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Anonymous Source  Posts: 9 Joined: 14 May 2009     | |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 986 Joined: 27 Jul 2009    | Samus Aran as strongest, that slutty chick from Call of Juarez for weakest. Honestly, she got herself kidnapped around 50 times and tried to hook up with 3 different characters. I was so disappointed when she didn't die and got a happy ending. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 103 Joined: 24 Sep 2009     | samus from metroid is a strong female character, mainly because she can take out hordes of enemys alone Heather from silent hill 3 is also a strong character, mainly because she didnt go crazy from the event that happened to her. heck i dont think i would survive the horrors of silent hill useless hmmmm... princess peach, really she gets kidnapped all the time |
Muckraker  Posts: 243 Joined: 4 Jun 2008    | About Juarez, could you atleast try to shoot her, even if it means a game over? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1200 Joined: 16 Sep 2009     | Awesome: Any character created by me. Fail: Everyone else except maybe Samus Aran. |
On the Record  Posts: 5742 Joined: 9 Jul 2008     | For strong, I'd go with Samus, Lileth (from Borderlands), or Alyx Vance. For weak...well, mostly all of them. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 70 Joined: 7 Aug 2008     | Strong- Elizabeth Greene - Just so overpowered, it's ridiculous. |
Muckraker  Posts: 337 Joined: 29 Jul 2009  | Ima let you finish, but I think Chell is the best female character of all time! No, seriously, it has to be Chell from Portal. She had to deal with a murderous computer trying to poison her. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 626 Joined: 14 Dec 2008    | Strongest: Morrigan from Dragon Age: Orgings. All she does is make fun of the Paladan-like character Alister, and she can turn into a bear! can't think of a weakest one.... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1131 Joined: 22 Sep 2009   | Strongest female character? Sarah Kerrigan from StarCraft. She's the most powerful psychic in the human army, gets captured and infested by the Overmind, and then becomes the Queen of the Zerg after the Overmind is destroyed. Hands down, the Queen of Blades isn't just one of the most awesome female characters of all time, she's also one of the most awesome 'villains' of all time. She's great. Weakest female character? ...I'm tempted to say Princess Peach. For sheer ubiquity alone, and for being the quintessential damsel in distress of all video games. She never does anything. She's just a plot device with legs. There's nothing...human there to redeem her. I mean, at least Zelda had the chuff to save herself once... |
Beat Writer  Posts: 199 Joined: 1 Oct 2009     | I think Alex from Eternal Darkness is pretty strong. She combats the horrors of insanity but pushes through to discover the answers for her grandfather's mysterious death. What's more, she even ends up saving the world from the wrath of an evil deity. She is just a girl with a few guns, a sword, and some simple spells to try to keep that sanity meter up. Jill Valentine is also a very strong and capable female character of gaming. She fights a hoard of zombies through a mansion hell only to do it again in RE3 and then works to take down Umbrella in Umbrella Chronicles and then again in RE5. Jeez, what a woman! She goes through hell so many times to make sure that the world stays safe from zombies and monsters. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1034 Joined: 10 Sep 2009  | Strongest: Samus Aran (Metroid) Weakest: Ashley (Resident Evil 4) |
Paperboy  Posts: 47 Joined: 6 May 2009  |
It's not really a happy ending; Thomas beats her in the first one and then Juarez come and kills them both. |
On the Record  Posts: 5181 Joined: 18 Mar 2009     | I'd say Colette (I think that was her name) from Tales of Symphonia is the definition of failure. All she can do is get kidnapped, get cursed, and generally make everything worse for everyone around her. |
Beat Writer Posts: 199 Joined: 1 Oct 2009 | Note: my earlier post is about what makes the female characters awesome not in power or even ability, but their strength of character. I hope that counts ^_^:; |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2743 Joined: 24 Aug 2009   | Best: Bridgette Tenanbaum. Worst: Any female character in a fighting game (lookin' at you Soul Calibur!). |
Anonymous Source Posts: 9 Joined: 14 May 2009 |
Of course! As long as they serve a purpose that's more than merely decorative. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1632 Joined: 21 Nov 2008  | Strong- Chell, Alyx, Samus, some more I can't remember |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1637 Joined: 16 Mar 2009 |
That's a couple more arrows than princess peach gave you |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 88 Joined: 22 Aug 2009 |
Got Shiek? /faceslap |
Copy Clerk Posts: 70 Joined: 7 Aug 2008 |
Wow...cannot believe I completely forgot that part of the game...faceslap indeed (although didn't she just teach you music?) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 442 Joined: 29 May 2008  |
And if you talk about Chell in your paper, you get to mention that insane theory that says Portal is a 'female' game because rather than have guns that ejaculate bullets to show your dominance over enemies, you have a gun that creates openings through which you are reborn into new challenges. Seriously, look it up. OT, Alyx is pretty much the only character that is well-developed and is strong without being a space marine, and attractive without being a set of breasts, at least that I can think of. |
Muckraker Posts: 243 Joined: 4 Jun 2008 | You should all be ashamed of yourselves for going so long without mentioning Jade from Beyond Good & Evil. |
Paperboy  Posts: 48 Joined: 24 Jun 2009    | Strongest: i would have to say that Sheik from the Zelda franchise |
Anonymous Source Posts: 9 Joined: 14 May 2009 |
...That's probably the weirdest/coolest thing I've heard today. |
Muckraker  Posts: 334 Joined: 6 Oct 2009 |
Strongest - The Boss (aka: The Joy) from the Metal Gear Solid franchise. Weakest - Princess Daisy/Peach/Toadstool from the Mario franchise |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 122 Joined: 1 Nov 2009  | Alyx Vance is by far the strongest female game character. I'm not counting Samus because she doesn't really have a personallity. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 88 Joined: 22 Aug 2009 |
its been a few years since i played the game but if i remember correctly she basically served as an omniscient guide/guardian. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 513 Joined: 28 Aug 2009    | Most useless character is yuffie from final fantasy 7 she just hops on to your party and tries to annoy you. Useful charecter is Samus aran she is strong, independent and erases the gender barrier between male and female charecters. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 206 Joined: 3 Aug 2009 | Alyx Vance from HL2 and onward is definitely the strongest. and I fail to think of weaker one then Peach, she is always ALWAYS getting captured and being helpless. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2972 Joined: 23 Apr 2009  | Strongest in my book is Farah in Price of persia. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 128 Joined: 1 Feb 2008 | The strongest: Alex from Eternal Darkness obviously makes my list, as well as Samus from Metroid series, Yue Ying from Dynasty Warriors, Bastila and DSF Revan from KotOR, tempted to add in Ashley Williams from Mass Effect and Mona Sax from Max Payne 2, at least the first half before she got vulnerable. The Lady from Secret of Mana too. The weakest: Damn near any princess type or female in general from any older game, they were pretty much eye candy or mages. Add on 50% of the women from the GTA series. |
Paperboy Posts: 16 Joined: 4 Nov 2009 | Strongest: Shiek / Tetra |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 579 Joined: 24 Apr 2009 | Weakest: Princess Peach. Strongest: Samus Aran, Alyx Vance, Elena Fisher. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2050 Joined: 25 Jun 2009 | Strongest: Alyx Vance Weakest: Princess Peach
Yeah, but the music she taught you was awesome! |
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I have an ulterior motive for posting this... it's for a paper I'm writing. I just need a few more good leads.
So, what do you think? Who are the awesomest female video game characters ever, and who are the most useless?
I speak in terms of story importance, depth of character, etc... NOT hotness, thank you very much.
Bewaaaaaaaaare my feminist wrath.