GOOD Female Support Characters
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I've gotta join the Alyx-bashing waggon here, at the begining of episode 1 she is given infinate ammo and will only fire where you illuminate (some may say that makes her quite valuble but thats what I'm getting at), this made me think, and was further proved by listening to the dev commentaries, that they threw this feature in to get use out of her and to somehow make you attach to her (it just struck me as a bad excuse to leave you with nothing but the shoddy grav gun for the first section of the game). Throughout she is often involved in what Valve call 'gates' (pre-programmed barriers to keep the player from moving on until they've sat through that almightily important 5 minute dialogue) in Half Life 2 particularly I often connected her appearance with yet another unessercary pause in the already broken up action.
Now, I would say that a pretty good female support character would have to be Isabella from Dead Rising, okay, so she is initially hostile (name me a heroine from Devil May Cry who isn't) but:
1. In-game she can actually hold her own against zombies and her AI is refreshingly smarter than other survivors for some reason.
2. In terms of the plot she is more or less central, she even creates a zombie cure for you (sorry for the spoilers guys, not that there was much to spoil) so her importance is in fact more than just being a crowbarred in love interest who has terrible things happen to her.
Now, I would say that a pretty good female support character would have to be Isabella from Dead Rising, okay, so she is initially hostile (name me a heroine from Devil May Cry who isn't) but:
1. In-game she can actually hold her own against zombies and her AI is refreshingly smarter than other survivors for some reason.
2. In terms of the plot she is more or less central, she even creates a zombie cure for you (sorry for the spoilers guys, not that there was much to spoil) so her importance is in fact more than just being a crowbarred in love interest who has terrible things happen to her.
Elena Fisher. Whilst she eventually displays an irritating tendency to get herself kidnapped, she doesn't commit any of the cardinal support character sins, like deciding that the best place to stand is directly in my line of fire.
Annah from Planescape: Torment comes to mind. Yeah, she had mega-tits. Everyone in the game did. So did the zombies. That game in general had very well-fleshed-out supporting women. Who didn't hear the word 'brothel' and expect something entirely different from what we got? Who wasn't affected by Deionarra's mournful, obsessive loneliness or Ravel's psychopathic crush on you?
Honorable mentions go to Rose from The Legend of Dragoon (who outshone practically every other character in the game), Deis/Ershin from Breath of Fire 4, Amaterasu from Okami (who licks her own butt like a lady, I tells ya), Beatrix and Freya from FFIX (Beatrix especially - when I first played the game as a child I wanted to BE HER), Kreia and Visas from KOTOR2 and the inimitable GLADOS. The reason this list consists mostly of RPGs is because I am a loser.
Honorable mentions go to Rose from The Legend of Dragoon (who outshone practically every other character in the game), Deis/Ershin from Breath of Fire 4, Amaterasu from Okami (who licks her own butt like a lady, I tells ya), Beatrix and Freya from FFIX (Beatrix especially - when I first played the game as a child I wanted to BE HER), Kreia and Visas from KOTOR2 and the inimitable GLADOS. The reason this list consists mostly of RPGs is because I am a loser.
I don't see why a good support character has to be like the most intriguing character EVAR?Bulletinmybrain said:We lost another one to shiny graphics and shallow characters..Dessembrae said:
Most of the characters mentioned here is probably more interesting than most people irl, which makes it less believable of sorts.
A character can be likable although they're not tremendously interesting, but just because the seem like a believable character and is just interesting enough.
It makes them feel somewhat close to reality.
I never can see why people like stuck up Jedi tart Bastila. One of the worst cases of Informed Ability ever, but so completely up herself about her own capabilities. Seriously, the only saving grace to her presence in the game is a high Dex score.