What games of older generations would you put up? i dont mind the genre really, id would just love to hear yalls suggestions.
Portal!
Calling this game “older” is hurting my soul, though.
if it makes you feel any better, you dealt psychic damage to me as well
EDIT: Just remembered Perfect Dark
NOLF huh, thats a new one for me, thanks
NOLF was great, it just had a bad timing with the release
Obvious one, but the original Tomb Raider.
Beyond Good & Evil
But Nietzsche was a boy!!
I started playing this for the first time earlier today. Only 3 hours in, but I can already tell why it has a very adamant fan base to this day.
i remember when i was a lil gal, i had trouble with the first block pushing puzzle lmao
It’s a cult classic for a reason
Barbie: Horse Girl Adventures
I prefer the 94 classic barbie and her magical house
oh man, i forgot that game existed, never played it tho…yet
The Longest Journey was my favorite as a kid. Point and click adventure about a young art student in the future who keeps teleporting to a fantasy world.
Find April Ryan!
Some of these aren’t that old, but still…
Blades of Time - fun hack & slash
Crosscode - great SNES inspired action rpg
Gianna Sisters - platformer, has co-op
Icey - another hack & slash
Mirror’s Edge - first person parkour simulator with a great main character and good story
Psuedoregalia - short indie metroidvania, best movement mechanics of any game in a long time
Transistor - awesome story, interesting mechanics.
Trying to think of some obscure, unknown games: Eien no Filena, a JRPG on the Super Nintendo. The protagonist is a woman pretending to be a man as a lower class citizen forced to be a gladiator. Awkwardness ensues when she is “assigned” a wife and the men around her start being very confused about their sexuality.
Zapp: “I’ve never been so happy to get beat up by a woman.”
Leela: “Let’s do it again sometime.”
now thats a plotpoint i can respect
Jill of the Jungle - PC
Shantae - Gameboy Color
Alone in the Dark - PC
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne - PSX
Single newlines get eaten by Markdown.
I believe all Elder Scrolls (at least the mainline games: Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim) let you select your character’s gender.
Also, what is “old”? Mass Effect 1 is already 15 years old.
Metroid of course!
Also Ion Fury isn’t old, but its made to look and feel old, and the protag is kick-ass
i played a couple of levels already, the quips had me and my gf in stitches, id LOVE more like ion fury, gib me more plz world
The older Resident Evil games (1, 2, Code Veronica, RE:Zero) have playable female protagonists. Actually most of the RE games have at least one segment where you play as a female character.
The swapping of two protagonists is actually something I wish they would bring back to the modern games in the franchise.
Yeah replaying all the RE now and it’s crazy how this very early choice of two playable characters in the original series allowed the remasters to feel much more modern in their writing. Jill feels like the modern badass main woman a lot of game which they could write properly.
A lot of point-and-click adventure games do feature female protaganists. One that comes to mind that’s not bee mentioned so far is Kathy Rain.
If you accept games where you fully create the character, you’ve got a ton of RPGs. Baldur’s gate, elder scrolls, arcanum, fallout.
Napple Tale: Arisa in Daydream
A game for the Dreamcast that had a primarily female dev team. It was exclusive to Japan, but a translation patch was released a couple years ago.Atelier series
There are a bunch of these. They’re RPGs based heavily around crafting. Actually, they basically pioneered crafting in RPGs.Um Jammer Lammy
A spin-off of Parappa the Rapper. Lammy has only 15 minutes to make it to her band’s performance, but getting there won’t be easy.
Note that Stage 6 is censored in the North American release. Also as a bonus, completing the game unlocks Parappa mode, with new versions of every song after Stage 1.Athena
Stick with the original arcade version. The NES port is infamously bad.Psycho Soldier
A spin-off of Athena (sort of) starring Athena’s descendant/reincarnation (it depends on the writer), Athena Asamiya (and Sie Kensou as player 2’s character). Athena (and Kensou) would later become staples of the King of Fighters series. The game is notable for being the first game with a vocal soundtrack.Baraduke
An arcade title from Namco. Being on this list is actually a pretty big spoiler because the fact that the protagonist is a woman isn’t revealed until the end of the game. Now that probably sounds like a ripoff of Metroid, but here’s the thing: Baraduke did it first.Koudelka
An obscure horror RPG for the PlayStation.
The game is an unhappy compromise between the creator and the dev team. One side wanting to make a survival horror game and the other going for something like Final Fantasy VII. I’ve never actually gotten very far in this one because I hate the battle system. Also, this game has connections to the later Shadow Hearts series.Literally every game in the Otome genre
Probably not what you’re looking for, but technically fits your criteria of having a female protagonist.I might add more to this post if I can think of something else.
