Characters the Devs Liked a Little Too Much

[Last Hugh Alive]

I've never seen a videogame character more blatantly favoured by its own developers than Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.

The creators of the series are all on record saying he is their favourite character (or Kharacter) in the franchise, and I think he's been featured in all but one game. I've also noticed that most promotional material for Mortal Kombat games over the years usually feature Scorpion laying a whoopin' on someone, usually Sub-Zero.

 

[Elemental]

This guy...

Spoiler

So basically it's both bad and good that Ed Boon liked him so much.
Good side: He's one of the most powerfull characters in the games, he's fast, deals alot of damage, combos are great, teleport and the handy spear. all of those makes him fun to play as.
Bad side: it's a fucking ***** to play against him on harder difficulties because all of the reasons I've stated above.

Nevertheless, he is still one of my favorite characters since forever and always will be.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I've never seen a videogame character more blatantly favoured by its own developers than Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.

The creators of the series are all on record saying he is their favourite character (or Kharacter) in the franchise, and I think he's been featured in all but one game. I've also noticed that most promotional material for Mortal Kombat games over the years usually feature Scorpion laying a whoopin' on someone, usually Sub-Zero.

Yea this, and the Game he wasn't in was MK3, which shortly was Updated with Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, which included him and the rest of the Ninjas.

Johnny Cage FTW.

 

[Indeterminacy]

Vincent Valentine. Need I elaborate?

 

[namewon'tfitin]

Ooooohhh a laser pistol that would perfectly fit the engineer.
Who should we give it to?
OH I KNOW THE FUCKIN SOLDIER IT'S NOT LIKE HE HAS THE MOST ITEMS IN THE GAME.

 

[Canadish]

Most Bioware games seem to have one developer favorite. You know, the one that gets placed on every poster, trailer, comic book and box art?

The OP named Morrigan and I'd agree with that. Though I'll add that Sten got the better of her once. And it was glorious.
I didn't follow the marketing for Mass Effect 1, but I know in the run up to the sequel they kept sticking Miranda, Jack and Thane in nearly EVERY trailer.
I'm not sure whether they thought they would draw people in with ass/boobs/sniper or whether they just really wanted everyone to like them so they could do a bunch of spin off comics.
It felt kinda obnoxious regardless.

And, for all that Dragon Age 2 did to butcher the franchise, I think that it was pretty good for not picking a favorite. If anyone, they kept trying to sell "Hawke" to us as the next Commander Shepard.

I can't really think of many other franchises that do this outside of their main protagonist...
Bioware always have a custom hero so they need to focus on one of the companions for "iconic" imagery.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Ooooohhh a laser pistol that would perfectly fit the engineer.
Who should we give it to?
OH I KNOW THE FUCKIN SOLDIER IT'S NOT LIKE HE HAS THE MOST ITEMS IN THE GAME.

This. Valve has pretty much been ignoring the pyro and the engineer.

 

[TheNibiro]

Stupid Raving Rabbids from the new Rayman games.
I do hope Rayman Origins will not continue their reign of terror.

 

[hermes]

Wesker. The guy has little to no personality other than "I am bad" and "I am mysterious"... Yet they make him to be behind everything that happens in the series and by Resident Evil 5 he was promoted to practical godhood.

 

[Anezay]

Liara T'soni in Mass Effect. She gets far too much preferrential treatment, getting her own comic, her own DLC, being the only one who can't die, getting a whole paragraph dedicated to how amazing she is in the PS3 opening comic thing... she just gets so much handed to her.

Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if her fans weren't subsequently so pleased with themselves because of it. But whatever the case, she's become a character I already had disdain for but now I loathe.

I mean no offence to any people who like Liara, but that's just my opinion.

Seconded. Oh, god I hate her. Here's to hoping I can kill her is some incredibly gruesome way in ME3.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Kratos

I like the guy myself, but from the second game onwards Santa Monica Studios put all its effort into making him the uber-man among uber-men.

 

[Vrex360]

I really liked Liara, and I didn't get offended, everything you said really is true. I think the ME comic had to point out she was beautiful considering that unlike kaiden and ashley, she has blue skin and tentacles. And while you have to be her best friend at the very least in LotSB, which if your character wasn't could be a bit annoying, it makes logical sense she can't die. If Tali for example wasn't a companion choice in ME2, then the same complaint could be made for her, because she wasn't on the suicide mission. Other than that though, yeah, writers pet, but I'm cool with it.

Thanks for not being offended.

I admit probably part of my bitterness came from the fact that I am an Ashley fan to the core and we didn't really get a lot coming our way in Mass Effect 2. Fortunatley now that she's been seen to be returning in Mass Effect 3, it doesn't anger me quite as much as it used to that Liara gets preferrential treatment.

 

[Catie Caraco]

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I don't know, I seem to recall Allister getting the better of her a couple times. One time in particular with a backhanded comment on how she resembled her mother.

Hmm, I haven't seen that one. Wish I had, it might make me think more charitably of the character.

Yeah, he says something about how she has her mother's nose, or something. And Zevran totally punks her at one point, getting her to admit she think's she's awesome on a dare from the other companions, who then have to pay up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPiVFrBYjy0&playnext=1&list=PL44F95993E92082FF

Found it. And the one Canadamus_Prime mentions. Go to 3:50 on this video to find that one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-1OA27ktw

 

[Hylke Langhout]

I'm going to say Ezio from Assassin's Creed for this. Three games with the guy is getting to be excessive don't you think? I was hoping that the franchise would move on to the next time period with AC3. It's clear they are going to do that soon, but three games is just too much for this franchise. But that's my opinion.

 

[Cabisco]

I find myself agreeing with an idiotically large number of these, once a developer likes a particular character we will get showered with them none stop, sometimes it's a good thing but sometimes it's really not. It depends on the developer and how good they are at creating a new character.

 

[fragmaster09]

cake... oh, wait, they realised now that they hate it... but they still loved that 'character' before the 2nd Portal... and even then they had to make one FINAL reference to it