I want to play a game about a female crimelord or career criminal.
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Well there are the Saints Row games, but they're pretty ridiculously stupid. So probably not what you're after. Well at least the third and fourth games are. I've heard the first two Saints Row games are a lot more grounded in reality, but I wouldn't know for sure. Besides that, there doesn't seem to be too much going. It's a pretty barren niche you're looking for.
You could also just have it set in Mexico. I'm pretty certain there has been a few significant women in the cartels. Hell, I once watched one of those cartel execution videos where the beheader was a woman... so there's certainly some real-life influence there.Pogilrup said:
Well there's Saints Row, which to its credit the main female voice option (Laura Bailey) for Saints Row 3 and 4 is actually damned good. My favourite of the Saints Row voice options even, which is really saying something when other options include Zombie and Nolan North as Nolan North.
But with that said Saints Row isn't exactly gritty crime realism, so if that's what you're after.... Um. Hmmm.... Nope, nothing comes to mind. I can think of a few open world games and rpg games which let you make your own character and which have an 'element' of crime to them, a few mods as well, but a proper game with an established canonical female crime boss protagonist? Nothing comes to mind.
Shadowrun: Dragonfall maybe? You can make a female protagonist and are in charge of a shadowrunner group, which are basically high tech mercenaries/thugs for hire in a cyberpunk world. But again that's an rpg where your character has the option of being female as opposed to an established character.
Huh, I really can't think of anything. I can think of a couple games that have female crime lords in them, but none where you play as said crime lord. Never thought of it before.
But with that said Saints Row isn't exactly gritty crime realism, so if that's what you're after.... Um. Hmmm.... Nope, nothing comes to mind. I can think of a few open world games and rpg games which let you make your own character and which have an 'element' of crime to them, a few mods as well, but a proper game with an established canonical female crime boss protagonist? Nothing comes to mind.
Shadowrun: Dragonfall maybe? You can make a female protagonist and are in charge of a shadowrunner group, which are basically high tech mercenaries/thugs for hire in a cyberpunk world. But again that's an rpg where your character has the option of being female as opposed to an established character.
Huh, I really can't think of anything. I can think of a couple games that have female crime lords in them, but none where you play as said crime lord. Never thought of it before.
Well, technically GTA 3 is about a female crimelord who fights against the existing system and wants to carve out a piece of the city for herself....but you play as the man she manipulates and betrays in order to get ahead. So....
I think the closest you'll be able to get to your dream game would be the aforementioned Saints Row games and particularly selfish playthroughs of Fallout 3 and New Vegas: the latter would perfect actually, as you can play off the numerous factions against each other and end up crowning yourself Crime Queen of the Wastes!
I think the closest you'll be able to get to your dream game would be the aforementioned Saints Row games and particularly selfish playthroughs of Fallout 3 and New Vegas: the latter would perfect actually, as you can play off the numerous factions against each other and end up crowning yourself Crime Queen of the Wastes!
depressingly no; crime drama is already depressingly hyper-masculine as is, and then when you mix it with the cooties-phobic games industry it only gets worse. Saints Row lets you play as a woman, but I would like to see a game where you play a female crime lord by default. Maybe make the plot a metaphor to show just how irritatingly sexist and exclusive the genre is.
Saints Row, you can play female in shadorun. There were not many female crime lords so dont expect games about them, but to be fair, there are not a lot of games where you play as a crimelord overall
Are you thinking of a Breaking Bad-esque game centering on a female antihero? Because I would buy the shit out of that.Pogilrup said:
Someone get on this, I like it. I'd do it myself, but my talents need some developing. There's a reason my first game looks like it could run on the PS1.
That is like the best part of the game because you never expect it and then it just happens randomly well your driving around.Frezzato said:
I think someone at Volition agrees with us because of the unskippable singing moment in SR3 (which is totally worth paying to experience). It's almost as if they wanted to make sure players didn't miss out, which is possible in Saints 2. I think out of the 120+ hours spent playing Saints 2 I heard my character sing maybe 3-4 times.nomotog said:
I kinda wish the CAPTCHA said 'What I got'.
It really falls flat in SR3 though. It's because they made it part of a mission. It's scripted now. It's no longer a nice surprise, it's a mandated story piece.Frezzato said:
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Fallout 2 (and to certain extent New Vegas, and a lesser then that extent would be Fallout 3)
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Fallout 2 (and to certain extent New Vegas, and a lesser then that extent would be Fallout 3)
Heck you can be a pornstar too if you want to
Well, there's Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat.
It allows you to conquer towns by destroying their forts.
Other than that, the gameplay pretty much consists of running around islands, digging up burried treasure, defeating enemies (boss fights included) with your swords and bombs and sailing the seas as you battle Hook's fleet.
It allows you to conquer towns by destroying their forts.
Other than that, the gameplay pretty much consists of running around islands, digging up burried treasure, defeating enemies (boss fights included) with your swords and bombs and sailing the seas as you battle Hook's fleet.
Shadowrun returns kind of has this. In that you play as a shadowruner, basically a person who does whatever illegal work mega corporations and gang leaders pay for and you usually end up shooting a lot of people in the face. Yeah you tend to be working for some kind of greater good, but it helps that it usually keeps your ass alive at the same time. I'd recomend the standalone version of Dragonfall to be specific.