How do you react to the fact that female characters are a majority in a game? Be honest, please.

Honestly, it depends on setting and reasoning.
A ton of females together for no reason fighting through dungeons? Not going to grab me without a huge expmanation on why women are so prominent as warriors. In most fantasy games, women aren't tough. At best they'd get equal opportunity in a world, but they shouldn't really outnumber the male cast in my eyes.
I'm a traditionalist, though.

I think that, given the right circumstances and how you employ this idea, that it can be a good idea. =]
I'm not against either sex being more, or less, prominent in a game. Personally, the game itself is what gets my attention, the fact that they are all female or male isn't really something that would make me decide not to play a game.

If it has something to do with the story, then you'd have to do a very good job at developing that part of the story (since there are loads of stories with all-female, or all-male, characters).

My reaction would be "oh, they are all female... doesn't really matter".

Well, for example, take the Amazons. They were a female-dominant people with female warriors. If it has anything related to a similar style as the Amazons, it would make sense.

I'm fine with it anyway.

Well, to clear up a few things - we're talking about a 2 to 1 ratio here, the reason is because I suck at drawing men and it takes me twice the time to get a sprite right. The function of a character in the party is mostly decided by the player in this case.

Two to one?
It's hardly worth mentioning that there are more women than men, since it won't be as noticeable if there are at least half of them being men.
I probably wouldn't notice it unless it was mentioned somewhere, actually. =]

it seems that usually games have 1 or 3 girls. Legend of Dragoon, FFVII, FFVIII, and more ^^

For me, I would be more than ok with having female characters. Have the main one be female. But there is the issue of making a believable character. If you understand enough about women to be able to make a believable female character, do it ^^

...I suddenly have the feeling I'm in a male dominated forum and must wonder...are there any other girls here? 0.o

As a female, I enjoy games with female protagonists. Hell, the two main characters in my game are female. But at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter what gender your protagonists are. Don't worry about gender balance; worry about characterization, as that's what really matters. There's no magical correct formula for telling a story, and trying to shoehorn your story into one is just going to make it suffer. Treat your characters, male OR female, as complex individuals with their own strengths and weaknesses and challenges to overcome, and you'll find an audience.

I made a post in a thread asking the same question on another forum

I don't mind playing as a male or female (is a girl myself). But I do like playing more as girls as the games I have played that stared females as the main role, have been among my favorite: Tomb Raider, Metroid (as listed), Ghost in the Shell, Parasite Eve as well as the Resident Evil games (they count xD).

The last of your post reminds me of what I read SE did for Lightning. Though I haven't played the game (and hear badly about it), Lightning doesn't seem that bad. Its a great suggestion, or so I think! :3

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Even if you're not fantastic with drawing guys... you should always try to make some male characters, so it's not just a game filled completely with women.
That'd be pretty silly.
If women were the majority of the game, it'd work, so as long as there were some guy characters to even out the gender ratio somewhat.

^ cannot agree more.

if you want to make the gender the central focus, then learn to write gender issues well. There's nothing wrong with a character who is just female but otherwise functions just like a male counterpart. That's fine and dandy. If your whole cast is this way, then arguably their gender is simply cosmetic anyways. That, too, is actually fine by me.

But if you have some kind of design of writing them as characters who see their own gender as big part of their identity (which it should be unless they live in some space in society that can ignore it entirely), then you need a lot more skills to pull off.

The trick here? don't write their gender as an innate thing. (i.e. she's a woman, she's more emotional, blablaba) first, write what it is society expects of these female characters, what is their assigned gender role, and then write out how each member responds to it. Some will embrace it, some will fight it, some will embrace it in a very different way, the ones who embrace it might be somewhat turned off by the members who reject it outright, etc. there's a lot of interplay that you can shoot for.

No, it's not a big deal. I only asked what happens when you notice that "oh hey, there's only two guys in here". Thanks for input, everyone.

Center your game around a genderless race of golems. It's fool proof.
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The gender ratio does not bother me at all. As long as the cast is well written and has suitable reasons for doing what they do, I've no problem with whether they are guys or girls.

My only two concerns on an all-female cast is if it ends up being treated like a harem story (i.e. one guy, lots of girls and all those silly Love Hina / Tenchi Muyo situations) or if it becomes excessively fanservicey (my real issue with the cast of FFX-2)

Ew, no. Certainly not headed that way.