Female Protagonists

[Anonymous No.926513]

How many classic games allow you to play as a female character, either as standard or via an option at the start.

With RPGs, try to keep it to instances where the character you create is a "character" in their own right, like how Darklands addresses your PC as "you," with the gender affecting people's treatment of you.

[Anonymous No.926985]

Alisia Dragoon
Layla
Rusty
Final Fight 2, and I think 3 as well
Samurai Pizza Cats
Magical Pop'n
Valis
Shantae
Popful Mail
Golden Axe
any of the Cotton games
any of the Sailor Moon games
The Guardian Legend
Balloon Kid
Eri and Fio in the Metal Slugs
Dixie in DKC 2
Madou Monogatari I
Valkyrie Profile
Legend of Mana

[Anonymous No.927000]

METROID, MUHFUGGAH

[Anonymous No.927006]

Touhou

[Anonymous No.927008]

Hrmmm... Tomb Raider

[Anonymous No.927043]

Darkstalkers
Street Fighter II
Super Mario Bros. II [USA Version]
Dead or Alive

[Anonymous No.927087]

El Viento, aka the game no one EVER picked on Nick Arcade

[Anonymous No.927092]

>>927043
why not just say 'pretty much every fighter'

[Anonymous No.927096]

Laura Bow series
Plundered Hearts
Phantasy Star
The Great Giana Sisters
Lode Runner's Rescue
Aleste 2
Saboteur 2

[Anonymous No.927097]

>thread is sitting right next to the Parasite Eve thread in the catalog
>no one's said Parasite Eve

[Anonymous No.927101]

Parasite Eve?

[Anonymous No.927102]

Dragon Warrior 3 allows you to create an all-female party.

There are also the Battle Mania games, Arrow Flash, Keio Flying Squadron, Baraduke, Burning Force, Puyo Puyo and Monster World IV.

[Anonymous No.927104]

Psycho Soldier
Athena

[Anonymous No.927110]

Yeah it probably doesn't count but I think the main character in Gleylancer was a girl. Not like it matters since you control a space ship the whole game.

[Anonymous No.927121]

Xena: Warrior Princess

[Anonymous No.927138]

How fucking stupid do you have to be to think that decades of game development by thousands of game designers and hundreds of unique IP's, encompassing numerous massive changes in the
game structure and design, would have ignored half of the human population for potential as a protagonist for so long and this idea so widespread that it'd reach a point where you might think that this was an intelligent, critical question?

[Anonymous No.927141]

Suikoden 3, was on ps2 so borderline retro.

[Anonymous No.927146]

[Anonymous No.927147]

Was Athena older than Metroid? They both came out in 1986.

[Anonymous No.927148]

>>927087
wow kids have fucking shit taste, what would they pick over el viento? I dont even want to know

[Anonymous No.927154]

>>927138
Its called autism. seriously only in 4chan will you have people extrapolate the most asinine conclusions from things. Artfags man they see shit that isnt there.

[Anonymous No.927158]

>>927138

Please rephrase your post in the form of not nonsense.

[Anonymous No.927209]

Mega Man X4

[Anonymous No.927218]

Musha Aleste

[Anonymous No.927224]

>>927209
Almost certainly a troll, but I'd still note that Zero is male, despite having a red colour scheme.

[Anonymous No.927228]

>>927224
>not being able to take a joke

Not everything is a troll man, lighten up.

[Anonymous No.927231]

>>927209
this post almost made me glad this terrible thread was made

[Anonymous No.927236]

>>927209

[Anonymous No.927285]

Legend of Valkyrie
Rod Land

[Anonymous No.927295]

That one that gave Arino absolute hell for what seemed like forever. You know the one, where he was stuck on the same floor for like 90% of the live broadcast.

[Anonymous No.927310]

sup

[Anonymous No.927327]

>>927285
never noticed this

[Anonymous No.927353]

Insects in Space

[Anonymous No.927361]

[Anonymous No.927378]

[Anonymous No.927395]

>>927295
Gonna take a stab in the dark and say Umehara Kawase? Fishing pole stuff?

[Anonymous No.927468]

>>927295

Quest of Ki.

[Anonymous No.927597]

>>927378

[Anonymous No.927627]

Arkista's Ring
>Reminds me of a ROM hack I made where I made her nude in the pause screen. Good times.

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.927640]

>>927043
>implying fighting games have women in them

Creepy preteen blowup dolls are not women.

[Anonymous No.927643]

>>927378
I could never get this fucking game to work.

[Anonymous No.927652]

>>927310

Best girl coming through

Waifu since 95

[Anonymous No.927668]

>>927378

YEEEEEEE~AH

[Anonymous No.927670]

>>927627

Now why would you do something like that, you virgin loser?

...

Do you still have it by any chance? Ahem.

[Anonymous No.927673]

First female main character? No.

First gay main character? Yes.

[Anonymous No.927675]

Star Ocean: The Second Story
Shadow of the Ninja
Super Mario Bros. 2 (US)

off the top of my head. I'm sure there are plenty more. I mean, considering that compared to male PCs there aren't a lot, no matter how you cut it.

[Anonymous No.927685]

>>927670
I might, but I seriously doubt it.

[Anonymous No.927696]

While SMT If... lets you select male or female, it's one of the rare, even today, instances where the female wound up being canon.

[Anonymous No.927710]

>playing any modern game where you can play as a woman
>the woman has the exact same dialogue and same (male) bodily animations as the male character
>devs don't see why this is a problem

[Anonymous No.927714]

>>927670
>>927685
>Last modified: November 8, 2006
I'm actually quite impressed with the result.

[Anonymous No.927747]

>>927710
>female character has different dialog and animations
>feminists complain they are being treated differently

[Anonymous No.927846]

>>927747
Except no one ever does that you fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.927872]

>>927714

das it mane

got a download link

i need it for science

[Anonymous No.927931]

Castlevania Legends.

[Anonymous No.927979]

Contra: Hard Corps
Threads of Fate
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Rudra no Hihou (pic)

[Anonymous No.928407]

>>927673
I like how they handled it in that story.

[Anonymous No.928457]

Ms Pac-Man

[Anonymous No.928614]

I love games with female protagonists. Actually, I love every kind of medium when the protagonist is female, preferably interesting.

[Anonymous No.928957]

>>927673
What's the name of this game?

[Anonymous No.929008]

>>928957
SaGa Frontier, if I'm not mistaken.

[Anonymous No.929354]

>>927872
Sorry to disappoint, but that is literally the only picture of her.
On the plus side, it's a decent NES game.

[Anonymous No.929370]

No one mentions Psychic World? Great game for SMS/GG, plays a lot like Megaman (just a lot faster) and has a great female protagonist: Cecile.

[Anonymous No.929380]

Ultima Underworld has some unique dialogue for female PCs I think.

[Anonymous No.929431]

Stating the obvious here but if we're making a complete list might as well throw in stuff like Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, and other Disney or other cartoon games based on girl's shows or movies. There's probably too many to realistically mention but whatever.

[Anonymous No.929457]

>>927696
Speaking of SMT: if, when the hell are they going to finish the romhack? They said they already had everything translated.

[Anonymous No.929560]

>>929431
I think, in terms of a "list" it should stick to games with a default female lead, or games where being female is more than a palette swap, like RPGs that change the dialogue (or stats) depending on gender.

[Anonymous No.929583]

>>929457

No idea. Apparently one of the guys who was working on the game with Gideon got smacked by Hurricane Sandy.

As if you needed another reason to say, "Fuck you, Mother Nature."

[Anonymous No.929595]

>>929457
There's a massive difference between having the text translated and actually putting it into the game itself.

[Anonymous No.929673]

>>929595
I know, but they said that the encryption was exactly the same as SMT2, so all the work on that is already done. It's been sitting there for a long time.

I'm more concerned about Lagrange Point since it's been 6 years since the last update

[Anonymous No.930289]

The Longest Journey
Phantasmagoria

[Anonymous No.930306]

>>927310
>I'll never play FF6 for the first time ever again

[Anonymous No.930316]

How is it that everyone missed Space Channel !?

[Anonymous No.930375]

>>930316
Dreamcast is post-/vr/ by the current rules, that's why.

[Anonymous No.931259]

Do cyborg count?

[Anonymous No.931402]

Do trannies count? Castlevania has some dudes in short leather skirts

[Anonymous No.931410]

>>931402

>looks at Final Fight cart
>thinks about Poison

...I'm not even gonna address this issue.

[Anonymous No.931448]

>>931410
You just did. IMO Capcom trolled the US hard over what should have been a non-issue.

Boom, instant notoriety for a minor beat-em-up enemy.

[Anonymous No.931450]

>>931448

No kidding. Decades of controversy because someone with a clipboard and a pen got worried. Way to go, Capcom.

[Anonymous No.931950]

It's hard to find a good female protagonist these days.
Famitsu made a poll earlier this year for the "best female JRPG hero ever".
Lightning (FF13) was first by a really large margin.

[Anonymous No.931963]

>>931950
massive ugh

[Anonymous No.931971]

>>931950

daily reminder that /vr/ is the retro gaming board, not the "let's bitch about the modern industry board"

[Anonymous No.932114]

>>931950
>It's hard to find a good female protagonist these days.
>Famitsu made a poll earlier this year for the "best female JRPG hero ever".
>Lightning (FF13) was first by a really large margin.
I hope you realize this post is entirely nonsensical and the term 'non-sequitur' fits perfectly here, and you've even written out your argument exactly like an argument found in a book trying to teach you different fallacies. But anyways, let's go over this specifically because I'm bored enough to do so
>Jrpgs do not represent the whole of modern gaming in any way, shape, or form
>Jrpgs are known for their poor writing, so it makes sense they wouldn't write characters very well
>If the poll you listed (I couldn't find it myself) actually does occur in the manner you say it does, then it's asked what could be called an amateur enthusiast community with the extremely subject term 'best'. And from the looks of it, the definition of 'best' probably ended up being 'who was currently the most popular and hot'. Which I doubt is close to your own opinion of what a 'good' female protagonist has, meaning the poll has no actual relationship to your argument as well
>This is my own opinion on the matter and it's somewhat baseless and not really related but given the stupidity of that poll's setup, I can't imagine that the either the community asked or the ones asking are very intelligent. Which actually makes sense, because video games like to attract morons who think they know more than theydo

[Anonymous No.932121]

>>931971
Well, to be fair, "best female JRPG hero ever" also includes retro heroines.

Back on topic, does Alys Brangwin count? She was the leading party member of the first half, after all.

[Anonymous No.932141]

>>932114
and furthermore
>We still need to find your definition of 'good' because that's extremely subjective
>That you brought up Jrpgs and jrpgs alone in a retro-jrpg thread implies that you haven't looked at anything other than jrpgs in making this globalized judgement
>and of course we still have to discuss the comparison between finding a 'good' female protagonist, a 'good' male protagonist and a 'good' protagonist at all. Because I don't think it'd be difficult to argue that a lack of 'good' female protagonists is due simply to the horrible quality of writing found across the board and has absolutely nothing to do with females specifically.
This thread is still really fucking stupid

[Anonymous No.932165]

>>932141
there's nothing wrong with the premise of the thread

[Anonymous No.932182]

>>932114
>>932141
You must be really bored.

[Anonymous No.932196]

>>927141
that's not borderland retro, Dreamcast is

the pain

[Anonymous No.932223]

>>932165
Because there's such a significant lack of female protags, as shown in this thread, that it becomes an intelligent critique on video games to ask for a list of games with a female protag, isn't it?
Or maybe it was asked because having a female protag, as opposed to a male protag, significantly changes or enhances a game's structure and story (and let's remember that older titles, outside of rpgs, tend to ignore story and character development for the most part outside of shallow movements allowing the game to progress logically enough to keep the player somewhat invested)
Or maybe it was because the simple fact that if the player character, despite being a hollow shell in all other aspects, is a male then a female player can't properly get immersed into the game
Or could it have been because the op just wanted something to jack off to and further the use of his imagination at the same time.
And I hope you understand that all of these are entirely moronic opinions to have based in a misunderstanding of video games, their history, developer intentions, cultural history and value, and the very idea of what being a female protag brings to the table.
And to be even clearer, it is these same confused reasons that would lead someone to not just ask of this list, but for people to browse it in hopes of a female-representative game (because this is obviously the most important factor of a game, especially in relation to quality)

[Anonymous No.932227]

>>932182
woke up early couldn't go back to sleep got time to kill and this thread is where i decided to kill it instead of doing something worthwhile

[Legion of Anon No.932374]

>>932370

[Legion of Anon No.932370]

?!? No Dark Wizard? Seriously, guys?

[Anonymous No.932404]

>>932370
She looks little like Noriko. Now I'm interested.

[Anonymous No.932407]

>>932404
ganbasutaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Anonymous No.932412]

Little Red Hood

[Anonymous No.932470]

dat Alis. I really need to get past the first town

[Anonymous No.933536]

>>932223

Apparently tumblr found out /vr/.

[Anonymous No.933559]

>>933536
Isn't tumblr usually the pro-feminism in random shit group?

[Anonymous No.933567]

>>931971
>daily reminder

>>>/tumblr/

[Anonymous No.933573]

>>933559

tumblr isn't "anything" because it doesn't have an overarching community any more than 4chan does

[Anonymous No.933591]

>>933573
It does have a huge reputation for being the home website of a wide array of SJW and radfem groups though. The basic design of the website is appealing to soapbox preachers.

[Anonymous No.933592]

>>933573
Sure but I'm asking based on its usage here. The question was really more of "Isn't tumblr usually associated with finding pro-feminism in random shit". Basically what I really wanted to know was why the fuck he was accusing me of being from tumblr when nothing I said had anything (to my knowledge) to do with any tumblr stereotypes. In fact, I was accusing this thread's creation of having been influenced by the stupidly-pro-feminism tumble stereotype in that I listed three commonly spouted ideas by pro-feminists for video games and immediately claimed they were moronic.

[Anonymous No.933593]

>Being baited by a feminist who escaped the kitchen
Well /vr/ it's been a good run. I'm going back to /tg/.

[Anonymous No.933598]

Castlevania Rondo of Blood when you unlock Maria.

[Anonymous No.933605]

Final Fantasy VI. You can create a female-and-ambiguous party with Terra, Celes, Relm, and Gogo.

[Anonymous No.933904]

>>927146
Excellent taste, good anon.

[Anonymous No.933958]

>>933904
i second this

[Anonymous No.933976]

One of my favorites.

[Anonymous No.934010]

Shantae?

[Anonymous No.934016]

Laplace no Maou (Can either create male or female protagonist)

Any SaGa game except 3 (Male main lead in SaGa 3)

Wing of Madoola

Rudra No Hihou: Riza's scenario

[Anonymous No.935952]

>>934016
You could play a female lead on SaGa 3. What are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.935976]

Saiko Soruja

[Anonymous No.936048]

>>935952
I think you're mixing that up. SaGa III's (Final Fantasy Legend III) main character is "Arthur". Not sure what his name was in Japan.

[Anonymous No.936050]

Ice Climbers

[Anonymous No.936064]

>>936048
My bad I was thinking about Romancing SaGa 3

[Anonymous No.936180]

>>930306
Fuck you for reminding me.

[Anonymous No.936228]

>Saga discussion
I've always been interested in the Saga series, what's a good one to start with? I ask because I've heard they can be pretty petty and malicious.

[Anonymous No.936276]

>>936228
Romancing SaGa 3 is the most polished one. The FFL games on the gameboy are part of the SaGa series, with FFL2 being the closest to how SaGa is for Romancing and Frontier. I dunno if Romancing SaGa 1 and 2 got translated, but I know that RS1 got a PS2 remake which is a good RPG.

Don't bother with Unlimited though, it's fucking ridiculous. Friend of mine once described it as "The JRPG Final Exam".

[Anonymous No.936291]

>>936228
If you're the kind of person who's used to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest style JRPG's, they're very different in many ways. I personally can't get into them because some of those changes just rub me the wrong way. I hear that SaGa II is a good place to start. SaGa III plays like a standard FF or DQ game and it's the only game I was able to get into.

[Anonymous No.936295]

Take your feminist shit back to /v/

[Anonymous No.936308]

>>936276
I started with Unlimited because I heard of the SaGa series and it was the newest one. I was so confused with everything I just rage quit. So best to start with Romancing SaGa 3?

[Anonymous No.936318]

>>936276
>Saga 3
>skills are increased by use

...Does it suck as bad as in FF2?

[Anonymous No.936328]

>>936318
Sorry, I meant stats.

[Anonymous No.936335]

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

[Anonymous No.938280]

>>936308
Unlimited is a terrible place to start. You have to pretty much throw everything that you know about JRPG's out the window and then learn how to play. There are plenty of misconceptions about the game but this is /vr/ so not much point getting into it.

>>936318
>>936328
No, first of all you can't hit your guys (it was implemented into FFII because the creator wanted a way for the player to wake their players from the sleep status), also it happens somewhat frequently and at a nice pace. The more you use something the better you become, though you don't need to really grind.

>>936291
Yeah, SaGa III (Final Fantasy Legend III) is the only game in the series not made by Kawazu, and it really shows. It was my first RPG and I like it, but I prefer the other entries much more.

[Anonymous No.938279]

>>936228
If you want something with familiar progression but still has the SaGa flair then Final Fantasy Legend II for the Gameboy. Four different races, both humans and mutants develop the same way (stat ups through combat based upon what they do in battle) but humans develop faster than mutants while mutants can learn spells at random on their own. Robots get stronger when they equip items and monsters transform into other monsters (more powerful or even weaker) when they consume monster meat. There are eight equipment slots for your characters (monsters cannot equip or use items) so you can have three weapons on your characters, and even with robots you can stack body armors on them. Almost every single weapon in the entire game has durability.

If you want to get into a classic one with non-linear progression then go with Romancing SaGa 3, but it lacks different races developing in different ways. It has a translation patch and is for the SNES.

SaGa Frontier is a mix between the SNES Romancing SaGa games and the Gameboy games, and they were localized unlike the Romancing SaGa series.

It is a funny question on where to start because once you get into the non-linear games they don't help you as much with progression. I just find it amusing because I am thinking just trying to figure out what game to play is similar to what you will be doing in the games with figuring out where to go.

[Anonymous No.938327]

SNK Gals Fighters
Laser Ghost
Koudelka
Hyper Iria
Princess Minerva
Jurassic Park: Trespasser
King's Quest 4 & 7
Legend of Kyrandia 2
Armed & Delirious
Another Mind