Top Silent Protagonists

[Mjr McNugget]

RE to the main question

Jak > from all 3 ( there are only 3 in my OP ... fuck dem racers and flying things xP)

Jak from Jak & Daxter! I'm dissapointed in you Escapist.

Not as memorable a game.

Dude cmon man how is the Jak series not memorable like wtf

 

[Vrex360]

The Rookie from ODST was oddly easy to empathise with despite having virtually no voice whatsoever. Also Issac Clarke from Dead Space although it seems he's developed a voice box now and of course must give mention to Gordon Freeman and Chell, both of which would have ruined their games if they had spoken.

EDIT: Also Jack from Bioshock.

 

[-Drifter-]

Sir Daniel Fortesque. Because he actually has a reason for being silent:

Spoiler

[HEADING=3]no jaw.[/HEADING]​

 

[Fbuh]

Jak from Jak & Daxter! I'm dissapointed in you Escapist.

He talked in Jak III. Does he still count?

I was always fond of Chrono. How many small town guys now how to properly use a katana?

 

[EBHughsThe1st]

RE to the main question

Jak > from all 3 ( there are only 3 in my OP ... fuck dem racers and flying things xP)

Jak from Jak & Daxter! I'm dissapointed in you Escapist.

Not as memorable a game.

Dude cmon man how is the Jak series not memorable like wtf

The first one good, second one pretty fun, third one okay. That and JaK talked.

 

[EBHughsThe1st]

Jak from Jak & Daxter! I'm dissapointed in you Escapist.

Not as memorable a game.

And then the mightiest of rages began to boil deep within me. For there is one fandom for I which must always protect.

The games were outrageously memorable. Just about anyone who got a PS2 before 2004 owned Jak and Daxter. It's my personal favorite series of games, and Jak, though he didn't stay a silent protagonist was in fact my favorite silent protagonist of all time.

Gaming is subjective. So shut it, it's my opinion.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Doom Guy. The original silent protagonist.

Damn these ninjas. I will have to get my friend to clear out the ninjas in these parts. He destroys ninjas for his morning workout.

 

[Enigma6667]

Chell. It just wouldn't be the same with a talking protagonist. Same goes for Jack from Bioshock.

 

[HT_Black]

The Freeman.

Link talks too much. And he exists.

And Jack had a line at the beginning of the game.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

Felix from Golden Sun 1 & 2
the only thing he ever says is: "....."
- and things like:

Spoiler

Don't mean to burst your bubble but he talks once in Golden Sun 2 and isn't a protagonist in GS1 so he can't count (otherwise he would be my favorite too).

as i recall it; Felix only talks in GS1, but he is the protagonist in GS2 (where he is mute), so i believe it does count.

 

[Fozza]

I vote for Gordon Freeman! No doubt.

 

[Scarecrow38]

Can't answer anything besides the One Free Man

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Claude(?) from GTA 3. It's a brilliant game that I got kinda addicted to when it first came out, and the fact that the main character had no qualms about picking up any underhanded job going (with maybe just a nod of the head) just made him seem that much more badass (probably because he wasn't doing any of that tedious moralising that seems so mandatory these days).

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Mario, Link, Samus, Kirby, Jak, and Crono. Freeman's pretty cool, but I don't understand the obsession with him. Without reading much of this topic, I'm willing to bet that about 75% of the posts mention him.

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

Link is the be all end all silent protagonists.

 

[MoNKeyYy]

My pokemon character.

Why did it take 55 posts for someone to mention the pokemon guy?!? Those games were my childhood!!!!!!!!!

 

[imaloony]

Gordon Freeman wasn't a bad silent man.

Also, I LOVE Paper Mario. He's awesome.

"Soap" from CoD4 was pretty good too. (NOTE: He does talk in Modern Warfare 2, but he didn't talk in CoD4, so I'll call him a silent protagonist in only CoD4.)

 

[randomsix]

Felix from Golden Sun 1 & 2
the only thing he ever says is: "....."
- and things like:

Spoiler

Eloquently put.

I second that.

 

[JuryNelson]

Jak from Jak & Daxter! I'm dissapointed in you Escapist.

Especially when they reference it in the later games. Way, way rad.