What games of older generations would you put up? i dont mind the genre really, id would just love to hear yalls suggestions.
Cult classic. Such a good game! Scree is so cute, perfect little companion. <3
- Monster World IV
- Twinkle Tail
- If Tomb Raider is old enough for you
- Contra
- Touho
- another game I played (forgot the name, will edit later)
- most games where you could choose between 2 or more playable characters
Now that I think of it, the only not oversexualised female protagonists in retro games (I can think of rn) are from japanese titles. The USSR didn’t import video games and Europe and the US were just too conservative ig.
Ms. Pacman :)
Siberia 100%.
I believe all Elder Scrolls (at least the mainline games: Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim) let you select your character’s gender.
Also, what is “old”? Mass Effect 1 is already 15 years old.
I remember creating a female Twi’lek Jedi in some of the old LucasArts Jedi games.
- LucasArts Jedi something something
- KOTOR
- Baldur’s Gate
- Fallout Although these were more like “create-your-own protagonists” rather than “known hero protagonists” that people recognize.
Aside from the classics already mentioned in the thread, Lara, Chell, Samus, Valentine, Redfield, etc. here’s a few that come to mind:
- Peach in Super Mario 2, the game that feels more like a mushroom trip, than a trip to mushroom kingdom
- Aya from Parasite Eve
- Chun Li from Street Fighter, also Cammy
- Mortal Kombat
- Tekken
- Soulcalibur
- Dead or Alive
- Sarah Kerrigan in Starcraft(s), although it’s an RTS, so protagonist is a bit loose.
- Rayne from BloodRayne, the first video game character to appear in PlayBoy, eh
- Ellie from The Last Of Us, damn it’s been 10 years already? Is that an old game already? Am I old? Nevermind, don’t answer.
- Clem from The Walking Dead
- Joanna from Perfect Dark
I’m sure I’m forgetting a few others.
once again my list keeps getting longer lol, thanks
I believe the default choice in the jedi academy character creator was a female twilek…
Quite possible, I must admit it’s been long enough that I don’t remember much detail and mix the multiple games in the series.
Ulala from Space Channel 5.
Metroid is likely the most famous
i recently streamed metroid fusion but had to stop cause the infinite spin jump simply didnt work, very sad cause its a good one
It’s not in Dread either. Drives me crazy.
It is in fusion tho, it just LITERALLY didnt work correctly, i got it working maybe once or twice and than never again
idk how i managed to get up to the final boss in dread, but i really didnt like it, the big selling points of the robots where so annoying, like a pale imitation of the samus x of…fusion
I spent 200+ hours with Dread when it came out. Shiniest new toy in awhile so I played the hell out of it. I tried playing it the other week and it doesn’t really feel like Metroid to me now.
Long ass opening with an intro fight we can’t even play.
Samus flies across the room. She’s way way too fast.
Far too much of a focus on boss fights.
Weakest exploration in the series.
Super missiles don’t bounce off anything.
The scary robots are in obvious locations and can just be run past.Super Metroid is still top dog. If you want a modern metroidvania check out Axiom Verge.
cool, ill check it otu
The Longest Journey was my favorite as a kid. Point and click adventure about a young art student in the future who keeps teleporting to a fantasy world.
never really got around to playing it, ill make sure to do so now
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Bayonetta.
Blood rayne, for “older sexy action woman game”
Cult: Heretic Kingdoms
Fantastic RPG game, with a badass female protagonist.
The older Resident Evil games (1, 2, Code Veronica, RE:Zero) have playable female protagonists. Actually most of the RE games have at least one segment where you play as a female character.
The swapping of two protagonists is actually something I wish they would bring back to the modern games in the franchise.
Yeah replaying all the RE now and it’s crazy how this very early choice of two playable characters in the original series allowed the remasters to feel much more modern in their writing. Jill feels like the modern badass main woman a lot of game which they could write properly.
The Guardian Legend on NES.
that one looks neat
Eien no Filena on the SNES/SFC (it was Japan-only but it’s been fan-translated).
Not only is the protagonist a woman - that fact is repeatedly plot-relevant.
The main protagonist in Final Fantasy 6 is female. There’s a large number of games that age or newer with Female protags… older is a bit harder (but not too hard. You just unfortunately end up with a lot of fringe games or exploitive games)
And below, some cheatiness (a fairly exhaustive list of both :) )
very nice lists, thanks
