Part of the ‘Girls and Gaming’ session at PAX. This was during the Q&A section. Panel participants are Microsoft’s Jo Clowes, Obsidian’s Annie Carlson, Marlo Huang from Liquid Entertainment and Linsey Mudrock from ArenaNet.
Question: What is the role of male vs. female “weak” characters? Should it be 50-50?
Annie: Nobody likes “luggage” characters that are too stupid to live. All characters need to have something – some really good reason why they’re weak and something really redeeming (like good AI).
Linsey: F$%& Princess Peach.
Nice one, Linsey…really nice. Did you ever play Super Princess Peach? Peach goes out and saves Mario’s ass in that one! Also, how many times have we seen the tough, assertive side of peach in the Paper Mario series?! Linsey, I don’t know you very well, but you seem to be hurting your cause, more than helping. Thanks to Matt for the heads up.
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Linsey Mudrock – F$%& Princess Peach
