Your Dream Protagonist

[HardRockSamurai]

Do you ever get tired of playing video games in which the main character is a brown haired man with a troubled past who's out to get revenge for the death of his wife/daughter/pet cat? Sure these individuals may come off as badass, put game developers often forget to give them something called a personality. In other words, the only reason they exist is to shout one liners and kill everything that moves.

With that said, what would be your idea of a perfect protagonist in a video game?

 

[ChocoFace]

a fat dirty nerd in his 40s who is still living with his mom of course.

Or, actually, the stereotype is still pretty good.

 

[Mister Eff]

I'm pretty happy with Alex Mercer from Prototype. Obscenely powerful, no morals and obscenely powerful.

 

[Sir Ollie]

A chainsaw wielding zombie ninja that has a transforming car.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

I'm pretty happy with Alex Mercer from Prototype. Obscenely powerful, no morals and obscenely powerful.

You forgot to mention that he's obscenely powerful.

 

[Legion]

I personally don't think there are enough protagonists after revenge for the murder of their pet cat.

 

[llewgriff]

super android lesbian with a hyper lazer sythe and minigun hands...... Your mum would be good too..... sorry

 

[AkJay]

Alex Mercer.

 

[NotAPie]

Well I wanna see a psychotic protagonist that is absolutly evil and brutal, insane and scary.
Don't see that often.

 

[New Troll]

Spoiler: Dream a little dream...

 

[HardRockSamurai]

I personally don't think there are enough protagonists after revenge for the murder of their pet cat.

You know, I could actually see that happening.

 

[Ripshot]

Spoiler: FFVI's Locke

plus

Spoiler: Tales of Vesperia's Raven

 

[Ouroboros0977]

I would like an intelligent character who can actually make a decent joke but is insulting and when given the choice of good and evil will walk up to the antagonist and ask him what he is offering before simply shooting him in the head in sheer spite.

 

[Calobi]

I personally don't think there are enough protagonists after revenge for the murder of their pet cat.

You know, I could actually see that happening.

Spoiler: Image

Wasn't the original Doom about finding your rabbit? Or, at least, at the end you had a rabbit's head on a spike. I seem to remember that and that is the reason I chose to believe Doom-guy is there: To save his pet rabbit from Hellspawns.

Spoiler: Dream a little dream...

http://www.play3-live.com/screens/heavenly_sword/ps3_heavenly-sword_1153411311.jpg

I approve of your dreams.

Edit: Here's the bunny. I warn you, it's not a pretty sight...
[a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/328747224_77b1e25015.jpg?v=0"]Doom Bunny![/a]

 

[Shycte]

The Doom Marine has been made.

 

[Zac_Dai]

More people like Arthur Dent out of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

I think that would make a nice change.

 

[Ridonculous_Ninja]

Spoiler: FFVI's Locke

plus

Spoiler: Tales of Vesperia's Raven

Ya Locke was pretty sweet, especially with the Illumina (or ultima or w/e the hell that epic sword was called) and the Atma Blade, with the Offering and huge strength power leveling.

Can you say 9999 dmg times 8?

 

[Mother Yeti]

A tough lady who's not a helpless little girl and/or transparent sex object. Think Ripley from Aliens, or Leela from Futurama in a comedic context. The closest I've seen to this in mainstream games is Lady Shepard in Mass Effect.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Why do I feel that not a lot of people genuinely believe these things and are just loosely paraphrasing Yahtzee?
I'll know who that hits particularly close to home to because they'll be the needlessly defensive ones.

 

[Halfbreed13]

I'm pretty happy with Alex Mercer from Prototype. Obscenely powerful, no morals and obscenely powerful.

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