Gaming Love Interests

[DreamerM]

The over-sexualized female side-kicks and love interests have a long history of getting sap all over my nice clean action games.

Which female side-kick characters have you not wanted to throw off a bridge and why?

 

[Logan Westbrook]

Alyx Vance, she's actually useful and has enough clothes.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Alyx is a good one. Also Ashley from Mass Effect, and Anna from Planescape.

 

[Easykill]

Alyx Vance, she's actually useful and has enough clothes.

What he said.

Also Ashley from Mass Effect.

And this.

 

[Benny Blanco]

The hood-rat girl from GTA San Andreas (Denise?) who's your first girlfriend in the game. Not only does she settle for fast food, give you a pimp suit and access to her car, she also participates in drive-by shootings.

Unlike the other useless bints who required me to get fat/musclebound/kinky for them and made sarcastic comments. That S&M croupier ***** got on my wick so much I drove her into a lake, then waded in with a katana to finish her off.

 

[sammyfreak]

All the mentioned above are great (especially Alyx). Meche from Grim Fandango is also great. And i actualy like Trish from Devil May Cry, sure she is the very definition of oversexualised, but here is a game were exaguration and boyish fantasy isent the by product, its the main theme. So she actualy is perfectly fitting character.

 

[firestomp23]

Fall-from-Grace from Planescape. No further elaboration necessary.

 

[Bodb]

Guy 1: " Hey, a female sub-protagonist thread! Who should I pick?"
Guy 2: " Alyx Vance!"
Guy 1: " What?"
Guy 2: " Sorry, reflex."

Goddamnit, she's a given by now. Corporal Hart, even though you see all of ten seconds of her before she's shot in the face.

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

Silk Fox in Jade Empire wasn't bad. Sure, she was a spoiled rich girl in a bodysuit, but she kicked ass and took no crap. And she was flexible in her romantic interests, which was a plus for me.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

Guy 1: " Hey, a female sub-protagonist thread! Who should I pick?"
Guy 2: " Alyx Vance!"
Guy 1: " What?"
Guy 2: " Sorry, reflex."

Goddamnit, she's a given by now.

Sorry?

How about Bastilla from KotOR then?

 

[Saskwach]

Am I the first to see that the thread topic doesn't necessarily exclude men? Because my first play through I romanced Kaidan. We didn't get to the jiggly though; I saved Ashley. Broke my heart.

 

[VRaptorX]

Sheena from Tales of Symphonia? I liked her.

Kikyou? well...she's in some games so she counts. Much MUCH better than that annoying monstrousity known as Kagome.

 

[twotrees517]

GLaDOS from Portal.
Sexy AND homicidal.

 

[bermyduck]

Bastilla definitely!!!
Me and my buddies actually judge other game chicks on the Bastilla scale.
Ashley from Mass Effect was fairly good too. Bioware sure know how to handle a lady.
Mass Effect had many parallels with KOTOR but I'd have to say that Ashley was not as good as Bastilla, although Kaiden was just as annoying and bitchy as Carth.