Positive Portrayals of Women in Video Games

[Loony BoB]

ITT people who have never played a Suikoden game.

I've played Suikoden (1) but found it kind of forgettable for the most part, and never finished it. I still need to get around to doing that someday... someday. I have the PAL versions of I & II which are both worth a tidy sum these days. I consider the games an investment. A used PAL Suikoden II can fetch up to £130 last I checked, while the first game (used, again) doesn't even register on eBay's Completed Listings anymore and is going for about £85 on Amazon.

[krissy]

"anita sarkeesian took ur moneys dude lol"

Damsel in Distress: Part 1 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games - YouTube

i don't even mean to revive the thread so much as to share this long awaited video (had no idea it'd be a video series but all right)

[Freya]

Seriously.

No mention for Lara Croft yet?
Tali from Mass Effect
Liara from Mass Effect
Heck, even Miranda Lawson!

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I always found Lara Croft a very negative female character. It always seemed to me that yeah she did all this platforming but the fact the the biggest focus was on how big her boobs were, that to me was very negative and I avoided that series like a plague. Until this recent one I never had an interest in the series because of her portrayal.

[Night Fury]

Seriously.

No mention for Lara Croft yet?
Tali from Mass Effect
Liara from Mass Effect
Heck, even Miranda Lawson!

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I always found Lara Croft a very negative female character. It always seemed to me that yeah she did all this platforming but the fact the the biggest focus was on how big her boobs were, that to me was very negative and I avoided that series like a plague. Until this recent one I never had an interest in the series because of her portrayal.

See, when I was younger I had no idea about sexualisation and the like, but I still wanted to be Lara Croft! Team that with all the Buffy I watched and I just wanted to grow up into a total ass kicker!

Now I look back and think of how really, really, terribly she was sexualised. All of her little sex noises she would make when climbing things and stuff ahaha, but she was still a strong, kick ass women - even if she was dressed in next to nothing.

[Loony BoB]

Re: noises being 'sexual' - how many noises do people make when climbing cliff faces and getting shot and punched and forced to run into walls couldn't be misconstrued as 'sexual'?

[krissy]

most of them.

[Loony BoB]

I dunno, it seems no matter how someone moans/grunts in a game they could be construed as sounding either sound constipated or sexual. Perhaps that's the fault of voice actors, but more than likely it's just the result of filthy minded people. It's the same with Tennis. When people do something that requires a lot of energy and they shout out because of it, the rest of the world goes "hurr hurr hurr, sex noises" because we're all so very witty and high brow.

[Cloudane]

No love for Yuna?

In FFX, of course. Not so much X-2 where she got dumbed-down.

DOOM - OF COURSE the space marine is a giant burly man.

Well, Arlene Sanders was a pretty good character in the novelisation at least

[Madame Adequate]

ITT people who have never played a Suikoden game.

I've played Suikoden (1) but found it kind of forgettable for the most part, and never finished it.

This is worse than your soup debacle. This is more wrong than Holocaust denial. This is worse than the Holocaust itself. Please go.

[The Man]

>playing Suikoden
>not playing Suikoden II
>judging entire series based on the first game

How the smurf did I even miss this. BoB what the smurf. You are so objectively wrong I can't even.

[DMKA]

No love for Yuna?

I like Yuna, but a lot of people would say she fits the J-RPG female "Oh, I wield greater power than anyone else in the game but I need constant rescue anyway because I'm a pretty girl!" archetype.

See also: Aeris, Rinoa and Garnet.

[Dr. rydrum2112]

I still object to the looking at things in aggregate like this- simpson's paradox.

[Forsaken Lover]

The best female in SO3(hell, she was probably the best character period) was Nel.

[Loony BoB]

>playing Suikoden
>not playing Suikoden II
>judging entire series based on the first game

How the smurf did I even miss this. BoB what the smurf. You are so objectively wrong I can't even.

I'm not judging the entire series based on the first game, I'm simply wanting to finish the first game before I start the second.

[krissy]

Damsel in Distress: Part 2 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games - YouTube
damsels in distress part 2 came out
it's pretty good