Most Empathetic Silent Protaganist.

[hermes]

I don't get the appeal of Gordon Freeman, I know Valve fanboyism is rampant but is it all just a giant plan to dump pigs blood on Gabe Newell at GDC?

I think it is because he is a nerd, which makes it even easier to relate to the gaming comunity...

A nerd that can fight off waves of special ops, but a nerd nevertheless.

I will go with Freeman too, not because I think he is the best, but because my choice would otherwise fall with some RPG character, and choosing silent characters from before the PS2 era is kind of cheating.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I'm going to go with Link."
I was going to say Garrett from Thief, but I remembered that he's not silent.

 

[RanD00M]

I'd have to say Jack from Bioshock.

He speaks so he isn't all that silent.

 

[ninja steve]

ME!! im not in a game but im a ninja therefore no speaking at work also i have a completely ordinary western name even though ninja's are japenese so i should be a game protaginist i can be NINJA STEVE in THE INCREDIBLE NINJANESS OF NINJA STEVE!!

 

[S-Unleashed]

Link.

 

[Cylem]

I want to say Link in Windwaker, but Wander from Shadow of the Colossus gets my vote. Ten minutes in, I was totally gung-ho for killing the Collosi with him.

 

[Delock]

I really want to say the protagonist from Shadow of the Colossus, but I don't know if he counts since he called out to his horse. However, he gets no story speech time so I'm going to have to give him my vote.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

The Rookie in Halo 3: ODST. I kinda felt sorry for him being trapped in a Covenant infested New Mombasa.

 

[MultiPurposeBlue]

Follow Freeman

 

[Christemo]

im going with Soap. sure, hes not a silent protagonist anymore, but he saved the world just like Gordon, and he has some really cool guns.

 

[ChaosTheory3133]

Serge, From Chrono Cross. 'nuff said.

 

[Kiutu]

Yourself, whoops I meant Freeman.
But in all seriousness I'd have to say Jack from Bioshock.

I actually agree. I mean, Gordon Freeman is sure as hell popular and silent, but I cared more about how Jack felt than Freeman, since he seemed to have more emotion.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Serge from Chrono Cross. So much shit happened to him.

 

[Chipperz]

I refuse to say Gordon Freeman, because the only thing you ever find out about him in the games is that he's called Gordon Freeman. This is because everyone repeats your name, again, and again, and again. I can't empathise, because people don't say my name to me repeatedly. I have no idea what it's like to be like Gordon Freeman.

I'm going to go with the original character in Saints Row. He's just a guy who's in the wrong place at the wrong time, and gets hurled around on a series of events that make the previously squeaky-clean model citizen the overlord of the city.

Spoiler

And then he gets blown up.

 

[RikSharp]

cant believe only 2 people have said samus so far...

 

[bcponpcp27]

I'm going with Link. Mainly because his timeline is so fucked up. Imagine if YOUR timeline was that weird. That's right, it would be horrible!

 

[Disaster Button]

Gordon was the first one that came to mind, but I'm going to give my vote to Chell, actually, because, well, she didn't start off with anymore knowledge about her situation and what to do in it than I did. She's a silent protagonist who's defined solely by her actions, not by what anyone else tells us. The mystery about her doesn't make her harder to relate to, though; the fact that it's all about waking up in the test chamber and knowing nothing else from there actually made me connect with her a lot, because I figured she knew about as much about her own history as I did. Whether that's true or not remains to be seen, but I likes mah speculation. =3

This girl speaks truth and I couldn't have put it better myself.

 

[notsosavagemessiah]

I DON'T GET PEOPLE'S LOVE OF GORDON FREEMAN.

But, in terms of a character I'd most identify with, I'd have to go with the main character from fallout 3, because he's a character that you can pretty much do what you please with, making the things that happen to him, much more impactful. Gordon Freeman on the other hand, can be summed up as, aliens, guns, shoot, combine, guns, shoot.

The main chars from both chrono games get honorable mentions.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

He did win the best hero IGN competition rather easily, a random Escapist thread is cake .

But the cake is...

No, I'm strong. I resist temptation.