Favorite Videogame characters that isn't Voiced or animated.

[The Wykydtron]

I really don't understand the queston exactly but i'll go for Conniving Girl in Persona 4. You're such a ***** Conniving Girl. I like it... Other worthy contenders are Rumour-Loving Student and Knowledgable Student. I quite like the one woman who is strategically placed to tell you about the fast travel button in the first area of the game. She goes on about the square button being good for shopping or some shit. Fuckin' hilarious.

Honestly it's a difficult question. I guess some people could say the shop people in Dark Souls? Not me obviously because they're just random menus that make my stuff better instead of actual characters as far as i'm concerned. Some people like the way DS does story, I for one, do not.

 

[Slash Joel]

Do the army characters from Fire Emblem count?

 

[Reaper195]

Voice but not animated? Glados (Irrelevant of the last level). As for animated but not voiced....I don't consider them a character. Like Gordon Freeman. Yeah, his name is thrown around by everyone in Half-Life...but he never talks. So he can't really have a character since he does nothing but do what people tell him to do. But then again, I fucked hate silent protagonists. I fucking raged when I played F.E.A.R. 3, expecting Point Man to have a voice and a name. Nope. Officially still called Point Man. WTF!? Are the writers that goddamn lazy they can't even give him a name!?

 

[sextus the crazy]

Do the army characters from Fire Emblem count?

No, they all have generic sprites (and combat animations).

OT: Fuck, I dunno. The main character from doom maybe?

 

[SweetShark]

...Well that's a pretty impossible question.

Also, to those who are choosing Gordon Freeman; YOU'RE WRONG!!! Gordon Freeman was animated in the opening scenes of the Half-Life expansion Blue Shift, thereby making him an animated, if still silent, character.

How is this impossible? I already make an example of some really awesome characters from a game I played [in my opinion of course].

 

[SweetShark]

Voiced or animated?

As in both, or one or the other?

I prefer if your choice have a character with neither a voice neither an animation.
But of course you can choose one with not having a voice or an animation.

 

[Another]

Uhhh? Anton Corvo? He was seen in the marketing material, but I haven't seen him in game yet, nor heard him speak. Course I haven't finished it yet.

Your Legend of Grimrock characters? They are just portraits. That's all of really got for more recent releases.

Edit: OHHHH! You! As the commander in XCOM: EU! They talk to you, and you never talk back or see yourself! I AM BEST CHARACTER!

 

[WoW Killer]

Errr... L-Block?

Come on that's a bit of a tall order. Even Pac-Man is animated.

 

[Pink Gregory]

That really is an insanely hard question in a lot of modern-day games... Er, that bloke on the cover of Medieval II: Total War? Fifth orc from the left? That doctor on the cover of Theme Hospital if you don't count the intro cinematic- wait, no, that was a different doctor in the intro cinematic. That doctor on the cover of Theme Hospital who used to pop up in the corner to relay information in a text bubble!

I hate Theme Hospital advisor's smug face.

They come to MY hospital, vomit on MY floors and then claim to be annoyed at the way I run the hospital? Ingrates!

They are your floors in your hospital, so clearly anything on them is your full responsibility in every way!

Hey, weren't there a lot of carpet floors in some of those hospitals? Eww...

This is true. Still.

NOT HELPING!

Bloaty-headed, slack-tongued, transparent Elvis impressionist ingrate patient bastards!

 

[Folji]

That really is an insanely hard question in a lot of modern-day games... Er, that bloke on the cover of Medieval II: Total War? Fifth orc from the left? That doctor on the cover of Theme Hospital if you don't count the intro cinematic- wait, no, that was a different doctor in the intro cinematic. That doctor on the cover of Theme Hospital who used to pop up in the corner to relay information in a text bubble!

I hate Theme Hospital advisor's smug face.

They come to MY hospital, vomit on MY floors and then claim to be annoyed at the way I run the hospital? Ingrates!

They are your floors in your hospital, so clearly anything on them is your full responsibility in every way!

Hey, weren't there a lot of carpet floors in some of those hospitals? Eww...

This is true. Still.

NOT HELPING!

Bloaty-headed, slack-tongued, transparent Elvis impressionist ingrate patient bastards!

Let's not forget the bone-fractured and jellyitis-afflicted suckers, or the alien DNA brigade whenever it would come rolling in the doors, forcing the hospital to open up a special clinic to treat them and them alone! I liked how those alien guys looked because they were so... weird, but it was still annoying to have to do an emergency restructure just to be able to treat a single emergency case :v

 

[NightmareExpress]

"The commander" in Company of Heroes.
Is he insane? Is he below the age of ten? Do his troops actually respect him?
Nobody really knows the answers to these questions until they select the same unit repeatedly over a small amount of time.
When they do, it's hilarious.

He is not depicted in either 3D or 2D, nor does anything he apparently says appear anywhere.
One could even suggest that he is a psychic madman that has complete and utter control of those that exit his "field headquarters" (which are actually cult recruitment stations). This otherworldly monstrosity is who you appear to play as in singleplayer and multiplayer, but even that is rather vague.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

I prefer if your choice have a character with neither a voice neither an animation.
But of course you can choose one with not having a voice or an animation.

In that case, my choice is Lilly Satou from a little game called Katawa Shoujo [http://katawa-shoujo.com/].

She isn't animated save for her title sequence to her part of the story, and she never "speaks" per-say. It's all text.

Actually, a lot of the characters from Katawa Shoujo might fit that criteria, given the chance.

 

[Angelblaze]

Def. Samus Aran.




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SHUT UP. OTHER M NEVER HAPPENED.
.. I thought we all silently agreed we'd forget about this ;-;

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

Floyd from t'old text adventure Planetfall was pretty cool.

There's an awful lot of Visual Novel characters that could fit here, too, but I guess it's debatable whether or not the term "game" applies to many of them.

 

[Mikeyfell]

My favorite character who never had a voice?
The Grey Warden from Dragon Age Origins.

Kind of a cop out because their (I played DAO a lot) personalities were all dictated by me, but I did genuinely like them and they were never voiced.

Lightning's face from FFXIII Ba-dum Tish. No, I don't think I've played a game where the characters weren't animated in some respect.

I was going to say Fuyria from Record of Agarest War because all the cutscenes are still pictures with voice acting but she's animated when you use her in combat.

Wait I've got it!
The AI from Defense Grid! You know the Brittish one who liked raspberries. He was pretty cool and never had an animated form.

As far as a character with neither an animation nor a voice I don't have one... Sorry I'm not old school enough to have ever played a text adventure.

 

[shrekfan246]

Edit: OHHHH! You! As the commander in XCOM: EU! They talk to you, and you never talk back or see yourself! I AM BEST CHARACTER!

Yeah, that was the first thing that came to mind for me too.

For the purposes of this thread, would characters from visual novels be considered 'animated' because they have different model portraits that are swapped out during conversations to convey different emotions/body language/etc.?

Because they're not 'animated' in the same way that, say, a cut-scene from Final Fantasy or Metal Gear Solid is.

 

[Vhite]

Every game he creates unique epics of heroism and lunacy. He is a creature of unimaginable mettle and craftiness, able to survive fight with a dragon or die out of simple stupidity.

Spoiler: He is...

dwarf

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I want to say Nestor from Nestor's Funky Bowling but he was animated in that...Nestor should have been given another chance. Why isn't he in Smash Bros dammit?!

OK, no voice and I don't recall him ever being animated. I think later editions of Final Fantasy VI did give him some movement patterns but here's mine:

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ULTROS WAS IN 13-2!? WHAT EVEN THE FUCK!?!

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Well this kind of messes up my answer...I'll get back to you with something.