Most overpowered player character?

[SplinteredBA]

Ezio from Assassin's Creed 2, in my opinion. While he wasn't the overbearing steam roller of a character that, say, Kratos is...he's still one of the most surviving characters of any game. All you have to do when surrounded by the entire city guard is sit there and hold your guard button. Wait for the overly-flashy attack sequence of the enemy and just counter. One by one, every soldier you fight drops to the ground.

Also, let's not mention the fact that if you turn a corner two seconds before a guard and jump into a hay loft -right- in the middle of the street, the guards turn the corner and stare at it like you could never possibly be in there before walking away...only to forget they were chasing anyone at all within the space of 5 seconds.

 

[Biosophilogical]

The main Character from Fable 1, though that is dependant on whether or not you are a spaz/doing ahcallenge run-through.

 

[Axeli]

KoTOR2. Honestly. After the half-way point you handle every battle by walking in the middle of it and using force storm, killing everyone withing 30 feet radius. Slightly less so on hardest difficulty (you have to use it twice).
You can pretty much kill every mook in the room by snapping your fingers.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Level 30 Wasteland Wanderer.

Nothing is even remotely a threat anymore.

 

[mrhappyface]

Point Man from F.E.A.R. Abusing the slo mo mechanic makes the game pretty easy.

 

[GiantSpiderGoat]

G-man

 

[lleihsad]

I'm going to skip "cutscene power", for obvious reasons. As far as in-game power goes, I'll go ahead and nominate Yuri from Shadow Hearts.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Two people who stands out as 'Overpowered'

Maxwell from Scribblenauts, and Dragon age: The warden.

The warden...how do we become the cream of the crop? I mean soon we pretty much taking out dragons, finding old prophets and doing the impossible like it was the easiset thing ever. Bonus points if you're a city elf.

Maxell...We summon a mech suit, dogs, cats and even the Bobdamn Cthullu!

 

[Tomster595]

One of my Oblivion characters lol. I found out about that permanent enchantment glitch and the guy is unstoppable.

 

[Randomvirus]

Some of you guys are forgetting your PS1 history.

One man:

Count Orlandu, Thunder God (TG) Cid.

Final Fantasy Tactics.

Put this guy in your party before any fight = win the game. He came equipped with haste boots that made him act faster than anybody else in a battle, and each one of his techniques did massive damage in addition to shattering (with no chance of missing) the equipment of his targets.

 

[RN7]

Alex Mercer.

He could potentially become every living creature on Earth, condensed into a single man-shaped package.

Not to mention he's literally invincible and immortal. He survived a nuclear explosion by reforming himself from bits of mush and a pidgeon.

 

[zerzxes]

New Reno hint book in Fallout 2. Sure you have to finish the game first but I can create a new charater and finish the game and get the book in 30 minutes.

If you don't know what it is: It increases all you skills to 300% the instant you read it and also gain 10k xp everytime you read it! You will get every perk you ever wantedby just reading a book.

EDIT: Oh forgeting Gmod. Yea it's not a real game but seriusly, it can't go unmentioned.

 

[Phase_9]

Infamous, by the end, I could basically take out a city block with one attack

 

[Masonicon]

Does Kingdom Hearts characters counts?

 

[Masonicon]

I'm not sure being overpowered is particularly PC in the gaming world!

that was probably the only good Political Correctness IMO

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

The Queen

Spoiler

That ***** is about 500 years overdue of a nerf

 

[Jandau]

Mage characters in Baldur's Gate 2. Arcane spellcasters were pretty much godlike assuming you picked the right spells and were ready for what was coming. Robe of Vecna (faster casting) + Time Stop (everything except you frozen for 4 rounds) + Improved Alacrity (no delay between spells) meant that you could lay down a dozen spells before anyone can move. Even a Dragon dies when you hit him with 3-4 Greater Malisons (lower saving throws) followed by a few Finger of Death spells (instakill if target fails a saving throw), and don't get me started on the mass destruction that can be done with multiple Horrid Wiltings, Chain Lightnings and Delayed Fireballs all going off at the same moment as you laugh maniacly. Even single targets immune to instakill spells weren't safe, between a few Lower Resistance spells to soften them up, followed by a torrent of Magic Missiles and Flame Arrows...

 

[Newtonyd]

Krogan warriors in both Mass Effects, Wrex and Grunt respectively.

Just can't put those fuckers down before they seriously mess the enemy's shit up.

 

[TyrantGanado]

Installing all of New Vegas' DLC seems to cause some serious balance issues if you make it to level 50.

For example, Deathclaws are deliberately hard as fuck to survive let alone win a fight with. Now, at level 50 with most of my skills at 100, wearing Elite Riot Gear from Lonesome Road and using the Survivalist's Rifle from Honest Hearts loaded armour piercing 12.7mm ammo (which I can afford in bulk from the Gun Runners due a luck stat boosted to 8 resulting in cleaning out every casino in the Mojave) I can floor a Deathclaw in three shots before it gets near me.

Don't get me wrong, being rich, having every faction in Vegas under your thumb, having more than enough uberpowerful weapons to destroy the Legion and NCR if they even dared try attacking my town, having all my companions chilling in my hotel....

Fuck it, being Queen of the Wasteland feels awesome.

 

[PotluckBrigand]

The Suikoden series comes to mind when I think of over-powered protagonists, although those characters are probably not, strictly speaking, the MOST over-powered.

I think a lot of RPGs specifically make the main character the most powerful person in your party to make you feel better about being forced to use them. Others, typically ones like Planescape, where you are supposed to be more invested in your character as an extension of yourself (as opposed to say Final Fantasy 7 where you are playing as a character with their own story), the developers want you to feel more powerful than everyone else so you feel like the REAL savior of the wastelands, or the real Dovakhiin, or the Chosen One, or whatever.