Your Favorite Character

[Seishisha]

Ok then lets get the ball rolling, whats your faviorite character from a game, it can be a player, npc, boss doesnt matter.

If you want you can go into detail about your choice. Mine would have to be....

Grom Hellscream from the warcraft universe, a character steeped in lore and a long history from the game series even after death his legacy lives on with interesting if not a-typical redemption story and loads of other stuff.

Your turn.

*EDIT*
Having read through a few coments for the sake of what i can asume is most peoples sanity multiple choice is fine, i guess having a definative one is pretty hard with so many great characters.

 

[Dracowrath]

I don't really have an all time favorite, I generally a couple favorites from each mythos. In WarCraft, I'd have to go with Sylvannas Windrunner. She spent her life as a general in the armies of the High Elven kingdom, a peerless archer, but then the scourge came. She watched in horror as, despite her best efforts, her people were slaughtered. And eventually she herself was killed, but wasn't given peace. Instead she's forced to live on as an undead. But that didn't slow her down. Once the Lich King's power began to fail she took the opportunity to carve out a place for her new people to live (sort of), to be free, and to slaughter anyone who would dare try to shackle them down again. And of course, get vengeance on those who abandoned them once the Lich King's mind control faded.

Though the series I'm focused on right now is dragon age, and if I really had to pick one, it'd be one who died before the first game started. King Maric Theirin. Little more than a child when the Orlesians practically enslaved Fereldan, but with help from his friend Loghain mac Tir, he drove back the Orlesians and reclaimed Fereldan. Also he fathered one of the most badass snarkers to ever walk Thedas, Alistair. Because swooping....*puts on sunglasses*....is bad.

 

[Matrixbeast]

I'm thinking Amaterasu, from Okami.
Love her.

 

[agentorange98]

Hmm either Big Daddy or Pyramid Head

 

[agentorange98]

Favorite good guy is a tie between Master Chief and Duke Nukem, favorite Bad Guy is either Big Daddy or Pyramid Head

 

[Viral_Lola]

Yoshi, it's a shoe wearing dinosaur that can shoot fireballs, watermelon seeds, and ice. Occasionally, (frequently) it'll eat enemies and turn them into eggs. He also has a flutter kick. Adorable and weird.

 

[octafish]

Manny Caldevera, sarcastic, clever, kind hearted, competitive, dead...

EDIT: For villain, SHODAN a perfect immortal machine...

 

[LittleBlondeGoth]

It's not possible to choose just one!

I adore Dragon Age's Alistair. He was incredibly well written by Bioware, being funny, romantic, flawed and impossibly heroic all at the same time. I don't think he ever left my party once. His story unfolding really gripped me, and I thought it was great the way he could end up in extremely different circumstances at the games end, depending on your actions.

I'm crazy about FFVII's Vincent Valentine as well, on account of being silent and tragic and romantic(ish) and, frankly, hot as hell. His voice alone is enough to make me need a cold shower.

There's more. Bayonetta gets a thumbs up from me, because whilst she kicks arse in the most outlandish ways possible, whilst still looking good. Besides, have you seen her shoes? I want those.

Ezio of Assassin's Creed and John Marsten from Red Dead should get honourable mentions too. Again, both are well rounded and well realised characters with backstories and motivations and personalities.

 

[retyopy]

Steve the red pikmin. Obviously. I mean, he's a friggin' trooper.

 

[Generic_Username]

Alistair (Dragon Age: Origins)
Kaidan Alenko & Miranda - Yes, I said MIRANDA (Mass Effect 1&2) Edit: Also, Joker. How could I forget Joker?
GLaDOS (Portal 1&2)
Naoto (Persona 4)

 

[Zhukov]

Uhh... I have to choose just one? 'Cause that's a pretty long list.

...

Nope, can't do it. I'll just pick one at random.

Here we go:

Urdnot Wrex. A great, grumpy lumbering hulk who simply does not give a shit. Except when he does.

Meeting him again in ME2 delivered more emotional payoff than some entire games have managed to produce.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Yeah...I can't pick just one. I'll have to do this by genre and gender, with runner-up.

WRPG Male-Alistair from Dragon Age: Origins (runner-up: Garrus Vakarian from Mass Effect/2/3)
WRPG Female-Tali'Zorah vas Normandy nar Rayya from Mass Effect/Mass Effect 2/Mass Effect 3 (runner-up: Bastila Shan from KOTOR)
FPS Male-Emile from Halo: Reach (runner-up: Captain Price from Modern Warfare)
FPS Female-Alyx Vance from Half-Life 2 (runner-up: Noble Six from Halo: Reach. Hey, she was a female for me!)
TPS Male-Naked Snake from Metal Gear Solid 3 (runner-up: Max Payne from...Max Payne)
TPS Female-Theresa Lipan from the Syphon Filter series (runner-up: Sniper Wolf from Metal Gear Solid)
JRPG Male-Vivi Ornitier from Final Fantasy IX (runner-up: Angelo from Dragon Quest VIII)
JRPG Female-Terra Branford from Final Fantasy VI (runner-up: Freya Crescent from Final Fantasy IX)
Sandbox- John Marston from Red Dead Redemption (runner-up: Johnny Gat from Saint's Row/Saint's Row 2)

 

[Xprimentyl]

Max Payne probably. Or Jackie Estacado. We need more heroes like them.

I'll second The Darkness' Jackie Estacado. The game was already more amazingly well written and fun than I expected for the $5 bargin I nabbed it for, but Jackie ended up being only character, let alone in an FPS, that I was every genuinely emotionally invested in; his plight and his vengence were my own... Saddest. Ending. EVER.

 

[LadyTiamat]

Anders in DA2- rooted for him againsted the templars

or

Logain in DAO, such a complex character and he never entended to let ferelden fall apart and i kinda felt sorry for him.

or

Riku in KH - we're too much like.

 

[OldKingClancy]

Dutch - Red Dead Redemption.
He knew that civilasation would be the death of him and tried to stick to a savage nature thinking that the strongest and fearless would survive. In the end he tried to give John the same warning and died before allowing civilasation to kill him or worse, kill his mind.

'Our Time Has Passed, John.'

 

[Fanfic_warper]

Oh there's just so many....

Kingdom Hearts: Sora
Ghostbusters the video game (don't judge me!): Venkman
Metal Gear Series: Otacon
Valkyria Chronciles 2: Joachim
The world Ends with You: Sho Minamimoto
Assasin's Creed: Ezio
Disgaea Series: Mao
Sengoku Basara Samurai heroes: Mitsunari Ishida
Jak and Daxter series: Daxter
Resident Evil series: Wesker

 

[Burntpopcarn]

Mordecai the sniper- borderlands
Zaeed massani- mass effect 2
Tali zorah vas normandy nar rayya- also mass effect 2.
giygas- earthbound (lol)
Bill- left 4 dead
Damon baird- gears of war 2
Harry flynn- uncharted 2
oh yeah, almost forgot...
steve- borderlands (HEYOOOOO!)
it's just so hard to choose just one favorite, seeing as how i have many favorites that i like equally, so i guess you could say that i have more than one favorite.