Greatest video game character of all time?

[AmandaRuth]

I was just wondering. My limted knowlege lets me think Mario, Samus, and Donkey Kong....

What's your personal fav?

[Streetdoc270]

1. Pac-Man!

[Mojambo]

9. I would agree

The original video game character.

[DoveTurnedHawk]

2. Guile, From Street Fighter

Sonic Boom!

I also loved the secret agent dude from Rolling Thunder, he was a badass. :-)

DTH

[geomon666]

3. Best of all time?

Link from The Legend Of Zelda series. Followed closely by Samus from Metroid and Mario from Super Mario Bros. After that, it's a free fall.

[Neoma]

4. Digdug

[PittPoliSci]

5. Vyse from Skies of Arcadia.

I like the idea of being a pirate.

[AmandaRuth]

14. Dude. Best RPG for gamecube eva.

I still play that game. I like Gilder a lot.

[PittPoliSci]

17. all of the characters in that game were great.

i loved how each one was developed. over all, it barely edged out Earthbound as my favorite RPG of all time, and thus, favorite video game of all time.

[7th_Sephiroth]

6. Sephiroth

did you think i was gonna say pac-man

[nickgutierrez]

12. Best. Villain. Ever. n/t

[7th_Sephiroth]

15. damn straight

he will never be a memory

[Chovexani]

20. Your sig always leaves me with warm fuzzies, man.

If FF7 was the Star Wars of console games, Sephi was its Vader. :loveya:

[7th_Sephiroth]

22. actually, in the end, vader had some humanity

Sephiroth doesent, more like the emporer

[Chovexani]

29. I think Seph was actually a rather sympathetic villain

While he didn't exhibit signs of remorse or anything like Vader did, I still found him a sympathetic villain. I think it's because when you look at the circumstances of his life, there really was no other way he could have turned out. He was bred as a biological weapon, never had love or nurturing from anyone (with the exception perhaps of Professor Gast, but he was murdered). He probably felt alienated from others since the day he was born. No wonder he snapped and lost it. I felt more sorry for him than anything else, and even though I am a big Aerith fan I couldn't even hate him after he killed her. Sephiroth just seemed really sad to me. I wanted to save him from himself more than I wanted to kill him.

I also remain convinced that Jenova drives people mad. If you look at everyone who got her cells either ended up crazy or came to a horrible end: Sephiroth, the clones, Hojo, Lucretia, even Cloud (he alone didn't come to a bad end, but those disassociative episodes he had were the doing of those cells, I think). An idea I toy around with in fanfic is that Hojo used Jenova cells in his experiments on Vincent and that's why he was plagued by those nightmares. Maybe we will find out what really happened either in Advent Children or Dirge of Cerberus.

[7th_Sephiroth]

33. i allways toyed with the idea that sephiroth really did die

and the sephiroth active in the game was merely his immortal jenova cells, believeing its sephiroth

[0rganism]

7. I've always had a soft spot for the Doom Cyberdemon

Of course that soft spot may have been from pounding my head against the desk after getting blown up for the Nth time, but it was a soft spot nonetheless.

[Touchdown]

8. Yawa. Yes, he has a name.

It's the yellow guy...

[slutticus]

10. Samus

[NEOBuckeye]

11. I've gotta say Link and Mario

Not so much for their personalities back in the day (what character really did have personality then?), but for the adventures they were featured in.

I grew up on the Super Mario Bros. and Zelda games for the original NES and Super Nintendo and have a lot of fond memories of competing against my friends to see who could make it through first. We probably had the most fun with Super Mario 3, because it had so many different types of levels and so many secrets. Each of us claimed to be a master of one of the worlds -- mine was World 5 since I could clear it faster than anyone else. But Zelda on the Super Nintendo was fun in much the same way. One of my friends bought it and beat it before I even laid a hand upon it, and then he'd offer purposely vague clues and advice to another friend and myself after we started playing. Even when we weren't competing, it was just fun to play through those games and try and find all of the secrets or better techniques for doing things that maybe we had missed before.

The original Metroid was fun, too. That game was absolutely HUGE for its day. I still remember my shock (and later my friends' shock) when I found out that Samus was a woman. That revelation would hardly be a big deal now, but two decades ago, it was pretty major.

[PittPoliSci]

23. super mario 64 is probably one of the best games ever.

it just fantastic. i can't wait to buy a Nintendo DS and pick up the new version of it they made for it.

[Enraged_Ape]

13. Lara Croft

Come on, people. Sheesh.

[jayfish]

16. SHODAN

She didn't talk much, but when she did you damn well listened.

"L-l-l-look at you hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal, machine?" -SHODAN

Jay

[NuttyFluffers]

18. ZZ Badnasty, Leader of Gulfer, Space Pirate Terrorists Extrodinaire

from Gaiares. for her look and sheer name alone. if i could justify it i'd change my name to ZZ Badnasty. I want green hair and an eyepatch while sitting on a throne floating through space in my spaceship!!

if not then Ulala from Space Channel 5. Newcaster from the future who saves the universe with dancing.

or basically anyone from Jet Grind Radio. or Yuko of Valis series. or Alucard from Castlevania:SotN...

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. Sarah Kerrigan, the Zerg Queen of Blades, from Starcraft.

[0rganism]

21. "Entaro Adun, Executor!"

Ah, such wonderful memories... So many desperate battles fought against seemingly hopeless odds... And that slightly-crazed totalitarian inauguration rant from Emperor Mengsk still sends chills through my bones.

[Beware the Beast Man]

24. Evil Otto- Berzerk

Nothing says villainy like a bouncing smiley face you can't kill.

[SHRED]

25. Gordon Freeman

[Fleurs du Mal]

31. affirmative

[sans qualia]

26. I can't pick just one...

SHODAN from System Shock, April Ryan from The Longest Journey, and pretty much the entire main cast of Planescape: Torment, but particularly Dak'kon, Nordom and Ravel. I'm sure I could think of more if I tried.

[NewJeffCT]

27. Leisure Suit Larry

forerunner to many more mature games out there...

[bvar22]

32. Liesure Suit Larry...

Land of the Lounge Lizards. Best game they made. Downhill fast after that one. I had to upgrade to a 386 w/256 colors and a mouse to play.

[Speck Tater]

28. DUKE NUKEM!

Pixels with attitude.

[Chovexani]

30. Mario.

There are many, many characters I like more than Mario. Let's face it though, he paved the way for every single last one of them.

And he's still he most recognizable character in all of gaming.

[mourningdove92]

34. I gotta say LINK

[democracyindanger]

35. The entire cast of Grim Fandango

[Forever Free]

36. SOLID SNAKE!!!!

MGS FOREVER (the original PS version, NOT MGS 2) Although I should add that MGS 3 is quite good as well. Maybe Hideo Kojima will redeem himself for MGS 2 after all.

[Chovexani]

37. Oh, I like Snake.

I think I must be the only person on Earth that actually liked MGS2, but I didn't like it so much for the game but for the supreme slashiness of it. It's one of those situations where I think the fanfics & doujinshis are better than the source material, because they take the characters places my brain wanted them to go but couldn't in the game itself.

Of course, I also played the original MGS only once years and years ago and barely remember it at all, except that I liked it, so I wasn't coming into MGS2 with any prior baggage or preconceptions. That might have something to do with it, I think. :P

MGS3 looks supremely boring to me. Yay, another sneak-sneak-sneak game set in Vietnam. Because, you know, there's just not enough of those right now. Unless there's some hidden scene where Snake does a striptease or something, I think I'll be skipping this one.

I'm sick to death of everyone treating Kojima and all things MGS like it's the second coming, though. Then again, if you look in the Final Fantasy thread you'll see I don't have a single leg to stand on, so I think I will just shut up about now. :P

[Forever Free]

39. Don't be fooled, MGS 3 is SUPERB

It may seem shallow and trite on the surface but the gameplay and storyline is AMAZING. (One word will sum it up for you: EVA!). But I won't spoil it for you, go get it and play it. You won't regret it.

[JohnKleeb]

41. Actually its not set in Vietnam at all

It really is a hell of a game honestly. Oh I liked MGS2, a lot of people did, they just did NOT like Raiden.

[Zhade]

45. "Unless there's some hidden scene where Snake does a striptease..."

Okay, get outta my head, it's freaking me out! :D

[JohnKleeb]

40. Solid Snake! yeah I agree

[AZCat]

38. Manny Calavera from "Grim Fandango"

No-one else can wear a black hooded robe and carry a scythe quite like ol' Manny.



This reaper just oozes cool... :)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

42. Sam and Max!

[Zhade]

43. Link, because he's SO INCREDIBLY HOT!

Sorry, had to say it.

[Zhade]

44. And I present evidence!

I DEFY anyone to say that isn't one good-looking hero!

[Idylle Moon Dancer]

46. I think his name was Bernie.

One of the guards from Thief. Endearing voice, amusing idiot.