Many but my favourites for GTA would be the pimprapin' and massmurderin' protags of springbreakers.
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Is Rockstar the only old Major Developer that doesn't have a game with playable Female character ?
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Maybe. But Rockstar had black, Asian, Native American, Eastern European and homosexual male protagonists in their biggest games. They have more diversity than most other devs that have a good looking, middle aged, white, heterosexual, male main character 95% of the time.
Not surprised by this thread though.
EDIT: Sorry, I'm wrong with the homosexual male character.
Not surprised by this thread though.
EDIT: Sorry, I'm wrong with the homosexual male character.
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I really wished that Rockstar, with their massive cultural status, would stand up for women in games more by actually having one as a protagonist.
Oh sorry, I was wrong here. Somehow I thought that the protagonist in Gay Tony was also gay. But it seems it's quite the opposite. Trevor is bisexual though but I'm not sure if that's the representation we need..
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Yea Kojima Productions ( Metal Gear + what we know about Death Stranding ) is pretty close , but at least u can select the Mother Base female soldiers in most main missions in PW and TPP
Does Rocksteady count? They had a dlc with female playable but that's dlc
MGSV you can play as a female character since the Medic is a created character.
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DLCs count , so Rocksteady doesnt count in this , Want also to add despite her being a DLC , but Catwoman shared like at least 20% of the main campaign with Batman in Arkham city
Yeah her, I thought she's right in the mould of a rockstar protagonist.
Yeah remember when that was a redeemable code to counter used games? Yikes!
Who cares, they'd still buy it. They "rioted" when San Andreas was revealed. The old forum's reveal thread was something else...
I'm not sure how that's relevant, since it's a game not a movie and there's nothing stopping you from writing a relatable asshole that's a woman.
Especially given that it's more or less a 'modern' crime story there's no shortage of women to draw inspiration from.
Some people absolutely would have an issue with it just in general, even if they tell themselves it's because of the writing. Because some people simply don't receive women acting the same way as a man in the same light (being assertive versus being bitchy, etc.)
The only question is whether or not that's a major component of Rockstar's audience. Overall I think those people are a vocal minority, but they're also more likely to be the hardcore players that companies are interested in keeping happy. Hence why lots of companies didn't want to loudly denounce Gamergate. (In general, most of the talk is also hot air, so I imagine you'd get a 'boycott Modern Warfare/everyone's playing Modern Warfare' type deal as we've seen in the past.)
It's about damn time Rockstar made a female protagonist. Sadie Adler should have been playable in RDR 2.
Playing a GTA game set in the late 60's or early 70's as a black woman would honestly be really cool and a nice change of pace narratively and setting wise.
Lots of social upheaval, lots of great music, lots of room for different criminal organizations to be apart of the story.
Lots of social upheaval, lots of great music, lots of room for different criminal organizations to be apart of the story.
We don't actually
After agents of mayhem we got no idea what's happening over there
Saint's Row was meh, even though you could play as a woman it's not a serious game at all so narrative is not a thing. At all. Got bored of Saints Row 4 and stopped playing it.
Rockstar games with female lead would be the game with the record number of npcs calling the player "a bitch".
I don't know how anyone could play RDR2 and write this. Sadie is fucking awesome.
I found her voice to grate every time she opened her mouth. What a horrible accent.
And I'm not sure why the thread continues to ignore it.
This was actually a great game too.
OP asked for a game with a playable female, this is it.
It's different if they said protagonist.
There's Mildred Hayes from Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. She'd fit right in in a GTA game.
Then we have Helena from Orphan Black. I think she'd feel very at home in a GTA game, too.
Another one that comes to mind is Lisbeth Salander in Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, though the films (and I'm assuming the book) go out of their way to show her tragic circumstances in order to justify her being an arsehole. Bit difficult to imagine her fitting into something as light-hearted as GTA.
Some of the female main characters in The Bling Ring also seem like they'd fit well with GTA's humoristic commentary on American culture. They aren't quite violent and gun-toting enough to be GTA protagonists but they definitely bring the arsehole attitude and a good amount of criminal energy. (Whether they're actually relatable is debatable but I'd say that that goes for many existing GTA protagonists, as well.)
And if we ignore the violence aspect, there are loads more female relatable (and not so relatable) arsehole characters I can think of:
-Elizabeth in Bad Teacher
-Ludovica in Netflix's Baby
-Fiona in Web Therapy
-Max in 2 Broke Girls
-A whole bunch of characters in Mean Girls
-Chloe in Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23
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This was actually a great game too.
I came in to post this. I love this game too. Probably the only Rockstar game I love besides Red Dead Redemption.
Agreed, they did a great job with how it controlled too but because it's ping-pong it never got the credit it deserved. I would love to see Rockstar branch out again and do something original and a Billy sequel or another Midnight Club wouldn't hurt too lol. GTA and Red Dead should be put on hold for now.
Come on, you know that's not true. Most of the reactionary backlash will occur as soon as it's announced before anyone even gets to play the thing.
Agreed. I don't think having the protagonist be customizable hurt the writing or personality of "the boss".
Latina Boss is the canon boss to me. I was gutted with the actress didn't return for the 4th game.
yea there ain't any sexists in the gaming community, just real dedicated literary critics
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i'd like rockstar to make a game with a woman lead, 'cause there's too many dudes in lead roles in games, but i'm confident they'd do a shit job of it. (and, uh, ngl i probably won't play it anyways--just haven't really been able to work up any interest in the studio's stuff since gta v.)
At all, you mean
without looking, who can name her
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Personally, I don't believe rockstar will ever have a female lead GTA. It's something that's been requested for many years on message boards, and possibly a few articles. But at the end of the day, it comes down to would they be creatively interested in writing a female character.
At this point no matter what direction they go, R* will be criticized for the gender/race they don't choose. Of course it will have no impact on people buying the product.
At this point no matter what direction they go, R* will be criticized for the gender/race they don't choose. Of course it will have no impact on people buying the product.
They'd really have to come up with a radical departure from the GTA formula to make it work. Not that I don't think they should be looking to do something like that anyway after 5 entries in the series (not counting spin-offs). Even so, GTA's core conceit is parodying a particular type of impotent masculinity.
What are you specifically referring to here that would't work for women?
These are great choices.
Probably the most interesting and appealing out of all the ones mentioned in the thread.