Best heroine in a game.

[Xvito]

I'm going to have to go with Tess from the Jak and Daxter series. She's not really in a leading role, but she falls in love with a little furry rat... And then turns into one. Now that's what I call an interesting love-story.

 

[Littaly]

Female Shepard.

Honestly?
I find that female main characters whose personality I don't control are just there as tits to sell to the people willing to spend $60 to stare at virtual tits.
Which is to say, they don't have a personality.

The problem I have with female Shepard is that the game was so obviously designed for Shepard to be a male. Well, not obviously, but you can still see she's tacked on. She never shows up on box art, she never shows up in trailers etc. They clearly had a man in mind when they designed her so to speak.

Don't get me wrong though. I love female Shepard (in the sane "I love the fact that she' in the game" kind of way), It's just a bit sad that all we see of Shepard is the stereotypical bald male white space marine.

My personal choice is Faith from Mirror's Edge. Just because her sex appeal was deliberately downplayed. She's not even that pretty, not intentionally ugly, just not hot. Is she a deep, interesting character? No, but she stands against everything that is wrong with female leads in video games.

 

[Blue22]

Samus is the only one I can think of, other than Lara Croft, but who'd choose her?

 

[StigmataDiaboli]

This just reminded me of a conversation my mates had ages ago. I think overall we decided Meryl from Metal Gear Solid and Alyx from Half-Life 2 were two of the best.

 

[FastEddieLB]

Rose from The Legend of Dragoon. She's ancient, powerful, immortal, quiet, wise, and has the blood of innocents on her hands for the sake of the greater good.

Has nobody here played a JRPG?

@ Mosstromo: I would've said something else had you said something along the lines of "Must be primary protagonist"

 

[ZerOmega]

Yeah, I'm gonna go with Ms Aran too. Nothing like a woman in a spacesuit and a cannon for an arm.

 

[Terramax]

And April Ryan, from both of the Longest Journey games, the original and the sequel.

*Shudders*

Heather - Silent Hill 3
Victoria McPherson - Still Life

None of this sexed up stuff. Just two very strong willed, no-nonsense, mature women. Why can't I find anyone like them in real life *sighs*

 

[Anacortian]

samus aran

Truth be told, she is the only one that hasn't been exploited by a game designer.

 

[Deef]

The best heroin in a game?
Probably the heroin in Heroin Hero. Chase the dragon!

 

[Bayushi_Kouya]

Jen from Primal and Zoe from Dreamfall. It's not often you can make a girly-girl the protagonist in a game and have it work.

Though I have never played it, I hear Jade from Beyond Good & Evil is pretty cool.

Also, Ellen from Folklore. I believe she deserves special mention for being a female protagonist in a Japanese-produced game who does NOT have the emotional fortitude of moist tissue paper.

 

[hobo_welf]

I don't understand how this is a discussion... Samus Aran.

 

[bickster]

Jill Valentine RE series tops my list
Yuna from FFX as I feel she WAS the lead

 

[S-Unleashed]

samus aran

Yeah Samus!

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

Samus, with Joanna Dark in second.

 

[suhlEap]

i wouldn't say the best, but lara croft is probably one of the most memorable, due to the tomb raider games/films being everywhere for many years. i don't know if i could say best for definate, but samus would be the obvious choice.

 

[farmerboy219]

either lara croft or alyx vance

 

[Sparrow]

Man...

I can't think of one. And that totally sucks.

 

[Subzerowings]

Ellen from Folkore, because she is awesome. She's like a necromancer without the sad-gothic or ugly-evil look.

Spoiler: Ellen