Let me know when RPGs actually start doing that, and I'll support them.
Don't most? I mean the first RPG video games I think of are the Elder Scrolls and Fallout, neither of which affect stats based on the character's sex.
EDIT: Oh fuck all these ninjas.
no most overly sexualize their women, for starters. But if you look at earlier elder scrolls games, such as morrowind, if you go the house hlaalu route, you can purchase female slaves as wives for your men. And to get hortator, you have to purchase a dunmer female slave to marry the ashlander chieftain of one tribe. It's a very androcentric game.
Oblivion and Skyrim were better, tbh.
Fallout was also done by Bethesda, though it has a history of being neutral on this stuff. Including with sexuality.
The games you are listing are exceptional though, as well as general exceptions to the rule. If you look at most MMOs out there, the clothing, the proportions, everything about women is just demeaning. The entire thing is geared towards gamer males.
Not to mention the overwhelming majority of games that have a male protagonist. And even if you get a powerful female, they devolve into tears when the strong male lead shows up, suddenly unable to help themselves.
edit: just going to ignore the obvious troll account.
Urist, did you really reeeally use WoW as an example? Have you seen the female night elves?
edit: not to mention some of the sexist comments by devs. I got into a debate on an ESO forum about there that ended in a female telling me I was only feminist because I didn't have a man and she "felt sorry for me" christ.
http://comegetthavoodoo.blogspot.com/2014/06/rob-pardo-is-sexist-asshole.html