Dangansona
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Persona 3 - Aigis
Final Fantasy XIII - Lightning
Mirror's Edge - Faith
You two nailed it imo.
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Your Favourite Female Character Designs in Gaming?
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You two nailed it imo.
Spinosaurus
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Overwatch's Ana is by far my favourite.
Professor Lich
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Arbalest
Grave Robber
Hellion
Plague Doctor
Vestal
To be fair, all the character designs in Darkest Dungeon are pretty awesome.
Arbalest
Grave Robber
Hellion
Plague Doctor
Vestal
To be fair, all the character designs in Darkest Dungeon are pretty awesome.
CrackPebbles
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Twintelle
How About No
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The Elements in Xenogears, especially goofy-ass Seraphita
Nah but Dominia is a total badass and tragically under-utilized in the story
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Strangelove77
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Maybe we should have one of these threads for male character designs. I wanna see some half naked buff dudes.
Oh, yeah. I completely forgot about For Honor (somehow, despite still playing it today).
I love that it's really hard to tell their gender at a glance. These are all female characters:
In the same vein, that sweet, sweet body armor in XCOM 2:
The glowy bits aren't so practical, and maybe the powered armor is a bit too tight, but I'm a sucker for armor that genuinely looks like it can protect you from stray plasma bolts.
I love that it's really hard to tell their gender at a glance. These are all female characters:
In the same vein, that sweet, sweet body armor in XCOM 2:
The glowy bits aren't so practical, and maybe the powered armor is a bit too tight, but I'm a sucker for armor that genuinely looks like it can protect you from stray plasma bolts.
Overwatch's Ana is by far my favourite.
She's my favorite among the Overwatch characters. Shrike especially.
Can't believe no one has posted this one yet.
Yeah, disappointed she isn't mentoined more often
The Boss is the GOAT when it comes to female characters. She's an absolute baddass.
Not overly sexualized like most other female characters and has a fantastic back story. I love her.
Just don't think of any JRPG and you're good to go.
Almond
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Elma - Xenoblade Chronicles X
Blue Lady - Xenoblade Chronicles X
Xelha - Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
Melodia - Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
KOS-MOS - Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille Zur Macht
Great Fairy - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Not sure what it is exactly I like about them but Elma, Blue Lady, and KOS-MOS just all look really cool to me.
Melodia and Xelha both have a cute/pretty look them. I wish the artists did more video game character designs.
BotW Great Fairy is the best Great Fairy yet.
There's more but this is long enough already...
And counting characters I haven't really gotten to see much of yet:
Pyra - Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Urbosa - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
I really love the color scheme they went with for Pyra, and I really just love the look of the Gerudo in BotW in general.
Blue Lady - Xenoblade Chronicles X
Xelha - Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
Melodia - Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
KOS-MOS - Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille Zur Macht
Great Fairy - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Not sure what it is exactly I like about them but Elma, Blue Lady, and KOS-MOS just all look really cool to me.
Melodia and Xelha both have a cute/pretty look them. I wish the artists did more video game character designs.
BotW Great Fairy is the best Great Fairy yet.
There's more but this is long enough already...
And counting characters I haven't really gotten to see much of yet:
Pyra - Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Urbosa - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
I really love the color scheme they went with for Pyra, and I really just love the look of the Gerudo in BotW in general.
Wesley-Sigma
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2B from NieR: Automata.
You may as well say "any game from Japan, with a few exceptions". The number of Japanese games without overly sexualized female characters (and still having any female characters - obviously there's no point counting games with no female characters to begin with) is something I can count on one hand. At least, for the ones I know of. Most of them are from the Souls series.
I wish it were something limited to JRPGs. Boy, do I fucking wish...
Like, this. This right here? This is some serious garbage-tier design. The ridiculous boob socks, the obviously obligatory thigh exposure, the ridiculous hot pants (wtf is she wearing hot pants for?!), just, like... really, the fact that anyone is praising this is going to drive me up the bloody walls!Pyra - Xenoblade Chronicles 2
ZiggyPalffyLA
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Lucca Ashtear
Lady Maria, Bloodborne
Holy crap, I never realised that was Lady Maria on the cover until this post!
Your being ridiculous.
The claim that you can only count non sexualized characters on one hand from literally all Japanese games doesn't make any literal sense unless you either have a very loose definition of overly sexualized, or you haven't played enough.
I mean..it boggles my mind to hear something like that.
I said games, not characters. And I said of the ones I know of, which obviously doesn't encompass all of Japanese output (but it does encompass a significant amount, since I follow Japanese media pretty closely).
Games without overtly sexualized female characters are a rarity in Japan. That is just a fact. Otaku dominate the market, and it is reflected in their design priorities. Even game series that weren't notable for such proclivities in their design in the past eventually switched over to courting that market (Fire Emblem in particular comes to mind here). It's something I quite literally have to put up with because it's almost entirely unavoidable. I know this very well, because I play a lot of Japanese games, often in spite of the fact that the developers obviously weren't expecting someone like me to be interested in the first place.
Korea's even worse in this regard, somehow. It's honestly amazing to me how misogynist their designs can be. Sigh. And then people actually praise that junk. Great, more reason for me to expect to be let down in the future.
Aloy all day
Eileen the Crow:
From Bloodborne
These were my go to answers for sure. Eileen is a great design and gives by far my favorite armor in the game. And Aloy is just brilliant.
Samus also gets an honorable mention, but she gets knocked down several points because of all the shit with the Zero Suit. I vastly preferred her Prime 1 looks over what came later.
Spyder_Monkey
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Makoto
Gardios
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Peacock, Skullgirls
The Wanderer Class, Etrian Mystery Dungeon
Fang, FFXIII
Rinkah, Fire Emblem Fates
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That doesn't make the claim any less incorrect or ridiculous!
I mean, you could even say a notable portion of games have sexualized females, or a large amount which would be understandable. But when you don't even claim a majority, but in reverse, less than a handful don't contain those elements, its not an arguable claim.
Whether you cover Japanese games or not means very little to whether or not your claim has merits
Kain-Nosgoth
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most already been posted, so here's one that i like a lot, but isn't even out yet :
Lumisa, from La-Mulana 2
not only the design, the art is great too
Lumisa, from La-Mulana 2
not only the design, the art is great too
Oboro from Fire Emblem Fates, I absolutely love her color scheme and appreciate the Spear Fighter class.
Elphelt from Xrd: No character has ever Waifu'd, or will ever Waifu as hard as she does and I love her for that
Gwendolyn from Odin Sphere: Literally Divine
Naoto Shirogane from P4: Gun-totting High School Detective
Elphelt from Xrd: No character has ever Waifu'd, or will ever Waifu as hard as she does and I love her for that
Gwendolyn from Odin Sphere: Literally Divine
Naoto Shirogane from P4: Gun-totting High School Detective
Overwatch's Ana is by far my favourite.
Definitely my favourite character (design-wise) from the cast. Even her Captain Amari origins skin looks cool.
You could try posting counter-examples to try to prove me wrong. (Challenge mode: don't include From Software games, and don't include games that are adaptations of manga or anime series.)
Doesn't matter either way, because I'm still disappointed in the direction of the Japanese games industry and am having an increasingly difficult time finding developers that don't aim for the lowest common denominator. Lately it feels like I've been bombarded with a litany of minimum-effort "waifu"-selling games with increasingly ridiculous and over-the-top one-sided sexualization, even in games that have absolutely no business going for that demo. You have to go pretty far back to find a time where that wasn't the case.
OmnipotentO
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Holy shit too many to name. A ton of great ones just on page one.
I fucking love science so I gotta go with Ema.
I fucking love science so I gotta go with Ema.
TatteredHat
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Really like the Elf from Dragon's Crown.
Also, Granblue Fantasy has some really cool designs as well. (Too many to list all of them, so I'll just stick to Charlotte)
Also, Granblue Fantasy has some really cool designs as well. (Too many to list all of them, so I'll just stick to Charlotte)
This is true, though the trade off is that a lot of these designs tend to be very good/memorable.
You only need to use this thread as evidence, since the vast majority of the "favorite designs" posted come from Japanese games.
Yeah, this is my answer too. Titania rocks. The smallest detail on her costume, combining the feminine lacing of a medieval dress with a surcoat, is a great bit of work for a female knight rather than dumb boob armour, and her clothes, armour, hair and weapon all work together to show off her height. Really elegant design.
Kagoshima_Luke
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So many already posted. Here are a few I didn't see:
Eirika, Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
The Maiden in Black, Demon's Souls
Isabelle, Animal Crossing
Merlwyb, Final Fantasy XIV
Eirika, Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
The Maiden in Black, Demon's Souls
Isabelle, Animal Crossing
Merlwyb, Final Fantasy XIV
Almond
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I'd never heard the term "boob sock" before but I don't think this is one. Her top is clearly designed around having a bra built in to it, not just clinging to her. Thigh exposure seems a little silly to get worked up over, but yeah, she's wearing hot pants in a fantasy game. Where fantasy things are happening literally every minute, if we're comparing it to our real world.
It's silly to get caught up talking about the practicality of clothing in a fantasy/sci-fi setting. Maybe you don't like what she's wearing, but that's a different discussion.
SimpleCRIPPLE
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Tingle.
If Tingle is dqd, Lightning.
If Tingle is dqd, Lightning.
That doesn't need to be at the expense of respectable representation. Even some of the more egregious designs could be fixed with minor alterations.
Amusingly, it's also worth noting that a significant number of the examples within this thread are not the more outrageously sexualized designs. Almost as if you don't need cleavage windows and thigh exposure to make an impression.
Realistically suits do NOT curve around the breasts in that fashion. It's literally physically impossible without cups being built into the outfit, and that material does not look like a hard, solid material that could hold that shape.
More importantly, any sort of exposed cleavage on a character that is ostensibly going to see combat is egregiously stupid and instantly takes me out. It makes it incredibly obvious who the target audience is and also disrespects the character's agency (because why the shit would she decide to wear this crap, come on!).
I'm going to judge people hard for praising this junk. We should have higher standards. Instead we're happy with bottom-of-the-barrel designs because they please straight guys' boners. Grrreeeat.
Hornet.
A mysterious character in Hollow Knight, she uses a needle and thread in combat. You chase her a bit as she zips through some levels using her needle and thread as a sort of grappling hook.
Ajna & Razmi from Indivisible
I find Ajna to have a likeable design that is simple, practical but still good looking. She gives me a bit of the Princess Mononoke vibes.
Razmi, the depressed introvert shaman with the tiger pelt. The sad looking tiger makes this for me. This her reluctance audio lines when you tell her to attack and such during combat is also great and comes together with the character a lot.
Not quite the same but try this!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1384911
A mysterious character in Hollow Knight, she uses a needle and thread in combat. You chase her a bit as she zips through some levels using her needle and thread as a sort of grappling hook.
Ajna & Razmi from Indivisible
I find Ajna to have a likeable design that is simple, practical but still good looking. She gives me a bit of the Princess Mononoke vibes.
Razmi, the depressed introvert shaman with the tiger pelt. The sad looking tiger makes this for me. This her reluctance audio lines when you tell her to attack and such during combat is also great and comes together with the character a lot.
Not quite the same but try this!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1384911
marthurstewart
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If we're talking about iconic...
All you need is a good pair of guns.
All you need is a good pair of guns.
