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Who do you think is the most recognizable female video game character invented this century?
- Thread starter Raftina
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Oh, you're the one who made the poll? Never mind then. Looking up all these random characters you listed that no one has ever heard of lol
Are you sure it's everyone else who's out of touch?
Also do you have any suggestions, or just snark?
Just show a picture of Ellie in her sunset shirt and I think most people who've seen the show will recognize her. And around this time next year she'll be even more recognizable, in large part because of this
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No everyone, just whoever made the poll
brb going to the hollywood screening of the latest movie adaptation of whatever the character "cynthia" is in
real century-topping recognizability character deserving of this kind of question
Thinking 2B is more recognizable than Aloy is such an Era thing lol. Ellie trumps both of them though
Paimon's a 2 foot tall, flying, glutinous loot goblin. She has hundreds of hours of cutscenes and voice acting in the game, serving essentially as the MC's voice. And again, this is a game that's had maybe a quarter billion players?
You edited your post to ask me a question after I already quoted it.
It looks like the last movie Cynthia was in was Pokemon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions, back in 2010/2011. She was also in the previous Pokemon movie, Arceus and the Jewel of Life.
Enjoy yourself, the two movies she's in are actually decent Pokémon movies. Although I don't think they screen those nowadays.
I can't pick, but I don't think it's one of the options in the poll. For me, a western-focused gamer who watches TV shows, my bet might be Ellie.
I had to look up who 2B is, but that could just be my own ignorance. I'm familiar with Neir Automata because of this site, but I have a hard time putting 2B over Alyx Vance, or even supporting female characters from much more popular games like Abigail Marston from RDR1/2, Amanda or Tracey from GTAV, or Kendl Johnson or Catalina from GTAIII & San andreas, or Candy Suxx from GTA:VC. Not that I think Abigail or Amanda or Catalina are super recognizeable, but GTAV has sold like 180million copies or something, so I have a hard time thinking that a game that's sold like 4% of GTAV's sales and market presence has a more recognizeable character.
Pushing back on "GTAV poster girl" because she's not a character. She doesn't appear as a character in the game, has no name, is not an NPC or anything, just a loading screen art work. Likewise I don't think "Female Mii" from Nintendo is a character, nor the models from Fortnite (unless there are new Fortnite characters). I also don't think "Chun Li from Fortnite" is fair if we're excluding Lara Croft from the 2013+ reboot. Chun Li came out in 1992 or w/e, and that's why she's in Fortnite (unless this is an identically named new character)
Of the major ones in the thread I'd go Ellie or the Animal Crossing charater (dunno her name, I haven't played the game).
Are there characters in The Sims, or are they all mostly just models/avatars, that you use for your own characters? I'm trying to think of super popular games with mega crossovver appeal, and the Sims is one of the most popular series of the last 25 years, but I don't know if they're truly introduced new characters or whether they're just avatars for other player-made characters.
Any female characters in Five Nights at Freddy's, or any other 21st videogame that's become a cultural phenomenon with kids, Hello Neighbor, etc? What about the woman from the Witcher 2 and 3?
Oh, wait, what about Cortana from Halo? Halo is one of the best selling series of the last 25 years, first one came out in 2001, and Cortana is a major character in at least 3 or 4 of the games... She;s pretty recognizeable enough that Microsoft named their AI assistant after her.
Tens of millions of Halo games have been sold, and there's a TV show with her in it, and the Microsoft voice assistant is named after her. Seems like a good honorable mention.
Most of the games I play and love with major female characters, Control, Alan Wake 2, Dishonored, etc, probably just aren't big enough games to have their main character be recognizeable broadly.
Sure enough, the Sims is from this century
Bella Goth, 100%.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Jinx or Ahri from League of Legends probably beat 2B, Aloy and Cynthia easily. The size of League of Legends can't be overstated, and it's a truly international game unlike something like Horizon. I think the rest of the list probably gives them a good run for their money, though. I don't know enough about Saber to make a call either way, but Paimon is huge even if I personally dislike Genshin. I think it's weird to have Chun-Li on the list at all though I suppose from the context it may be a joke? But there are some big characters totally overlooked in favor of characters with relatively small franchises by comparison.
Seething?
I think the poll is just bad. There's nothing wrong with people commenting on the poor selection of choices available, especially since there is not "other" option
I'd probably double that. Genshin has 140+ million downloads on mobile without China, + an unknown amount of PS + PC downloads + all of China where it's even more popular. I feel like 500+ million is not an unreasonable assumption.
I dunno if she'd win against some of the choices brought up that aren't on the poll, but among the poll options she's probably a clear winner. That she's that low instead is pretty amusing.
Most of the pokemon arent characters either, but they still show up in character popularity polls.
Spend more time around the younglings, majority of kids in the western world between the ages of 4 and 15 will know Alex. It's a game with 300 million copies sold, huge amounts of merchandise, and the only game many of that generation would have played.
In my real life, I'd say 1-2% of the people I know would recognise any of the options in that poll, and even then it's only be Aloy and 2B
Just tested this on a friend who has watch the full season of TLOU but doesn't play games. She had no clue who game Ellie was supposed to be, and remarked how she looks nothing like the actress that plays her when informed.
I think you're overestimating how recognisable certain aspects of a character are to those that aren't fans looking for the references. Ellie's design is super generic, and that extends to the clothes she wears. There's nothing iconic about a sunset t-shirt to cause people that see it in passing when watching a TV show to take note of it. Similarly I've watched all 4 seasons of Stranger Things, but I can't tell you any of the clothing worn by the main cast.
Hell, I didn't even recognise Ellie's tattoo, and I've seen countless images of TLOU2 Ellie. I only gathered what it due to the context on the post. It looks like any other random tattoo. These kinds of minute details are the sorts of things that core fans of a game and character may see as iconic, but it's visual background noise to most people.
Just this past weekend me and the family went to a Genshin/Honkai event, and let me tell you cons about specific games or series outside of retro stuff are rare here.
They are really popular.
