The Gamer's Quarter

[extrabastardformula]

The local trannsgender community group is getting a media reccomendations section for its website, and there was talk of getting some examples of transfolks represented in games. I agreed to put out some feelers and see what I could come up wiith, and either transfolk are not represented much at all or I am not quite as videogame literate as I had thought.

All I've come up with as far as characters is Poison for transsexuals, and King from Art of Fighting/King of Fightersas notably gender variant in presentation even if King's preferred identification is left unknown.

Maybe throw in a crossdresser like Bridget in and that's pretty much it.

Three fighting games and of course mentioning Dani Bunten's contribution to the art especially MULE.

Ther's gotta be more than that. C'mon TGQ, can I get a little help here?

[Lasa]

Uh... Police Quest.

[extrabastardformula]

[Lasa]

In Police Quest 4 you investigate the murder of your cross-dressing partner I believe.

[DaleNixon]

Resident Evil: Code Veronica

*major spoilers*

Alfred Ashford (voiced by Peter Oldring) is the initial antagonist during the first half of the game. He is the manager of the Rockfort Island facility and the seventh generation master of the once prestigious Ashford family. Alfred, along with Alexia are genetically altered twins created by their father from Veronica Ashford's DNA. However, he was not endowed with Veronica's superior intellect like his sister though still considered rather intellectual. Due to his twin sister's absence, he developed a split personality disorder and poses as Alexia while she is away.

[Nana Komatsu]

There's basically none that I can think of. I don't include Poison since that is a misconception blown way out of proportion. Also, don't include Bridget from Guilty Gear. He does crossdress and has feminine mannerisms, but he spends all of GGXX trying to become more manly.
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[LWJoestar]

[Pijaibros]

[dessgeega]

i've definitely had this conversation before so i feel like i should be able to be more helpful, but i can't really come up with much off the top of my head.

there's the potential for "virtual crossdressing" in avatar-based online games, but that's neither necessarily transgenderism nor is it representation.

i know i've cited samus aran's gender change (between the instruction manual and the game), but that's probably either to build up the eventual gender reveal or because the writers of the instruction manual honestly didn't know and assumed the character was male. at any rate, i've always thought of samus as a kind of cybernetic drag king.

from what i've heard, poison's transgenderism is just an attempt by capcom to skirt issues of violence against women in streets of rage - the logic being if she's not a "real" woman punching her isn't violence against women. pretty terrible, but i like what the character has grown into.

years ago someone emailed me about another mtf game developer, other than dani bunten, who is higher profile and amazing.

i feel like i'm overlooking a million million things.
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[purplechair]

My guy in Fable spent most of the game wearing a pink dress. See also: Frank West, when I get my hands on him.

These aren't great examples since it's just transvesticism and optional and all, but I guess it's mildly notable to have the option. Gender-restricted clothing has irritated me ever since I tried to make the guy in Secret of Mana wear a Tiger Bikini. And you can tell Frank really digs himself in a dress.

[ApM]

Mtf game designer Jennifer Diane Reitz and her game Boppin' come to mind.

[Dracko]

[Cycle]

Isn't the whole reason that game became famouse because of the wonderful "give up" animation? The actual gameplay was pretty awful.
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[Perseus]

[dessgeega]

[Dracko]

[Cycle]

I think I'm going to start proof-reading my posts again. Just look at that last post. What the hell, man!
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[dongle]

[Cycle]

The head of a mac game company was... I'm not sure what they were since they may have just wore womens clothing or got a sex change, I can't remember. Anyway they changed their name from Glen to Glenda Adams.
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[kirkjerk]

Reni Wassulmaier in "Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories"

Kind of a broad and oversexed stereotype of a German / Dieter on Shrpockets film producer.

They leave the gender ambiguous for many of the cut scenes and the character is constantly hitting on the main character, and most of the other males in those scenes (come to think of it, there weren't many females in that game, just a romantic interest and her overweight sister)
... I think as the game progresses, Reni is revealed to be (currently) a man but to have undergone 2 or 3 gender reassignment operations already, and on the final Reni mission you take him to the airport on his way to yet another re-assignment.
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[dizzyjosh]

[Nana Komatsu]

lol tranny amirite?

Edit: I guess so. Mods lock thread plz
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[JamesE]

JDR is pretty famous around much of the internet - built up happypuppy.com, sold it for a seven figure sum, then blew it all. She also runs quite a few sites which assist in grooming people to answer psych tests in order to get gender reassignment surgery. Her big idea was some entirely randomized thing called "Multiverse" - if you can find the uber-post about it she made somewhere it's a textboook example of how not to approach planning a game, she intended to use seed numbers to generate an entire universe of platforming inside a microcomputer. Random aliens, physics, music. The actual social unit she lives in is monogamous and she took a lot of shit out on one of her partners for not coding it at the time in her blogs. Which is not to mention the webcomics, which are quite something.

Definitely a personality..Wikipedia has a few pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COGIATI
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[dessgeega]

i just found out, doing research on crystal quest, that "burger bill" heineman is mtf. she goes by the name rebecca ann - "burger becky" - now. this has pretty much made my day.
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[fish]

cant remember her name but the little nun girl who fights with a yoyo in guilty gear and who is actually a boy raised a girl or something like that.
bridget?

also, any MMO ever.
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[extrabastardformula]

At risk of sounding like a total feeb, is the Clyde to Sue transition in the Pac games canonical?

[dessgeega]

yes.
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[Harveyjames]

Leisure Suit Larry had a scene where you had to dress as a woman to fool some KGB agents, If your costume was inadequate, you'd get an exchange which pointed out the flaws in your disguise:

'But how did you know it was me?'
'Because only women in Russia have such flat chests!'

Also, Roberta Williams is transgender. If you look closely on the cover of Softporn you can clearly see the stub of a dong.

[glitch]

ESPgaluda has a button to switch gender.
it does deplete your gem stock though.

[dessgeega]

isn't that always the way?

snes wolfenstein 3d's trans grosse (formerly gretel grosse): first videogame ftm?
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[Cycle]

So hey, why hasn't Rex Nebula and the Cosmic Gender Bender been mentioned yet?

You play a womanising bounty hunter who crash lands on a planet full of amazon women. At one point, you find out how they reproduce - they invented a gender bender. Changing to and from a woman is actually important to some puzzles.

It's actually a really well made adventure game, one of my favourites. It has lots of humour, good puzzles, great locations and graphics, nudity, a sex scene, gore, etc. It makes sure you know it's absurd. Fun times.

Oh, it also changes pace halfway through the game. the first half is pretty linear and involves lots of NPC interaction, while the second half has you exploring the dead male city freely, solving puzzles. Both halves are well-designed.
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[dessgeega]

[Harveyjames]

[The Soviet Onion]

JDR is a 21st century Henry Darger. It's certainly interesting to hear that Boppin is actually any good - I'm tempted to download it from The Underdogs and give it a spin.

[JamesE]

One of the dudes who programmed Sonic X-Treme (abort abort abort) is now... not a dude. Chris Coffin.
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[sediment]

The male lead in Phantasmagoria 2 was a "forced" crossdresser during his childhood.

Weak offering, but it was (oddly) the first thing I thought of, despite playing way more fighting games than Sierra horror/adventure games.

There's always Flea, from Chrono Trigger. More a joke than anything - but he's there.

They really aren't represented much, and when they are, typically not represented well. Of course, it took a long, long time for transgenderism to get any serious consideration in literature, and then still longer until it'd appear in film.

I figure we've got a good few years still before anything really decent shows up. (I'm not counting Japanese hentai crap.)
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[TOLLMASTER]

This isn't a real post; just something I was typing at Select Button's nonsense forum until I realized it kinda applied to this discussion. Ignore the insensitivity and the flamebait comments in this quote, please: