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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1830 Joined: 20 Mar 2008     | |
Muckraker  Posts: 250 Joined: 5 Nov 2008    | Mostly tied up between Raziel from Soul Reaver, Marcus Fenix from Gears of War, Agent 47 from Hitman, and Billy Hatcher from Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, but if I really had to choose one, it'd be 47 all the way. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3870 Joined: 16 May 2008     | I wasn't saying that you NEEDED to change your methodology. I was just pointing out what's polite. feel free to ignore me and go off on a ragaholic tirade if you really want to, I don't care :) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 158 Joined: 1 Oct 2008    |
plagiarism! hiss |
On the Record  Posts: 5640 Joined: 9 Jul 2008     |
I agree. Don't be bitter because DA was buggy, though. Be bitter because it was a disgrace to the series. In my mind, Chaos Theory is the best in the series. And Fisher does have some of the best quotes ever. "Do I go to your job and tell you how to murder innocents?" My favorite has to be Faith from Mirror's Edge, though. Seriously, a female protagonist with a realistic body? Genius!! |
On the Record  Posts: 6205 Joined: 22 Aug 2008   |
Every thread is the etiquette nazi thread. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 73 Joined: 27 Feb 2008    | Guybrush Threepwood of the Monkey Island games. Also a big fan of Mega Man, Garrett from the Thief games, Raziel from Soul Reaver, and Konoko from the game Oni. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 456 Joined: 24 Jul 2008  | Either Auron from FFX or Sargent Johnson from any Halo. Do I really need to explain either of them? |
Muckraker  Posts: 260 Joined: 17 Nov 2008   | Yeah Guybrush is awesome! Also a huge fan of Gordon Freeman :) |
BANNED  Posts: 3535 Joined: 11 Oct 2008    |
Yes, yes you do. Proper characterization in a Halo game? I need to hear this. User was banned for: FUN FORUM GAME THX FO PLAYIN :3. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1830 Joined: 20 Mar 2008 |
I'm not on a tirade at all. I'm just stating that your bringing this up on a completely unrelated thread is pointless. Though pointing out the obvious generally does tend to anger most folks.
Lies. Blasphemy. Madness, even. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1331 Joined: 22 Oct 2008  |
Way to quote Yahtzee verbatim. My favorite protagonist would be a tie between myself in SR2 and myself in the Penny Arcade games. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3870 Joined: 16 May 2008 |
see? I told you. you'd get better response with quotation marks and citation. people see you using his words to try and sound clever, even if that's not how you meant it, it's how it looks. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1331 Joined: 22 Oct 2008 |
Good to see I'm not the only one who noticed this. |
Paperboy Posts: 47 Joined: 28 Oct 2008  | Truth Be told, I have been on a real anti-hero kick. I just replayed COD4 campaign since I was going to be running out to pick up COD:WaW in the next week. Well that and that campaign could be finished in an afternoon. And it absolutely rocks. But I REALLY enjoyed Captain Price's style. And not just for the moustache. He REALLY had the greater good in mind. Well maybe the western greater good in mind, but who is counting? :P. Price was concerned with keeping dangerous goods out of the hands of people that would do bad things to the west. Price was so fixed on these goals that he really let the well being of those goals countered his to fall forfiet. Price ignored a lot of moral conduct to get his job done as swiftly and efficiently as possible. I really like these characters for the "Dark Knight" effect they have on the population. They are a total necessity in the world we live in of widely divergent values and beliefs, but in modern society, almost everyone utterly reviles their very existence. In this liberal, anti-estabolisment age, everyone hates the agents of the powers that be with the power to take such decisive, brutal action when such action is needed. People see it as uncivilized and scary, but show violent force is really often the only thing that can cross all language barriers and biases, for better or for worse. Well all that and Price fights FOR the government, not against. Which is a bit of a new spin on things, since everyone else is playing the underdog rebel card. But my real Protagonist de jour is Kratos. God of War Kratos. I REALLY want to see him fleshed out a bit more. He started off as a power hungry general who was fueled only by his insatiable ambition. Then he went too far in his ambition and wound up getting himself involved in powers that were way over his head at the time (the gods), and then he ended up going too far is his pursuit of power (wont say for possible spoilers! if you dont know, please go play through the first god of war!!) And is now on a journey to free himself from the memories of his crimes, to cease his servitude to the gods and just generally be left alone. Kratos is like a character from a greek tragedy being played in reverse, starting at his tragic mistake and has to make it to his redemption. All that and his is outwardly and incredibly selfish, evil bad ass, that, even from the start of the game must commit to tasks that are inarguably for the greater good, dispite again, being a total malicious misanthrope. But he still has just that little measure of remorse and regret to almost seem human. He may not be the BEST example, but it is MY favorite. **Sorry for the wall of text, but myself and a good friend we just arguing this not an hour ago, so I came in to this topic with both barrels loaded** |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 782 Joined: 12 Aug 2008   | Commander Shepard. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 83 Joined: 1 Nov 2008   | Leon Kennedy. he is so bad ass |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 653 Joined: 14 Nov 2008   | Kratos from God of War. Just because he doesn't take crap and hates when people tell him to go through a bunch a stupid challenges just to get revenge unlike most game characters who recieve orders to do something and happily accept without so much as complaining. |
Paperboy Posts: 47 Joined: 28 Oct 2008 | OH, and massive props to "The Bard" of "The Bard's Tale" Cary Elwes and the rest of the voice actors MADE that game. If it was not for the bard being absolutely perfect is all of his dialogue and reactions, driving me to finish the game, that game would have likely kinda sucked. There are too many quotes to list, but what else do you expect from the guy who did the first fallout? So that makes The Bard note worthy for awesome protagonists. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 92 Joined: 4 Jun 2008  | Shion from Xenosaga. She's in my favorite story, has an incredibly good voice actor, priceless facial expressions, deviates from the "standard" female roles in most video games, and built a murderous gynoid with a stomach that shoots laser beams. Only thing I really disliked about her was her fashion sense. I've played a lot of JRPGs so it takes a real disaster for me to even notice anymore let alone have it bother me. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1532 Joined: 6 Apr 2008    | Ben from Full Throttle :3 Eldred from Sacrifice. It's weird to feel sympathy for him, since, as he himself says, he was a tyrant on his old home. That is... But when Sacrifice starts he's just broken and looking for a way to pick himself back up. |
King of the Yetis  Posts: 2538 Joined: 15 Jul 2008 | In terms of realism and good writing? "April Bloody Ryan" as traitorous paddies are apt to say. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2787 Joined: 5 Aug 2008  | Travis Touchdown. He's an otaku, gamer, assassin, who likes porn, just like me! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1948 Joined: 7 Sep 2008  |
I just got the feeling that she was being a major BITCH in episode three though, must be the result of Kevin's mindfuckery. As for the topic, that guy from RAD (Robot Alchemic Drive). When you use something that oddly resembles a PS2 controller to control a clumsy giant robot without proper aiming (good luck with getting that Mazinger Z-esque flying fist to actually hit something other than a building), you know you have yourself a winner. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 51 Joined: 10 Oct 2008   | I think painkiller is a pretty cool guy. eh kills tons of doods and doesnt afraid of anything. EDIT: Oh, and while not a protagonist, Jon Irenicus of BG2 fame is probably the best character to ever emerge from a videogame, hands down. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2849 Joined: 8 Jul 2008  |
I used to like him a lot, before I came to the conclusion he was just another generic 'bad-ass' in a suit of armour. I'm going with Link. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2578 Joined: 27 Sep 2008  |
And he has a nice jacket, though he wants to be Dante, who fell out of my favour when DMC3 came along. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2906 Joined: 10 Apr 2008  | strelok |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 63 Joined: 21 Sep 2008  | Daxter from Jak and Daxter is one hilerious creature... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1146 Joined: 27 Aug 2008   | I like Nameless from Planescape: Torment, but I'm also a fan of the (nameless) main character in the Gothic series. Why are the protagonists in games where you make up your own character always frightfully boring? |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 772 Joined: 25 Oct 2008    | Best? Best protagonist? I have no idea, really. Maybe Guybrush Threepwood. Maybe not. Favorite protagonist? Squall Leonhart, most likely. Don't ask why. |
On the Record Posts: 6205 Joined: 22 Aug 2008 |
Why? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 194 Joined: 6 Aug 2008  | You're a protagonist... I mean Manuel Calavera. That dude quips it like nobody's business! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3139 Joined: 10 Nov 2007   | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1133 Joined: 10 Oct 2008 | Max Payne |
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If it's referring to an earlier post in a forum, yes. But this was referring to a video, something which hardly anyone uses proper quotation for. And honestly, Yahtzee is Yahtzee. Everyone knows who he is and his awesome quotes.
Besides, this isn't the etiquette nazi thread, is it?