Developing a cool, non-sexual female character is a good idea.
I'm tired of hearing about "inclusiveness" and "diversity," though. It can get too much focus sometimes. It can also come off as pretentious, like the guy said.
I agree with him, that I've never felt that way with ND, though.
Anyone who played TLOU DLC already knew about Ellie so I don't know why some are making this an issue now. I do think this E3 overall seemed to be pandering a bit much to the "females are better" people though. Of course this was the E3 where that was going to happen, this is when all the games that started real development during the gamergate uproar are going to be ready to show.
I'm gay but I honestly don't really care a whole lot if a game has a gay character or not, while it's nice to feel included it's rare to play a game where the persons relationship status regardless of sexual orientation really matters. I do appreciate how some RPG's gives us the option to try to romance male or female characters though.
This SJW stuff needs to calm down though, pretty soon we are going to have another Anita Sarkeesian type out there complaining that there aren't any wheelchair bound transgendered black women who identify as Cambodian starring in games.
Video games are art and the creative process shouldn't be dictated by anything other than the creators imagination, they shouldn't start that process by feeling like they have to check off a bunch of boxes to make sure every gender, sexuality and ethnicity is represented proportionally.