Favorite New Game Character This Year?

[Dfskelleton]

2012 isn't completely over yet, and we've still got a few big releases (and plenty of smaller releases) coming out, but I was interested to hear what people's favorite characters that were introduced this year were.
Any new character whose been introduced in a game released in 2012. This can't be someone whose shown up before this year. It could be a protagonist, antagonist, minor NPC, anyone.

Personally, my favorite is Captain Walker from Spec Ops: The Line. It's been a long time since I've encountered a character arc as rich and intriguing as Walker's slow descent into madness, and how every instance where he tried to be a "hero" only resulted in even more chaos and despair for the men under his command as well as for himself. It was also really disturbing to see him turned from a handsome, professional Delta Operative into a scarred, enraged war criminal. Disturbing, but brilliantly executed, and it made me feel every bit as uncomfortable as it intended for me to.

So tell me, who did you like the most that was introduced this year?

 

[Popadoo]

Handsome Jack.
I love Borderlands 2, and I think one of the main reasons is I bloody love Handsome Jack. I love how he slowly becomes more and more scared of player as the story progresses. He starts off pretty smug, asking you to kill yourself, and by the end of it I'd go as far as to say he's seriously scared of you.

 

[Mondai Randy]

my favorite new characters have to be Dust and Fidget from Dust: An Elysian Tail. They make a good snarky, cool pair

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Skullmageddon is the best new character. All other answers to this question are incorrect.

 

[MrShowerHead]

Handsome Jack.
I love Borderlands 2, and I think one of the main reasons is I bloody love Handsome Jack. I love how he slowly becomes more and more scared of player as the story progresses. He starts off pretty smug, asking you to kill yourself, and by the end of it I'd go as far as to say he's seriously scared of you.

Gotta agree with you there. I actually told my friends that if there would be a choice to join his side, I'd do it without second guesses. And while I'm still not really liking the plot twist in the game (the big one I mean) I really love how well the voice actor did his job and managed to pull off that change of character with Jack.

EDIT: Captcha: Describe IKEA

The Abyss

Yeah, I'm not good with these...At least it accepted it

 

[hazabaza1]

Handsome Jack.
I love Borderlands 2, and I think one of the main reasons is I bloody love Handsome Jack. I love how he slowly becomes more and more scared of player as the story progresses. He starts off pretty smug, asking you to kill yourself, and by the end of it I'd go as far as to say he's seriously scared of you.

Yurp.
He's also funny as fuck. That adds a lot to his character.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Oh god... Here comes my lack of LoL Champion release timers knowledge... Whatever! Ezreal, Ezreal, Ezreal all damn day Ezreal. As for Champions I know were released this year imma go for Diana. She's so fucking cool.

Also Adam Batman from Deus Ex: High Definition. Love that guy.

 

[The_Lost_King]

Handsome Jack.
I love Borderlands 2, and I think one of the main reasons is I bloody love Handsome Jack. I love how he slowly becomes more and more scared of player as the story progresses. He starts off pretty smug, asking you to kill yourself, and by the end of it I'd go as far as to say he's seriously scared of you.

Yes. I love it when he echos you. I haven't seen the full arc cause I am only on the quest where you meet Mordecai(who I thought would more likely date Lilith than Roland).

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Handsome Jack.
I love Borderlands 2, and I think one of the main reasons is I bloody love Handsome Jack. I love how he slowly becomes more and more scared of player as the story progresses. He starts off pretty smug, asking you to kill yourself, and by the end of it I'd go as far as to say he's seriously scared of you.

I have to agree; Handsome Jack is my new favourite character in the whole of the Borderlands Universe. Not only does he become more scared, but he becomes hell-bent on killing you. Like, the last "funny" thing he does is offer a sidequest where you kill yourself. When you die you get revived, but he pays you to kill yourself, just so he has the satisfaction of knowing you sold your life.

 

[I_Sinanju _I]

Asura from Asura's Wrath.

Handsome Jack just seems like an unoriginal choice now .

 

[Tsaba]

Handsome Jack.
I love Borderlands 2, and I think one of the main reasons is I bloody love Handsome Jack. I love how he slowly becomes more and more scared of player as the story progresses. He starts off pretty smug, asking you to kill yourself, and by the end of it I'd go as far as to say he's seriously scared of you.

I kindly disagree, the best character by far is butt stallion

yea I have to agree, handsome jack is by far my favorite character this year... that or Tiny Tina.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Right now?

Handsome Jack

But The Outsider from Dishonored is shaping up to be something, a sort of G-man, trickster god and eldritch abomination all wrapped up up in a mystery.

Not to mention there is a cult dedicated to stopping him.

Captain Walker from Spec Ops: The Line gets an honourable mention.

 

[Shinsei-J]

Well it's unanimous, Handsome Jack is an awesome character.
Though I'm going to throw a curve ball and say Tiny Tina is the best.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Walker from SO: The Line.

Also Wei Shen - Sleeping Dogs

 

[New Frontiersman]

Hmm... another tough one.

There were a lot of awesome characters that came out this year. I really loved Syrenne from The Last Story, in fact I love all the characters from that game. They are all amazing. I really wish I could be friends with them, because they are awesome! I haven't finished it yet though, I really need to.

I really like Sophie from Tales of Graces! She's just so precious! I haven't gotten very far in the game yet, so I don't know anything about her back story, but I love her personality! Most of the other characters from that game are pretty awesome too, but Sophie is my favorite.

But I think my favorite would have to be:

Spoiler

Hades from Kid Icarus Uprising. Again this was another games with an amazing cast of characters! I can't think of even one I didn't like. Hades is amazingly funny, and an awesome villain to boot! He made an already enjoyable game even better! I loved his rapport with the other characters, and his dialogue was amazing. He is definitely my favorite villain of all time, and so far he's my favorite new character of the year.

 

[Kopikatsu]

I'm throwing in my lot with the Handsome Jack crowd. He was just great. Got excited every time I saw him pop up in an ECHO 'cause it meant I got to listen to him talk some more.

 

[lacktheknack]

I don't think I have any character-driven games from this year.

;__;

 

[SlaveNumber23]

For me its a tie between Zer0 and Handsome Jack, both from Borderlands 2.

Zer0 because hes so psychotic and bloodthirsty but hes so graceful and almost polite about it. As little as his dialogue was, I always enjoyed his lines thoroughly. Also playing him as a sniper type of character was a ton of fun. He is delightfully evil.

Handsome Jack because he provides so much comedy to the game and really livens it up and makes it interesting and fun even outside of combat. He is also a fantastic character to focus your hate towards, much like Joffrey from Game of Thrones, its very satisfying to hate Handsome Jack.

 

[Jason Rayes]

I don't have Borderlands 2 yet so Im going for Zero, the little teleporting alien from Warp.