Final Fantasy Tactics. Ramza Beoulve.
It's pretty simple, he saves the world, but in the process of uncovering the plot to destroy it, discovering how to stop it and acting (without hesitation) upon it, he becomes maligned, branded a heretic by a corrupt church and hunted by the most powerful knights on the planet.
Simply put, he's not a whiny b!tch boy like EVERY FF male lead...ever...he's not a man's man run n' gunner. He's calm, intelligent and thoughtful and most importantly honorable. He never renicts on his word and will always do what he feels must be done.
Some more notable acts (besides the world saving business) are; casting out a fellow noble for refusing to rescue a peasant girl who was kidnapped (and for just generally being a f**king asshat), breaking into the most heavily guarded city in the nation to stop two armies from needlessly slaughtering each other (relavent to saving the world, but woulda done it anyway), never backing down from a fight when someone needs protecting (one of note: a lowly flowergirl in the slums of an large city [note, FFT came out in '97]), denouncing his noble brothers and abandoning his name when they abandon his best friend, but never turning his back on his honor and just generally being a smart (none of oblivious naive BS generally associated with a JRPG lead) cool guy who others in the game can come to with their problems (which they do) and...well...never being a whiny little *****.
Ramza or Gig in Soul Nomad, cause with all the pain and tears he's just got a cool backstory and is a bad ass, no q's aboot it.
