The greatest characters of all time

>>714412419 (OP)
Replace Snake with Alucard

>>714412707
Bait

>>714412707
Replace Link with Mario and the literal who female with Donkey Kong

>>714412932
Mario isn't a character he's a generic mascot, Sonic has more personality
>Literal who female
Bait

>two non characters
Tendie cope is real.

>>714412419 (OP)
Is that Jill in the hat?

>>714412419 (OP)
Our HEROES
and Samus whose games sell like shit every time

>>714413053
Samus literally talks in every game and has two manga series's dedicated to her backstory how is she a non character?

>>714412419 (OP)
Link, Samus, Jill, Jay Dyer?

>>714412419 (OP)
>no Lara Croft

>>714412419 (OP)
where's master chief?

>>714412419 (OP)
This looks like shit.
AI?

I think if you want to pick the most likeable video game protagonists then Solid Snake and Leon S Kennedy need to be there. I'm not sure who else would be on there level.

>>714412419 (OP)
Mt. Rushmore of games with the most mid-dogshit gameplay known to man?

>>714413079
Yes

>>714413189
Leon isn't even the best character in his own games

>>714412990
>Literal who female
no one plays metroid

>>714412419 (OP)
>two blank slate protagonists that barely ever speak except for in their literal worst games why they become insufferable
>greatest characters of all time

>>714413118
In her mainline games she doesn't say a word and her games sell as bad as Armored Core.

>>714413295
>Sales faggotry
LOL

REAL LIST

Super Mario
Lara Croft
Sonic the Hedgehog
Pac-Man

>>714412419 (OP)
GOOD MORNING, SAAR!

>>714413234
Yes he is.

I used to be a grumpy curmudgeon about how Vania doesn't belong in metroidvania, it should just be considered metric like, but after playing all the Metroid and Castlevania games, castlevania at the very least feels better to play from the outside, Metroid is sluggish and shitty until you get the upgrades in most cases

>>714412419 (OP)
this ai garbage looks like shit
id rather have a bad photoshop job

>>714413234
He absolutely is the most likeable. I don't know about best but he is by far the most likeable in both RE2 and RE4.

>>714412419 (OP)
Lara Croft
G-Man
Leon Kennedy
Geralt of Rivia

>>714413385
>Super Mario
Bland non-character
>Lara Croft
Has never had a good game
>Pac-Man
Irrelevant
>Sonic
Has no critical acclaim

>>714412419 (OP)
Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem
and
Duke Nukem

>>714413339
No, she talks quite a bit in Other M but then again I wouldn’t use that game as a positive representation of story or characterization in a video game. That’s like CDi Link talks so that means Nintendo Link has a character and it’s a good character because I like the Nintendo games.

>>714412419 (OP)
>>714413385
REAL LIST

Dot
Line
Spaceship
Alien

>>714412419 (OP)
where is super mario?

here is the real list
MARIO
PACMAN
THE RED CAR FROM CRUSIN USA
SEPHIROTH

Mt Rushmore is a waste of resources and more Americans are less attached to the brainwashed history that they were sold.

>>714412419 (OP)
Samus and Link don't have any character, they're dull blank slates

Leonardo
Donatello
Raphael
Michaelangelo

>>714413653
ok now this is based

>>714413562
Only good post.

>>714413653
Blue car was better.

>>714412419 (OP)
The actual video game Mt Rushmore is:
Mario
Sonic
Doomguy
Pacman

Squall Leonhart
Rinoa Heartilly
Selphie Tilmitt
Zell Dincht

>>714412419 (OP)
should be Link Sonic Kratos and Master Chief

>>714412419 (OP)
Ashe’s butt
Penelo’s butt
Fran’s butt
uhhhhhh Yuffie’s butt

>>714413786
>Doomguy
Sweaty, xer name is Doom YASS QUEEN SLAYER. :3

>>714413538
I kinda agree but dude, mario and sonic are ancient yet still relevant.

>>714413295
If only we had some sort of archive to show people which characters were the most popular, oh wait we do.

2002
Samus Aran – 41,973 votes [50.02%]
Sonic the Hedgehog – 41,939 votes [49.98%]
2003
Link – 67,294 votes [62.06%]
Samus Aran – 41,139 votes [37.94%]
2004
Round 1
Samus Aran – 68,889 votes [82.39%]
Lara Croft – 14,721 votes [17.61%]
Chaos Semifinal
Samus Aran – 57,627 votes [65.85%]
Sora – 29,880 votes [34.15%]
Chaos Final
Samus Aran – 48,589 votes [57.51%]
Sonic the Hedgehog – 35,897 votes [42.49%]
Final Four
Samus Aran – 72,890 votes [55.27%]
Zelda – 58,985 votes [44.73%]
Finals
Samus Aran – 67,947 votes [53.11%]
>Solid Snake – 59,987 votes [46.89%]

>>714413956
Shut the fuck up tranny before I bash your fucking skull in with a hammer

>>714413947
Penelo is a literal child

>>714414017
Tendies stuff the ballot box.

>>714413994
Doesn't matter, they aren't good characters they are just recognizable. Nobody gives a shit about mainstream popularity, all of them are some varying degrees of popular.

Dig Dug
John Dark Souls
Doomguy
Noita wizard for the token girl

I genuinely have no idea who that person next to snake is.

princess peachs lips
midnas ass
tifas boobs
lara crofts tummy

>Jill
Should be Leon

>>714412419 (OP)
Replace Jill with Chris

>>714413947
THIS!!!

>>714414075
Cope

>>714412419 (OP)
where maelle?

>>714414163
Jill is a significantly more well written character than Leon and also starred in the two best games in the franchise (REmake and RE3)

>>714414194
>pretty goth girl vs plumber with a porn star mustache

>>714412419 (OP)
>Zelda
>Halo
>Two literals
Here's the real one.
>Pac Man
>Mario
>Sonic
>Cloud

>>714414194
Idk what site is this but I bet it's gayer than ResetEra.

>>714412419 (OP)
>Jill Valentine
A literal who character for the vast majority of the game playing audience. Everyone else at least would trigger a, "Oh, hey, I kind of recognize that character," but Jill is, "Wasn't she in Call of Duty or something?"

>>714414269
>REmake
>no master of unlocking line
Good bait.

>>714412419 (OP)
Mario
Sonic
Black Mage from FF
Lara Croft, the OG one, not the horsefucker.

>>714412419 (OP)
Omg is that zelda??? I love that character. Samus is a pretty cool dude too. Good choices. Op!

>>714412419 (OP)
>eastslop

>>714412419 (OP)
replace metroid with haloguy and zelda with ellie

>>714414301
Resetera wasn't around 20 years ago

If we're just going by popularity then it's
LoL character
CoD guy
Jonsey Fortnite
Apex Legends girl with the big ass
Bongo Cat for the Japs

>>714413538
>critical acclaim
>basing a Rushmoore on the opinions on fucking journos
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>714414269
RE2 is better than every single game in the franchise

>>714414297
None of those characters are good outside of Cloud who wouldn't even crack the top 5 FF characters if we include Tactics and other spin offs

Sorry boomers, but the new age of gacha made these literal whos irrelevant.

>>714414640
The average person just parrots what the media tells them is good, so effectively yes. You are coping

>>714413053
Well excuuuUUUuuse me, princess.

>>714412419 (OP)
Most influencial would be:
Link
Mario
Master Chief
Steve
Pikachu

ACTUAL LIST OF CHARACTERS THAT EVEN NORMALFAGS KNOW ABOUT EVEN IF THEY NEVER PLAYED VIDYA

Mario
Pikachu
Lara Croft
Pacman

>>714414981
Pretty sure the fact Samus is here proves that it's not about normalfag popularity at all but about the quality of the protagonists themselves

>metroid
>re
almost as hilarious as FGfags including terry

All of this has changed since the gamer focus switched to mobile and PC for the past decade and more younger people can't afford consoles. At least add a Valve character since Steam is carrying the recent generation on its back. It may not be the case some years down the line when competitors like Epic and Tencent rises and takes much control.

Tangential but do you think if smash gets a RE rep; would it be Jill, Nemesis, Leon or Chris?

>>714415083
samus has no quality other than being hot in the zero suit
same as lara croft, the actual popular version of herself has barebones backstory and no big dialogue, she's just sassy and hot
popular characters don't have to be high quality personalities

>>714412419 (OP)
Should be Queen Marika, Alcina Dimitrescu, Lara Croft, and Widowmaker
Mount Coommore

>>714414981
>Lara Croft
>Pac Man
I mean it's true for people above the age of 26 but not for most younger people.

>>714415083
>Most well written
>No fucking Legacy of Kain
Hell no

>>714415202
>Samus has no quality
Read the manga

>>714414981
My 14 year old doesn't know who any of these are but Mario only because of the backpacks and movie.

>>714415416
>read the fanfiction
No.

>>714412419 (OP)
Silent
Basically no characterization outside of the panned 'Other M'
Jill Valentine. Character. Heh heh. Ha ha! HHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Snake: I dunno, never played those games.

>>714414301
It's GameFAQs. Any stats from there are invalid, notoriously pro-Nintendo.

Gen Z/Early Alpha
Paimon
Roblox male skin
Steve
Tarnished
Fortnite guy

>>714415628
GameFaqs Top Rated Games of all time (250+ ratings)

1
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
9.15 (11372 ratings)
9.15
2
Chrono Trigger (DS)
9.12 (5832 ratings)
9.12
3
Resident Evil 4 (GC)
9.12 (3879 ratings)
9.12
4
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS)
9.11 (5273 ratings)
9.11
5
Persona 4 Golden (VITA)
9.11 (7165 ratings)
9.11
6
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
9.10 (7831 ratings)
9.10
7
Final Fantasy III (SNES)
9.10 (6505 ratings)
9.10
8
Chrono Trigger (SNES)
9.10 (7206 ratings)
9.10
9
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (3DS)
9.09 (7028 ratings)
9.09
10
Super Mario World (SNES)
9.08 (8200 ratings)
9.08

If this was about meme qualities like personality and depth then it would just be WRPG characters.

>>714415861
>feature that came out after the boards died that few people used

>>714412419 (OP)
>Link
Maybe
>Samus
No.
>Jill
No.
>Snake
No.
Honestly, the mascot characters is where it is. Mario, Sonic, Master Chief and maybe Ryu. I wanted to say Crash Bandicoot, but no sane person gives a shit about any crash games beyond the first 3 games.

Snake is the worst out the bunch. He repeats questions and has no thoughts of his own. He's only a mouth piece for Kojima to shit out his useless drivel onto the player. I'll take any silent protagonist over interrupted sequences of time wasting cringe.

>>714414981
Change out Lara for Sonic and I completely agree

>>714416185
How is Link a maybe when his games sell more than Sonic's and Ryu's and went on to influence other genres either good or bad like soulslikes?

>>714412419 (OP)
Jill hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years. Last time she appeared in a mainline they turned her into Nina Williams to try and make her relevant to the kids.

>>714412419 (OP)
>Master Chief
>Pikachu
>Minecraft Steve
>Commander Shepard (MALE)

Fixed

>>714412419 (OP)
search your heart, you know it to be true

>>714416185
Samus's games are more influential than Sonic's. Hell most characters you mentioned have done more than that astroturffed furry has in the past 30 years.

>>714416825
Shill me on them.

>>714412419 (OP)
millennial wet dream

>>714412419 (OP)
>ai generated
>console nigger taste
like clockwork

>all these dumb niggers saying pikachu
It literally had a single game and it was the middle child of the two most popular games on the series. Your love of this character comes from the anime, not any game.

>Link
OK. I'll give you this one.
>Samus
Too niche and her influence on Metroidvanias are less than Castlevania's. Replace with Alucard or Hollow Knight at this point.
>Jill
She hasn't been relevant in her franchise for over a decade and people still talk about Ashley more than her. I'll replace with Leon either way.
>Snake
Dead and a mediocre stealth franchise. It did revolutionize movie games but I rather have a better genre on there like a fighting or action game rep.
1/4

>>714416465
my parents don't know who sonic is but they heard of lara croft
most people are boomers

>>714416825
I recognise Raziel and the second might be TNO, but can't tell who the rest are.

>>714417523
>her influence on Metroidvanias are less than Castlevania's
Based on what? Most Metroidvanias are WAAAAY more like Super Metroid than Symphony. Especially indie mv's. Not even talking about taking place on some isolated planet, but they often do as well.

Look at what Symphony did:
>Magic powers with fighting game inputs
>massive inventories of weapons
>RPG numbers everywhere
>Leveling up

Most of these are usually absent in this genre. Metroid is imitated way more between the two.

>>714412419 (OP)
metroid has never sold a game over 3 million units
jill valentine is not an icon

Mario Link Pac Man Master Chief

Those are the 4 big icons.

>>714418446
>not Tetris Block over Master Chief

>>714418446
>Pac-Man
It's not 1980.
>Master Chief
You can do better than that.

Jill isn't even the best female protagonist in her own series

>>714418989
Yeah, that's Sherry.

>>714412419 (OP)
Who the fuck is that next to snake

>>714418446
>Master Chief
So irrelevant and only known to Zillennials because of some web animation long ago. Xbox is actively dying and the influence has rotted away after hero shooters raped it.

>>714412419 (OP)
Replace Link with Dante and it'll be good

Mt. Late 90's

>>714419214
The precision of the years means I don't have anything to argue with here.

>>714416825

>>714419214
JC Denton or Garrett should replace Snake.

>>714419214
This works for me.

here's my Rushmore

>>714416537
>>714416909
I'm thinking globally. If you go into the most third world countries, they'll still know who Sonic and Ryu are.

>>714419214
LOL nobody actually cares about Morgan. He's the emotionless MC for a tech demo series.

>>714418783
It took until Dungeon Fighter Online to surpass PacMan in terms of revenue.
It made roughly 13 billion pictures of George Washington.

>>714419678
Garett is a literal who.

>>714420054
I would never leave it up to "most money made" in order to choose the biggest icons.

>>714419214
>Laura croft
One game
>duke
Just lol, how embarrassing

>>714419813
Sonic is only known there for his toy line and kid's show and not the games themselves. Just like Hello Kitty Sonic isn't that revered for his games.

>>714416782
>>Commander Shepard (MALE)
Dangerously based

>>714420795
I literally met 2 sonic autists in west africa two winters ago.

>>714420493
Lara released 3 games year after year, and specific gripes aside, they were all received about the same.
Duke 3D is a phenomenal game and Duke starred in a handful of other winners he rarely gets credit for.

>>714420795
>Sonic is only known there for his toy line
Nah lol

>>714413947
one of the most overrated asses in gaming
surprisingly good
solidly good
what ass

>>714421031
>no sequels remasters or remakes
You only played it for the pyramid titties. Or are you going to sit here and explain to us what the plot actually was??

>>714421110
>no sequels remasters or remakes
Uhhhhhh

>>714421110
Zoomzoom spotted. Lara was the biggest video game icon in the 90s, outshining Mario and Sonic.

>>714420448
Then you will have people posting shit like>>714419809
where they have no mass appeal and obscure af.
the nine sol character the character from that judgement game kiryu from yakuzai and adol from fucking Yi's

Those are no name characters and outside of maybe south america no one knows who any of those characters are.

>>714421424
>the character from that judgement game
WEI SHEN MOTHERFUCKER WHO ARE YOU?

>>714412419 (OP)
CJ from Grove Street is beloved by more people than all of them combined (the entire populations of Indonesia, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Middle East combined)

>>714412419 (OP)
Mario sonic link and master chief

>>714421424
Why are you getting this mad at soulful picks? You should stick to mass appeal slop like the rest of the thread.

>>714421424
Pac-man is just a cabinet in the corner of some smokey bar, nobody cares about the character. Somebody choosing a bunch of literally who's (and Kiryu) for their own top 4 doesn't convince me otherwise.

>Jill instead of Lara

>>714421524
>Indonesia, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Middle East
>people

>>714412419 (OP)
replace samus with gordon freeman

>>714413219
Name 5 games with good gameplay right now, Ninja Gaiden and Monster Hunter don't count.

Actual real list:
Gordon Freeman
CJ
Solid Snake
Leon Kennedy

John Monster Hunter
John Terraria
John Dark Souls/Bloodborne
Johnny Cage
The 4 Johns of the apocalypse

>>714412419 (OP)
Where's Ricky Bobby?

>Samus and Link
porn is the only reason anyone cares about these two boring motherfuckers
I hope prime 4 is a giant flop so all the samusfags neck themselves and I never have to see their dogshit 'waifu' again

>>714413092
imagine your cope being that the games sell bad. You don't say that the games are bad, because you know they are amazing, just that they sell bad.

>>714414186
>POV: Some fat thief asks you to kill an octopus in a sewer

>>714422560
Big Smoke, generic white guy, Norman Reedus, Gordon Ramsey

>>714413165
2nd from left

People who respond Master Chief are just sad
Nowadays it would be worse tho like Genshi Impact and Undertale in that mountain

>>714424453
Paimon on a Mt. Rushmore is based, actually.

>>714414017
where was this poll conducted? on gamefaqs?

>>714412419 (OP)
/v/eebtendo's awful taste on full display

>>714421715
>Monster Hunter

>>714412419 (OP)
Replace Samus with Kiryu

>>714412419 (OP)
Link has no history/backstory (in most games), no dialog, no motivation, etc.
He's arguably one of the worst characters in all of videogames. The other 3 really aren't that amazing either. Snake and Samus kind of have interesting backstories, I guess. Jill barely has any.

>>714412419 (OP)
If they were so great they wouldn't have let the medusa turn them to stone.

>>714425234
>no history, no backstory, no dialog, no motivation,

>>714412419 (OP)
>2B
>Sora
>Ness
>Heavy tf2

>>714412419 (OP)
3 of those aren't characters at all. They are just empty shells that you control.

Snake at least has something that resembles a personality and actual character.

>>714413947
Replace Yuffie with Rikku and I completely agree

>>714429415
Except Snake's character is shit despite the surface level "badass" facade.

>>714414186
>Left: literally made for Larsa
>Middle: literally made for Vaan
>Right: literally made for Balthier

>>714412419 (OP)
Eric, king k rool, claire and revolver ocelot.

>>714430028
I unironically actually like Venom’s much more subtle characterization more. He came across as an extremely self-sacrificing individual that truly cared about his friends and allies despite never being vocal about it, had a love for animals and borderline obsession with dogs in particular, he was incapable of getting over the death of Paz, his growing affection foe Quiet, and he was deeply hurt by Huey’s betrayal, and this is mostly all told through the inside of the Pequod

>>714414292
what does Ron Jeremy have to do with this

Steve, Banjo, Piccolo, Bejita

>>714412419 (OP)
3 of these are barely even characters and all their faces look retarded

Jonesy, Steve, L block, and Rance.

>>714412419 (OP)
what a shit list