Women in gaming

[gamemaster1991]

Peach, DoA, and most of the Mortal Kombat characters

What do you mean about that? I mean, sure, characters from DoA and MK wear skimpy clothing, but they're definitely badasses. Peach also kicks butt in Smash Bros.

I really don't think clothing is the main concern here.

DoA Fighters are kickass, but what do you think of when you hear Kasumi and Ayane from Dead or Alive? Those two badass fighting ninjas? Most likely, you think of jiggle physics. I will say the Mortal Kombat was good to the female characters at the start ( Mileena was even a joke on the whole sexy fighter), but they seem to have gone to pandering to the male audience by giving every female character revealing clothing and jiggle physics, but I'll give you this one.

Now Peach. I knew someone was going to defeind Peach and/or bring up Zelda. I'm not couting SSB becuse everyone has the chance to be badass in Smash Bros, even Olimar. I had a confersayson with someone who said that Peach was an awesome character and Zelda sucked. I retorted the Peach has barly helped in her own seires. Off the top of my head she has helped in:
Mario 2 (playable), Mario 3 by giving Items, Mario RPG (playable after you rescued her), Mario Galixy by giving you 1-ups, Super Princess Peach and paper mario seires (after she is kidnaper). Say what you want about Zelda, at lest when she is kidnapped, it's mostly so Gannon can get his hands on the triforce, not becuse he's bored and wants to fight link. Zelda has hide the Triforce from Evil (Zelda 1 and 2), tried to stop Gannondorf before he could do damage to the land and gave you light arrows (OoT), Helped you fight by being a bad ass (WW), and helps though out the game WHILE BEING KIDNAPPED and than fights with you in the final battle (TP, Peach only did that in the spin-offs). I would name ST and SS but I never played them. If we count the spin-offs (which RPG and Paper are), out of the 3 games, Zelda was payable for 2 of them. I'm sorry but Peach is just a MacGuffin, not a bad ass.