I'm sure this thread already exists somewhere here, but let's go ahead with it anyway. If this thread has a great enough level of success. I'll make a deathmatch thread, with a poll of the most popular in this thread.

List the characters in any video game that you consider to be overflowing with the thickest, and greatest personalities you have seen. Note, this does not mean that you have to like them. You could hate their guts, but for good reason.

1: GLaDOS* (Portal): I think we can all agree here.
2: Jim Raynor (Starcraft)
3: Dr. Steinman (Bioshock)
4: The G-Man (Half Life series)
5: Teron Gorefiend (Warcraft IIx: Beyond the Dark Portal)

*GLaDOS includes the Companion Cube and the Autoturret, as they scratch their personality from GLaDOS's rich surface.

As a bonus, I'll include some of the worst:

Master Chief, and Saladin and Montezuma from Civ4.

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I hate to disappoint you but Companion Cube has no personality whatsoever.It's just a fucking cube.

The G-Man has no personality.

JakubK666:
I hate to disappoint you but Companion Cube has no personality whatsoever.It's just a fucking cube.

That just highlights the high quality of writing in Portal. You're 100% correct, the weighted companion cube has no personality whatsoever, but through GLaDOS's dialogue, it appears to have a personality. The lines about the WCC are some of my favourite lines in the whole game.

Have no order for these, but...
- The Three Vikings (The Three Vikings)
- I'd replace the G-Man with Dr. Breen. Vance could be up there, too, but his brain a'splode.
- Bubsy the Bobcat??? (Bubsy)
- Maybe Luigi, after seeing him in Brawl.

Besides that, maybe take Teron Gorefiend down and replace him with Gorgutz WAAAAAAGH!!! (Warhammer 40K: Dark Crusade).

As a bonus, I'll include some of the worst:

Master Chief, and Saladin and Montezuma from Civ4.

Master Chief has some of the most quotable lines in all of videogamedom.

"Sir, permission to leave the ship"

"For what purpose Master Chief?"

"To give the Covenant their bomb back."

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Anyways, I'll no doubt get flamed for this, but Cortana actually had a very good personality. Sassy, smart, and she always had some wise-crack to make about the many situations MC found himself in.

j-e-f-f-e-r-s:

As a bonus, I'll include some of the worst:

Master Chief, and Saladin and Montezuma from Civ4.

Master Chief has some of the most quotable lines in all of videogamedom.

"Sir, permission to leave the ship"

"For what purpose Master Chief?"

"To give the Covenant their bomb back."

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Anyways, I'll no doubt get flamed for this, but Cortana actually had a very good personality. Sassy, smart, and she always had some wise-crack to make about the many situations MC found himself in.

yeah and how can you forget the quote he made on the planet Breach (the book)

lady: "but chief, how will we find you?"
MC: "just follow the bodies"

also i liked the personality of the fat blue book brother guy from the original Myst (the name escapes me)
"Bring me blue pages, bluuueeee pages, my brother is greedy, bluuuuueeee pages haha"

The best video game personality is the incredibly stupid main character from dead rising. He has horrible lines, even for one liners. He also is always smug even when surrounded by zombies.

Homestar Runner and Me.

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Anarchemitis:
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Sir, Yes Sir!

Anyhoo, I really like Guybrush Threepwood, with all his little neurosis and silly quips, I really wish someone would make a new Monkey Island.

andrew ryan and Jack (the guy you play as in bioshock)

GLaDOS is funny but SHODAN is just plain creepy. Still one character that I find undeniably compelling is Saveedro from Myst III: EXILE. When I think of others I'll come back and edit my post to add them

Garrett from the Thief series; he's sly, sarcastic and despite sometimes appearing otherwise, totally self-serving. He is the electronic embodiment of me ;-)

I also like Sam Fisher from Splinter Cell but mainly because of Michael Ironside's voice work.

HK-47 from KOTOR hands down. best voice acting ever

Raziel (Legacy Of Kain)
Actually when I think about how about the whole game

Guybrush Threepwood
Ben Throttle
Sam
Max
Green Tentacle

Minsc from Baldur's Gate.
"Go for the eyes Boo! THE EYES!"
"Butt-kicking...for goodness."

Most of the characters from Baldur's Gate actually.

Plus, most of Planescape: Torment.

Edit: Sorry Anarchemitis. Had to represent the older personalities that were missing.

Anarchemitis:
Homestar Runner and Me.

What? No Strong Bad? :O

Andrew Ryan from Bioshock

Phoenix Wright is a good one.
Altair from Assassin's Creed.

How could I forget Captain Price from Call of Duty series. Think about it. In CoD1, he was a guide to your life in Europe. In CoD2, he was the hard-hitting leader on the battlefield. In 4, he was the House-esque character who always hated you, except he liked you a bit.

Agent 47 - There's just something about a sociopath like him thats so rich, especially his faith during Hitman 2.

Vic Vance

Kratos before he just wanted to kill everything.

jim_doki:
Guybrush Threepwood
Ben Throttle
Sam
Max
Green Tentacle

and Manny Calavera

implodingMan:
Andrew Ryan from Bioshock

I concur. Although it was Fontane's voice acting which made me buy the game.

Calobi:
Minsc from Baldur's Gate.
"Go for the eyes Boo! THE EYES!"
"Butt-kicking...for goodness."

Most of the characters from Baldur's Gate actually.

hell yeah
"swords not words"

I have to go with HK-47, the single best-written character I have ever seen in a movie, book, or game.

Runner-up has to be Andrew Ryan. Having read Ayn Rand's work and being fond of her philosophies myself, it was cool on a level I can't describe to see them come to life in a video game.

Rikku from FFX

gg no re

Durandal, the rampant AI you work for in the Marathon series. (See userpic.) "If things aren't working around here, it's because I'm laughing too hard." "It seems that BoBs aren't lava-proof." "You know the guy; angry AI, works for the Pfhor, name rhymes with 'psycho'..."

There's been lots of strong personalities in games, but I have to say that it's Durandal I rank as the very best.

-- Steve

SHODAN. Creeped the fuck out of me in SS2.

Where the heck is Mina from LoZ:TP??? She is selfish, sarcastic, smart, clever and unlike any orther companion in any zeldagame ever before: POWERFUL.

Also I would like to vote for Alyx Vance and Dr. Magnusson.

Ps. "Mother" from PREY, just to name a bad guy...

i would say travis touchdown from no more heroes. Despite being at times a very repellent human being (well he is meant to represent a stereotypical gamer) he has so some of the best lines I've heard in a while, hell his entrance to the game is brilliant. How can you not love a guy whos first word, upon dispatching two henchmen in a very cool way is 'fuckheads!.

As you can tell, i love No More Heroes :)

The SoT (and to a lesser extent, TT) Prince.

- J

Just list all of the protagonists from any game that scored 4/5 stars on IGN in the past 4 years and it makes this thread obsolete.

Heeey. There's a reason for naming Phoenix Wright.

Gumshoe: I know everything that happens under me! If someone so much as scratches their--
Phoenix: I REALLY don't need to know that much!

"Words cannot describe how screwed I am..."
"Proof-shmoof! Always with the proof-oh, wait, I do need proof, don't I."

Sorry. I just like to throw those out randomly.