Mine is Joanna Dark (Perfect Dark N64)
Rivet from the latest Ratchet and Clank game.
Why? Two words:
Big Hammer!
I swear it looks bigger in game, but I haven’t played in a long while, so I could be misremembering.
Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)
Submitted 5 months ago by lunatique@lemmy.ml to games@lemmy.world
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AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 5 months ago
orochi02@feddit.org 5 months ago
lunatique@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
One of my favorite games
TheV2@programming.dev 5 months ago
Krudler@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 months ago
lunatique@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
She was the best part. It can slide
JakenVeina@midwest.social 5 months ago
Commander Shepard.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Aya Brea, from Parasite Eve
The perfect mix of unsuspecting hero, chosen one, and bad ass. The sequel also gives her an Ellen Riply in Aliens vibe as well. Shame about 3rd Birthday and the fact we will never get another one. For those who don’t know, the owner of the original IP didn’t want to renew the license for the games, which means the games can no longer use anything from the novel which includes all references to mitochondria and Eve. That’s why 3rd Birthday was seemingly a totally different game; they tried to make a sequel that couldn’t reference any of the main plot points of the previous games or novel.
lunatique@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I played this one PSP and didn’t even realize what it was for years lol. Good game as I remember. They are getting a remake as well
goombakid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I decided recently that the horizon series has overtaken Fallout in my estimations
Aneb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Some of my other picks have already been mentioned so I’ll go with an obscure answer: Cpt. Olivia Rhodes from the VR game Lone Echo.
She is by far the most realistic and immersive NPC I have ever had the fortune of experiencing. The storytelling and immersion in Lone Echo is S tier. The game itself is in my top three VR games with Half-Life Alyx and Boneworks.
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 5 months ago
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
(That’s 2A in the other picture)
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
That’s why they said !2B. He never it into a Shakespeare joke.
To be or not to be
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
RavuAlHemio@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cate Archer from No One Lives Forever
46_and_2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Adding a pic of our favourite spy
Nefara@lemmy.world 5 months ago
She got an honorable mention from me in my post. She was a lot of fun to play as and the game would not have been the same with any other MC.
lunatique@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I like her character and I’ve only had the chance to watch gameplay videos online.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 months ago
The games are available for free on NOLF revival if you want to play. Nobody knows who owns the IP so there is nobody enforcing the copyright.
The setting, theme and writing is really fun but the gameplay really hasn’t aged well.
nore@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Zero, from Drakengard 3. The perfect amount of crude and the dryest delivery of humor imagineable.
lunatique@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Yeah she was badass
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Loved her brand of heroism. Kill her sisters, steal their men, saved the world
chunes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Two occur to me: Chell from the Portal games, and Lufia from Lufia and the Fortress of Doom. And both of those almost don’t count.
I almost don’t want to count Chell because she’s almost not a character, but I’ve had quite a bit of fun playing as her.
Lufia is one of the rare SNES JRPGs not made by Squaresoft or Enix, it was published by Taito. Gameplay is similar to classic Final Fantasy, the story manages to be quite tragic. Lufia, the title character, is not the player character, Enter Your Name is the player character, and Lufia is a playable party member/his love interest/…well, play the game to find out. So there’s reasons why I hesitate to call her a “protagonist.”
I have to mention a fun thing that series did: Lufia 1 starts with a playable prologue/tutorial section where you play as some legendary heroes fighting an ultimate battle. Lufia 2 is a prequel, and it’s the story of those legendary heroes, which ends with that same ultimate battle as the final boss. In Lufia 1, the heroes speak very formally. They sound stalwart and brave and a bit old fashioned, as legendary heroes should. In Lufia 2, we know these characters more as real people, and the dialog treads the exact same ground but it’s much less formal, makes them sound less hypercompetent.
ZindaDil@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
hades@feddit.uk 5 months ago
janonymous@lemmy.world 5 months ago
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Gameplay? Xiangling (Genshin) - She does more damage.
Story? Focalors / Furina - peak character and peak storytelling
This silly meme tells you everything you need to know about Xiangling (apart from ‘every team becomes 10x better with XL in it’) and everything Furina wants you to know about her.
phx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Nice choice, but personally I always found Terra a bit hard to relate to, very fey and even sort of creepy in her half-Esper form.
Celes, on the other hand, is a bonafide badass, and her storyline was among the better developed ones and more humanizing than most of the other characters in the game. Although romantically I think she could probably do better than Locke. That boy needs some help.
phx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I kinda feel like Terra developed a bit more over the course of the game, from orphan half-fey under the control of the empire to joining a rebel group while finding herself and discovering her past. In the end she doesn’t get assigned a “love interest” and become mother to a bunch of war-orphans as she gets in touch with her humanity.
Celes comes in a bit more badass to start - as a super-soldier-serum (magic infused) general who turned against the same immoral empire - but a lot of her side story aside from the island is a bit… weird what with the whole Locke Ultros opera thing. It’s like the story writers couldn’t decide whether she was a superhero or damsel in distress.
Locke’s own backstory with the Phoenix quest is neat though.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 months ago
I agree. That scene on the island with Celes hit me like a ton of bricks the first time.
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Robin from Iconoclasts:
- Pacifist until the end (depending on the definition of “end”), despite the game’s pixel aesthetic it tries to make it clear that murder is her last option;
- Altruistic, she goes out of her way to help people with complete disregard of her own safety;
- Doesn’t talk much;
- Kind hearted, doesn’t reject a well-intentioned yet spoiled acquaintance even though fucking up is his character arc and everyone hates him;
-
Plot spoiler
becomes friends with Jesus and goes with him back to heaven
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Ending spoiler
fucking kills god, then fill him with seeds (tbf all the poor guy did was pull up at the gas station and have strangers harass Him)
impudentmortal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Protagonist has got to be Bayonetta (though it’s based only on the first game). Her character growth in the first game was so good, even if the plot was a little convoluted. Never finished the second one since I didn’t like playing on the Switch and never played the third one. Hope her character is still good though.
Honorable mentions are Kassandra from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite, and Stelle from Honkai Star Rail (though this one is mostly for the absolutely ridiculous dialogue options we get to choose).
Favorite female antagonist is hands down GLaDOS. Such a fun, sarcastic, and likeable villain.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Oh. It’s you.”
Such a loveable heap of junk.
impudentmortal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
She has to be the most quotable video game character ever.
How are you holding up? BECAUSE I’M A POTATO. clap clap clap Oh good. My slow clap processor made it into this thing. So we have that
If you become light headed from thirst, feel free to pass out.
Here come the test results: You are a horrible person. We weren’t even testing for tha
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
i like the girl in far cry 6 i like when livin la vida loca comes on the radio and she starts singing it
also the girl in south of midnight shes cool