A common question amoungst gamers of new and old. "What is your favorite videogame character?" Answers vary and with great reason. Besides, who says you can only have one favorite?
My Favorites:
Taizo Hori-Dig Dug
Taizo certainly dug his way into our hearts with his wacky ways of dispatching his foes. He provided us with memorable and addictive gameplay that we still enjoy to this day.
Klonoa-Klonoa Series
A child-friendly, cheery, and obscure character. Namco pulled out all the simple stops and created a real gem of a character.
Morrigan Aensland-Darkstalkers/Capcom Versus Series
The femme-fatale fighter and succubus brought an insane moveset and a game overshadowed by it's brother series Street Fighter. An honorable character of the 90's fighting game era and a nice piece of eye candy to boot.
Sasquatch-Darkstalkers Series
A rough and tough fighter that in turn is actually pretty adorable. You never would've thought this behemoth could deliver an easy moveset and a place amoung my favorites.
Mario-Super Mario Series
C'mon! How can you have a favorites list without the versatile plumber and most famous videogame character in all of existence?! He jumped his way into our hearts and living rooms for over two decades and still goes strong for the next generation.
Faust-Guilty Gear Series
An oddball of sorts. He brings much charm and humor into any fight. Such a festively wacky fighter and humorous gaming character. So original and fun to play as.
Megaman-Megaman Series
Megaman brought some of the gnarliest platforming to date. With simple controls and rooms of original robot masters to conquer, the Blue Bomber will never die out.
Cactuar-Final Fantasy Series/Mario Hoops: 3 on 3
His appearance is surprisingly misleading. This enemy can bring some serious hurt and can really take a punch. An icon in the Final Fantasy universe.
Like-likes-The Legend of Zelda Series
As annoying as they are, without them the game is that much less fun. I mean the contant fear of your shield being eaten can really put you on your toes.
R.O.B. Reticule-NES System
ROB helped fuel funds for the U.S. Famicom or NES and brought us out of the videogame crash of the mid 80's. Thus videogame market dominion was given to Japan and they would forever cemennt their rule in the videogame industry. However this brought us the most memorable console games despite ROB being a total piece of crap, but a very brave piece of crap.
Cammy-Street Fighter Series
Cammy really brought the pain whilst clad in a camo leotard. Her scissor kicks and roundhouses made a worthy adversary.
M. Bison-Street Fighter
Bison is the pure essence of awesome and the older brother of awesome; awesomeness. His psycho powers and brutal stomps can take a serious toll on one's health bar and that hat is so tasty. I want that F*%$ING HAT! Seriously!
Car-Pole Postion/Pole Position II
This reckless driver really cut corners form the arcade to your very own home. Just remember to twist the joystick, don't tilt it. A common mistake for first timers.
Captain of the Asteroid Ship-Asteroids
Whoever this brave soul is I say God Speed. His precise accuracy in the face of scrambled asteroids that get smaller but faster as they crumble. But you cannot make this fellow tremble.
eightball6219's Submits:
1-7 (seven being the most favorite)
1). Sgt Johnson- Everyone's favorite futuristic Mjor Payne kicks alien ass, chokes Prophets and ravages
Flood all while smoking his signature and favorite Sweet Williams cigars. This Marine is the definition, example and picture for "ass kicker". That's why he's number one on my list of favorite characters.
2). Snake- The guy fights crazy ass super soldiers, cyborg ninjas, eats adn coughs up packs of cigarettes, sleeps with double agents and hot sexy female team members and blows up giant mechanical tanks just to save the world. And he does this with the standard weapondry used in todays fighting forces (except teh battlesuit). The man makes a mullet look cool, stops nukes and shits awsomeness. Snake is the very image that every kid dreams he is when playing "soldier" at age eight. Snake's story may be a little confusing, but he continues to be awsome (both father and clone) and has not only a successful console title, but a successful handleheld system title.
3). Brother Captain Davin Thule-Blood Ravens 5th Company- By now you all know I like Warhammer 40K's Space Marines. They're basically if you took the Knights Templar adn trained them to use a M-16 on steriods and threw them against mutants, aliens and heratics. Davin Thule is like a extreme version of these guys kicking ass and taking names and in the Dawn of War II game, after getting mauled by Tyranid Rippers and poisoned he gets a chance to live on and be even more epic: He becomes a Dreadnaught (think giant hulk of walking metal armed to the teeth with guns and missles and has a voice that if you heard it in real life, you'd shit your pants regardless of what side its on). Thule knows how to kill Xenos in style and is one of the reasons why the Blood Raven Space Marines are epic soldiers.
4).Bass- Look I like Megaman just as any other fan of the game does, but let's give a little credit to his evil version that got the cooler color and badass weapondry/counter part: BASS. Megaman has a dog that he rides like a surf board, Bass has a WOLF that tranforms him into a flight mode with even more powerful guns. Plus in Megaman&Bass he had the better powers ( I thought so).
5). Wario- Mario's sort of evil negative that has a weird color sceme, but is rich bitch! Unlike Mario he didn't JUMP on an enemy's head to kill them. No he slammed into them with his arm. The guy beat the crap out of his enemies like it shold have been all along. Don't get me wrong. I love Mario games. They're fun and addicting, but Wario's games are just better in some cases. They're fun, challanging, sometimes frustating (Warioland 3 with getting all the keys) and have funny stories and enemies. Plus the guy deals with explosives and is not a goody two shoes 24/7. Sometimes being evil is fun.
6). The Master Chief-not the number one favorite, but close. The man did more than that pretty boy Link could ever do. He took on entire Hordes of savage aliens and mutant Flood, flew through space to place a bomb in a enemy ship and destroyed it, he saved a whole planet and destroyed countless alien artifacts. The man's compelling story adn awsome games to continue to entertain the masses and the video game story leaves a lot of holes open so that many future games can be made. Let's see Link take on a pissed of Chiefatan with a Grav Hammer
7). Boba Fett- This guy screams awsomeness. He's a Mandalorian (for those who don't know what that is, google it and educate yourself. His suit has wrist flame throws and missiles. The guy hasn't been in to many games, mostly as a boss but always presents a difficult battle for the boss and hsi dad had one hell of a game that closed up a few holes in the Fett family history. There's really not much mre I can say other than: If you hate Boba Fett it's because 1). You're fucking lame ass pansy that needs to keep watching anime and mind your own buisness or 2). You don't know who he is and needs to do more goole searches adn find out who he is. We need another Fett game that isn't Battelfront three (eventhough I wan t that game ot come out. What he needs is his own game, a origins game or one that tells his rise of the Mandalian way in his life
Thelightning55's Submits:
Crono- Chrono Trigger - From one of my personal favorite games, Crono starts off as an unknown hero with a simple sword in his hands. Throughout his journey he becomes friends with a group of heroes, all with the same goal. Without saying a word, Crono became a life like, emotional character, landing him a stop on his list.
Samus Aran- Metroid Series- The big surprise at the end of the original Metroid was that this babe was well..a babe! Ever since Samus has captured the hearts and fantasies of male gamers everywhere, and can be considered a role model for females. And who doesn't love that zero suit!
Captain Falcon- F-zero/Super Smash Bro's series- FAAAAALLLCCOONN PAAWWWNNNCCHH!!!!!! Need I say more?
Link- The Legend of Zelda series - The silent protagonist that somehow shows more emotion than many fully voiced characters. Nintendo you've done it again. This hero dressed in green always gets the neat upgrades and usually the all important master sword. He's just that cool.
Tom Nook- The Animal Crossing series - He's the man in the suit, and apron. He's the source of evil causing your constantly empty wallet. Look in your wallet only to see crumbs, a shopping card, and maybe a spare bell or two.... *wind blows* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKK!!!!!
!!!!!!! But still, the fact that he's always there to supress your bulging wallet and add onto your house is enough to love this little guy. But be careful, if you hug him, make sure your wallet is at home.
Blacksun256's Submits:
Glitch-Always the oddball amoung his partners but he turns out to be the most capable of any of them. Being the last of his kind he takes it on himslef to take out gnereal Corrosive in the name of his fallen people...even if it means returning home.
Krunk-Krunk's foul-mouth can only be surpassed by his adept inventing skills. Making the control tether (see Favorite Itmes Hero or Villain) and the RAT vehicle, Krunk is bad with the mouth and a welding gun.
Travis Touchdown-This stereotypicial Otok assassin can only think with his penis but MAN can he fight! His smurai/luchadore fighting style puts any adversary to shame, from assassing 11-1, nobody would dare oppose him or even his cat Jeane.
Gordon Freeman-Gordon was just an everyday man until his colleagues experiments went to hell and attacked the lab. When he survived such an ordeal, he had to deal with an entire CITY! His only faithful companion is the crowbar at his side.
GLaDOS-The sadistic Portal program. With promises of cake, hilarious commentary, and her iconic song "Stay Alive". What's not to love about this psychopathic program?
CAPTAIN F*CKING FALCON-I guess it all comes down to the Falcon Punch. This iconic move in the fighting game world and amoungst Nintendo fans alike is seriously the ultimate move. C'mon...you know you want to scream it to the heavens...FALCON PUNCH!!!
Badgerfrank10's Submits:
gordon freeman- its a good thing that his MIT education was all he needed to fend off an alien empire using advanced weapons systems....and crowbars...
you see....sheb: this from dawn till dusk fallout 2 reference had even "brahmin booty, ghoul booty, even deathclaw booty!"
unkown pilot-galaga
this guy was an ace with a ship, mastering the complex left to right evasion manuever
kain-blood omen series
kain was/is a noble turned vampire after being overrun by bums when he was kicked out of a bar, now he conquers any individual, organization, or group that would dare stand against him, really fun to play, felt like playing a tank, not indestructible, but pretty friggin invincable
lame ass rival-pokemon series
the dialogue between the two of you is so bad, its gilarious, and you could never lose to him in your LIFE.
Chime's Submits:
Corpral Heart from Timesplitters
That was my favorite character, because of her look, and her attitude. It was just great, and she made a very dramatic death scene. She was the greatest partner to Cortez, just for those things and the fact they looked so... fitting.
Knights of the Nine from TES: Oblivion
They were awesome, but horrible in groups, because they always focused on one enemy. They easily started riots, but they had depressing discussions about the dead knights later on. Another favorite for drama.
Any dwarf.
Come on, they are fucking awesome. They drink, beat the shit out of all their enemies, and are the heartiest characters usually.
Chillbro's Submits:
That Guy from Contra-Well,he was a badass,but still had his flaws.
DK-An ape.An ape who was at 1st a bad guy,but now he's good.
Bowser-You gotta wonder why he isn't dead,cause he always just comes back.
Link-The classic guy with a sword,who for some reason has a wierd name.
Snake-Could anyone be more badass?
Perfectedidiot2's Submissions:
Megaman Trigger-The Blue Bomber...except with more hair.
Zero -The sword wielding, Maverick slaying badass in the red helmet. Het ready for some serious Robot Master slugfests.
Snake-Snakes high IQ and mastery of several languages doesn't even rival his ability with the ladies...and blowing things up.
Shadow-The evil twin of Sonic cas aside by his parents at birth...
Perfectedidiot2:...whispers...
Albatross412:Wait...what?
Perfectedidiot2:...whispers some more...
Albatross412:Oh..sorry...my bad.
...created aboard the Space Colony Ark as the ultimate weapon he fights for his love, and doesn't think twice to sacrifice his life.
Sonic-Acid and Red Bull really don't go well together but hey, if it gets me in Brawl...GLUG GLUG GLUG GLUG GLUG!