Current Events > How many playable mothers are there in video games? *spoilers*

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UnfairRepresent
09/07/18 7:15:06 PM
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There's been a slew of generic boring dads in video gaming lately like Joel or New Kratos or Evil Within Guy.

and there's been a few moms who appear but either do nothing or just die like Hope and Cloud's mom in Final Fantasy or Shepard's mom in Mass Effect.

But how many games let you actually control a character who is a mother? For the sake of argument Heather Mason does not count.

A few fighting games do like Sonya Blade or Michelle/Jun from Tekken

And I guess any alien game where you control Ripley is one but that feels kinda cheap.

All the "badass" gaming girls like Lara Croft or 2B or Jade or Samus or whatever all seem to be childless.
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E32005
09/07/18 7:15:54 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
generic boring dads in video gaming lately like Joel

lol

you continue to push the edgelord shitposting
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SoundNetwork
09/07/18 7:16:27 PM
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samus has a baby metroid
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RoboLaserGandhi
09/07/18 7:16:37 PM
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your mom
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UnfairRepresent
09/07/18 7:17:10 PM
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E32005 posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
generic boring dads in video gaming lately like Joel

lol

you continue to push the edgelord shitposting

....ok?
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catboy0_0
09/07/18 7:17:24 PM
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boxington
09/07/18 7:17:29 PM
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Heather, kinda, from Silent Hill 3
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UnfairRepresent
09/07/18 7:18:13 PM
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boxington posted...
Heather, kinda, from Silent Hill 3

UnfairRepresent posted...
For the sake of argument Heather Mason does not count.

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boxington
09/07/18 7:18:39 PM
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sorry, sir.
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Frolex
09/07/18 7:20:24 PM
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SageHarpuia
09/07/18 7:20:49 PM
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Rune Factory and Fire Emblem
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_Rinku_
09/07/18 7:21:17 PM
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SoundNetwork posted...
samus has a baby metroid
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marthsheretoo
09/07/18 7:22:15 PM
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Every woman in Fire Emblem Awakening and Fates
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boxington
09/07/18 7:22:26 PM
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I guess Clementine from the Walking Dead has a kid that she had take on the role of a son
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Srk700
09/07/18 7:23:26 PM
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Fallout 4 if you play as a female.
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IfGodCouldDie
09/07/18 7:26:06 PM
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Ms. Pac-man
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UnfairRepresent
09/07/18 7:26:30 PM
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Srk700 posted...
Fallout 4 if you play as a female.

Ooo thats a goodun'

Potentially Fable 2/3 too if we use this logic.
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NocturnalLight
09/07/18 7:29:58 PM
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Sonya in MKX
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GetWokeGoBroke
09/08/18 1:50:17 AM
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Hilde and Sophitia from Soul Calibur.
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MakoReizei
09/08/18 1:52:18 AM
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E32005 posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
generic boring dads in video gaming lately like Joel

lol

you continue to push the edgelord shitposting

He's not wrong.

I'd like more games to explore the mother/son relationship tbh.
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GetWokeGoBroke
09/08/18 1:53:02 AM
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Jun from Tekken
Michelle also adopted a girl
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GetWokeGoBroke
09/08/18 1:54:24 AM
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C Viper from Street Fighter
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09/08/18 1:54:29 AM
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The mom from Grandia 3
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ModLogic
09/08/18 1:54:52 AM
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GetWokeGoBroke
09/08/18 1:57:02 AM
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Nina Williams, Tekken
Justice, Guilty Gear
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GetWokeGoBroke
09/08/18 1:59:16 AM
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Oh yeah, Dizzy in Guilty Gear is also a mother now too.
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Garioshi
09/08/18 2:00:07 AM
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Macha in Chrono Cross, along with her entire nuclear family.
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Alakazamtrainer
09/08/18 2:04:48 AM
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Rosa ffiv
Terra ffVI can be argued as well

any game where the main character is female and you can have children.
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Guerrilla Soldier
09/08/18 2:05:16 AM
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Dragon Quest V

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Kircheis
09/08/18 2:11:07 AM
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Niime from Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. Bonus points for being a badass grandma.

Zhang Chunhua from Dynasty Warriors 8.
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yusiko
09/08/18 2:19:39 AM
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someone beat me to it but i was going to say miranda from grandia 3

now her son is 15 and she looks like she is in her early 20s. she did canonically have him at a young age so 14 or 15 which would put her age at around 29/30

she is playable for about half of disk 1
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UnfairRepresent
09/08/18 2:42:08 AM
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GetWokeGoBroke posted...
Nina Williams, Tekken

doesnt count
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jumi
09/08/18 2:53:36 AM
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GetWokeGoBroke posted...
Hilde and Sophitia from Soul Calibur.


Hilde has kids?
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St0rmFury
09/08/18 3:03:52 AM
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GetWokeGoBroke posted...
C Viper from Street Fighter

Wait what
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jumi
09/08/18 3:05:21 AM
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St0rmFury posted...
GetWokeGoBroke posted...
C Viper from Street Fighter

Wait what


Her ending in SF4 talks about her daughter.
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RchHomieQuanChi
09/08/18 3:06:45 AM
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Kara from Detroit: Beyond Human.....kind of.
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GS4Life
09/08/18 3:07:46 AM
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I'm going to start a campaign to get a Mother Brain spinoff game.

Super Metroid of course, not the android from Other M fuck that game
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pres_madagascar
09/08/18 3:13:15 AM
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Tbqh, I find playing the mom in fallout 4 better than the dad. Yeah it makes more sense gameplay wise for the dad since he's ex military and would have a logical advantage in that regard, but his tone throughout the game is so jovial and nonchalant, like he couldn't possibly care any less, even when you try to be serious.

The mom makes more sense to me. Her tone is better, and she's literally the mother of an infant son who was taken, her mama bear instincts would be on full display. I like to try and be a cold mom who takes no shit from anyone.
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pres_madagascar
09/08/18 3:14:36 AM
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Hairistotle posted...
I actively avoid games wherein you play as a woman, so I don't know.

Wat.
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catboy0_0
09/08/18 4:13:00 AM
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
Kara from Detroit: Beyond Human.....kind of.

counts imo
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hockeybub89
09/08/18 4:20:14 AM
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Irregardless
09/08/18 4:21:44 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
doesnt count

I like you arbitrarily discount examples.
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sLaCkEr408___RJ
09/08/18 4:22:28 AM
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jumi posted...
St0rmFury posted...
GetWokeGoBroke posted...
C Viper from Street Fighter

Wait what


Her ending in SF4 talks about her daughter.

And one of Viper's win poses is her talking to said daughter.
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SRR Capdown
09/08/18 4:33:32 AM
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Aya from Assassin's Creed Origins. Her and Bayek's son was murdered in the opening scenes, and she's not the main character, but she's a major character in the game and is playable a few times.
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neverwin
09/08/18 4:56:40 AM
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Lot of horror games have you play as a mother.

First one comes to mind is The Park.
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UnfairRepresent
09/08/18 1:54:54 PM
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pres_madagascar posted...
Tbqh, I find playing the mom in fallout 4 better than the dad. Yeah it makes more sense gameplay wise for the dad since he's ex military and would have a logical advantage in that regard, but his tone throughout the game is so jovial and nonchalant, like he couldn't possibly care any less, even when you try to be serious.

The mom makes more sense to me. Her tone is better, and she's literally the mother of an infant son who was taken, her mama bear instincts would be on full display. I like to try and be a cold mom who takes no shit from anyone.

Same thing happens in bioware games, it's like they tell the men "be stoic and boring as hell, men hate people who act like they give a shit" and then tell the women "Be emotional, chicks love emotion!"

I mean in games like Dragon Age 2/Inquisition the difference is near comical
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Hambo the Hog
09/08/18 3:50:25 PM
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Rosalina is an adoptive mother to the lumas in Mario Galaxy and is playable in several games now.
I think the Harvest Moon games that let you play as a girl also require you to become a mother eventually.
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09/08/18 3:52:42 PM
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