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[KàIRóS]

Instead of the usual characters everyone always mentions (Joel, Kratos, Geralt, Leon, Snake, Dante, etc) what character do you like but is never mentioned in these types of threads, maybe it's a sidecharacter, maybe it's the protagonist but the game is not well known, maybe it's a super obscure character that you really like, or maybe it's just downright and underrated character that you wish everyone noticed more.

Here's my 2 cents for now, maybe I'll post more later:

Jack Slate from Dead to Rights franchise, this guy was like the very first proper Anti-hero I ever saw in a videogame, a renegade cop on a revenge mission and he goes all in on it, he's not really that special when put against other videogame anti heroes so I might be a little biased, mind you this was 2002 so one liners were still cool af to stupid young me, nevertheless cool character and even cooler franchise IMO.

Lucca from Chrono Trigger, I've always felt this character is underrated AF, she esentially kickstarts the whole adventure, she's the very first party member and helps Crono almost throughout the whole journey, she's never useless in combat and then by the end you get her tear jerker character arc on why she became a scientist and invited her time traveling machine, making you rethink the whole story in the process, just a well written character in my opinion.

 

[F31 Leopard]

Ellen Reid (Folklore)

Kaname Date (A.I. The Somnium Files)

 

[VN1X]

Man, some of you will look back and cringe out of you seat at the threads you've created when you were younger lol.

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

Man, some of you will look back and cringe out of you seat at the threads you've created when you were younger lol.

 

[KàIRóS]

Man, some of you will look back and cringe out of you seat at the threads you've created when you were younger lol.

Nah man I'll probably look at your comment and say "Damn what a random comment out of nowhere, internet never changes huh"

 

[Little Chicken]

Raja from Phantasy Star IV.

 

[cireza]

Raja from Phantasy Star IV.

I really like Demi.

Gong from Shining Force :

(that's a picture from a romhack I created lol)

 

[crazyjah2003]

I like Trombone from Megaman Legends.... She was my avatar, but some Gaffer threw shade at me for that a long time ago. I got self conscious and took her down :'(

 

[GymWolf]

The skullmonkeys protagonist kills people with farts and likes beans.

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

Obscure? I'd nominate this chick from Spacelords.

She is just a story character and not actually playable, but I always thought she was pretty hot, even though she looks quite weird.

 

[Husky]

Tommy, aka Domasi Tawodi. The protagonist of Prey. I like him. I like his game.

 

[Danjin44]

Lady Two from Drakengard 3

Her backstory is absolulty tragic.

 

[Big Baller]

 

[T4keD0wN]

Polly the parrot from wasteland 3
I am a big fan of Cuno/Cunoesse (and many other characters) from Disco Elysium, but if we are talking about obscure ones its "Polly the parrot".
Games are full of bad-ass and cool characters, they stop standing out after a while and feel the same, but game charaters that make me laugh especially in otherwise serious games are special because it happens so rarely and no characters ever made laugh more than these 3.

Warning: bad language from the parrot

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

 

[Guilty_AI]

A whole bunch

Mystia:

Lea:

Also Emilie from the same game:

Jill Stingray:

This dude from Atelier Ayesha:

And so many more

Lady Two from Drakengard 3

Her backstory is absolulty tragic.

So you also like your women with brain damage huh?

 

[Fuz]

Does Cate Archer apply?

 

[theStartupSound]

This crazy guy from the GTA 3 mission Kingdom come

https://imgur.com/0RwzGg7.png

 

[balls of snow]

Kian Alvane from Dreamfall/Dreamfall Chapters. Started a religious zealot and slowly unravels once the xenophobia and ethnic clensing begins, it was interesting how he reconcile his religion and the people thats in power of said religion.

 

[SALMORE]

Definitely Maximo !!

 

[Shut0wen]

Bruce from GTA4, hate gta as a series but man bruce was one of the funniest characters out if all the games

 

[winjer]

 

[Ferdimage]

Didnt mind this guy in Radiant Historia

 

[Games of Today]

Monkey and Trip from Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.

 

[ZehDon]

"The ladies call me "Oh God!" but you can call me Fat Larry with an F-A-T, cuz I know I got a weight problem an' I just don't give a fuck!"

 

[Kdad]

 

[killatopak]

Felicia and Dimitri Maximoff got overshadowed by Morrigan.

 

[GrayFoxPL]

Instead of the usual characters everyone always mentions (Joel, Kratos, Geralt, Leon, Snake, Dante, etc) what character do you like but is never mentioned in these types of threads, maybe it's a sidecharacter, maybe it's the protagonist but the game is not well known, maybe it's a super obscure character that you really like, or maybe it's just downright and underrated character that you wish everyone noticed more.

Here's my 2 cents for now, maybe I'll post more later:

Jack Slate from Dead to Rights franchise, this guy was like the very first proper Anti-hero I ever saw in a videogame, a renegade cop on a revenge mission and he goes all in on it, he's not really that special when put against other videogame anti heroes so I might be a little biased, mind you this was 2002 so one liners were still cool af to stupid young me, nevertheless cool character and even cooler franchise IMO.

I'm all for Jack Slate, but anti-hero? Nah. ;] As much as anti-hero was Schwarzenegger in Commando or Bruce Willis was in Die Hard or The Last Boy Scout. Maybe I'm too old but good guy killing a bunch of bad guys was always a "hero". But maybe you're right, maybe he's anti-hero now.

Great topic btw.

Back on topic:

Jack Slate from Dead to Rights

Raven from Beat Down

Rikimaru from Tenchu

Gene God Hand from God Hand

Regina from Dino Crisis

Kyle Travers from Final Fight Streetwise

...and many more.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Francis York Morgan, underrated no matter how highly you rate him.

 

[shubik]

Plok. Such a weird game with fantastic music and brutal difficulty. But I always thought the design of the character was unique

 

[PaddyOCanager]

When I was younger, I would go around screaming "SNAKES DON'T BELONG IN ALASKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"

 

[GymWolf]

Umberto robina from gta vice city, the dude just has big cojones

 

[MasterDerico]

As the op said obscure (not a single one in this thread until now are really obscure), i'll go with;

Lau Wong (Bujingai - ps2)

 

[IAmRei]

As the op said obscure (not a single one in this thread until now are really obscure), i'll go with;

Lau Wong (Bujingai - ps2)

is this the game where gackt also used as model?

 

[MasterDerico]

is this the game where gackt also used as model?

Yes!

 

[TommyCronin6969]

Green Mage from Everhood. With how his face changes during a conversation you can almost hear him screaming through the text on screen.

 

[Danjin44]

So you also like your women with brain damage huh?

Do you know her reason why she has broken mind?

 

[Guilty_AI]

Do you know her reason why she has broken mind?

Something about killing zombified kids breaking her mind or something

 

[Danjin44]

Something about killing zombified kids breaking her mind or something

She and Cent was just trying use power of her song to help those orphan kids she was taking care of but what she didn’t know was her power comes from the Watchers which was never meant to help humanity.

 

[Guilty_AI]

She and Cent was just trying use power of her song to help those orphan kids she was taking care of but what she didn’t know was her power comes from the Watchers which was never meant to help humanity.

Man yoko taro really likes killing orphan kids doesn't he?

 

[Draugoth]

 

[Danjin44]

Man yoko taro really likes killing orphan kids doesn't he?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

 

[SeraphJan]

 

[F31 Leopard]

I forgot to put Kaede (Onimusha) in my initial post. I wish capcom utilized her more in the series. We only got a brief gameplay segment in Onimusha.

Momiji (Ninja Gaiden/DoA)
She really needs her own NG game.

Aya (Onechanbara)

 

[ReBurn]

I don't know how to tell if they're underrated or obscure. This sounds like a hipster thing.

 

[HazukiSensei]

Man, some of you will look back and cringe out of you seat at the threads you've created when you were younger lol.

Too cool for school guy on the...forum about video games lol that's what wont age well.

I like the thread idea OP and I clicked it because I wanted to hear what people said.

 

[Corndog]

Man, some of you will look back and cringe out of you seat at the threads you've created when you were younger lol.

People look at old posts?

 

[Trunx81]

 

[Hayabusa83]