'm not sure about Final Fantasy, but it sort of felt that way going from FFVI to FFVII so it worked for them then.

It's worked out well for Legend of Zelda too.

@Tidus1012:

Because then you end up with with games like Resi 7 and AC origins. Which were both great.

@Sevenizz: Voiced by no other than Jennifer Hale