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Badass warrior women in video games
- Thread starter SolVanderlyn
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For an alleged warrior woman, walking around in what seems to be armored high heels? I'd say they are ridiculously impractical.
Yea, I have never understood what heels serves in terms of practicality. Their inclusion has become a trope when it comes to designing women in games (much like the now rightly rebuffed Bikini Armour). In real world, female soliders are not furnished with boots with fashionable heels. I think Nadine's (Uncharted series in general) design stays away from this trope for their female characters and protagonist.
Good, Elma is on the first page. She's a dual gun dual sword wielding badass who doesn't take anyone's shit. I love when Goetia is having a villain monologue and Elma just shoots her like "shut up."
I also humbly submit this impeccable specimen of badassery
Put her in fucking Smash, Sakurai.
Here's another from me. Jade from Beyond Good and Evil. She's strong. She's witty. She protects orphans. She saves the planet.
And I named my daughter after her
And I named my daughter after her
A bit disappointed with the few mentions of Horizon Zero Dawn and all its amazing, female characters.
There are more than just Aloy, and I absolutely loved the feminist undertone in the game.
There are more than just Aloy, and I absolutely loved the feminist undertone in the game.
Freya in FFIX
This looks like a Mumin with a goddamn spear. đź‘Ť
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read the history section, and i always picture horse riding boots with a raised heel. exaggerated and impractical sure, but shes just that extravagant
her choice of clothing doesnt make her less badass
The same place that took 24 posts to mention Samus. Fuck yeah though THE BOSS! What a fucking bad ass!Disappointed in Era that The Boss (MGS3) wasn't mentioned anywhere on first page.
Jill Valentine on RE5
I think she was on her top game in RE3:
That's her finest display of prowess no doubt (the biggest one of any RE character I'd argue).
Witcher 3 time
Cerys An Craite daughter of the Craite clan leader and is in competition with her brother to become ruler of the Skellige Islands takes no shit and willing to put herself on the line.
Cerys An Craite daughter of the Craite clan leader and is in competition with her brother to become ruler of the Skellige Islands takes no shit and willing to put herself on the line.
How has this thread gone this long without Chun-Li?
Strongest Woman in the World. An interpol officer willing to take on shadowy secret organizations to save the world or ever just one girl.
Thank you.
Good, Elma is on the first page. She's a dual gun dual sword wielding badass who doesn't take anyone's shit. I love when Goetia is having a villain monologue and Elma just shoots her like "shut up."
Put her in fucking Smash, Sakurai.
Oh yeah she's my #1 pick with a goddamn bullet for Smash Ultimate since day 1. It really couldn't be anyone else from XBX, she's that good of a char
how has no one mentioned 2B?
More of a tragic character than a badass. A badass at a glance, tho!
A badly proportioned, super sexualized design deserves all the criticism.
To be fair, at least there's plenty of people naming their choices along with the pictures. A lot of times we don't even get that!
I really dislike Vanillaware's art, personally. All I see is paper dolls when in motion, definitely not my favorite 2D style.
It at least does the same ridiculous proportions with the male characters
There's a bit of an uncomfortable pattern though, that people accuse thicker women of being "more sexualised" and "obscenely disproportionate" while overlooking women with unrealistic proportions and poses designed for male gaze as long as they're conventionally demure and on the slimmer/shorter side.
Lady from Devil May Cry 3. She's a badass despite not having any demonic powers while helping the main character grow and having her own journey throughout the game.
The proportions and bodies of all the characters in Dragon's Crown border on parody. I'm not sure how it's a point of contention whether they are sexualized or disproportionate.
You can be "good" at drawing but still be "bad" at designing and other aspects.
Exhibit A:
but in DC case it's intentional. you may not like it and that's ok, but then it's "i don't like it" instead of "it's bad"You can be "good" at drawing but still be "bad" at designing and other aspects.
Exhibit A:
cuz kamitani can draw
Tataru Taru in Final Fantasy XIV
What she lacks in physical strength, she makes up for in being a bad ass accountant and project manager.
What she lacks in physical strength, she makes up for in being a bad ass accountant and project manager.
Not even the same thing.You can be "good" at drawing but still be "bad" at designing and other aspects.
Exhibit A:
People defending it as not being absurdist however is beyond the pale of what might be considered reasonable. Whether it's a defense of the style or an argument.
I don't think NMH 3 is gonna make it next year. Bayonetta 3 will though for sure. Who knows what's going on with Pikmin 4. BotW 2 is 50/50. Odyssey 2 is 50/50 (though personally I'm hoping for Captain Toad 2 first). A new 2D Metroid by Sakamoto/MS is my most wanted, but I call it 40/60 for next year (I do think one is in development though, not confident it would release next year). Prime 4 has no chance whatsoever. Not holding my breath for anything by Retro anymore.
dunno why, i love it and i admit it's absurd. the paladin is a body builder who skipped leg day all his life and the dwarf is a rock with muscles on top of other muscles
As long as you're willing to admit that it's basically not representative of a human's body, and that it's blatantly sexualized and objectifying, well, you do you I guess.
I agree, while I dislike the pandering in the walking animation, I love the absurdity of the design. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Miss Tatsu - Yakuza 0
Miss Tatsu appears as a volatile, but a somewhat friendly and straightforward individual to those who don't have any debts to pay. To those who do have debts, she is considered extremely ruthless and abrasive, so much so that people have been rumored to flee the country after hearing she was coming to collect. Her fighting style is so extreme she becomes a trainer to Kiryu a formidable Yakuza, giving him his strongest style.