Best Protagonist

[Jenova65]

Really partial to Jade from Beyond Good and Evil and Yuri Hyuga from the first two Shadow Hearts games.

Beat me to it! Except Yuri first, then Jade! (cos, y'know, Yuri...............)

 

[Valiance]

Master Chief.
[sup][/facetious][/sup]

(Oh boy, hope no one calls me out on that one!).

lol i know you're joking but GOD even to joke and call him a real character...
Keanu Reeves has more character in his left toe, and everyone knows Keanu reeves has the acting personality of a plank.

I think even samus has more personality than Master chief

P.S how quickly do you think i would get banned if i start up a MC vs Samus thread? tbh i am actually interested how it would fare on Escapist, because the majority of people here arent blind idiotic fanboys (I think)

oh, and i haven't played it, but i heard the main character from Disgaea is hilariously great.
As for my own character...lets get exotic and go for V.I Gorky from original war. Yeah, lets see how many people even know what frickin game i'm talking about!

Spoiler: I remember...

I own that game and I love it. I got it in a little discount package called "good games for 20 bucks or less" or something. It had a very weird CD case when I bought it, and the CD was just a red and white generic lookin' thing like Screamer 4x4's disk. But yeah.

The game was utterly badass with the crazy time travel shit, and I thought gorky was fucking hilarious too; did you ever play the american campaign? You would have one of the females start buidling a structure and they say shit like "I'll give you a nice erection!" It's hilariously bad.

Anyway, the Russians were the campaign I got the farthest in, but I'll be honest here, I never beat it. I remember getting past the level where you create your own huge base with automatic turrets and an upgraded factory and such which is something you come back to later on when it gets attacked...

And I remember the Iranians(?) The yellow guys with dune-buggy lookin' vehicles? Haha. No matter.

Nice Top-Cat avatar.

Surprised no one has said Duke Nukem. Surprised anyone remembers Kyle Katarn. Surprised no one mentioned "THE GODDAMN BATMAN." Etc, etc.

I don't know who my favorite is, as I don't even know what my favorite game or games are. Perhaps I'll go with Jake Logan from Tachyon: The Fringe. Or perhaps Christopher Blair from Wing Commander. (3 and 4 specifically, though it is implied he's also the guy from the first 2 but when you actually played those, there was no indication of this.)

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

T260G from SaGa Frontier was pretty damn cool. A robot who doesn't know anything about himself.

 

[Sh0ckFyre]

I'd probably choose between Marty Alencar from Far Cry 2. (A Spanish badass who has balls big enough to remove a bullet from his arm with nothing but pliers, a knife, fuck loads of matches, and his own two fingers.)


Or Doomguy from Doom (Simply because he can carry a massive load of ordinance and run a marathon, and one of those guns is the BFG 9000)

Then I would give the third place to my character from Fallout 3, because I can wreck anyone's shit with my Tesla Cannon.

Then there's Soap MacTavish...

 

[ThisNewGuy]

The Boss.

The best antagonized protagonist in video game history.

 

[Arisato-kun]

I've got three.

I guess I'll call my favorite Luke from Tales of the Abyss. Sure, he's an ass at first but he goes through some major developments and actually becomes a hero that you're proud to play as.

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Ragna from Blazblue is awesome too. He's just got that cool guy look on top of being a half-vampire cyborg that eats people's souls. I like his fearless attitude too.

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Finally the list just has to include Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes. He's such a quirky unlikely hero but it works for him. It is my sincere hope that he'll be in the next Smash Bros.

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[ItsAChiaotzu]

Eddie Riggs, badass ************.

Also Kratos and Ratchet and Jak and the guy from the original Guitar Hero.

 

[ThreeWords]

what did you want to be called again? I kept calling you Jimmy but you wanted a new name.

I'm not sure, I don't even remember you calling me Jimmy.
How about Smitty?
Smitty Werben Jegermanjenson.

[sup]and I am a cunning fox, though I wish it had linked to Wilsoncrazybed's comment at the end about why the thread was locked. Oh well.
Look at me! I have small writing![/sup]

Aren't you masquerading as Irvin Ronald Ninja, or is that only on NationStates?