Best Hero From ANY Game

[Meiscool-2]

Kinda like the FF Hero thread, but I thought I might expand this a little bit.

Give your favorite hero, least favorite, whys and why nots, whatevers. Can be from ANY GAME.

Personally:

Zidane is one awesome mo-fo. However, above him comes my personal favorite: Yuri (Shadow Hearts 1&2)

Yuri is a badass demon slayer. His clothes are so cliche, but his apperence other than that is pretty original. Unlike most heros, he isn't made to be some super attractive looking dude, and his hair is pretty different. He uses fists rather than swords, and instead of magic, can morph into monsters that can use magic. He has that "silent hero" quality, and manages to combine it with that "immature teenager" speech quality, which leads to incredible character dev.

*Spoilers*

Also, midway through he dies, which shows that he isn't some uber god like everyone else in other games.

*End Spoilers*

So, tell me your favorites already!

[Osmose]

Orlandu managed to still be an amazing character even though he broke the game. He's like a mistake that you adore.

Delita's quite the anti-hero, especially since he shows what would happen if the main character had chosen to take the Dark Side Path instead of staying honest.

Jack grows crops. And raises cows. And basically runs a farm. He does all the boring, mundane tasks in running a farm, and he makes you enjoy it!

Mario... is overrated. He's just done too much to be a fan favorite at this point. Link's still got some credit to his name, but really, you can only do what amounts to the same quest so many times before you lose favoritism. This doesn't mean the games are bad - quite the opposite, Mario and Link run some REALLY good games. But as characters they just don't have the edge it takes to become a favorite outside of their respective games.

Nerevar and the Imperial Dragon Knight are pretty amazing, although really they don't exist as more than shadowy rumors to cover up a character creation system.

Master Chief wins every battle. Like, all the time. He NEVER loses. Well, okay, he does lose a few times, but every time he does it is either someone else's fault, or he's just waiting to come back and win even harder.

Alucard doesn't really have a lot of story or development behind him, but he does have the fact that he set a new standard in Castlevania games and is one of the most enjoyable characters to play as.

No, we're not counting the Prince of the Cosmos. Seriously, no.

Sonic is a little too hip these days, and should just stop trying to portray any personality at all.

Phoenix Wright strikes both a serious and humorous tone, and succeeds well at it.

Solid Snake is just too complex. He himself was great in MGS1 and most of MGS2, but it just kinda got absorbed by the overly complex storyline.

Samus retains awesomeness due to mysteriousness and the badassness of her game...ness.

Which one do I like the most? I honestly don't know. I like far too many to make a choice, although Orlandu is really close to taking it - of course, in reality I am in love with every Holy Knight, Shrine Knight, Lune Knight, whatever, excepting for Meliadoul - I just hate how she looks, her abilities, what she does, etc.

[Archem]

Link is the best video game hero ever. End of ****ing story.

[aboutasoandthis]

 Originally posted by Archem2
 

Link is the best video game hero ever. End of ******* story.

The Wanderer KICKS HIS ***.

Heros: Ashley Riot of Vagrant Story. He's a guy. Even though the dialogue in the game was written Shakespearean styled, him and almost every other character in the story had a DEEP personality. He reminds me of Auron, but with proper English. He also has a lot of things going on such as false memories and unkown workings of the church. I wuv this game. ^ ^

Villains: Sephiroth, Algus, and Romeo Guildenstern.
Sephiroth had a presance. My 11 year old self was scared of this guy. You were just progressing forward and he was off in the corner of the screen walking or watchin you, that is some scary stuff. If you grew up a good little Christian boy like I did, he also had a lot of satanic references. If the game wasn't three-discs long, I would've been on the edge of my seat expecting the final boss.

Algus: Great Gatsby styled elitism with KKK styled actions and thoughts. This is even when he doesn't have his noble name. This kid was just plain evil...Especially this line.
Miluda: Who do you think you are!? We're not animals! We're
human, just like you! There's no difference among us other
than our families! You ever been hungry? With only soup to eat
for months? Why do we have to suffer? Because you nobles
deprive us our right to live!
Algus: Human? Hmph, ridiculous! From the minute you were born
you had to obey us! From the second you were born you were our
animals!!
Miluda: Says who!? That's nonsense! Who decided all this?!
Algus: It's the Will of Heaven!
Miluda: Heaven? God would never say such things! In his eyes,
all are equal! He'd never let this happen! Never!
Algus: Animals have no God!!

Romeo Guildenstern: With the permission of the church he RIPS THE SKIN OFF OF SOMEONE AND PLACES IT ON HIS BACK SO HE CAN GROW DEMON WINGS.

I don't really have any hates, but I'm really getting tired of Link. Especially after Ico and The Wanderer, I can't see what's so special about his games.

[DragonBlaze]

Hmm, Zero from the megaman x and zero series is awesome. Don't know why  Ilike him so much, he's just awesome. Megaman is cool too, but not as cool as Zero.

Ashton and Abel from Star Ocean were cool.

Sepheroth was probably my favorite bad guy. I mean, he was a mad physcopath, a lot of other games have guys like this, but most of them turn out corny, lame, or pushovers.

Then theres conquer from conquers bad fur day (dont know if I spelt that right). What other hero gets piss drunk, bounces off a sun flowers breasts, pisses on rocks, and all this other stuff in a game?

[Blue_Strife]

Kirby.

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'nuff said.

[runeforger]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze
Hmm, Zero from the megaman x and zero series is awesome. Don't know why  Ilike him so much, he's just awesome. Megaman is cool too, but not as cool as Zero.

Ashton and Abel from Star Ocean were cool.

Sepheroth was probably my favorite bad guy. I mean, he was a mad physcopath, a lot of other games have guys like this, but most of them turn out corny, lame, or pushovers.

Then theres conquer from conquers bad fur day (dont know if I spelt that right). What other hero gets piss drunk, bounces off a sun flowers breasts, pisses on rocks, and all this other stuff in a game?

1. its conkers.
2. yeah, bad fur day on n64 rocks! they remade it as conker: live and reloaded for ps2, xbox and gamecube. (but its still the same game)

[Grandy]

I choose to bring the most awesome game hero ever:

[Almeidaboo]

Hmm...for the character development and deepness of his story and personality: Fei, Xenogears. He doens´t look cool at all, but he was really well planned, and has the deepes story I've ever seen. And he is powerful as hell. Not to mention that he get to drive those super cool robots!! :-)~~~~~~

EDIT: Actually, many of my "Bests" would go to Xenogears...maybe one of the best games ever. When it comes to storyline, only FFT compares to it...

[Osmose]

Too bad they waited until the second disk to start speeding up the LONGEST GAME EVER EXCEPT FOR 7TH SAGA.

[Almeidaboo]

It was long indeed, though they made the story flux perfecly, it almost reaches the perfectness!

[game_maniac]

 

Then theres conquer from conquers bad fur day (dont know if I spelt that right). What other hero gets **** drunk, bounces off a sun flowers breasts, pisses on rocks, and all this other stuff in a game?

Amen to that, there definetely aren't many heroes like Conker. The whole Great Mighty Poo scenes were hilarious as well.

[Dominicy]

Commercial game favorite hero by far : Ryudo from Grandia II.  He had a good personality that didn't change because the little singing priestess asked for help.  through the entire game that I've played (up to Valmar's claw) his personality didn't change, he just made friends.  He's, in my own opinion, the epitome of ruthless anti ~ hero heroes.

"Fan game" hero by far : Rhue from The Way.  Rhue was awesome.  end of story.  he was very similar to Ryudo from Grandia, however, he didn't change in the least, and he STAYED alot darker.  Sure, he made friends, but there was always that aching evil in the back of his mind, telling him to beat the crap out of the Aristotzi spy's son, or shove that guy off the waterfall (if you choose ofcourse :P).

Favorite villain overall : Sephiroth.  Sephiroth is indeed very evil and maniacal, and let's face it, eleven years old or not, scary.  I mean, in the Shinra building, you make it to the top and find a guy with a ten foot long sword shoved through his back.  you keep going, and you find a snake with it's head impaled upon a big stick.  A STICK.  Sephiroth was insane down to his hairstyle, and that's why he's my number one villain.

[Archem]

Conker is indeed a great character. Second best, for sure.
Kirby's a close third.

[Ace of Spades]

Pff, Sephiroth. Kefka is by far the most sinister villain of all time. I mean come on, he's like the only one who actually succeeds in reshaping the face of the world. He's a friggin clown. The satisfaction he gains through his acts of naughtiness is beyond recognition. I don't think I've ever played a game that made me want to hate, as well as fear somebody that much. And that laugh... ohh that laugh. Kefka > all