Poll: Do you Love Your Video Game Characters?

[Infernai]

Snake in Metal gear solid, throughout the whole series. He was basically a sort of child-hood hero.

Daniel Fortesque in Medieval, sort of the same boat as snake.

Rpg wise, i formed attachments to most of the cast for Kotor 1 and 2 (except really Kreia), and for Dragon age to.

Above all though, the one i connected with the most was probably my Shephard in ME 1 and 2, because he was...well basically the only character i ever created that i felt was really badass and reached potential. The rest of the cast was awesome to.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm not one of these people who plan to try marrying my female character from Fallout but, if I can't find some sort of connection or reason to like the characters I'm playing as, I can't really focus as much on the game. I recently stopped playing FFXIII because of the transition from Chapter 8 to 9 [which pissed me off]

 

[Thaius]

Video games tell stories. That is one of their main functions now. Good stories are largely character-driven, meaning that any good story will get you connected to the characters. Anyone who gets connected to characters in a book or movie, but not in a game, has an incomplete and rather sad view on the value of video games.

 

[axle 19]

Sometimes I care for a character. Usually it happens when the story has drawn me in to the point where I'm following the characters actions and understanding their thought process and motivations. Other times it is just a cool character who I think shouldn't have been killed off (Ghost, Tai, etc.)

 

[AvsJoe]

I care about created characters more than story characters. For instance I could lose members of my original party in FFT but not the guys I create.

I cried for Zack.

Same. Aeris too. Big time.

 

[DethPenguin]

Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain. Also had to keep Dogmeat and Cassidy alive from Fallout 2.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

The only video game characters that i ever care about are the characters from Fire Emblem ... i don't want any of them dead! D:

 

[CopperBoom]

Heavy Rain.
The things I did for that moody bastard.
...the things I did.

 

[GruntOwner]

I got that annoying sort-of-about-to-cry groggy feeling twice during Halo 3. Once when I rescued Cortana, and finally when I saw what Spark did to Johnson. There is not more 343 Guilty Spark to me, there is only The ****.

I was very protective of people through Deus Ex. One time I forgot to warn Smuggler about the UNATCO raid, heard over the infolink that he had died, and spent about 10 minutes sat there, hanging from the ladder on my way upto th helipad, wondering if I should go back to 90 minutes ago to save him... I loaded.

 

[Strife17O7]

Where's the 'sometimes' option? 0.o

 

[Caligulove]

Not really.

I enjoy the experience of playing and enjoying all of the careful, quality writing into a lot of the good characters in games out there. But the fact still remains is that they're artificial and theres only so much about them there that I can know about and that I can interact with. It's still the same.

A real friend is someone that is sentient, able to be with you through things. I treat game characters like the parts in a movie or a play that I watch. I have more interaction with them, sure, but ultimately I am still part of a story that's already been written.

I love storytelling, but until someone from the games steps out of the screen and is able of actually having a real conversation... well... sorry, but they're just pixels. Well written, well designed and superbly performed but.. still just characters

 

[Yokai]

I was sad when Kaiden got nuked in mass effect. But then I just forgot about Him when I got it on with Ashley.

Wow, did anyone leave Ashley to die? I did the same thing.
I often try to grow attached to the characters, but I find it difficult because all of their reactions are automatic and scripted. You can't have a proper conversation with a digital character (yet), and so I find it hard to actually care for them.

Spoiler: HL2 Ep. 2 spoilers that you already know

Eli Vance's death moved me a little, but it was more due to listening to Alyx's heartrending reaction than compassion for the character.

 

[Rayansaki]

Kind of depends massively on the game, but I'm going with Yes, because it happens every now and then.

 

[Ze_Reaper_Of_Zeath]

Captain Price. Most bad-ass guy I ever met in MW, and MW2, and is very loyal.

 

[Nazulu]

Nah not really, closest I ever got to caring for characters was in Ocarina of Time.

Yes, the same way I do for characters in books, plays, and movies. They're all done the same so they should have the same reaction.

Not really, story's in movies and books are far superior to story's in games, games are mainly for the game play. I know this doesn't go for everyone of course.

I mean, I love Mario and Samus but not like that.

 

[legion431]

I was sad when Kaiden got nuked in mass effect. But then I just forgot about Him when I got it on with Ashley.

Wow, did anyone leave Ashley to die? I did the same thing.
I often try to grow attached to the characters, but I find it difficult because all of their reactions are automatic and scripted. You can't have a proper conversation with a digital character (yet), and so I find it hard to actually care for them.

Spoiler: HL2 Ep. 2 spoilers that you already know

Eli Vance's death moved me a little, but it was more due to listening to Alyx's heartrending reaction than compassion for the character.

Really, I actually did grow attached to Eli as a character. It was his death that moved me, not Alyx's weeping.

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

in mass effect 2, tali was flirting with me, but i wish i gad an option to say,*daaaawwwwww your so cute when our horny, but i have too much awsome in me i cant have sex*

 

[SwimmingRock]

Definitely feel connection with some game characters. Garrus is my right hand man/turian, Naoto makes me smile, almost cried for Zack and Aya Brea will always be a good memory.

Also feel emotional connections to videogames and characters in the negative sense, like the scene with Andrew Ryan in Bioshock. I really wanted Fontaine dead after that; partially because I'd come to trust Atlas.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I felt really bad in The Bard's Tale because the dog got squashed and died. Then turned into a ghost dog. My reaction was the same as the bard's... I grew to love the Bard and his dog.

There are a lot of characters that I "love" but never in that creepy love that shouldn't be made between a person and a pixel.