I'm assuming that most of you are able to find out what the thread is about from the title. Obviously, I can't list every interesting character of the entire year. I just listed some of my favorites from this year and some of the most talked about.
Bayonetta's just great, and not just physically either. I really hope that we actually do get a sequel to this one, and it isn't very often that I say that
My answer number two is anyone who is NOT John Marston. How he won every Best Character award this year next to Mordin Solus or Scott Shelby just escapes me.
I am the very model of a scientist Salarian, I've studied species Turian, Asari and Batarian, I'm quite good at genetics as a subset of biology because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology).
My xenoscience studies range from ubran to argrarian, I am the very model of a scientist Salarian.
I have one question: Why all the hate for Jack Marston?
I have seen a ton of people that hate Jack and I don't get it. He's whiny and his voice is, to say the least, pubescent but he's a kid. That's what most kids are. He's real and believable.
Don't take it as me criticizing you. I'm just wondering.
My answer number two is anyone who is NOT John Marston. How he won every Best Character award this year next to Mordin Solus or Scott Shelby just escapes me.
I don't think that Marston is really a character. I put him up because he's a popular choice but I see Marston as more of an alternative to the silent protagonist. He's real character but his "character" isn't built on enough for you (the player) to feel like you're playing as someone else. It's a good way to keep you immersed in the game. Best character? Not for me.
Thane. Very underrated, probably a little clichéd (monk-like hitman and all that), but so well-written, and so humanly written that it doesn't matter.
John Marston is not a well written character. They set him up as being a "gentleman" towards women at the beginning of the game, but at other times he's letting several Mexican women (on several different occasions) get raped so that he can work for a couple of arse holes who mess him about for around 5 hours of game playing time.
Had the character been consistent, he wouldn't have let the women get raped and he wouldn't have taken such a huge amount of shit from the pricks who were raping the women. He's killed 300 people to get there, point a gun to their fucking heads if they keep pissing on you!
I'm still not convinced that the ending is particularly necessary either.
Abigail and Jack escaped without them noticing, so Marston could have gone with them and then gone anywhere they liked. It's not like the agents were exactly competent, seeing as how they had to get Marston to track down the ex-gang members.
That's not complex character writing, that's poor, contradictory character writing. And this is coming from someone who did like the guy when he had a pair of balls and wasn't letting scores of women get raped.
My answer number two is anyone who is NOT John Marston. How he won every Best Character award this year next to Mordin Solus or Scott Shelby just escapes me.
I don't think that Marston is really a character. I put him up because he's a popular choice but I see Marston as more of an alternative to the silent protagonist. He's real character but his "character" isn't built on enough for you (the player) to feel like you're playing as someone else. It's a good way to keep you immersed in the game. Best character? Not for me.
For me, he's basically the standard Rockstar protagonist fare. Except not particularly likeable.
He does have a character, it's just that that character is of a man who goes around threatening everyone he works for and then doing what they want from him anyway.
My answer number two is anyone who is NOT John Marston. How he won every Best Character award this year next to Mordin Solus or Scott Shelby just escapes me.
I don't think that Marston is really a character. I put him up because he's a popular choice but I see Marston as more of an alternative to the silent protagonist. He's real character but his "character" isn't built on enough for you (the player) to feel like you're playing as someone else. It's a good way to keep you immersed in the game. Best character? Not for me.
For me, he's basically the standard Rockstar protagonist fare. Except not particularly likeable.
He does have a character, it's just that that character is of a man who goes around threatening everyone he works for and then doing what they want from him anyway.
I'm going to have to go with Legion from ME2. The whole hivemind idea is not new in itself, but I was pleasantly surprised how they managed to flesh out an entire species with just this one character.
Wanted to quote with the "He works for the Mexican Army killing the rebels and then for the rebels killing the Mexican Army" argument, but I don't think there's any reason to do so.
I have one question: Why all the hate for Jack Marston?
I have seen a ton of people that hate Jack and I don't get it. He's whiny and his voice is, to say the least, pubescent but he's a kid. That's what most kids are. He's real and believable.
Don't take it as me criticizing you. I'm just wondering.
When he's a kid he's (as you said) a whiny little brat, and as for later on - well, whenever I hear the phrase "Work, ya damn nag!" I have an overwhelming urge to punch something.
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