best video game character?

[Serenegoose]

I'm not sure there is a 'best' character, because there are so many GREAT characters.

Arthas from Warcraft is a great character, And his arc through the games is just fascinating. To actually play them again, it's easy to see how he picked the best lot of some bad options, given what he knew.

Eleanor from Bioshock 2 is the first character in a game that I ever truly cared about... that's quite an achievement right there.

Garrett from Thief is just plain awesome. And that VOICE! It's hot. Liquid hot.

Garrus from Mass Effect is also just plain awesome. And that VOICE! Wait, noticing a trend here.

 

[Paularius]

Ack! To hard to choooose! Gonna say a toss up between Kate Archer and Garret.
Woohoo for Thief 4 confirmed!

 

[Flamezdudes]

Auron from Final Fantasy X.

Arthas from the Warcraft series.

Legion from Mass Effect 2 and Garrus from the series too.

I also quite like John Marston from Red Dead Redemption.

 

[Fidelias]

I'm going to be original and go with Zack Fair from Final Fantasy 7:Crisis Core. One of very few characters I actually cared about. And, even though I knew it was coming, I still cried a little on the inside when he died...

 

[Trivun]

April Ryan / Zoe Castillo from The Longest Journey / Dreamfall series.

DAMMIT YOU NINJA'D ME BLIND-IO-DAMMIT!!!!!

Okay, I'm calm now. Seriously though, this is right. Dead on. If April Ryan was real I'd probably marry her (and give that Zack the worst beating of his life...). And she's one of the most realistic, well-balanced (personality-wise) characters I've seen in a videogame in ages.

So yeah, I'd say April Ryan. In fact, pretty much every character from that series (I especially loved the multiple narratives in Dreamfall, so you could see that the Azadi Empire and the rebels were both shades of grey, rather than one being good and the other bad...). Okay, I'm babbling here, aren't I...?

 

[Keava]

April Ryan / Zoe Castillo from The Longest Journey / Dreamfall series.

DAMMIT YOU NINJA'D ME BLIND-IO-DAMMIT!!!!!

Okay, I'm calm now. Seriously though, this is right. Dead on. If April Ryan was real I'd probably marry her (and give that Zack the worst beating of his life...). And she's one of the most realistic, well-balanced (personality-wise) characters I've seen in a videogame in ages.

So yeah, I'd say April Ryan. In fact, pretty much every character from that series (I especially loved the multiple narratives in Dreamfall, so you could see that the Azadi Empire and the rebels were both shades of grey, rather than one being good and the other bad...). Okay, I'm babbling here, aren't I...?

*puppy eyes* Sorry.
Not my fault that throughout all those years, not even BioWare managed to create such believable, fleshed out female character. I still hope Ragnar Tørnquist will keep his word and we will maybe see 3rd chapter around 2013... Tho as he is currently mostly working on The Secret World MMO i do have my doubts.

 

[Trivun]

April Ryan / Zoe Castillo from The Longest Journey / Dreamfall series.

DAMMIT YOU NINJA'D ME BLIND-IO-DAMMIT!!!!!

Okay, I'm calm now. Seriously though, this is right. Dead on. If April Ryan was real I'd probably marry her (and give that Zack the worst beating of his life...). And she's one of the most realistic, well-balanced (personality-wise) characters I've seen in a videogame in ages.

So yeah, I'd say April Ryan. In fact, pretty much every character from that series (I especially loved the multiple narratives in Dreamfall, so you could see that the Azadi Empire and the rebels were both shades of grey, rather than one being good and the other bad...). Okay, I'm babbling here, aren't I...?

*puppy eyes* Sorry.
Not my fault that throughout all those years, not even BioWare managed to create such believable, fleshed out female character. I still hope Ragnar Tørnquist will keep his word and we will maybe see 3rd chapter around 2013... Tho as he is currently mostly working on The Secret World MMO i do have my doubts.

Well, he did make the promise, and it's not his fault that Funcom's bosses decided to pull everyone off every other project to work on The Secret World. Anyway, he made it clear that Chapters would be released eventually, no matter what, given the ambiguous ending to Dreamfall (personally I don't think April is really dead, since there's still the whole Lady Alvane thing to figure out). Though regarding Lady Alvane, I don't think it's coincidence she has the same surname as Kian. But it's not going to be as straightforward as we think, because knowing the way the story has gone so far there's bound to be a twist in the tale somewhere from old Ragnar...

 

[SpireOfFire]

Mr. Duke Nukem.

saves the planet, kills aliens, gets the chicks. fuck yeah.

 

[Ekonk]

I thought it was democratically decided that it's Gordon Freeman.

FOR THE COMBINE, DEATH CARRIES A CROWBAR, NOT A SCYTHE

 

[discordance]

He's not so much a 'character' as he is a disembodied crowbar though.

 

[Above]

Oh,god oh god How can you make me choose?! its between...
Kratos (GoW)
Dizzy Wallin (Gears)
Commander Shepherd (Mass Effect)
Altair (Assassins creed I)
Captain Price (CoD)
Gordon Freeman (Half Life)

...What? I LIKE ALOT OF CHARACTERS!

 

[Optimystic]

Best in terms of what? This is perhaps the vaguest topic I've ever seen.

 

[Woodsey]

Thomas Angelo. The rest of you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Also, the Prince and Farah (yeah I picked two at once, shut your face) from Sands of Time.

 

[Iwata]

I quite like Nathan Drake. I like his wit, I like his character.

Also, Visari from Killzone. The man can talk!

 

[ArchAngelKira]

Stahn fromtales of destiny and oldie but goodie & Batsu ichimoji from project justice (please provide a pic for both, I dk how yet)