Female armor in video games

[Ilosar]

The Ace Attorney Series (5 games)

Thhe games with the little girl turning into her mature sister, but keeping her small clothes? The game with a whip-toting crazy lady? I am not so sure.

Persona 1, 2, 3 and 4 (with a huge variety of characterizations per game)

Can't comment, never played.

Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas.

Granted. But then again this is Black Isles/Obsidian we are talking about, I would be dissapointed if the best writers in the industry (imo) ere to fall for such cliches.

Infamous 2

...Yeah I guess. There's not much character development IIRC, but they do influence the story somewhat.

Planescape was covered.

Catherine

Ooooh boy. That one is really hard to say. Some think it's gender-equal. Some say it portrays men as assholes. Some say it portrays women as either overprotective bitches or dreamy, slightly idiotic minxes. The box art and slightly exagerated character design does not help.

Portal 1 and 2

The only human female in the series being mute? That's like saying Gordon Freeman is an original, strong, believable character. Except we know nothing of him save that he can kill armies by himself.

So yeah, off the list I can grant 1, maybe 3 if we strech it. You could add various Bioware games to it, I assume. And I could name 5 too. they are not SO rare. But the fact remains they are largely the exception rather than the rule, or at least the standard.

 

[Sabirah]

Catherine
Portal 1 and 2
and those are just off the top my head.

so yeah.... maybe you should try more games before making broad
statements?

The rest were covered but

Catherine is pretty much "hey nerds, with women you have two choices. super uptight (scuse my french) bitch or insane idiot.

Portal has no character. She never speaks and could be replaced with a pile of animate kindles and it would be the exact same.


Oh, and lay off with insulting people in every thread you post in. It makes you come off as a person with anger issues

 

[Walpknut]

Surf.

What does big boobs have to do with charatcerization? a woman with big boobs inmediately has no character? that's mostly the artist rather than the writter.

ISLOAR.

On ace Attorney
What does that have to do with characterization at all? and Maya is not a little girl, and Franziska isn't protrayed as sexy rather than assholish at first.

On Catherine
" Some say it portrays women as either overprotective bitches or dreamy, slightly idiotic minxes. " there aare two characters like that, and for me the best ending is the True Neutral one, a hint you choose neither, and there are other female characters like Erica who despite being kind of flirty (wich is mostly to mess up with the guys heads, spoiler) she is a pretty smart person emotionaly, and Anna who is a pretty realistic character, Catherine herself ACTS like an idiotic Minx for a reason, play the game if you haven't already.

Catherine
Portal 1 and 2
and those are just off the top my head.

so yeah.... maybe you should try more games before making broad
statements?

The rest were covered but

Catherine is pretty much "hey nerds, with women you have two choices. super uptight (scuse my french) bitch or insane idiot.

.......

play a game before sumarizing it.... it makes you sound less dumb.

 

[Crni Vuk]

how dare you calling Sabirah "dumb". The defender of the weak. Voice of the unheard.

 

[brfritos]

Women are either fragile flower, or Kali from lord of light. No other personalities allowed.

I finish playing Alice: Madness Returns the other day, I liked the game.
I liked more McGee's vision than the gameplay, wich is somewhat repetitive, but the art and story are superb.

Does she count?

 

[Sabirah]

Women are either fragile flower, or Kali from lord of light. No other personalities allowed.

I finish playing Alice: Madness Returns the other day, I liked the game.
I liked more McGee's vision than the gameplay, wich is somewhat repetitive, but the art and story are superb.

Does she count?

Don't know, never played it.

 

[Mutoes]

Good female characters eh, cant remember too many from games its true, i liked alyx vance from hl2 and boss from mgs3.

And kinda intresting article on female armors, didnt think about the "boob plates direct the hit to heart" thing before.