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Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13973 Posts
December 01 2015 03:59 GMT
#1
A big thing for me in video games is the campaign/story. In fact, single player ends up being my primary focus when a new game I am interested in is released. As a result of this, I feel like it is only fitting that I create a rank/list for some of my favorite characters and personalities from these games. Before I begin, let me mention that I will be limiting myself to only one character per franchise. (Also if there is some huge character that you might expect but is not included, chances are its because I haven't played the game in question).

5. Lee Everett
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Franchise: The Walking Dead
Game: The Walking Dead Season 1
Honorable Mentions: Clementine, Kenny

I have to be honest, for years I disliked The Walking Dead and all of it's mediums simply because it didn't sound like it could live up to the hype of being a series all about the zombie apocalypse. Add this to season 2 from the show... and I think I get a pass for being a newer fan of both the games and the show. As far as Lee himself is concerned, it's hard to find a more selfless guy. At the start of the game we find Lee on his way to prison for murder. Well, zombies happen. He eventually finds Clementine, a little girl without her parents. Lee sacrifices everything to ensure her safety and her readiness to survive in a world that belongs to the dead. This culminates in his death at the end of Season 1 of the game, as he gets bit. Pretty cool dude.


4. Thrall
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Franchise: Warcraft
Game: Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos
Honorable Mentions: Furion, Arthas


I can't say this enough, but FUCK WoW. Holy shit! Warcraft 3 though, that was pretty tolerable/good. Thrall was our introductory character to the first RTS Blizzard made since BW. Pretty awesome guy, wants to save his race, and find them a land they can call home. You know, normal Orc stuff. Add this to Chain Lightning and Feral Spirit and yay :D.


3. Grovyle
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Franchise: Pokemon
Game: Pokemon Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky
Honorable Mentions: Wigglytuff, Dusknoir

Okay honestly, this game does not get enough credit. Considering the fact that this game was made for 6 year olds, it contains hands down the best story in any video game I have played (except maybe BW). It is literally a story of deception, time travel, saving the world, and sacrificing oneself by doing so. For the first third of the game, you the player, (and you the character) are under the impression that Grovyle is actually the primary enemy of the game. You are treated to scenes of him "Stealing time gears" objects that protect the constant of time. At first you believe the time gears must remain in their stored location or time will literally stop. Turns out that it's the other way around, Grovyle is a pokemon from the future who is trying to collect all of the time gears and put them in their proper place to save the world, and change history, before time stops. By changing history, Grovyle's timeline no longer exists, and therefore neither does he. In other words, he recognizes his success will result in his death. I will admit, the story is a little over the top, and there are some flaws to it, but to play it yourself, you realize how damn good it is. I really can't do it justice. All I can say on the matter is that Grovyle knew the meaning of sacrifice.


2. Fawful
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Franchise: Mario Bros
Game: Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga
Honorable Mentions: None


Fawful may be the single greatest sidekick/right hand man for a villain I have ever seen. He isn't a genius, nor is he physically powerful. His dialogue just so happens to be rife with non sequiters, and it is amazing.
"I am the great Cackletta's most best pupil, who is named Fawful! I am here, laughing at you! If you are giving us the chase, just to get your silly princess's voice, then you are idiots of foolishness! Princess Peach's sweet voice will soon be the bread that makes the sandwich of Cackletta's desires! And this battle shall be the delicious mustard on that bread! The mustard of your doom!"
"Now is when I ram you!"
"I HAVE FURY!"

It's pretty great :D


1. Zeratul
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Franchise: Starcraft
Game: Starcraft: Brood War
Honorable Mentions: Alarak, Stukov, Duran


What the fuck do you mean SC2 had a campaign? BW Zeratul was the ultimate badass. I have written an entire blog about this before, so I will try not to rehash to much. I dunno, Zeratul was easily my favorite character from Starcraft, I was thinking about lowering him down a notch or two because SC2 story is a thing, but I decided to say that my number one character is Zeratul from the game Starcraft: Brood War, loopholes motherfucker. I feel like they could have done a lot more with him in SC2. For example not killing him in some animesque way after the 2nd fucking level....


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aRyuujin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5049 Posts
December 01 2015 04:06 GMT
#2
mystery dungeon was fucking awesome i rated 5 just for the grovyle
can i get my estro logo back pls
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13973 Posts
December 01 2015 04:15 GMT
#3
On December 01 2015 13:06 aRyuujin wrote:
mystery dungeon was fucking awesome i rated 5 just for the grovyle

have you tried Super Mystery Dungeon? It's pretty damn difficult.
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aRyuujin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5049 Posts
December 01 2015 04:28 GMT
#4
On December 01 2015 13:15 Cricketer12 wrote:
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On December 01 2015 13:06 aRyuujin wrote:
mystery dungeon was fucking awesome i rated 5 just for the grovyle

have you tried Super Mystery Dungeon? It's pretty damn difficult.


Woah I didn't know there was a new version! I'll def snag a copy for myself this christmas. When playing explorers of darkness/time, i really missed the brutal difficulty of red/blue. I'm looking forward to the version.
can i get my estro logo back pls
nanaoei
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
3358 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-01 06:05:23
December 01 2015 05:59 GMT
#5
you know I find it very hard to believe these are your best, most influencial, or most memorable characters out of all the video games you've played... but, I really can't recall the personalities that were created in other games i'd consider.


what's more interesting that out of your top 5 you only have 1 MC from an RPG, and it's a pokemon ROFL.
there's no final fantasy, chrono trigger, or any of the famous characters from other games which indicates a degree of hipsterism, or in which case you should consider playing one day.

as for my most favourite characters, I would actually say some of them are from fighting games.
what's cool and what's been popular is that games, are allowing you to insert your own persona into the characters you're playing and fill in the small gaps in subtlety or even in the plot to make it unique to you.
I think it's actually hard to find characters that are able to stand on their own feet because even if everything has been designed to be tragic and/or dramatic around them, there are a lot of perceivable flaws surrounding the things they do.
and that's just all opinion
*@boesthius' FF7 nostalgia stream bomb* "we should work on a 'Final Progamer' fangame»whitera can be a protagonist---lastlie: "we save world and then defense it"
BreakfastBurrito
Profile Joined November 2011
United States893 Posts
December 01 2015 06:07 GMT
#6
Gau from FF6 (or any of them, all great imo, ff5 as well)

Tingle in Majora's Mask

The (eponymous) Darkness

G man from half life

Abe from the Oddworld games

Glados

Barry the sandwich man from RE1

Thats the 7 that first crossed my mind when I thought of memorable characters
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Yorbon
Profile Joined December 2011
Netherlands4272 Posts
December 01 2015 06:20 GMT
#7
Zeratul will always be my favourite. I really felt his pain/doubt after the bw bonus mission.

It's really hard to think of other interesting characters. Now that I think about it, i haven't really played many games. I just played some games a lot.
BEARDiaguz
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Australia2362 Posts
December 01 2015 10:26 GMT
#8
No Solaire of Astora, 0/5 stars.
ProgamerAustralian alcohol user follow @iaguzSC2
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
December 01 2015 10:51 GMT
#9
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon was fucking AWESOME!

My favorite character is probably Geno was Super Mario RPG. Complete badass doll that wreck everything.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44190 Posts
December 01 2015 12:23 GMT
#10
#3 and #1 <3 Nice list
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Endymion
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States3701 Posts
December 01 2015 13:04 GMT
#11
duran > zeratul... i still can't believe they WASTED such an amazing character in sc2.. also, illidan and arthas were awesome characters too, the completely made their expansions in WoW.. actually, all of BC's endgame characters were pretty awesome, TK and SSC were great raids but black temple will always stand out to me as the most thematic raid of all time
Have you considered the MMO-Champion forum? You are just as irrational and delusional with the right portion of nostalgic populism. By the way: The old Brood War was absolutely unplayable
KingDime
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada750 Posts
December 01 2015 14:28 GMT
#12
I would likely have some starcraft ones in a list such as this as well due to how few games I've played outside of blizz titles. My #1 in such a list would have to be Jon irenicus from BG2 though, hell I could prob make a list out of BG2 alone.
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Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13973 Posts
December 01 2015 15:07 GMT
#13
With the exception of GLaDoS i know little/nothing of any character mentioned. Really pleased by how many people know #3 :D
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Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13973 Posts
December 01 2015 15:12 GMT
#14
On December 01 2015 15:07 BreakfastBurrito wrote:
Gau from FF6 (or any of them, all great imo, ff5 as well)

Tingle in Majora's Mask

The (eponymous) Darkness

G man from half life

Abe from the Oddworld games

Glados

Barry the sandwich man from RE1

Thats the 7 that first crossed my mind when I thought of memorable characters

Never heard of gau, never played majora's mask only zelda game i played was WW. The fuck is the darkness? Ive heard generally good things about G man as a character. No idea what oddworld is and never played RE
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pebble444
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Italy2497 Posts
December 01 2015 15:18 GMT
#15
5/5 Zeratul was the F man.
"Awaken my Child, and embrace the Glory that is your Birthright"
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
December 01 2015 15:19 GMT
#16
I liked Mengsk in SCBW. And Garrus from Mass Effect. Those are cool.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44190 Posts
December 01 2015 16:03 GMT
#17
On December 02 2015 00:12 Cricketer12 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 01 2015 15:07 BreakfastBurrito wrote:
Gau from FF6 (or any of them, all great imo, ff5 as well)

Tingle in Majora's Mask

The (eponymous) Darkness

G man from half life

Abe from the Oddworld games

Glados

Barry the sandwich man from RE1

Thats the 7 that first crossed my mind when I thought of memorable characters

Never heard of gau, never played majora's mask only zelda game i played was WW. The fuck is the darkness? Ive heard generally good things about G man as a character. No idea what oddworld is and never played RE


Whoaaaa. You gotta play Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and A Link to the Past... at the very least.
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13973 Posts
December 01 2015 16:44 GMT
#18
On December 02 2015 00:18 pebble444 wrote:
5/5 Zeratul was the F man.

Dont mean to sound like an asshole but I think its embrace the glory THAT is your birthright.
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vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
December 01 2015 23:21 GMT
#19
My personal favorites are Riku from Kingdom Hearts, Sylvanas from Warcraft series, DJ Professor K from the Jet Set Radio series, GLaDoS, and Yosuke Nakamura from Persona 4. But your choices are great, Zeratul and Grovyle are sick, Thrall too.
I used to play random, but for you I play very specifically.
pebble444
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Italy2497 Posts
December 02 2015 03:49 GMT
#20
On December 02 2015 01:44 Cricketer12 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2015 00:18 pebble444 wrote:
5/5 Zeratul was the F man.

Dont mean to sound like an asshole but I think its embrace the glory THAT is your birthright.


Looks like theres a cricket hopping on my pebble,
Thanks for pointing that out , will change it to the original
"Awaken my Child, and embrace the Glory that is your Birthright"
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