Women in games who're power fantasies but not objectified tend to follow the same logic as male protagonists. Where they're pretty much the best and are the ones who have to deal with everything. As video game power fantasy tropes tend to be incredibly archetypical:So I understand and generally speaking agree with the idea that scantly clad muscle dudes are just as much or more male power fantasies as objectification.
But what I haven't yet discovered is what exactly a female power fantasy would look like. Bonus points if she's scantly clad, since male power fantasies can be and often are such.
Just to name some recent examples:
Chloe/Drake, both are thieves, despite ND saying that they're "normal" they're both capable of enduring and surviving incredibly death defying stunts as well as taking on entire armies almost singlehandedly. On top of their impeccable physicality and seeming unlimited stamina:
AC Syndicate
Both Jacob and Evie have decades worth of parkour, stealth, and combat skills underneath their belt. Both can take own entire groups of people with ease. Both are so confident in their skills that their introduction is literally them both laughing at the insinuation that they'll have any trouble with their first mission:
Emily and Corvo:Both are not only incredibly skilled normally with stealth, movement, and combat but on top of that they each have a set of comically overpowered magic powers that basically put them on god status compared to everyone else:
Halo Spartans:Men and women who're spartans are on equal footing as they're all genetically engineered for combat and receive the same amount of training:
Even taking out equivalent male characters out of the question
Aloy, although young, is incredibly efficient at single handedly dealing with not only hordes of bandits but also incredibly hostile and destructive machines, with just a bow and a spear:
Faith is literally known as the person who's the very best at her profession, she can parkour around a futuristic city with ease and outrace anyone while also having tons of combat skills:
None of these characters are realistic at all in the grand scheme of things. And at the end of their respective tales it boils down to saving the world in the same way that it would if they were male.
Compare them to someone like Chloe from LIS whose "power" is......smack talking well enough so that people will listen to her..oh and graffiti:
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