Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-5038094-20150426044338/@comment-1672596-20150430015525

177.249.102.24 wrote: Jim Logan wrote: 177, that literally goes without saying :P. Nothing like the Laura Croft from the 2013 reboot, not like Other M Samus. Something along the lines of well, Lara Croft from the original timeline, or Jill Valentine. When people said that females in videogames were always whiny damissels in distress I always used samus as an example of a good female protagonist but then other M came along :( You could always cite Claire Redfield and Moira Burton. Those girls weren't incompetent or whiney. You could also go with Sheva Alomar. Probably most of the DOA girls as well, namely Kasumi, Ayane, and Helena Douglas. And as Jim mentioned, Jill Valentine wasn't whiney or incompetent. I'd cite Misty from Pokémon, but on the other hand, she only was a major character in the Anime. Oh, I also forgot Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII, maybe Terra Branford from Final Fantasy VI.

So far as a reboot, quite frankly, Kojima should have gone with the reboot option in MGS rather than insisting on making MGS a true sequel to the MSX2 games (hence why Liquid and Solid Snake are clones of Big Boss), and then just retconning half of the MSX2 games anyways, so a reboot will at least clean up what Kojima muddied up.

And as far as The Boss, quite frankly, I'm not so sure of her appeal, especially when her motives not only made no sense, they actually were pretty amoral and hypocritical (the latter being in light of MGS4's ending), not to mention she came across as exceptionally nihilistic. I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure soldiers, American soldiers at least, actually do have a sense of right or wrong, and contrary to what The Boss claims, soldiers actually serve the Constitution, NOT the times. Seriously, did she flunk US History or something? I also get irritated that Volgin, rightfully, is considered a Complete Monster for nuking the Sokolov Design Bureau (and such an action is rightfully condemned as heinous and a war crime that nearly resulted in nuclear war), yet when The Boss did something similar in the ending of Snake Eater, and with similar motives and a similar elation ("Life's end, isn't it beautiful?"), she ISN'T denounced as a Complete Monster. I'm not even sure how exactly she's that different from Volgin.