Your favorite main character and why.

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

No one's mentioned Captain Sparrow yet? *tsk*

Limited to video games I'd say either The Prince from the Sands of Time Trilogy or Darill from Front Mission 4.

 

[Mcface]

Mcgreggor and Cpt. Price from Call of Duty 2.

If you played the game, you know why I cant choose one over the other.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Balthier, Final Fantasy XII. And yes, he IS the main character. The story is more or less driven around him. He takes charge of the group, and at a few places he blatantly sais it! "I'm the Leading Man" Any time Vaan tries to even get in the way, Balthier just uses this line as a "get off my fucking story-line" card. He's witty, charming, and an asshole, qualities I look for in friends. So yeah.... other than that? Altiar, from AC. Great character, not so great a game.

Saying the story revolves around balthier is being too simplisitc isnt it? The story revolves around all the characters at various points in the game, and balthier doesnt really have any more relevance to the plot than vaan does. he just happens to be related to a guy that set the game's plot in motion. Plus, his insistence that he is the leading man is a joke, sort of the antithesis to Auron's prattling on about how it's all Tidus's story (when you die, you bcome aware of the 4th wall, it seems)



anyway, favorite main character ever... Rorschach.

 

[elementsoul]

The Prince of Persia. No not the new one, the old bad ass one who will fuck you up like he did to an army of undead sand beings, an Island full of amazing warriors to guard the sands of time, and again an army of first normal people then the undead sand people fallowed by a motherfucking god.

 

[AvsJoe]

Probably Etna from the first Disgaea game because she f-ckin' cracks me up! And she also has a couple of great story arcs and never gets on my nerves (plus she regularly breaks the fourth wall, big plus). Runners up are Barrett from FFVII (for obvious reasons) and Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes for his humour and 4th wall breaking as well.

 

[estoria-etnia]

Hm.

Jade Curtiss from Tales of the Abyss, if he counts. Jade's sarcastic, cynical, and really difficult to figure out. Plus, he's got some of the best lines in the game... and they don't sound cheesy. I have to give it to his VA; he did an amazing job of pulling this character off.

 

[Starke]

Wait, seriously, we're on the third page and no one's mentioned Max Payne or Kyle Katarn yet? The hell!?

Though, kudos to whoever mentioned JC Denton.

After those three, The Exile from Knights of the Old Republic 2. It's the first, and only time I can remember playing a Jedi who was actually had a sense of humor.

 

[S29 Afterlife]

Vincet Valentine.
FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus is like one of the greatest games i've ever played.

 

[traceur_]

It's a tie between Alex Mercer, Nero, Zack Fair and Tidus (yeh I like Tidus, sue me).

 

[Abedeus]

Ryu Hayabuza. Or Shephard.

 

[notaflamingo]

The Warriors of Light from Final Fantasy I, because they kept their damn mouths shut.

I second the notion

 

[Starke]

The Warriors of Light from Final Fantasy I, because they kept their damn mouths shut.

I second the notion

A very good point I had not considered...

 

[Hawgh]

Kain, from Legacy of Kain.

 

[WhiteTiger225]

Ash from Evil dead (It counts! Theres a game!) because no super power in existence, wether magical, scientific, or something else, can defeat the manlyness that is Ash....

Also Duke Nukem.. same reason as above.

 

[WhiteTiger225]

The Warriors of Light from Final Fantasy I, because they kept their damn mouths shut.

I second the notion

A very good point I had not considered...

No Dialouge is better then BAD dialouge.

 

[likalaruku]

Who: Alice, Sam, & Mel.

From: American McGee's Alice, the Serious Sam series, & Aveyon 3.

Why: She's a psychotic version of Alice in Wonderland, he's hillarious, & she's really snarky. (I like mean bitchy women).

Also because: All the other games I play make you to create generic heroes.

 

[obliterate]

This guy.

PIC WAS CUT

Auron from final fantasy X me wants the cookie

Get it if you can...

Totally in to the COOKIE MONSTER !!!!

 

[Maeshone]

Say who your favorite protaganist of a video game is and why.

Haseo (duh) .hack//G.U. vol.1-3

Unlike other J-RPG protaganists, Haseo starts out as a total dick, he insults the other characters in vol. 1, (but then he stops being like that)
He can summon the avatar Skeith, and Skeith is a total badass. He has a kick-ass variety of weapons such as his dual knives, big-ass broad sword, scythe, and dual guns.
His outfits are totaly awesome.

Cloud from FFVII also started out as quite a dick in the beginning off the game, and Squall from FFVIII is a complete douche to most of the characters for a pretty long while...

My favourite character has to be Kratos from the God of War games, because no matter what he does or how fucked up his decisions are, you can't help but symphatize with because of what he's been through. The guy could really use some anger management therapy though, but then the games wouldn't be as good, would they?

Oh, and he's pretty badass as well, I mean, seriously, he climbed out of Hades twice. TWICE!