[MUD-Dev] The Price of Being Male
Rayzam
rayzam at travellingbard.com
Tue Jul 1 21:16:53 CEST 2003
From: "Vincent Archer" <archer at frmug.org>
> According to Rayzam:
>> But if it's that simple, would you never play a game where you
>> were a female? I'll toss out Tomb Raider, again. If males want to
>> play males because they are male, then I would expect Tomb Raider
>> to have changed from Lara Croft to Larry Croft.
> The problem with Lara Croft, compared to a MMOG, is that there's
> no one out there to see you. People feel even more self-conscious
> in company. In a MMORPG, your avatar is, well, you. More or
> less. But in Lara Croft? You don't have an avatar. You have the
> same Lara Croft that everyone has. It's just a puppet.
Yep, that's my point. It's like Schroedinger's cat....
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