Best female characters introduced to gaming in the last decade

[Mik Sunrider]

Ellie from The Last of Us
Flemeth from DA:O (not DA 2, I hate the way they changed her look)

 

[drednoahl]

Kaine from Nier
Karin from Shadowhearts Covenant - It didn't get released in my country until 2005 so I'm counting it

Off the top of my head they're the ones that spring to mind although both might get excluded due to "technicalities"

 

[NexT_GeN_EXpeRT]

Nariko and Kai from heavenly sword
Elana from the uncharted series
faith from mirrors edge
Alice from Alan wake
Sheva from resident evil 5
and that's all I can think of right now

 

[go-10]

I bet most answers are Alex, Chelle, and Glados so I'll not mention those. For me personally Ellie from Last of Us and Lara from Tomb Raider

 

[white_wolf]

Faith, Jodi Holmes, Nillin, Ellie, Tess (last of us), Marlene (leader of fireflies), Alyx (half life2), Maya and Lilly (state of decay), Kidd (AC blackflag), Roseline Lettiuce (bioshock Infinite), Bonny McFarlene, Yuna (FFX), Tali, Admirals Rann and Xen (Mass Effect), Dr. Chakwas, Aria (Mass Effect), Fshep, Madam President/FBoss (Saints Row 4), Gladous (if robots can count)

 

[joest01]

Kaine from Nier

Remind me, was there not a penis involved with Kaine?

Anyways, Faith has been mentioned many times. Someone said Borderlands. Let me narrow that down: Maya!

 

[DarkRawen]

Since I can't see anyone having mentioned it... a whole lot of the female cast from the Ace Attorney series. Maya, Mia, Pearl, Athena, Kay, Ema, Lana, Trucy, and so on, all being pretty awesome characters IMO. it's sort of a given, seeing as the series have a lot of characters that you interact with and get to know, but still, they never seem to get mentioned, so yeah.