Valve Women

Technology and Gaming
#1

As some of you may know, I’m a female. I play (more than any other) Valve games. In recent years Valve has included these strong female characters in their action games. Naturally, I like to play the female character except for in the Half Life series where it’s impossible. So, Alex in HL2 is the strong female personality in that game.

I’m just curious; out of Alex from Half Life 2, Zoey from Left 4 Dead, Rochelle from Left 4 Dead 2, and Chell from Portal, who do guys find most interesting? Not in a romantic way. But which female character do you like and why? This is not a contest………I’m just genuinely curious. :slight_smile:

#2

WOMEN DO NOT PLAY VIDEOGAMES.

[COLOR=‘Black’](sorry, just getting this out of the way, inb4 stuff)

#3

Why did you make two of these threads?
also, Chell

#4

I always thought that her name is Alyx Vance. Anyway I’d say she is still my favorite character, altough Valve should still reveal more about her past, and give her more character development (In short we demand HL 3 I guess)

I also love Chell from the two portal games, the unique gameplay also helps, but the enormous mistery around her, and the whole “enrichment center” is what really gets me I think. - She has this barely decetable amnesia… she only knows what we do, while we try to put together the pieces in impossible circumstances.

#5

Alyx and then Chell

#6

Sorry about that. The first one didn’t go. It just sat and didn’t take (or so I thought). Sorry :frowning: It was a bad idea.

#7

Any Devs out there please close this one for me. Thanks!

#8

Alyx and Zoey are my two favorite

i like Chell, but at the same time valve doesnt really develop her in any way so you could play through all of both portal games as a completely different person and you wouldn’t have to change anything in game to make it work.

Rochelle… i dont know… for some reason i’m just not a fan (maybe cause she’s gotten the last shot off of too many chargers or jockys that i was about to kill but that doesnt really have anything to do with the personality or character development)

#9

Alyx. She’s by far the most developed character in any of Valve’s games, and she manages to be beautiful without being a generic pair of tits ala most games.

Actually, she’s one of the best female characters I’ve seen in any game not called The Longest Journey.

#10

^ In my opinion, both Zoey and Rochelle are better-developed characters than Alyx is. It all comes down to the game format, really; we spend a lot more time in-game and in novel situations with Zoey and Rochelle than we do with Alyx, and we know them better as a result.

In answer to OP’s question, for me it’s Zoey, then Alyx. I don’t like Rochelle much because she’s the type of person who would annoy me in real life. I’m not even usually aware of Chell because she’s another of Valve’s “become the protagonist” constructs, like Gordon Freeman.

#11

First Chell then Alyx then Zoey.

#12

Mmm… Boobs…

Yep, that’s all I’ve got. :smiley:

#13

I suppose Alyx, finally a video game woman without going ott. I also like chell but alsas her lack of voice makes her personality unclear.

#14

I feel like someone is trying to use the power of having tits and a vag

#15

who are you

#16

Im wondering why this is in the “Suggestion box” if it has nothing to do with Black Mesa.

#17

Chell. She doesn’t talk.

Srs: Alyx

#18

Zoey. Shes the badass zombe killin’ gamer. Then Alyx cause she saved my ass from a hunter more than once in Episode 1.

#19

Not Rochelle. Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, she makes me want to punch a baby in the ears. Alyx is my favorite character out of the four, but then again if the emotional contact between her father and her did not exist, as in Episode 2, it would be Zoey.

#20

Has many will say, I think Alyx is the best developped female out of any Valve game. She can be annoying sometime, but that’s why we like her (not like Rochelle (Jesus Christ)).

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