Your Top 5 Female Characters in Gaming

[Launcelot111]

1. Yukari Takeba (Persona 3)
2. Maya Fey (Phoenix Wright)
3. Falls from Grace (Planescape Torment)
4. Samus (Metroid)
5. Amaterasu (Okami)

Honorable Mention: Chie and Rise (Persona 4), Sheena (Tales of Symphonia), Tali (Mass Effect), Cass (Fallout NV), Celes (FF6)

And for fighting games

1. She-Hulk (MvC3)
2. Sophitia (Soul Calibur)
3. Jill Valentine (MvC2)
4. Taki (Soul Calibur)
5. Amaterasu (MvC3)

Honorable Mention: Noel Vermillion (Blazblue), Christie Monteiro (Tekken), Momoko (King of Fighters)

 

[Razoack]

In no particular order:

Samus Aran
Princess Zelda (her Tetra form the most)
Edea (Final Fantasy VIII, a great villain IMO)
Chell
Faith (Mirror's Edge)

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

5: Samus Aran Because she is majorly a part of my childhood
4: Catwoman because...Miiii-aow
3: Femshep because, no matter what scars you bear,(But I always play Manshep)
2: Tali Zorah, because She can do no wrong at all, ever
1: Liara T'soni. There's just something about her I really like.

Please note, If the next batman game features Batgirl, then the list gets bumped down a notch.

 

[Gitty101]

5) Zoey (Left 4 Dead Series)
4) Corporal Hart (Timesplitters Series)
3) Neeshka (Neverwinter Nights 2)
2) Liara T'soni (Mass Effect Series)
1) FemShep. Just love her (Mass Eeffect Series)

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

1) Lara Croft
2) Jennifer from Primal
3) GlaDos
4) Tifa from FF7
5) My female Wizard 'Rarity' from Diablo 3

 

[Chester Rabbit]

1)Consumer(Re-Loaded)
2)Liara(ME)
3)Rachel Shepard(ME)
4)Sheeva(MK)
5)Ayame(Tenchu)

 

[Erttheking]

Samus Aran (not counting other m)
Tali'Zorah
Midna
Cortana
Sarah Lyons

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

1: Samus Aran. I'm not even that big of a fan of Metroid, but I love Samus.

2: Tali'zorah Nar Rayya/Vas Neema/Vas Normandy

3: Viconia DeVir

4: Fall-From-Grace

5: Erika Redmark

Honorable Mentions: Mara Jade, who would be Number 1 except I don't really see her as being a gaming character so much as a character that was in a game, Mona Sax, Alyx Vance, Bastila Shan, and The Dark Master.

 

[Irridium]

Kreia - KOTOR 2.

Don't really have a list of sorts, but Kreia's easily my favorite female character in gaming. I'd say the best female character. Hell, one of the best characters in games period.

 

[Rahnzan]

Anju (Zelda)
Ellie (Dead Space)
Rosa (Assassin's Creed)
Ayame (Tenchu)
Farah (PoP)

 

[DioWallachia]

1.IJI
2.Bayonneta
3.Hyper Princess Pitch and Samus Aran
4.Irusu Syndrome
5.The 2 princesses that you get to save in Snow Brothers for the Sega Genesis only for them to rescue their boyfriends who get kipnapped instead in the last 20 floors.

 

[JediMB]

Technically Liara is not a female, I know but someone was going to say it.

"Technically" she is female, because the Asari are both by definition and according to the Mass Effect codex an all-female species. Their reproduction, through parthenogenesis, is similar to that of the very real all-female New Mexico whiptail [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail].

 

[Sean Hollyman]

The Boss (MGS3)
Sheik (Ocarina of Time)
Catwoman (Arkham City)
Bonnie Mcfarlane (Red Dead Redemption)
EDI (Mass Effect 2)

 

[Eddie the head]

Technically Liara is not a female, I know but someone was going to say it.

"Technically" she is female, because the Asari are both by definition and according to the Mass Effect codex an all-female species. Their reproduction, through parthenogenesis, is similar to that of the very real all-female New Mexico whiptail [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail].

Right but she said in the first game quote " Technically I am not a female." So no offence but I am going with what the characters themselves have said over the Codex countering it said that Reapers where a myth and had no bases in fact in the second game. Just saying I trust Liara over the Codex.

 

[SuperBio]

In no real order
Femshep
Samus
Tali
Naoto (Persona 4)
Mitsuru (Persona 3)

Seriously the amount of love that Mitsuru gets is next to nothing.

 

[Frankster]

1)Heather from Silent Hill 3.

#3: Heather from Silent Hill. Wonderful protagonist, and a surprisingly believable performance in a series somewhat notorious for bad acting. She's strong-willed and determined, but manages to portray it against the horror without coming off as 2-dimensional.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I didn't want to like heather first time I saw her tbh, mainly because of the haircut because yes, i am that shallow >< But i warmed up to her quickly enough.

2)Kreai from kotor: I think most people who played it will know why :')

3)Jade from Mortal Kombat. Has been my "main" in mk since mk3. A lot of my love comes from being the first character in mk i got any good with, and only one i easily did fatalities with.

4)Kasumi Goto/Samara from mass effect. Counting them as 1 since are from same game and like them for the opposite reasons: kasumi for being a charming rogue and samara for being a knightly paladin which I didn't expect at first and grew to enjoy hearing her viewpoints.

5) Is it that hard for me to think of 5 good female characters? Apparently it is cos im drawing a blank.. Note to self: buy beyond good and evil now that its on gog and see what fuss about jade (not the mk one) is all about.
Gonna cop out and say Lara Croft...

 

[TheTim]

1 - Zelda : Her legend

2 - Sonya Blade : Mk9

3 - Chloe Frazier : Uncharted 2

4 - Ashley Williams : Mass Effect Series

5 - Sun Shang Xiang : Dynasty Warriors Series

 

[lacktheknack]

#1: Catherine (of the Myst series): Upon being rescued from her cell, instead of immediately trying to escape the whole prison, she ACTUALLY DID IMPORTANT THINGS. She's also quite compassionate and caring.

#2: That one chick from Dwarf Fortress: She fought an entire goblin invasion, slew an angry elephant and escaped a rogue lava stream... all while carrying her baby.

#3: Magdalene (The Binding of Isaac): She's the character I finally won the bloody game with. Also, she survived being in The Bindingn of Isaac. That's gotta make her more badass than old Lara Croft.

#4: Zoe (Dreamfall): She looks, behaves and talks like a genuine confused young adult. Do you know how rare that is in any media?

#5: Faith (Mirror's Edge): Because my version of her never attacks anyone but can outmaneuver EVERYONE.