It's an honest question, and much of it's because asian people look different. Western and Eastern cultures share clearly difficult physical attributes. Asian men are typically (not always, but usually) shorter and less bulky, and a lot of that is due to diet, genetics and the kinds of physical activity they do. It's a cultural thing, is all.

Games are largely an art form, the look and style is predetermined in the form of concept and storyboards. Those artists are going to be inspired by the world as they know it, likely their immediate surroundings. Its the same reason heroes in manga are nowhere near the bulk of heroes in say, Marvel comics. 

That said, it doesn't necessarily make the characters 'effeminate.' Rather, what we think of as feminine qualities may not be so to another culture.

gaeanprayer ........ lol i think u think u know alot huh lol

Originally posted by Nisaku

By people who aren't ignorant bigots *coughyoucough*.

 

Where I live there's a high population of your so called "LadyBoys"

 

Which are called transgendered or transsexuals. Dont' be rude please, that's not nice :(.

Classic...telling someone not to be rude after you call them an ignorant bigot.

For goodness sakes....   Is    (or should it be a problem to at least see the difference between a man and a woman?"\Gosh. One might think the problem wouldn't be wther or not to tell if it's a man or a woman. That's sad to me...

Originally posted by Yamota

There are games out there, like this one, where the MALE characters almost look more feminine then the female ones and that for me prevents me to enjoy those games.

So the question is why is that? I have been in east asia and their adults sure dont look that feminine (even if they are generally shorter and has less bulky bodyframe). Maybe it is because computer games over there generally target young boys?

The short answer is that the heros much be attractive. I think it also has something to do with the way beauty is valued in Asia and that femanine looking men are more highly valued than in the western world. But they very, very rarely have ugly heroes.

For instance, when EverQuest 2 moved into Asia, they had to re-do their character art because the evil races had to be made attractive in order to appeal to Asian players, otherwise they wouldn't play Ogres and Trolls and the other less pleasant looking EQ2 races. Where as in the west, we want an Ogre and a Troll needs to be hidious looking, especially as player characters.