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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Demifriend@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccamwrites.bsky.social/post/3m6a62btty226

Here's the dataset and their website if you are interested, there's more games beyond Final Fantasy that they've looked at.

Main findings

  • 35% of words were spoken by female characters.
  • 29% of characters were female, which suggests the imbalance is driven by a lack of female characters.
  • 94% of games had more male dialogue than female dialogue.
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[-] VAVHV@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm glad that XV scrapped a potentially compelling female character rivaling Noctis after the director got replaced, wouldn't want the game to be too interesting.

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