Thread 724704089

In your opinion, who would be in the Mount Rushmore of gaming anon?

>>724704089 (OP)
>bettermen and their wife

mario, sonic, pikachu, master chief

>>724704089 (OP)
Etna would have to be there

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario
Pikachu
A gun
A car

>>724704251
This but a soccer player instead of a car

Mt. Rushmore requires the most normalfag of normalfag picks so

Lara, Mario, Sonic, Pikachu

>>724704089 (OP)
Marth, Roy, Ike, Robin

>>724704089 (OP)
Should be only mascots without repeating systems. Mario, Sonic, Crash and one more

>>724704089 (OP)
Tetris block, Mario, Pikachu, Todd

>>724704089 (OP)
mario>sonic>pikachu>master chief

It shouldn't have two Nintendo properties. Also, Pokemon is only half-videogames. So, instead of Pikachu, maybe Doomguy?

I never got why people considered Lara Croft one of the big video game icons.

>>724704304
What percentage of people have actually played a tomb raider game? I honestly think Gordon Freeman would be more normalfag.

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario, Sonic, Pikachu, and Link.
If someone gets their panties in a bunch over Nintendo being SUCH a massive influence on video games, replace Link with Cloud.

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario
John Fortnite
Astrobot
Debra Wilson

Mario is essential, he just is.
The other 3, I'd say Pacman, Doomguy, and maybe Gordon Freeman?

>>724704398
It's not about who's played it, it's about recognition. Lara was a big video game mascot in the 90's, even boomers know who she is.
I doubt modern Tomb Raider games can even compete with Uncharted saleswise but hardly anyone knows who Nathan Drake is.

>>724704089 (OP)
Replace Lara with link and master chief with the Fortnite banana.

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario, Doomguy, Link, Sonic

Mario
Link
Pikachu
The Halo guy

>>724704394
2 movies, faggotweeb.

>>724704089 (OP)
>Mt.Cuckmore.

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario, Cloud, Master Chief, Sonic

>>724704089 (OP)
Tali
Squall
Raziel
Titus

>>724704089 (OP)
Oh yeah, Lara Croft, the famous PC Representative...

>>724704089 (OP)
Mt Rushmore wasn't made to commemorate modern people, just old guys.
Anybody choosing a character from the post N64/PS1 gen is missing the point. Gotta pick the grand daddies

bald tan marine
afro haired black woman
mario
sonic

You retarded faggots didn't mention Final Fantasy, Cloud would be up there for sure

>>724704638
All the movies were dogshit though.

>>724704743
maybe 20 years ago

>>724704089 (OP)
Shouldn't the representation for Sony Interactive Entertainment be Sackboy? Even if they try to pretend he doesn't exist now. He was absolutely their mascot in the past. He was also decently recognizable and it wouldn't be that weird to see him as a keychain being carried around by a normalfag. For Microsoft you probably also should do Steve. A lot bigger and more recognizable. Also helps represent modern games somewhat.

>>724704638
3 movies, but only the third one is good.

Hmm.. Mario, Sonic, Cloud, Crash

>>724704394
She was really popular in the early 2000s.

>>724704731
Tennis-for-Two
Pong
Spacewar!
Galaxy Race

>>724704786
The only Sony characters that deserve to be considered are Lara Croft, Crash or maybe Cloud.

>>724704731
While you are correct, teddy Roosevelt does stand out as a comparatively modern representative. Thus, anyone saying "Pikachu" understands that he'd fit in there too. The other three should be PS1/N64-and-earlier.

>>724704089 (OP)
Master Chief
Gordon Freeman
Link
Cloud Strife

>>724704398
>Half life
>Normalfag
ngmi, you could've easily picked gaylo, Fortnite guy or just generic solider, that works for any war game

>>724704881
I don't think your average normalfag recognizes any of these. Maybe Crash has a chance.

>>724704903
Pikachu gets in riding on the gameboy games anyway

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario
Pac-Man
Doomguy
Minecraft Steve

>>724704870
TOO OLD!
A little far ahead.

>>724704881
>none of those are Sony characters
>Lara Croft was on a Sega console first

>>724704870
How are you going to put "Pong" there!?
Just a big ball?

>>724704974
I was stretching the definition to throw Sony a bone.

>>724704750
Irrelevant point for popularity.
>>724704798
True, I totally forgot about the new one which is even a bigger point for her longevity.

>>724704225
>Sonic
Lol...
Sonic is irrelevant

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario is a lock, definitely some Pokémon (likely charizard or Pikachu), past that it gets harder, I think master chief is a good pick and for the final entry maybe geralt

>Having movies now counts.
Mortal Kombat has 3 movies.
So we put Liu Kang there too?

>>724704089 (OP)
Master Chief
Solid Snake
Leet t skin
Vergil

>>724705078
>Sonic is irrelevant
So is Thomas Jefferson dummy, he didnt used to be though.

>>724704504
You think either doomguy or Gordon Freeman come close to master chief in recognisability?

>>724704946
Fair.
Goddamn, I forget how old Pokemon actually is.

>>724705094
Resident Evil has, what, 7 movies?
If we go by that logic, we need to put Alice there.

>>724705094
>dude that game is normalfag!
>what? movies are counting?!
Enough popularity justifying a feature film is the point, anon.

>>724704089 (OP)
It would soijaks.

>>724705131
>Thomas Jefferson
>Irrelevant
You can find more people that know Thomas Jefferson than sonic and he's been dead way longer

Mario
Pikachu
Sonic
Pacman

>Shigeru Miyamoto
>Junichi Masuda
>Hideo Kojima
>Gabe Newell

>>724705146
Duke Nukem

>>724704089 (OP)
>kucktos

>>724705008
Saddest/dumbest post I've read in a week.

>>724705094
Fuck mk but honestly ryu would very likely be a good fit

>>724705254
If videogames and the founding of America were on the same level of important there would be a video game mt rushmore by now anyway.
The point of Mt Rushmore was not to memorialize modern politicians.
Sonic deserves consideration for how influential he was in the foundation periods of videogames

Ava
Abby
Taash
Female Mr.Freeze

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario, Pikachu, Minecraft Steve, FPS perspective holding a gun.

Modern day? I don't think any PS/Xbox IPs qualifies anymore.
Pikachu
Mario
Link
Kirby

>>724705374
>Sonic
>Founding something
KEKW

>>724704089 (OP)
First of all I think they'd all be from one console, different generations.
Secondly, they have a recognizable impact on the gaming industry
Last, no women.
Probably
>Solid Snake
>Kratos
>Nathan Drake
>Spider-man
Or possibly
>Mario
>Red
>OoT Link
>Byleth(Male)?

>>724704391
With his armor on he looks too much like Master Chief.

>>724704351
>Sonic, Crash
This guy thinks its 1999 XD

>>724705390
Forspoken girl
Hinako
Ghosts of Yotei girl
Bloodlines 2 MC

Rushmore is specifically meant to represent multiple stages of early America, so you would assume that it would include multiple stages of early video games. Considering that I would say that you would need to represent

>1st and 2nd generation hardware, and the games associated with them before Nintendo centralized the concept
>NES/SNES/Master System/Genesis era
>the introduction of 3D visuals as a standard (N64/Playstation era)
>the standardisation of online play

Considering this I would personally go with recognisable representatives of these eras as

Space Invaders
Mario
Crash Bandicoot
Master Chief

These picks also represent the three major platform runners for the past two decades.

>>724704394
Alert!
Zoomer detected!

>>724704089 (OP)
>Nu-Kratos
>not bad ass greek Kratos

>>724705447
Sonic was one of the army Generals that started the console wars. Thats history
And while his games certainly got worse on average over time or more niche, at least they still get made unlike the vast majority of 16bit era videogame mascots (that aren't Nintnedo)

>>724705506
Master Chief is the mascot of a shooter game on console. That is like making the symbol of cars be an amphibious vehicle. It's not the prime representative.

>>724705447
First video game float at the Macy's Day parade, cope tendie.

>>724704394
She's still the most iconic and recognizable female video game character ever. Like if you were to ask someone who doesn't play games to name one they know who else would they possibly pick? Tifa or Aerith maybe Peoncess Peach that's about it

>>724704089 (OP)
So we need three that are actually notable and one just doing it out of ego? Mario, Sonic, Master Chief, and the Dragonborn.

>>724705487
>>Kratos
>>Nathan Drake
>>Spider-man
I say this with complete sincerity, commit suicide ASAP.

>>724705616
>Sonic was one of the army Generals that started the console wars
Sonic games were never good. He was just used as a marketing tool to fool children into wanting the system. "Gotta go fast". More than half the game is slow AF tedium.

>>724705559
>Space Invaders
More reconizable than Pac-Man?
Nah.
Pac-Man even got a song during that era.

>>724705559
Swap in Pacman for space invaders. Pacman would just look better on a monument and represents about as well.
I don't think Crash should represent the 3d era when his games are not even really 3d. MArio 64 and OoT are the games that mattered most to that period so either shuffle Mario here and slap somebody else for 16bit or put in Link

Solid Snake
Big Boss
Solidus
Liquid

>>724705609
>She had only three good games!
>So she is as big as MARIO!
Seriously?!?

>>724705708
The 90s disagrees.

>>724704692
>Cloud
He's only been in one game. Why would he be up there?

>>724705708
>More than half the game is slow AF tedium
>slow AF
>AF
Zoomie spotted, opinion disregarded. Gain taste and gain skill.

>>724704089 (OP)
The Shrine of Democracy of games?
I honestly can't think of any fitting faces to put up there. And why even would you?

>>724705827
>The 90s disagrees
First of all the 90s isn't an conscious entity. Plus I was actually there unlike you. You were probably too young to be able to discern quality.

>>724705447
You have NO idea how many developers were trying to copy Sonic or how big the Sonic Adventure announcement was, zoomzoom. Sonic being influential is an objective fact and not an opinion.

Larry Laffer
Guybrush Threepwood
Gabriel Knight
Laura Bow

>>724705886
You seem like a huge faggot. Nobody cares that you hate Sonic. Sonics long term influence is undeniable to an extent

>>724704089 (OP)
what are better man gaylo and horsed bitch doing there?
I'ts should be easy, Link(zelda) mario pikachu and generic thug that represents gta/cod/cs

>>724704089 (OP)
Mount Rushmore is ultra-tacky

>>724705931
I'm pretty sure they were emulating the highly regarded Bubsy franchise.

>>724706002
>highly regarded Bubsy franchise.
Alright guys what do we think? Bubsy on Mt vidya Rushmore? Need it or keep it

>>724705708
Your opinion means jackshit to the 90s, zoomie.

>>724705945
Heard someone talking about the LSL games on a podcast recently and it's crazy to me that some people genuinely still think those are actual unironic jerk off games and not comedy games about sex.

I mean obviously someone will have jerked off to aspects of it, but that's true of anything remotely sexual, you know what I mean

>>724705970
>Sonics long term influence is undeniable to an extent
I knew you weren't there!! You claim to speak on behalf of the 90s. You probably aren't even a 90's kid. Maybe one of those 97 babies that just gaslights themselves into saying "yes i was there too" even though by the time you could form memories it was already over.

Toejam
Earl
Sonic
Sparkster

>>724705390
>>724705557
How could you leave out Bazz?

>>724706086
Born 89. No more yous from me

>>724705559
>Space Invaders
I'm surprised this didn't pop up sooner. It's the de-facto blueprint for an entire genre and was massively influential on the medium.

>>724705625
And DooM isn't a shooter game? FPSes are one of the most popular and well known genres, of course a representative belongs.

>>724705708
This is the PTSD damage the blast processing marketing caused in effect.

>>724706086
You can't even counterpoint that anon outside of "NUH-UH." Stop posting lol.

>Pacman
Represents an early point in history where gaming was becoming mainstream as kids dumped their allowances in arcades.
>Mario
Represents gaming being brought into the home.
>Master Chief
Represents the casualization of games and beginnings of mulitplayer social experiences on console.
>Counter Strike 2 Knife Skin or Dragonborn or Vault Boy
Represents games becoming a service, a delivery system for gambling and microtransactions.

>>724706082
I might be completely wrong, but wasn't material of that kind extremely hard to get, so it very well could have been jerk material for those old boomers

>>724706116
Nice try bro. Keep up that self gaslighting. You will never be a 90s kid.

My opinion:
Abe from Oddworld
Rayquaza
Trusty Patches
Clone Trooper

>>724704743
cloud's continued popularity is more a damning of sucessive protags than a result of cloud being a good character

Mario, sonic, pikachu and hideo kojima

this is the right answer.

>>724704786
i've had my LBP2 collectors edition stuff on display since getting it

>>724706162
I judge games by the games. Mario was always better. Crash 1 and 2 were great games too, but the third one hardly had any platforming in it. Still better than most Sonic games though.

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario
Link
Kirby
Samus

>>724704089 (OP)
At least change the onions-Kratos to a regular one.

>>724705287
Hail to the king, baby.

Sonic
Croc
Spyro The Dragon
Rayman

All timeless classics that history will never forget.

>ctrl+f "ricky"
i better have missed the image while scrolling or i'll be disappointed

>>724706224
>No true 90s kid would like Sonic
/v/ is so retarded now

The real goat

>>724706402
yeah, Sonic wouldn't even be around anymore if 90s kids didn't like him. Hell, the biggest pop star in America even made music for him.

>>724706372
Why the fuck would I care about some Vivian James chick when Lucy has my comings and goings at the park?

>>724706317
Your opinions are irrelavant when you are trying to convince people that a series with multiple cartoons, comics, merch out the fucking wazoo, theme park presence, an OVA, MICHAEL FUCKING JACKSON contributing to soundtracks, parade floats and at least a dozen copycats was anything less than influential. You're opinions are not important enough to dispute facts.

>>724706546
I was talking about the games. Not the "Sonic expanded universe and trivial lore". At some point you have to wake up and realise that you only liked those games because you were a child. They don't hold up and Sega/Team Sonic seem to make blunder after blunder.
That said, I totally understand if its an autism special interest thing.

>>724706317
>I judge ga-

>>724704394
She was practically the face of gaming in the mid 90s

You guys are thinking about it all wrong.
The sculptor of Mount Rushmore was Gutzon Borglum, and he chose the two most famous presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and chose Thomas Jefferson because of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase (which included the land that became South Dakota). Theodore Roosevelt was suggested by United States president Calvin Coolidge.
So let's look for parallels
Two most famous Video Game characters, I'd argue Mario and Pikachu, but let's hold on to that thought.
Thomas Jefferson was chosen because he's reason they even have the land they're building on.
So, I'd argue Mario is better as a Thomas Jefferson parallel, since he's often credited with reviving the home console market, the base for which this list is built(Alternatively you could totally do R.O.B.)
Now I will replace Mario with Pac-Man as our George Washington parallel.
And finally Theodore Roosevelt was most definitely chosen because he had that cool edge to him, so will make Sonic the parallel, ironic I know.
So there's my thought out list:
Pac-Man
Mario
Sonic
Pikachu

>>724704089 (OP)
Better Man completely replaced Kratos lol

>>724706530
jej

>>724706152
You misunderstood. Halo is a console shooter. So, having that as the representative of shooters is like having a boat as a representative of sea planes.

>>724706678
Your opinions on the games literally don't matter. You jerk off to anime--you literally have no authority to speak on what was or wasn't influential 30 years ago. No one cares if you think the games are bad. You're not important.

>>724706715
I gotta agree, though I still feel Doomguy deserves a mention for the pc market
But you could just say this would be the console vidya mt rushmore and it works

>>724706773
>You jerk off to anime
Projection

>>724706746
Console shooters killed PC shooters, get over it.

Kratos is a meme

Mario, Cloud, Ryu (Street Fighter), Dante

>>724705776
She has more movies than Mario

>>724705945
3/4th Sierra games
not that that's a bad thing

>>724706715
hard to disagree withdrxpmy

>>724706678
>I was talking about the games. Not the "Sonic expanded universe and trivial lore".

I dunno man--I can walk up to a 70 year old lady or a random crowd of people, slap a picture of sonic up and literally everyone will know what Sonic is. You don't know what "influential" means. You live in a bubble and it's ironic that you would call someone else an autist

>>724706746
I don't understand, why do you hate consoles?

>>724704089 (OP)
It should be Palom and Porom in the middle, bracing themselves against Tifas tits, one on either side.

>>724707245
Heh heh...Supersoft...

gordon freeman should 100% be on there
halflife made valve a big deal which resulted in steam which eventually redefined pc gaming as we know it

>>724704089 (OP)
>Mario
>Doomguy
>Ryu (Street Fighter)
>Claude (GTA 3)

>>724707073
>I can walk up to a 70 year old lady or a random crowd of people, slap a picture of sonic up and literally everyone will know what Sonic is.
You are literally delusional. Your average boomer doesn't know anything about video games.
I don't understand why Sonic fans get so upset when they encounter people that dare to state they do not find Sonic games fun. It's always the same with you lot. You act like he is the video game equivalent of Jesus. When that is clearly Mario. Outside of Super Mario, Pikachu maybe PacMan I doubt 9/10 boomers would know any video game characters. Just because Sonic is your special interest doesn't mean his games are universally beloved.

>>724707735
Didn't read the rest of the retarded shit you posted, but stopped at

>You are literally delusional. Your average boomer doesn't know anything about video games.

The people that were playing Duke 3d, Quake, Sonic with their kids or even themselves, tetris, and most other stuff from that era are pushing 60/70 now. You live in a bubble.

Mario, Link, PacMan and Sonic

any other answer is insane. no one is thinking about Lara Croft anymore.

>>724704089 (OP)
The 8 original Smash Bros characters.

>>724707735
I don't think Super Mario World is fun--does that mean it wasn't influential? You sound extremely dense and retarded.

>>724704089 (OP)
>Mario (Thomas Jefferson)
>Link (Abraham Lincoln)
>Master Chief (Teddy Roosevelt)
>Pac-Man (George Washington)

>>724704089 (OP)
The only true answer

four tf2 characters
all of them making retarded expressions

>>724708368
who between Mario and Halo?

>>724708440
Cloud Strife

>>724705203
There's like 20 if you count the animated ones too

>>724704089 (OP)
>Mario
>Ryu
>Doomguy
>Dragon Quest Hero

>>724705203
Resident Evil and MK had movies because they're both familiar and influential, therefor, marketable to non-gamers. What point were you 2 trying to make?

>>724708440
Lara Croft

>>724708368

Mario
Link
Master Chief
Lara Croft

Honorable Mentions:

Sonic the Hedgehog
Pikachu
Solid Snake
Kratos
Pac-Man

>>724704089 (OP)
Krystal, Carmalita Fox, Renamon, Alolan Ninetales

>>724704089 (OP)
Skyrim
Dark Souls
GTA V
The Witcher 3

my mount rushmore is for games that ruined the industry

>>724704304
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nplefywEFI

>>724704394
Even in the 90s I didn't get it either. Tifa was way hotter and samus is way cooler. I just knew lara as the girl who dies to dinosaurs from that one demo disk

>>724704089 (OP)
>Doomguy
>Claude Speed or CJ
>Crash Bandicoot
>Mario i guess i never liked nintendogshit games

>>724704089 (OP)
Pac-Man, Mario, Doomguy, Dragonborn
You can swap the former with Tetris for cultural relevance or an early RPG character that revolutionized the rest of that genre. Pokémon is too unique and most RPGs don't copy it.

Mario
Halo
Ricky Bobby

Each president represents a great shift/transformation/evolution of the USA.

The same should apply to the video-game one
>Mario, but it's Super Mario 64 representing the great 3D shift
>Gordon Freeman, representing the great shift to narrative focus in gaming
>Steve Minecraft, Biggest game of all time, the ultimate sandbox
>Quote from Cave Story, bringing game development to the masses and surging the great indie revolution

Master Chief might deserve a place since it is the great shift to focus on online multiplayer

>>724704089 (OP)
>serious Sam
>Sam Fischer
>Samuel Rodriguez
>samus

>>724709875
kek

>>724704089 (OP)
Nintendo: Mario
Xbox: Master Chief
Sony: since no real exclusives, i'd say Tifa
PC: Gordon Freeman

>>724704089 (OP)
Pong racket should be there it wa the first video game. Then the pinball arm which can be considered to be one of the first video game arcade.

>>724704089 (OP)
Pacman, Mario, Sonic and Doomguy

>>724704089 (OP)
Nu Kratos will only be remembered only as a cuck joke 10 years from now.

Normalfags don't remember anything, we do

>>724704089 (OP)
| (Pong), Pacman, T (Tetris block) and a sportscar

>sony nintendo woman microsoft
Was that the criteria?

>>724709903
Pong
Pac-Man
Mario
4th one doesn't exist

>>724704089 (OP)
ET, Custer, Hideo Kojima, Keanu Reeves, Terry Crews

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario Sonic Pikachu Pacman

>>724710380
>Pong
>Pac-Man
redundant, unless you are mentioning Pac-Man to refer to Arcades, but that is dead.

>4th one doesn't exist
Jackie Chan

>>724709950
Swap gordon with the king from aoe2 and Xbox with sega

>>724704089 (OP)
I'm going to be autistic about it and say Pac-Man, Mario, Simon Belmont, and Sonic. This is to reflect the actual Mount Rushmore's near complete lack of modern presidents. For it to be an accurate vidya Rushmore, you can't have all these modern icons; it'd have to be old characters and one slightly less old character.

>>724704089 (OP)
Carol
Beebz
Hat Kid
Renata

>>724704391
I hate Nintendo but they absolutely should. Mario and pikachu are two of the most iconic videogame characters and it’s not even close. To even think about putting master chief beside those two is insane.

Also people are shitting on sonic but he’s also the most normalfag character ever. The movies do well and sonic games are still being churned out even if they’re shit. There’s not a single person who has played a videogame that doesn’t know of sonic. You could put a Tetris block there but that’s just gay.

consolefags are so rearded

>>724706836
LOL

Mario
Sonic
Link (the ocarina of time version)
Solid Snake
Lara Croft
Leon S Kennedy
Dante from Devil Mary Cry
Pikachu
Cloud from Final Fantasy
Ezio from Assassins Creed
Scorpion or Sub Zero from Mortal Kombat
Ryu from Street Fighter
King from Tekken (yes king. any normie I have ever spoken to about tekken always talks about "the guy with the tiger mask" not Jin or Kaz or whoever else. Its always "the guy with the tiger mask" they mention. Yes I know its a Jaguar mask.)

>>724704394
Are you a zoomer? She was insanely huge in the 90s and early 00s. My dad in his late 60s knows who Lara Croft is and the only time he ever played a video game was wii sports.

>>724705308
What was the previous saddest/dumbest one

>>724710576
Master Chief is from 24 years ago. He's a good leap from the classic icons to the 2nd or 3rd generation of icons. And, despite the last 3 games and tv show not being received well, people still like the character as depicted in 1-3 and early books a lot.

>>724704394
https://youtu.be/Ryzg79fn4hQ

>>724710576
>For it to be an accurate vidya Rushmore, you can't have all these modern icons; it'd have to be old characters and one slightly less old character.
Not quite. Mt. Rushmore was being built from the mid 1920s-early 1940s. When it began construction, Teddy was absolutely one of the modern presidents; albeit one of the earlier ones. So you could have a character created in the late '90s-early '00s (like Master Chief or Pikachu) and it wouldn't really be out of the ordinary.

Maybe its just Americans who dont know Lara because if you ask any random pleb here in Europe on the street to name a female game character they will literally all say Lara Croft.

How come Mario and Sonic maintained their relevance in society in current year but Pac-Man didnt?

>>724704089 (OP)
You couldn't have any mount Rushmore of gaming. The community would cry about it being built on native land or whatever and get the project stopped.
And before that, they would vote for the 4 gayest, blackest, femalest characters they could google

>>724704947
Finally Pac-Man.

People saying random shit like the half life guy are insane. Normies do not know him. Only characters like Mario and Pikachu and Lara Croft and Solid Snake are well known by everyone.

>>724711112
The only reason I'd consider putting master chief up there was for popularizing console online mp.
Most of the console shooter cred belongs to Goldeneye and Perfect Dark

>>724704385
>WITNESS MAMA-MIA!

>>724704089 (OP)
mario,doomguy,lara croft,pikachu

>>724711452
>The only reason I'd consider putting master chief up there was for popularizing console online mp.
Fair, but when doing something like this I think you should factor in overall popularity, too. Obviously Master Chief isn't as well known to the average person now as Teddy was to someone in the 1920s, but he's still an iconic character that a lot of people know.

>>724704089 (OP)
Are people really delusional by thinking Master chief is as relevant as Pikachu or Mario? or is this just to represent Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Steam? because outside America, Xbox and Halo are nothing...

>>724711780
Spreading console online multiplayer as much as it did was very influential, but it also set the standard for PAID online console multiplayer. So fuck Master Chief

>>724705649
princess peach is more well-known than any of the other ones

Todd is built for it

>Tendies putting Mario
Kek

Mario, Pikachu. MINECRAFT steve and maybe Pac man

>>724704089 (OP)
damn I can already tell someone from south america made this

>>724704225
Yep.
Sonic was iconic in the day and moved SEGA systems. Master Chief was the first console FPS that was great and Halo 2 brought the first online FPS, and is iconic with XBox.

PlayStation has no universally iconic mascots.

>>724712209
You are the first guy in 200 posts to even deny Mario should be up there. Even this guy here who hates Nintendo thinks Mario should be on it
>>724709840

He's the most undeniable pick available. So you are either retarded or baiting.

>>724704903
Master Chief corresponds to TR.

>Sonic
>Iconic
Old farts...

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario
Doom guy
Kratos
Pikachu

>b-b-but sonic
Blow it out your ass

>>724712413
>Master Chief was the first console FPS that was great
Built on the back of Goldeneye, and Doom deserves more credit for fps in general

>>724712423
neither, i actually dont vibe with nintendo stuff, but even I can't deny that Mario is the most recognizable and loved vidya character ever created that's not Pac-man or idk Sonic

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario, Link, Steve, default Forkknife guy. Well do they all have to be old? If so how old?

>>724712475
>>724712508
Only Millennials put Sonic there. They're the only demographic that cares about him.

>>724704394
Because she was a main character rather than a supporting one like Peach, Zelda, Tifa, Ms Pacman etc

>>724712556
Well if you want to theorycraft your own personal vidya mt rushmore with no Mario thats perfectly fine, but this thread is a serious debate about a vidya mt rushmore that represents history most accurately.

Who deserves a spot more Doom guy or gordan freeman? Basically what was the more important game to gaming doom or half life

>>724712602
Only the gen X and millennial gaming periods are relevant to who youd put on mount rushmore

One for platformers, one for shooters, one for rpgs and one for action adventures

>>724705649
Chun li

>>724713106
You're kidding, right? Lara Croft is far more likely to be recognized by any random shmuck off the street than Chun-Li.

>>724712513
Halo was not in any way built on the back of Goldeneye. Fuck off autist zoomer retard

>>724713236
I agree, but Chun-Li is no slouch tbf.

>>724713336
>Master Chief was the first console FPS that was great
Goldeneye did it first. Did you really think I meant that Bungie built Halo using goldeneyes code or something?

>>724704089 (OP)
Pac-Man to represent the arcade era (I could also choose Pong, but Pac is more identifiable), Mario for revolutionizing and saving the medium after the crash of 83, Sonic for starting the Console Wars, and Quote from Cave Story for being the first notable indie game.

>>724713360
True, she is popular but not to the same extent Lara is. If I walked up to a random guy on the street and asked him if he recognized any character from Street Fighter, it'd probably be Ryu or maybe Ken.

>>724713809
Chuck on Doomguy to be the pc/dos and fps gaming side and I'm happy with it

theyd put fucking sans on there if this really happened

Astro, Lara, Pikachu and Kratos

>>724712413
>PlayStation has no universally iconic mascots.
Who is Cloud Strife?

>>724710936
>its a Jaguar mask
wtf

>>724712602
You mean people in their late 30s and 40s? The era that made video games transition into the mainstream? That checks out. You can be a hardcore hater of most stuff itt, but we're not playing a game of opinions or even quality. There are games that came out in 2024 that shit on most games from 30 years ago. You're missing the point.

>>724705649
no "non-gamer" has a clue who tifa or aerith is, you're delusional

>>724713419
You’re just so fucking midwitted I can’t even stand talking with you

>>724704304
How is Lara Croft above fucking Link

>>724705548
Both are still actively getting new content. Crash has a Netflix animated series

>>724704881
Snake

>>724714726
You're retarded if you don't think FF7 wasn't normie-core in the 00s, and Tifa wasn't one of the main gamer girls with huge tits mascots of the era. Where do you think "Final Fantasy started at 7 came from" you have no idea how hard the graphics off FF7 and FF8 mindfucked teens and boomers at the time. It got like 5 games before expanded universes were truly mainstream. You are deluded.

>>724714726
What about that chart with Tifa as the second most searched vidya girl after Chun-Li Fortnite

>>724704391
>It shouldn't have two Nintendo properties.
You're right it should have 3

>>724704225
I can't see master chief make the cut. Doom Guy maybe as his game spring boarded the popularity of FPS.

>>724712697
What about 2B? Is she considered iconic enough to deserve consideration or is Nier still too obscure of a series?

>>724714748
Nice argument.
The only qualifiers needed to make my statement true is that Goldeneye is great and a console fps game.

>>724704514
>even boomers know who she is
only boomers know who she is*

>>724714261
what?

>>724704394
she used to be THE icon but got cancelled somewhere in the 2010’s

>>724712602
Fags like you would add Steve or Freddy fazbear

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario, Link, Pac-man, and Asteroids space ship.

>>724714252
really don't think he fits, personally.

Mario, doom, dq1 and minecraft

>>724717771
>minecraft

I'm too old too have even considered that one but yeah I suppose it absolutely belongs. I've never played that game for even 5 min but I instantly recognize that character

Mario,Pac-Man,Sonic,Minecraft

That surely is the definitive lineup

>>724704089 (OP)
need to remove kratos and replace him with someone from final fantasy.

>>724718487
I can't even understand why Kratos would be considered for this to begin with. It's ridiculous to put him next to Mario in terms of influence. And the series isn't old enough either, its modern shit

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario
Steve
Master Chief
Astro Bot

>>724704226
Came here to post this

>>724704089 (OP)
Objectively without being fair and including something from each company, it would be Mario, Luigi, Pikachu, and some other Nintendo character.

>>724704089 (OP)
tf is Kratos doing there?

>>724704394
Found the underage.

She was a major icon of gaming that broke out into films and a long running comic book.

The franchise only fizzled out because of brand fatigue because Eidos was fucking retarded. Now modern TR is all woke shit thanks to Crystal Dynamics.

>>724719290
Donkey Kong if you were only going with Nintendo. DK was Nintendo's most successful arcade game,introduced Mario and was the companies most well known game prior to them entering the console market

>>724704089 (OP)
>Mario
>nondescript assassin man so that you can project whichever AC protagonist you wish
>pikachu
>minecraft guy

>>724704251
but...which gun and which car

>>724704089 (OP)
My 2 guidelines
>long-term recognition
>no two faces from the same publisher (based on time of release)

MY PROPOSAL
>Link (LoZ, Nintendo)
>Steve (Minecraft, Independent)
>The Lich King (Warcraft, Blizzard/Vivendi)
>Master Chief (Halo, Microsoft)

>>724704304
Halo 3 probably has more players than all of the tomb raider games combined.

>>724704351
But they don't count if nobody cares a new game:
>Halo
>Tomb Raider
>Crash
>Sonic
>Pikachu
All Disqualified.

>>724721375
They have to have more than one game. And Mario is over Link, I don't even play Mario games

>>724721748
Okay, Mario then. Nintendo has a few options.
>they have to have more than one game
…why?

Snake, Master Chief, Mario, Sonic

Pretty much the iconic faces of each console brand. I don't agree with it, but it's what they'd go for.

It should just be the Playstation 2 controller and the Wiimote. Best consoles of our lifetime.

>>724720406
>Gun
BFG-9000 or the Gravity Gun

>Car
Warthog from Halo

>>724704089 (OP)
If Sony were required to have a rep, you'd unironically have to put a bunch of shapes on its spot because that's the most recognizable thing about the Playstation brand.

>>724722021
Because a single point of reference is not enough to shape the entire industry. There's a difference between making a FOTM game that's long-lasting and a franchise that's still innovating. A difference between Fortnite and CoD, even though Fortnite is obviously more popular.

Additional Rules that make sense to me:
>Has to have a clear protagonist.
>Protagonist needs to be the same character for multiple games in the franchise.
So GTA couldn't put in CJ from a decade old game, but Rockstar could have John Marston since he's playable in both RDR1 & 2.

>>724705649
>She's still the most iconic and recognizable female video game character ever
This is not the 90's anymore anon, she fell from the face of the planet after the PS1 and since then she has been outshone and outsexualized by so many other more popular female characters such as Chun Li, Samus and 2B, to mention some.

>>724705649
Samus? Easily more popular and relevant than Lara Croft. Hell, Ellie from TLOU is more popular than Lara Croft currently.

Mount Rushmores don't matter because America had only 4 presidents out of hundreds that weren't too controversial to be put on a mountain.

TV Shows, Movies, Games, etc. All of these mediums have thousands, hundreds of thousands of iconic characters. Even shrinking a franchise down to one character is difficult, choosing 4 franchises to embody the entire videogame history is pointless. Nobody would agree. Even a top 10 would be fairly controversial.

>>724723164
Disregarding your actual point I think you need to google how many US presidents there has been.

It should be an alien from Space Invaders or Pacman, Mario, Zelda (Link) and Pikachu, since Mount Rushmore are based on the early well liked presidents.

>>724723327
I'm american I don't care about history because history is not american enough.

>>724704089 (OP)
>nu-kratos
opinion discarded.

>>724723164
>Mount Rushmores don't matter
Since when are there two!?

>>724704089 (OP)
>Chief
>Dante
>Snake
>Link
In that order.

>>724704089 (OP)
If we're going by highest total relevance it is quite literally Pikachu, Mario, Roblox Guy and Jonesy Fortnite (or CoD Man, take your pick).

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario Sonic Pac-Man Doom guy

>>724726889
This. More accurate than cramming indecisive Snoy picks and Master Chief.

>>724704225
>shittendo
>console trash
Irrelevant to gaming.

>>724727737
You are mentally younger than a tendie-toddler if you actually think like this.

Mario, Snake, Master Chief, Sonic

>>724714786
Because there was one (1) Zelda game that sold above like 10 million you goddamn fucking tool.

>>724706715
This is a solid take.
My pick choice.
Pac-Man representing the arcade only pre home console era (space invaders, etc)
Home console Mario. Most iconic of the 8 bit era.
Evolution of home consoles. Sonic. As iconic as Mario but representing the 16 bit era.
Skipping 3d console era because pc did it better.
Doom guy. Representing PC gaming as a whole. I think doom was the first pc game that was a system seller on a broad scale. As in, being able to play doom actually pushed a lot of dads to actually buy a pc.

Representing handhelds: Pikachu no contest.

Representing mobile gaming :idk or care for that matter

>>724714786
Lara Croft holds the record for most magazines covers of a vidya character.

>>724719678
It's not woke tho.

>>724707735
My dad is 76,the boomest of boomers. Has nothing but contempt for vidya and knows mario, sonic, Pac-Man and fucking Fortnite or that crap my grandson plays as he puts it.

>>724716862
If you are into vidya you know 2b.
We are talking about vidya characters that even people that will never touch a videogame with a ten foot pole know. She is iconic if you are a gamer. I don't think a grandpa would recognize her

>>724704089 (OP)
Replace Betterman with Sanic

Welp guys. The weather is nice and I was going for a walk anyways, since this thread sparked my interest I will now take a notebook with me and ask randoms on the street the first 4 vidya characters they can think of. Will post results in a few hours

>>724704089 (OP)
Minecraft Steve.
Fortnite Default.
Roblox default.
Freddy Fazbear.

No other video game characters are even remotely relevant.

>>724704089 (OP)
>Mount Cuckmore

pacman for arcade era
mario for nintendo pulling the industry out of the shit
sonic for starting the console wars
gordon freeman for pc gaming and steam
minecraft steve for indies

>>724704089 (OP)
Kektos really isnt that iconic.

Step back, Anon.

>>724704089 (OP)
mario, link, samus, pikachu

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario, Sonic, Cloud, Master Chief.
Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation, Xbox.

Going by broad appeal mixed with historical significance in gaming:
>Mario
>Link
>Pikachu
>Master Chief

>>724704089 (OP)
Mario
Pacman
Tetris Block
Link

>>724705078
teddy roosavelt it irroolavent. the only reason his face is up there is because of his work on the national park system

Four Luigis

>>724704089 (OP)
lara, tifa, 2B, eve

>>724732501
rock on! when did you start HRT?

The gayest human being on the planet has spoken. You will sit down and listen.

>>724704089 (OP)
Garrosh and no one else.

>>724704089 (OP)
Jim Raynor
Gordon Freeman
Arthas Menethil
Doom Guy

>>724724928
sòylent laced post

>>724704225
Pacman, masterchief is too modern

>>724728748
Nu tomb raider is

>>724706372
did the exact same thing

>>724730282
Her, Nolan North, Troy Baker and Steve Blum would definitely be the big four for IRL's.

2025, I am forgotten...

>>724719678
>Found the underage.
it's not 2016 anymore grampy