IronJimbo Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 Don't know if you guys knew this but IronJimbo is big on video games 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJimbo Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 1 hour ago, cannastop said: Chrono (Chrono Trigger) Mario (Super Mario Bros.) Link (The Legend of Zelda) Slime (Dragon Quest) Frog (Chrono Trigger) Princess Peach (Super Mario Bros.) Toad (Super Mario Bros.) Bowser (Super Mario Bros.) Cloud (Final Fantasy VII) Cecil (Final Fantasy IV) Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog) Tony Hawk (Tony Hawk Pro Skater) Lil Mac (Punch-Out!!) Pac-Man (Pac-Man) Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong) Claude (Grand Theft Auto III) Bub and Bob (Bubble Bobble) Vault Boy (Fallout) Jak and Daxter (Jak and Daxter) Sora (Kingdom Hearts) pac man is literally just a filled circle which loses a quarter every other frame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 FYC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 2 minutes ago, IronJimbo said: pac man is literally just a filled circle which loses a quarter every other frame That's why it's so brilliant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJimbo Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 (edited) Always preferred strategy games so my favourite games don't really have characters, I could start listing units like Carrier from Starcraft but it would be silly. Hard to think of my favourite characters from all the games I've played so I googled famous video game characters then picked out the ones I liked and ordered them. I only picked characters from games I've completed or played the majority of. Spoiler 1 Gman Half Life 2 Tidus Final Fantasy 10 3 Snake Metal Gear Solid 4 Gywn of Cinder Dark Souls 5 Seymour Final Fantasy 10 6 Jowy Suikoden 2 7 Gordan Freeman Half Life 8 Master Cheif Halo 9 Chun Li Street Fighter 10 Pyramid Head Silent Hill 2 11 Sephiroth Final Fantasy 7 12 Gerald Witcher 13 Liquid Snake Metal Gear Solid 14 Yuna Final Fantasy 10 15 The Horned Reaper Dungeon Keeper 16 Revoler Ocelote Metal Gear Solid 17 Raiden Metal Gear Revangance 18 Link Zelda 19 Garret Theif 20 Arthas Menethil Warcraft 3 21 Gremio Suikoden 22 Lara Croft Tomb Raider 23 Shodan System Shock 2 24 Illidan Warcraft 3 25 Auron Final Fantasy 10 26 Big Daddy Bioshock 27 Ryu Street Fighter 28 Commander Shepard Mass Effect 29 Luc Suikoden 30 Little Sister Bioshock 31 Max Payne Max Payne 32 Dante Devil May Cry 33 Lee Sin League Of Legends 34 Agent 47 Hitman 35 Cloud Final Fantasy 7 36 Scorpian Moral Kombat 37 Cammy Street Figher 38 Glados Portal 39 Nathan Drake Uncharted 40 Kratos God Of War 41 Guybrush Threepwood Monkey Island 42 Crash Bandicoot Crash Bandicoot 43 Jack Borderlands 2 44 Bowser Mario 45 Luguio Mario 46 Prince Prince Of Persia 47 Sub Zero Mortal Kombat 48 Cortana Halo 49 Trist (witcher) Witcher 50 Sonic Sonic 51 Barney Half Life 52 Duke Nukem Duke Nukem 53 Sam Ficher Spinter Cell 54 Mario Mario 55 John Marston Red Dead Redemption 56 Marcus Fenix Gears Of War 57 Donkey Kong Donkey Kong 58 Bayonetta Bayonetta 59 Corvo Attano Dishonered 60 Ezio Auditore Assassins Creed Edited April 6, 2017 by IronJimbo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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4815162342 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 4 hours ago, IronJimbo said: Always preferred strategy games so my favourite games don't really have characters, I could start listing units like Carrier from Starcraft but it would be silly. Hard to think of my favourite characters from all the games I've played so I googled famous video game characters then picked out the ones I liked and ordered them. I only picked characters from games I've completed or played the majority of. Reveal hidden contents 1 Gman Half Life 2 Tidus Final Fantasy 10 3 Snake Metal Gear Solid 4 Gywn of Cinder Dark Souls 5 Seymour Final Fantasy 10 6 Jowy Suikoden 2 7 Gordan Freeman Half Life 8 Master Cheif Halo 9 Chun Li Street Fighter 10 Pyramid Head Silent Hill 2 11 Sephiroth Final Fantasy 7 12 Gerald Witcher 13 Liquid Snake Metal Gear Solid 14 Yuna Final Fantasy 10 15 The Horned Reaper Dungeon Keeper 16 Revoler Ocelote Metal Gear Solid 17 Raiden Metal Gear Revangance 18 Link Zelda 19 Garret Theif 20 Arthas Menethil Warcraft 3 21 Gremio Suikoden 22 Lara Croft Tomb Raider 23 Shodan System Shock 2 24 Illidan Warcraft 3 25 Auron Final Fantasy 10 26 Big Daddy Bioshock 27 Ryu Street Fighter 28 Commander Shepard Mass Effect 29 Luc Suikoden 30 Little Sister Bioshock 31 Max Payne Max Payne 32 Dante Devil May Cry 33 Lee Sin League Of Legends 34 Agent 47 Hitman 35 Cloud Final Fantasy 7 36 Scorpian Moral Kombat 37 Cammy Street Figher 38 Glados Portal 39 Nathan Drake Uncharted 40 Kratos God Of War 41 Guybrush Threepwood Monkey Island 42 Crash Bandicoot Crash Bandicoot 43 Jack Borderlands 2 44 Bowser Mario 45 Luguio Mario 46 Prince Prince Of Persia 47 Sub Zero Mortal Kombat 48 Cortana Halo 49 Trist (witcher) Witcher 50 Sonic Sonic 51 Barney Half Life 52 Duke Nukem Duke Nukem 53 Sam Ficher Spinter Cell 54 Mario Mario 55 John Marston Red Dead Redemption 56 Marcus Fenix Gears Of War 57 Donkey Kong Donkey Kong 58 Bayonetta Bayonetta 59 Corvo Attano Dishonered 60 Ezio Auditore Assassins Creed Gordon Freeman? He doesn't speak and you see out of his eyes the entire time. He is as much a character as a ghost in Pac Man. I love Half Life as much as the next but come on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertman2 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Is Joker from the Arkham games eligible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJimbo Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 3 minutes ago, 4815162342 said: Gordon Freeman? He doesn't speak and you see out of his eyes the entire time. He is as much a character as a ghost in Pac Man. I love Half Life as much as the next but come on. yes I see the irony for calling out the pacman post but honestly gordan and pacman are fine picks as they're iconic as hell. A lot of my adolescence was spent on the half life series, team fortress, portal, counter strike and even gmod. Gordon is the man who started it all. I had a steam account in 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJimbo Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 3 minutes ago, Fate of the Robertman2 said: Is Joker from the Arkham games eligible? ye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 1 minute ago, IronJimbo said: yes I see the irony for calling out the pacman post but honestly gordan and pacman are fine picks as they're iconic as hell. A lot of my adolescence was spent on the half life series, team fortress, portal, counter strike and even gmod. Gordon is the man who started it all. I had a steam account in 2004. Pac Man is just as ridiculous. Characters who are essentially blank slate player avatars have no business near this list IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJimbo Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 5 minutes ago, 4815162342 said: Pac Man is just as ridiculous. Characters who are essentially blank slate player avatars have no business near this list IMO. most the famous video game characters are blank slate player avatars though, look at Mario. It wasn't specified that we're voting for personality of the character, so I'll vote this way. Voting for the personality of the character seems like a silly way of dong it for the medium, seems almost like a niche side list you could do. We ain't playing books here., Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 9 minutes ago, IronJimbo said: most the famous video game characters are blank slate player avatars though, look at Mario. It wasn't specified that we're voting for personality of the character, so I'll vote this way. Voting for the personality of the character seems like a silly way of dong it for the medium, seems almost like a niche side list you could do. We ain't playing books here., Gee, I wonder what makes a character a character, rather than just pixels on a screen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 10 hours ago, baumer said: I can't participate in this. I can only name maybe 10. 10 is fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 1 hour ago, 4815162342 said: Gee, I wonder what makes a character a character, rather than just pixels on a screen. I understand both arguments and expect the list to be littered with both. On one hand someone like Nathan Drake has more character in the open 10 mins of his first game than Mario has in 30 years. But if I showed a picture of each to passers by, I know which will be the most noticed and iconic. Hell even today, I expect a Mario film (even after the last one) announcement would be met with more GA interest than Uncharted. So personally my list will be a mix of great game characters that made a game better for being living breathing entities that I cared for, and iconic titular characters that epitomise the games that defined my game playing youth. Kind of in the same way that Minions from Despicable Me and Rick Blaine are impossible to rate side by side as one is a comedy distraction and the other is an amazing pure distraction. However Minions have gone on pretty much be the symbol of Illumination animation and that is something that creates an argument for them being on a film character list. So yeah, folks like Drake and Kratos whose stories I enjoyed following will be high on my list, but so will a bunch of plumbers and monkeys because they are synonymous with my gaming development. (I may even end up with Koopa Troopa near my top 75 ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aabattery Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I'm honestly going to be really mad if Garrus isn't number one on this list. It's such a clear and easy choice like c'mon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannastop Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 9 hours ago, 4815162342 said: Gee, I wonder what makes a character a character, rather than just pixels on a screen. I think icon status matters a whole lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 12 hours ago, Fate of the Robertman2 said: Is Joker from the Arkham games eligible? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 2 hours ago, cannastop said: I think icon status matters a whole lot. My opinion is the character part of character means the most by far. Mario is an icon, sure, but as a character he's merely a tool to explore gameplay. There's nothing to him. So many "iconic" characters will not be on my list since that status comes from the legacy of their games rather than anything all that notable about themselves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomCat Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 21 minutes ago, 4815162342 said: My opinion is the character part of character means the most by far. Mario is an icon, sure, but as a character he's merely a tool to explore gameplay. There's nothing to him. So many "iconic" characters will not be on my list since that status comes from the legacy of their games rather than anything all that notable about themselves. To defend Mario, Mario does have personality. Just the only way to see any of it is to play the more RPG types of his games. (Of course, Luigi is way more fleshed out as a character in these instances.) Link is still a blank slate of nothingness, unless you want to count him having a cartoon series giving him personality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...