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- feshmania, on 07/03/2008, -1/+50so you basically want to kill off every character?
- irfanmp, on 07/03/2008, -3/+40The top 4 are Mario, Sonic, Link and Donkey Kong? This list is trying to kill my childhood.
- FUR10N, on 07/03/2008, -5/+35what a stupid list, maybe it would be better if it was called: Top 10 popular videogame characters
- Nobiting, on 07/03/2008, -5/+32Gordon Freeman > Master Chief
- Haoie, on 07/03/2008, -0/+20I don't necessary agree with the list, but I think we can all agree that gaming needs more fresh, innovative ideas.
- 3tcp, on 07/04/2008, -0/+18wtf, does this person just hate video games or something?
- ed54, on 07/04/2008, -2/+14***** no. Mario is the *****.
- U83RMENSCH, on 07/04/2008, -1/+10this guy sucks.
- inactive, on 07/04/2008, -0/+9mario, master chief, snake, and link? way to alienate the digg crowd.
- ConfusedCartman, on 07/04/2008, -0/+9***** A, man. The Half-Life series are my favorite games ever, and among the best games ever made(imo, it is the best series ever made).
- AttilaD, on 07/03/2008, -1/+8My floating bunny fairy just buried you.
- Th0rus, on 07/04/2008, -0/+7lame.
- MrDarkSim, on 07/04/2008, -0/+7Mega Man needs to get the 'Old Yeller' treatment.
From Wikipedia: Mega Man has appeared in over 100 games over the past two decades. That's about 90 too many. - greevar, on 07/04/2008, -0/+5What is needed is some new and unique hero characters to go crazy for. Conker the Squirrel was something different.
- caddyalan, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5Is it time to retire -- let's say -- space marines or vigilante heroes? Maybe. But perhaps the better method would be to rethink the *genre.* Create an independent game which shakes things up. Make an FPS with a very different main character. Try to imagine a sandbox game where the main character is distinct.
- RoflCoptah, on 07/04/2008, -0/+5the only one that matters:
Pac Man - djb28, on 07/03/2008, -2/+6I agree, mostly. I still kind of like the idea of a "faceless character" (Master Chief). Still, there are way too many soldier/ex-soldier characters, and the elves are rather overdone. The rest are goofy, but still ok in their own game "worlds." Maybe the real question should be: which of these series needs to die?
- chaosblade77, on 07/04/2008, -1/+51. DK is pretty much dead already. Has he appeared in any Wii titles aside from Brawl? Only had one GCN title I can think of, plus appeared in Melee. Compared to the days when Rare was working the series, DK is a dead character.
2. Sonic is pretty close to dead as well. Sonic Unleashed sounded to me like a last ditch effort to please the fans, and pretty much every 3D Sonic game since Sonic Adventure sucked (Sonic Adventure 2 was alright, but meh).
3. "Orcs/Elves/Dwarves" is pretty generic as he says, and they aren't THAT popular except in fantasy MMOs. Outside of that they are minor generic characters that don't matter much anyway.
4. Maybe I read that wrong... but does he want Samus to die off just because he doesn't like games with female protagonists? That's somewhere near the top of the list of stupidest reason you could not like a character/game.
And for the record, Knuckles is awesome. - inactive, on 07/04/2008, -1/+5the article writer needs to die off...
- trashhalo, on 07/04/2008, -1/+5We need MORE samus not less. Secondly, I think.... that part of me dyed when looking at that guy in the sonic costume. Thanks, now I am going to go gouge out my eyes.
http://top10kid.com/wp-content/uploads/sonic.jpg - drakenlot, on 07/04/2008, -0/+3You, my friend, are in a minority on this topic.
- ConfusedCartman, on 07/04/2008, -0/+3I think the Half-Life series did rethink the FPS genre(a storyline that is coherent AND enjoyable? Gasp!), and I wish there were more games that "hooked" me like Half-Life 2 did. I have high hopes for LittleBigPlanet and Fallout 3.
- xMaru, on 07/03/2008, -1/+4So what character does that leave us off with?
- RoflCoptah, on 07/04/2008, -0/+3!
- latova, on 07/03/2008, -2/+5I didn't know that snake was in the orange box.
- CurlyFoot, on 07/04/2008, -0/+3House = Gordon Freeman
- xchrisxsays, on 07/04/2008, -0/+3This is pure videogame blasphemy
- drakenlot, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2FTA:
I’ll be honest. I don’t play Tomb Raider because I’m a guy and I like to pretend to be a bad-ass and not some dual-wielding chick in hot pants and a tube top. Metroid fooled me the first time into playing by waiting until the end to reveal the character was a girl. I’ll admit I had fun at first but now I just feel dirty and not just because I play games without pants.
Sounds like someone has trouble with their masculinity.
Seriously, what the hell is the problem with guys playing a game with a leading female? - drakenlot, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2That little ***** the L block.
- xchrisxsays, on 07/04/2008, -1/+3Wait, which game has sold the most copies? Ohhhhh...
- bowserkid, on 07/04/2008, -3/+5OK that supposedly generic spikey-haired blonde guy is actually Vash from Trigun -- an anime not a video game. And while he may be a bit emo he DID destroy an entire city with his own arm by accident so I'm going to say he's a wee bit entitled and a wee bit bad-ass.
And what's the big deal with playing as Samus? Did this guy also freak out when he played Ms. Pac Man and discovered the bow on her head? - beware001, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2dug for 10, 9, 7, 5, buried for 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8
- NaziHatinChimp, on 07/04/2008, -1/+3Solid Snake? He has had one ***** game in the last 15 years. You don't play as him in MGS 2 or 3 or portable ops. So that leaves MGS1 and MGS4. What a bad article.
- drakenlot, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2Ok, I 'm burying you for bringing those up even if it seems to be true.
I like to pretend they don't exist, it's the only way I can continue to live. - asnider, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Terrible article. Between killing off the iconic characters and all the generic character types he mentioned, what do we have left? Pacman...and...Star Wars games?
- GodsDragon, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Since when is Vash a Pre-Teen ...
- carpespasm, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Don't forget Portal. An FPS with a female lead who weilds a gun that makes wormholes instead of slinging lead and a character roster of the female lead that you might never notice is a woman, the insane computer, some happy turrets, and someone you never see who lives in the air ducts. That's certainly something had hadn't been done before.
- inactive, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1it only works for very little speech, if he speaks more than one sentence it gets annoying VERY fast
- inactive, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1correction: italian-american
- vichussmith, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Isn't Halo basically done with? Ditto for Solid Snake.
When you get rid of these characters, what do you really have left? Overly buff Space Marines? I'm all for new franchises, but these are character types that are a mainstay. - Acglaphotis, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1I know : (
- drakenlot, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1No way man, Charles Martinet in Mario64 created the perfect voice for Mario. No other voice would fit.
Plus, since when is Brooklyn the place for an authentic Italian voice? I thought Italy would be better. - Cheesasaurus, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1I'm all for people coming out with new and original characters, but that doesn't mean good older ones need to be killed off. Although I do agree characters are starting to fall into the same basic formulas and some of them are annoying (I'm looking at you, space marine saving the world/universe).
- MattSFJ2, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Link does die...there are multiple Links...
- baron42, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1"One more WWII game and I’m buying a Volkswagon bus and hiding out in Canada." Im not sure what a Volkswagon is but, well hello there COD 5.
- drakenlot, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1The reason for killing off Samus makes it sound like the author is a pre-pubescent kid who hates girls cause they have cooties.
Or he's a closet-homosexual who can't stand women. - drakenlot, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Not just the digg community, gaming in general.
These characters are some of the biggest, and appear in some of the most innovative games ever. - drakenlot, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1He would never be allowed in Canada.
- boydrew, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Buried. Freakin gay list includes some of the greatest video game characters ever created. "i don't want to play as a girl". thats idiotic.
- ConfusedCartman, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Portal is a great game, but I want to see it integrated more deeply into the Half-Life universe(Episode 3 maybe?) and expanded upon(Portal 2?) before it will be a favorite of mine. It definitely is one of my most played games, but since the puzzles are just that, it gets a little repetitious.
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