Article: Final Fantasy XV is an All Male Road Trip

[Depression Moon]

Getting mad hype. I guess it's true when people say that gamers don't like change. The first time we've had a male cast in XV games and people are put off. X-2 had all females, but I think people's issue there was with the J-Pop and Yuna and Rikku's personalities in that game.

My only disappointment here is that we may already know the entire cast before the game comes out. I like to be surprised about permanent party members.

[Edge7]

The only problem I have with the cast being all male is that I feel like Prompto and Ignis could have very easily been girl characters. At least, from the description of their personality traits, I could see them being female and not doing anything to somehow change the core dynamic of the group. It's kinda sad that writers still believe that there's a specific way to write male and female characters.

[Mirage]

sounds boring, tbh.

[Spuuky]

Don't worry, I'm sure it'll be all-white, too, to compensate.

Individual games can be like this, whatever. It's just too bad that it's such a flagship game that's doing it. It would be better served in a spinoff-style game. I wouldn't want FF6 to have no female characters, but a post-Kefka FF6 bro road trip with Setzer, Locke, Edgar, and Cyan? Sure, that could be cute.

[Quindiana Jones]

While those description fit the archetypes pretty well, I like that there's a little twist on them. Particularly with Fisto.

[Fynn]

Getting mad hype. I guess it's true when people say that gamers don't like change. The first time we've had a male cast in XV games and people are put off. X-2 had all females, but I think people's issue there was with the J-Pop and Yuna and Rikku's personalities in that game.

My only disappointment here is that we may already know the entire cast before the game comes out. I like to be surprised about permanent party members.

This is the same issue I have. Worst thing is, it's not a new problem. I think X was the last FF where they didn't show us the entire playable cast before release. I just hope they might be actually lying and we will get more playable characters. I won't complaining that's not the case, though. I already like these characters and a steady party throughout the game can go a long way to properly flesh them out.

[Sephiroth]

Getting mad hype. I guess it's true when people say that gamers don't like change. The first time we've had a male cast in XV games and people are put off. X-2 had all females, but I think people's issue there was with the J-Pop and Yuna and Rikku's personalities in that game.

My only disappointment here is that we may already know the entire cast before the game comes out. I like to be surprised about permanent party members.

We've never had the first installment of a main entry with only one gender. The chosen by yourself characters do not count.

[Loony BoB]

People worried about gender dynamics should remember that "all male" allows for different gender dynamics for narrative purposes and general script/attitude.

I'm disappointed at the lack of female playable characters because I tend to prefer having at least one of each gender in my 'main party' for FF games... however I do feel that this could allow for interesting scenes that we wouldn't otherwise be able to see.

Overall will just wait it out. More interesting to me is that it's a road trip. Does that mean we're back in the land of linear gameplay, moving from one location to the next and never returning? Hmm. I hope at some point we can return to the starting areas etc.

[Fynn]

People worried about gender dynamics should remember that "all male" allows for different gender dynamics for narrative purposes and general script/attitude.

I'm disappointed at the lack of female playable characters because I tend to prefer having at least one of each gender in my 'main party' for FF games... however I do feel that this could allow for interesting scenes that we wouldn't otherwise be able to see.

Overall will just wait it out. More interesting to me is that it's a road trip. Does that mean we're back in the land of linear gameplay, moving from one location to the next and never returning? Hmm. I hope at some point we can return to the starting areas etc.

It's already been stated that it's open-world and you can go wherever you please.

[Del Murder]

I'm disappointed at the lack of female playable characters because I tend to prefer having at least one of each gender in my 'main party' for FF games... however I do feel that this could allow for interesting scenes that we wouldn't otherwise be able to see.

That's true. Now they can all walk around with their pants off at the campsite.

[Mirage]

If the females they had with them were a lesbian couple, they still could have done that!

[Jinx]

If there isn't a male bonding moment a la Vivi and Zidane in Conde Petie in this game, I will be sadly disappointed.

[Fynn]

Prompto: "No, Gladio! You need to hold it like this!

[Big Ogre Umaro]

This is pretty bad.

[FFFFsephychibi]

It's really not that bad if it was always supposed to be that way.

Kairi wasn't playable in KH, but she was a huge part of the story, just like stella/luna is supposed to be.