Favorite Protagonist

[Revan 411]

Dammit! I forgot another protagonist to add!

 

Niko Bellic (Grand Theft Auto IV)

[Corinthian]

Crono never said ANYTHING.

 

Aside from the amicable and insane Mr. Jack Walters, there's also the esteemed Bhaalspawn, charming Ms. Terra Branford, and, of course, Sir Devon Aidendale.

[Arcesious]

Spartan 117. Because pwnification of millions of delusional, retarded aliens with big guns makes you special.

[Corinthian]

Always nice to see people embracing the inexplicably popular.

[Marius Fett]

Torn in Jak II: Renegade.

[Trex]

Tempted to say JC Denton, but never was too keen on what they did to him in Invisible War. Apart from that :

 

-Gordon Freeman

-Garrett from Thief

-Revan

[Corinthian]

Gordon never says ANYTHING.

[DeadYorick]

Gordon never says ANYTHING.

 

I think he is basing it around the fact that he is the only FPS hero who is a scientist and went to college for years. He is like a hero to the pale, gross, porn addicted nerds of the world

[Trex]

I think he is basing it around the fact that he is the only FPS hero who is a scientist and went to college for years. He is like a hero to the pale, gross, porn addicted nerds of the world

 

Exactly. He's a testament to what we, the supergeeks, could do whilst stranded miles from nowhere, below the suface and armed only with our wits.

 

And a crowbar.

 

And a shotgun.

 

And that zappy thing that shoots radiation.

 

He even has a beard like me. That's neat.

[Corinthian]

Where'd you get the HEV Mark V?

[The Padawannabe]

Crono never said ANYTHING.

Gordon never says ANYTHING.

 

You're such a nay sayer.

[Arátoeldar]

Sam & Max (Self Evident)

 

Sir-King Graham (King's Quest series)

 

Garrett (Thief)

 

J.C. Denton (Deus Ex)

 

Kyle Katarn (Dark Forces-Jedi knight series)

 

Max Payne (Self Evident)

 

Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell)

 

Guybrush Threepwood (Monkey Island series)

 

Manny Calavera (Grim Fandango)

[Ctrl Alt Del]

Solid Snake - MGS series.

 

Naked Snake/Big Boss - MGS3

 

Kratos - God of War series

 

Jimmy Hopkins - Bully

 

Although I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting some pretty important ones.

[jediTJrocks]

Daxter in

 

 

1.Jak and Daxter

 

2.Jak II

 

3.Jak 3

 

4.Jak X

 

And finally: Daxter

[DeadYorick]

 

Jimmy Hopkins - Bully

 

Oh yeah Jimmy Hopkins is also a good protagonist. Rather instead of influencing nerds he influences Bullies. Since Jimmy Hopkin's crusade is to stop everyone from bullying each other. Which is a message people should throw around schools nowadays

[Meowster]

Squall is pretty darned awesome too:)

 

QFT.

 

Second would probably be April from The Longest Journey, and third Zidane Tribal from FFIX.

[Corinthian]

To each his own, I guess, but I found Squall to be an incredibly annoying whiner.

[Salzella]

Liiiiiiiiiiink!

 

Honourable mentions to:

Jak

the Exile

Psymon Stark (SSX, for those wondering )

[Bee Hoon]

To each his own, I guess, but I found Squall to be an incredibly annoying whiner.

Which is odd, because I thought that he was far too introverted for his own good, and never actually said what he was thinking.

[Sabretooth]

Off the top of my head:

 

Manny Calavera (Grim Fandango)

Guybrush Threepwood (Monkey Island games)

Gordon Freeman (Half-Life games)

J.C. Denton (Deus Ex)

Kyle Katarn (Jedi Knight games)

Ben (Full Throttle)

Lucas Kane (Indigo Prophecy)

The Nameless One (Planescape: Torment)

[Corinthian]

Nobody ever says what they're thinking. Well, unless it's a Freudian slip.

 

Okay, someone indulge me, and explain how Gordon Freeman, the most empty character ever, can be a favorite protagonist? Nothing against Half-Life, but Gordon is the quintessential Player Avatar, it's worse than calling Exile or Revan your favorite. Of course, he's also a Puppet (not in the Cloud sense, though) so...maybe that's what you're getting at?

[DeadYorick]

Nobody ever says what they're thinking. Well, unless it's a Freudian slip.

 

Okay, someone indulge me, and explain how Gordon Freeman, the most empty character ever, can be a favorite protagonist? Nothing against Half-Life, but Gordon is the quintessential Player Avatar, it's worse than calling Exile or Revan your favorite. Of course, he's also a Puppet (not in the Cloud sense, though) so...maybe that's what you're getting at?

 

Mostly it is possible because of what he does in the game, how hard the game may be and the sequel itself and the mass amount of mods it spawned. Most people cannot imagine Half-Life without Gordon Freeman now. Even mods such as Opposing Force and Blue shift still show Freeman at points.

 

Most people have trouble viewing themselves as the player character. So Valve comes up with the idea of naming the character but never viewing it. So technically their favorite character is themselves. But it may go back to my remark earlier that he is a college graduate and a hero to the nerds of the world.

[Trex]

Maybe it's more a case of how everyone else talks about Freeman, especially when it comes to HL2 & episodes. 'The one free man' from the vortigants or 'you're a real terror' (or similar line) from Alyx in EP1 after you down the chopper thing.

[jawathehutt]

I actually liked playing as CPL sheperd as much as freeman, the parts where you had backup capable of doing more than killing headcrabs were a nice change, even if the engineers and medics were only placed where you had to use them to do something.

[Ctrl Alt Del]

Which is odd, because I thought that he was far too introverted for his own good, and never actually said what he was thinking.

 

My question is, why is he that timid? Seriously, and Rinoa is his exact opposite.

 

Well, I've got enough of him on Kingdom Hearts though, he's deitificated there.