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This is it, the time to reveal is nearly upon us. 

 

Video game characters are a wonderful thing as they star in some of our favourite things: Video games. 

 

This countdown will begin in about 2 hours or so. It would be wonderful to get one more list in within that time that could hopefully break a few ties, but either way, it has been a good campaign and the time for voting is nearly over.  

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It Begins...

 

So, here's the deal. Had a couple of lists come in that I have just finished tabulating and thus took the reveal time to its current 1:30am status. 

 

Therefore we are going to do a top 104 countdown.

 

Why is that you say? Because there were 4 characters that received over 50 points (the value of a 1st place vote, but did not break into the top 100. 

 

Therefore we shall reveal those tonight (my tonight), and then I will charge through a a chunk of the list when I finish work tomorrow. 

 

So without further adieu...  

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117th 

Max - Sam and Max (51 points)

 

 

The only psychotic Rabbit to make the vote i believe (although possibly not the only psychotic rabbid). Max was one half a crime solving duo so inseparable that I believe the only reason Max is 104th is because he has second billing in the game. 

 

A star of the old Lucas arts point and click extravaganza period, when you would tell a dog, rabbit, scientist or tenticle to pick up a tube of glue and he'd refuse and talk to the wall or something; Sam and Max was a game with a lot of personality and great dialogue.

 

Also the games hold up pretty well in the sense that they were impossible nonsense puzzles that beat you into submission, with the only saving grace being the fun main characters then, and they are impossible nonsense puzzles that beat you into submission, with the only saving grace being the fun main characters now.  

 

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116th 

Sam - Sam and Max (51 points) But a higher highest score

 

 

Shockingly people that voted for Max, also voted for Sam pretty much in tandem. Essentially Sam Wins because the game is called Sam and Max instead of Max and Sam. 

 

Sam is a dog of very many brains, but very little skill in the art of fucking picking shit up that I want him to pick up. Outside of that though, pretty much anything you can think to say about Sam, has already been covered in talking about Max.  

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115th 

Amanda Ripley - Alien Isolation (52 points)

 

 

I want to refrain from spoiling games where possible, but I will say this here now. Alien Isolation is a near perfect game in the style of what it is trying to be. It is intense, stressful, terrifying at times... oh and about 75% of the gameplay is that 1 minute clip above. 

 

I needed lockers, I lived in lockers, I was (insert long overblown Bane parody speech here later), but aside from all the locker hiding fun, and excellently realised Xenomorph, another thing this game nailed was the protagonist. Amanda Ripley is the daughter of the Ripley from the original Alien film. She is attempting to find out what happened to her mother and in the process, well... Alien stuff happens. 

 

In trying to just stay alive and get from point A to point B, she quickly becomes of the the great survival horror characters. If you haven't played this, you really should. 

 

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114th 

Chloe Fraser - Uncharted (52 points) But a higher highest

 

If there was a countdown for best gaming franchise, Uncharted would have a decent shout of taking the whole thing I would imagine. The series now boasts 5 great games with 5 great stories and a list of side characters so long and compelling that they can get their own games. 

 

Chloe is one such character. She works well both as side character and as protagonist, she has a great voice actor, and she is given a strong, interesting arc over the course of her franchise appearances. She came agonizingly close to making the official top 100, but I do expect that this is not the last we have seen of Uncharted in this thread. 

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113th 

Batman - Arkham Series (54 points) 

 

 

Now technically the way the voting rules state that this position is for any original gaming version of Batman so Injustice, Telltale, Lego etc all could have contributed here. 

 

However Every vote received specifically mentioned the Arkham series and so I may as well stick with that. I have not played an Arkham game (actually I played about 4 hours of one of them on PC, but then realised I don't do PC Gaming) so this is the first character on this list I can't really give a personal take on. 

 

What I do know is that, the series is famous for reinventing the Batman character for the gaming world and most of the series receives pretty much nly plaudits for its handling of character, story and game play. I do think on of these was a PSN free game recently, so I may get to give them a try afterall thanks to that.  

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112th 

Scorpion - Mortal Kombat (54 points) 

 

 

I think it took me an embarassingly long amount of my life to realise that this guy is called Scorpion and not Scorpio. 

 

Scorpion is a mainstay of the Mortal Kombat series and one of its most iconic characters (and arguably its number one most iconic move/soundbite?) This may or may not be the last Mortal Kombat character that we see appear on this list,

 

I will say that there were a number of different fighters to receive some love and it's clear that different members have different tastes in fighters from those that essentially just changed the color scheme of Scorpion, to people with cool hats, to those characters that prove that is a girl has boobs, she can literally have a jaw designed to castrate you if you ever got close to her and its still not a red flag. 

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111th 

Triss Merigold - The Witcher (54 points) 

 

 

Now my experience playing the Witcher was a rocky one. I spent the opening 20 hours pretty much hating the game and most characters in it. Even when I found a guy who seemed cool, turned out he was a drunken baby murderer and that was a deflating thing to find out about a person. 

 

Eventually I soldiered on through the game and did actually kind of enjoy it by the end (although it would have felt much better if the end of Act 2 was the finale).

 

Anyhow on the quest for characters i liked I finally came across somebody who was actually cool, decent and I wanted to get behind and know more about them. That person was of course, Skjall. Sadly the game delights in making his entire existence a living torment so that was sad. 

 

Then there came the love interests. As you are not able to have an extended relationship with the topless forest witch, you are left with two choices for Geralt to be with. Those are either Triss, or the wrong choice. The more of this game I played the more I personally liked Triss as a character. She has a soul, is not completely callous, and is fun to side-quest with, I am actually kind of glad she made the (extended) list. 

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110th 

Kazooie - Banjo Kazooie (54 points) 

 

 

I feel there may be disquiet somewhere when it is revealed that a major Witcher character was beaten by a vuvazula wielding parrot. 

 

Unlike with Sam and Max where the two title heroes go pretty much hand n hand with each other in popularity and respect, there is a bit of a gap between Kazooie and his (her?) pal that we will find out later in which direction. 

 

Kazooie did also debut in games later than Banjo I believe as I do not remember him showing up in Diddy Kong Racing at all. Overall though, 105th isn't a bad placement for a glorified glide mechanic :)  

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109th 

Mickey Mouse - Kingdom Hearts (56 points) 

 

 

Now forgive me if my summary isn't the best as i only played Kingdom Hearts 3 and not 1, 2, or 365/2. But in this game you play as a variety of nothing anime characters while Disney explodes around you. 

 

You spend your time trying to work out if the person you are chasing is the original person, the dark clone, the light clone of the dark clone, the broken duplicate created by a piece of a light clone's heart, a member of the order of the bad people who are anagrams of the good people with an x thrown in, except for the times when they are not. 

 

On top of this you get fucking Goofy and Donald Duck being charged with delivering 2 minute long emotional monologues. Oh and you start by seeing that Maleficent is looking for a box and then she promptly disappears and is never heard from again. 

 

So yeah, in amongst all that, sure. Mickey Mouse is a character that has a background, a very wide reaching story and a lot of development. But anyone that can tell you what that development is, is a better man than I. 

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108th 

Wheatley - Portal (57 points) 

 

 

We're onto another game that I have played sections of, but not all of. Portal is one of those games that does an awful lot with very little when it comes to its characters. Each game pretty much only has the one, and they pretty much rely on the voice actor and the script writer to sell the character. 

 

Wheatley does an excellent job of keeping you entertained and invested in a puzzle game sequel. You can't help but love him really. 

 

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107th 

Tiny Tina - Borderlands (58 points) 

 

 

So it was bound to happen, we get to a game I have literally played zero seconds of. In fact I thought I was looking for a Bioshock character for some reason (I mean the games both begin with B). 

 

Anyhow a character made by the company with a CEO that thinks porn stars have magic powers, Tina is one of 6 Borderlands characters to receive votes, but the only one that has made the list. 

 

The next best results were Handsome Jack in 183rd, and Mad Moxxi in 325th. 

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106th 

Jak - Jak and Daxter (58 points) 

 

 

So is Jak the boy, or the squrrely thing? Yeah it's a second game in a row that I haven't played. This was made by the Crash Bandicoot guys right?

 

Anyhow, I can see why this game could get some love. It's Sony doing its cartoon platformer, but edgier Schtick it loves to do, and when it works, it works out pretty well. Then you get poor lost souls like Gex and Croc who didn't receive a single vote :( 

 

In case you are wondering, whichever one of the two is Daxter, did not get a vote. I'm gonna assume Daxter is the boy.  

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