Most overpowered player character?

[mrhappyface]

I played a lot of games, and usually, the game usually stays at a level difficulty in proportion to your power. You start the game shooting kittens and neighborhood bullies with your child's airsoft gun, and finish the game fighting dragons and giant mechs with a nuclear missile launcher. But sometimes, the difficulty scale is killed off before the middle of the game. Two games I would say that are good examples of this would be Prototype and Mercenaries 2. In Prototype, you start off with the power to run faster than most cars, can kill all humans with one hit. By the middle of the game, you can kill even the high powered mutants with your blade arm and your whip fist. Helicopters and Tanks are unbelievably easy to hijack. What I did was just get every single power, upgraded them to full, and systematically started to perform genocide upon Manhattan.
In Mercenaries 2, as soon as I got the weapon upgrades, and about 2 recruits, I became death incarnate. I had so many airstrikes, and my fuel capacity was so stupidly large, that's it wasn't even fun anymore. As soon as I had enough air strikes to start WW3, I also declared genocide upon Venezuela, but instead of humans, it was buildings. The game shortly ended with everyone in Venezuela pissed off at me.
What do you think is the most overpowered player character?

 

[Angry Caterpillar]

Any one of the countless faceless soldiers that can regenerate themselves from a limbless stump with the power of happy thoughts.

 

[Oilerfan92]

How powerful you get in Mercs 2 is embarassing. How does a single warehouse house so many nukes and other stuff ?

On my first playthrough of Saints Row 2 i played all 6 levels of one mini game and unlocked unlimited handgun ammo. The only time i ever died was suicide off a higher-than-it-looked jump and car explosions.

 

[Gigaguy64]

In Metroid you start out with low fire power.
But just a few pickups later and your taking out Aliens 7-30 times your own size with ease.

 

[Nerdygamer89]

Alex Mercer from Prototype. Felt nigh on invincible most of the time, in a good way. At least until near the end where if you fart too loudly near the military, five choppers and three tanks appear instantly out of nowhere to fire homing missiles up your ass. Otherwise, fantastic game, just got cheap very near the end.

 

[mrhappyface]

Over-powered protagonists?

I suppose Kratos is apparently all-powerful... But I've not played that game and it's probably balanced so that it's not as easy as you might think it'd be.

Nano-Suit man in Crysis Original might be one to consider OP - at least he should be considered thus when he is in areas where he can use his cloak to effectively avoid all fire fights and pick off enemies 1-by-1.

Maybe, though, in the end the strongest character is Kyle Katarn, Jedi from the Jedi Knight series who, if you use his abilities correctly, is uber powerful, even at his weakest.

Well, Kratos in the second playthrough for God of War 2 is pretty unbalanced. Blade of Olympus FTW!

 

[fanklok]

The Nameless one from Planescape: Torment, By the time I'm about half way through it I usually have him at level 137 of what ever class I decided to make him (the games limit) with roughly 100k+ HP, and if he's a Mage roughly 8 9th level spells per day even though the best spell in the game is 5th level (cloud kill will insta murder anything that isn't the final boss)

At that point he constantly regenerates 2 hp a second, which is silly considering it would take about 4 hours for the final boss to kill him without it

By the end of that game at that point he can solo the final boss, who has 1000 HP, in a couple minutes

 

[spinFX]

I'd say my Sith Lord character from KOTOR 2 was stupid imba. Lightning storm and force drain made him indestructable with ridiculous AOE DPS. Even on the first game with a perfectly built Jedi guardian the last boss couldn't hit me.

The first play through is what counts though, before you figure out the min/maxxing.

 

[mrhappyface]

The Lone Wanderer, when he's at lvl 30 pretty much unstoppable. You can effectively kill a Super Mutant Behemoth barehanded and can even survive a direct hit from a mininuke.

 

[leviticusd]

Sub-Zero in the original Mortal Kombat.

 

[AtticusSP]

Bayonetta. Something about that kicking gods in the face thing.

 

[Mr. In-between]

Over-powered protagonists?

I suppose Kratos is apparently all-powerful... But I've not played that game and it's probably balanced so that it's not as easy as you might think it'd be.

I've noticed that Kratos comes up quite frequently on these forums. As I am a broke SOB, I am currently playing through ToS (just got Volt 15 min ago). I do not yet understand exactly how "powerful" Kratos is, but there have been multiple threads speaking of genocides, face-punchings and whatnot that have somewhat spoiled the character thus far.

Yes, I know that it's probably my own fault for not "keeping up on the consoles", but would it kill everyone to put in a little more effort at hiding the spoilers? For all I know at the moment, Kratos is a member of Cruxius whose motives remain unclear.

 

[HT_Black]

In this order, from most to least overpowered:

Starkiller, from The Force Unleashed. He was blowing down two-foot-thick steel doors, lifting AT-ST's into the air with his thoughts, and electricuting rancors by level three. When you can kick the crap out of The Emperor, 50k-odd rebels, the entirety of the imperial army, and DARTH FREAKING VADER without breaking a sweat, you know there's something wrong with your power balance.

Jayden, from Jedi Academy. While (s)he never did things quite as epically as Starkiller, he/she could still clear out entire rooms by holding down the lightning button, assume complete control of a stranger's body, and slow down time around him/her by 400% and clean out entire corridors of sith knights in less than thirty seconds.

My custom-built character in Dragon Age; he could throw exploding fireballs, spontaneously cause earthquakes, turn people to stone, summon clouds of fire and liquid death by snapping his fingers, and heal the group/revive party members.
Also, he could wear any armor and effectively use any weapon in the game.
Seriously, I killed the Ogre alpha in just under fifteen seconds, and the high dragon in forty-five.

The Rook. 'Nuff Said.

Major what-was-it from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. CoP. There's something about the bulletproof weight-reducing strength-and-speed-increasing mecha suit with the built in Gas Mask, psionic protecters, and second-generation night vision goggles that doesn't say "tense tactical shooter" to me.

 

[mrhappyface]

I've noticed that Kratos comes up quite frequently on these forums. As I am a broke SOB, I am currently playing through ToS (just got Volt 15 min ago). I do not yet understand exactly how "powerful" Kratos is, but there have been multiple threads speaking of genocides, face-punchings and whatnot that have somewhat spoiled the character thus far.

Yes, I know that it's probably my own fault for not "keeping up on the consoles", but would it kill everyone to put in a little more effort at hiding the spoilers? For all I know at the moment, Kratos is a member of Cruxius whose motives remain unclear.

Like I said, I've never played a God of War console game... My assertion that Kratos is the strongest character is based purely off the fan-boy'ism you yourself have mentioned on this site and a video review of GoW3 i saw a few weeks back.

Well he's not necessarily the most powerful (he's as well balanced as Link in Legend of Zelda and Ratchet from Ratchet and Clank), but it's the way he does things. One of the most basic attacks lets you pick up one of the first enemies you fight and RIP HIM IN HALF! He just lifts up the guy, grabs his arm and leg, and simply pulls him apart like he was KFC chicken! You kill a Hydra by impaling it's skull through the skull with a ship's mast. You kill the Kraken by crushing its body with a mechanical drawbridge. It's done in such an over-extravagant and brutal manner that he SEEMS so awesome and godlike, but he's pretty well balanced.

 

[mrhappyface]

In this order, from most to least overpowered:

Starkiller, from The Force Unleashed. He was blowing down two-foot-thick steel doors, lifting AT-ST's into the air with his thoughts, and electricuting rancors by level three. When you can kick the crap out of The Emperor, 50k-odd rebels, the entirety of the imperial army, and DARTH FREAKING VADER without breaking a sweat, you know there's something wrong with your power balance.

Jayden, from Jedi Academy. While (s)he never did things quite as epically as Starkiller, he/she could still clear out entire rooms by holding down the lightning button, assume complete control of a stranger's body, and slow down time around him/her by 400% and clean out entire corridors of sith knights in less than thirty seconds.

My custom-built character in Dragon Age; he could throw exploding fireballs, spontaneously cause earthquakes, turn people to stone, summon clouds of fire and liquid death by snapping his fingers, and heal the group/revive party members.
Also, he could wear any armor and effectively use any weapon in the game.
Seriously, I killed the Ogre alpha in just under fifteen seconds, and the high dragon in forty-five.

The Rook. 'Nuff Said.

Major what-was-it from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. CoP. There's something about the bulletproof weight-reducing strength-and-speed-increasing mecha suit with the built in Gas Mask, psionic protecters, and second-generation night vision goggles that doesn't say "tense tactical shooter" to me.

I would say the Queen actually. And STALKER was pretty hard to tell you the truth.

 

[TheTim]

LuBu from Dynasty warriors series.