Favourite Game Characters

[Sicamon]

Couldn't think of what other forum to put this in...

Those of you lucky enough to have access to my 'special' picture on facebook may have notice my top 5 game characters ever. They are:


1. Frog

Purely because of the way he talks. Gentle ye olde english. He is legend. Been many a moon since I played Chrono Trigger but I remember my love for him.


2. Murray

Because it's Murray.


3. Linda

The lungfish segments of Psychonauts, along with the suburbia level, are the two moments in games that have made me chortle the most. Most of all when Linda gave her farewells and divulged the name given to her by her people.


4. Agro

Surely the most loyal AI ever? Apart from that fucking useless AI dog in Fallout 3 that dies easily.


5. HK47

Provider of the only regular source of comedy to be found in Star Wars: KOTOR. And, off the top of my head, the only racist robot in the Star Wars universe.

[spike_gta]

Niko Bellic



Why? He's such a great character! We see a real journey of redemption and sorrow, for a character that I genuinely sympathised with and wanted to succeed. He was a flawed person with lots of regrets and bad past deeds, but damn it if I didn't want him to get the american dream.

Barney Calhoun



He just makes me smile. He's such a good-hearted character who provides a lot of the comic relief in HL-2. I don't really know why, I just love him!

[Dempsey]

I have a soft spot for Raziel. Haven't played the games for bloody years but I still remember him. Cool appearance, cool way of talking, and great character. He's pretty much a pyscho but you still root for him, even though his goals rebound and change constantly. Kane is also great and he works so well against Raziel.






He is so non-threatening it's hilarious. Every time you beat him its like "yeah you fat fuck thought you could mess with Sonic eh".





Van Helsing. I actually really enjoyed the voicework done with this guy and the completely over-the-top dialogue (a little bit like Soul Reaver). He's a great character to follow around because he's so knowledgeable and resourceful and yet also really stuck up and gets excited over small things. The game has a perfect balance of not taking things too seriously and being over the top, but also not being silly or insulting to our intelligence. Very immersive, and the people who made it seemed to have fun.

[MacCabbe]

My very favourite one, the robomascot from HL2



The Barbarian from DII :


Tam Tam, from Samurai Showdown



Not really a character per se, but I used to love the Mathematician class from Final Fantasy Tactics

[yee haw]

Laura Croft

Leon from R.E.

Crash bandicoot

Shinobi

Gex

Pac Man

And many others, There's a few though... I'm a lot older than most of the users on here.

[Salvage Guy]

Love the antlions

[Damien Stryker]

Isaac Clarke of Dead Space - I just feel bad for the guy, despite an apparent lack of personality and voicework.

Link of The Legend of Zelda series - tried but true.

Skull Kid of The Legend Zelda: Majora's Mask - one of the darker characters in gaming history, largely because he's a a literally power junkie.

Lisa Trevor of Resident Evil - just fucked.

Andrew Ryan of BioShock - don't agree with his ideology but the mofo's very charismatic and I love his final cutscene.

Bowser of the Super Mario series - has, in recent years, become the video game equivalent of Richard Nixon, at least to me.

James Sunderland of Silent Hill 2 - a sympathetic, tragic, and very human figure.

[Injektilo]

"all these lights are really killing my brood vibe"


no other digital entity turned me into quite such a quivering, drop-the-controller, turn-the-game-off mess.


pew pew pew!


AGEHH-ehh-HEHH-heh.

Originally Posted by Sicamon

best horse.

[Glexn]

Nameless One.


Zeratul.


Shodan.


Garret.


And Bob Page.


And ditto on Raziel. I wish Crystal Dynamics would piss off with the Tomb Raider crap. And Amy Hennig would get her old job back. And Tony Jay came back to life.

[kirkyl]

Wesker,Resident Evil Series - Was trying to have all the STARS members killed in gruesome ways for his own end in RE1,beat the shit out of Chris in RE CV and was responsible for all the horrible evil shite in RE5,also wears sunglasses all the time and has a fantastic old school hairstyle.In short a total self serving C*nt but a likable C*nt...in some way.

Garret,Thief series - Has an electric,mechanical eye,robs from the rich and keeps for himself and saves the world but hates being given that role when all he wants to do is nick more shiny gold stuff.

Dr Breen,Half-Life 2 - When a villain makes you question your own actions ("you have destroyed so much is there anything you have created? can you name even one thing?") and motives you know you don't have an ordinary villain on your hands,you genuinely believe he does have some interest in protecting the human race even against its will,for a split second at least.

Volgin,Metal Gear Solid 3 - Sadistic,built like a brick shit house,shoots lightning bolts and can even shoot bullets out of his hands without using a gun,and grabs people by the junk.Yes this motherfucker roughed up snake pretty bad and i couldn't wait to get even with him but overall one of the most feared of MGS baddies.

[Glexn]

Oh, I forgot about Metal Gear! Volgin was fantastic. The Man Who Was Made Of Bees was also very good (The Pain, wasn't he?). And the Photosynthetic Old Man. The Spider Dude was kind of shit.

[nemarsde]

Captain Qwark from the Ratchet & Clank universe. I love this Flashman-style character, the galactic superhero who makes himself scarce at the first sign of trouble but is always there to take the credit afterwards.



Sicamon's choice too. HK-47 was the only NPC in Knights of the Old Republic whose voice dialogue I didn't want to skip passed after 5 seconds. Brilliantly envisaged character.



The Vault Dweller meets many colourful NPCs on his adventures in the Fallout games, but the fact that you can make him a colourful character himself makes him stand out amongst player characters.



Gorgutz. War Boss and Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka fan boy, Gorgutz has none of the Ork hero's qualities but he's irrepressible. Every time Gorgutz's greenskins get stomped, he blames the nearest nob, kills him and flees to another planet and will be there, leading another horde of Orks to destruction in the next Dawn of War title. Whoever said Orkiness was about winning anyway?



There are two big reasons that any male gamer should adore Taki. They are illustrated here, but not animated, and it's their animation that places them high in my affections. I still remember seeing the Soul Blade intro on the PS1 for the first time...

[MacCabbe]

Originally Posted by nemarsde

Captain Qwark

In a similar vein, I'm very fond myself of him :



As for Fallout 3, Patchwork was my favourite character :

[Socratis]

ignus: insane to the point where he was set eternally aflame by a mass group of wizards after he tried setting a city on fire. only through will alone does he stay alive, in constant agony


edwina: arrogant, highly intelligent and masterful wizard who knew his skill and flaunted it with little regard. survived many adventures with a son of bhaal and then was forcefully turned into a woman


arthas: killed a city to stop a plague, purposely marooned his loyal army on a frozen continent to find some ancient legend, let a good friend die, killed his father, and turned undead and then brought ruin to entire nations, including the wholesale slaughter of many, many elves


alexei stukov: loyal to the end, loyal to earth and the effort to wipe out the many factions of that sector of the galaxy, each one being as despicable as the next. terran confederacy, run by a bunch of australians, the protoss, mass murderers of entire worlds, and the zerg, a plague of xenos. ued was the only true saviors of that war, and they were shattered because of the betrayal of stukov. then, weirdly enough, he was resurrected as a zombie


keyes: pure blooded american stock. faced with an impossible situation he did his best and coordinated a timely retreat and then successfully organized a daring guerrilla movement with a handful of survivors before his death on the ring world to parasitic aliens. resurrection: attempted, failed

[Evil_Crawling_eye]

YouTube - Battlefield: Bad Company - Haggard

Haggard from Battlefield Bad Company, because he appeals to the more simple yet effective dumb humor side of me.




Mr Slam from Twisted Metal, being from a farm it was the closest thing to a tractor i could pummel my friends with, the dude was a ging too.



Darkside From Twisted Metal...cause hes a big truck, and i love trucks.



William F. Guile...bain of my friends who play street fighter with me, not necessarily because i would pwn, but because they got tired of fighting him to the point of actual hatred of my face.....hes also the only guy i know special moves for....and hes cool...and we have partially the same name...and...hes cool

YouTube - Team Fortress 2 - Meet the Demoman

TF2 Demo man

AHM A BLACK SCOTTISH CYCLOPS....THERES MORE FF *BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*P THAN THERES THE LIKES O'ME.

Thats all i can think of right now, i always play 'faceless hero' or 'random class charecter' in PC games, Consoles have the most story and single player focus i think.

[Greyhaven]

Boogerman


Tiffa


Duke

[Shataan]

Predator

Marine

Alien

But I still after all these years have a soft spot for Kyle Kataarn. Wasn`t that the characters name in the Star Wars game??

[Glexn]

Yeah, Dark Forces.

That reminds me...



I loved KOTOR2, the story and characters were fantastic (What there was, anyway). Kreia I loved. Revan was cool, too.

[Fate's Destiny]

Morte - Three words: Talking, flying skull. Nothing more really needs to be said other than that. But, for seriousness, Morte is probably one of the best passive characters I've seen for a game. That said, Morte is the cynical, sarcastic companion to the before-mentioned Nameless One. Morte offers comedic relief with his crass wit and glib manner, while also being a cornerstone for a lot of the character developement of the Nameless One. Other than character developement, he helps the player a lot through-out the game with his knowledge of the Multi-verse and other tid-bits of knowledge and know-how, as well as being a resilient, and.... somewhat.... steadfast fighter.

Plus, he digs dead chicks. I mean, c'mon, is that an awesome character quirk, or isn't it?

Really, just about any character from Planescape: Torment can be listed. All are pretty memorable in their dimensions. I listed Morte because he really fits my ideal of a companion character, in practical applications or otherwise. (Maybe that's why I don't like Alyx from Half-Life 2 so much?)

[Glexn]

Alex had as much personality as a brown paper bag.

[Fate's Destiny]

Plus, I didn't like how she was constantly hanging off your cock 24/7 through-out the game. So fucking annoying.

[Glexn]

It makes Gordon seem like a dirty old man who's into high school girls.

[kirkyl]

Originally Posted by Glexn

Alex had as much personality as a brown paper bag.

What drugs are you on? i want some.

[Fate's Destiny]

Originally Posted by kirkyl

What drugs are you on? i want some.

The best drug; reality.

[Hamz]

[Glexn]

Originally Posted by kirkyl

What drugs are you on? i want some.

JC Denton had more personality. Alex was just really... not an interesting person.

[kirkyl]

Originally Posted by Fate's Destiny

The best drug; reality.

What a shitty drug.

Bleh Deus ex was boring and JC was rubbish, looze.

[Fate's Destiny]

Originally Posted by kirkyl

What a shitty drug.

Bleh Deus ex was boring and JC was rubbish, looze.

Call me when you're dead, then we'll see what you'll have to say.

[Injektilo]

Originally Posted by kirkyl

What a shitty drug.

Bleh Deus ex was boring and JC was rubbish, looze.

hey I can't help but notice your massive failure in taste

[kirkyl]

What because i happen to dislike something that is popular here? Alyx is far better than JC IMO.