C'mooon, everybody has one - from a preferred person in your favorite fighting game to the adorable sprite in that RPG you just click with. I have..a couple, just because I couldn't pick. For one, I present I-no:

Oh, come on. If you've played Guilty Gear, you know she tears her shirt off if she wins as an ending sequence. And the hat? What's not to love?!
Chun Li's another, but everybody knows what she looks like - no need for images of the thunder thigh'd goddess.
I haven't played a lot of RPGs and none of the characters in particular in Chrono Trigger stood out, but I did like Schala a lot, even though you don't get to play as her.

That's it for now. Who are yours?

Garrett from the Thief series because he's a BAMF.

Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series.

Kakalukia... Or at least he says that's what his name is. Does anyone know what he's in?

Cammy from Street Fighter reminds me a lot of the first girl I ever kissed, so I have a fondness for her.

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My favourite character is Cate Archer from "No One Lives Forever". Rock hard and drop-dead gorgeous. Her polygonal beauty shall live on forever in the part of my brain marked "Hot chicks who don't exist".



Ahhh, sixties chic. Rawr

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YES! A thousand times YES! There's not a duff character in those games.

Given that I've played far too many games in my time, this is something that I'll have to give some serious thought to. Off the top of my head, I'd have to day I'm a big fan of Lash from the Advance Wars series. Robert Smith hair, lunatic disregard for human life and a technoid theme tune of pure perfection, she's my kinda girl. I'll admit, I'm partial to a bit of small and dangerous in my videogame women (see also Soul Calibur's Tira and terse eyepatch-wearer Fujin from FFVIII).

[EDIT] Unforgivable! How could I forget to mention the ultimate in tiny, female and evil? Etna from Disgaea - she rocks my world.

I'm struggling to pick a favourite human character so I'll leave that for now.

Non-human, I'm going to have to pick the Jameleon. >_>

I would say Locke from Final Fantasy. (He was the first person I ever had a crush on....odd I know). And yes Syuu Guilty Gear is awesome! Although I won't lie..I''m a "random-button-pusher" in that game.

If we're going for Viva Pinata, I think those little beaver things are very cute, and the ponokeys (sp?) are adorable too. It's a very cute game!

All the lead characters in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune on the PS3 are really great, but Drake himself is brilliant. He reacts to bad situations (with lines that were improvised by the actor) in ways that make him seem very human. That game's story I think ranks along with the best Indiana Jones films. It really is that full of wit and adventure.

A few months ago, I would have said Link from The Legent of Zelda without hesitation, but now I would say Mega Man. He's just so cool!

I can't let threads like this go, and I'm similarly incapable of giving a single answer. Hey ho...

All the ones I've listed so far have two things in common - gender, and moral ambiguity (Lash defects to the good guys (albeit unwillingly), Fujin dobs in her mentalist boss when it becomes plain that he's just unhinged, Etna cannot be judged by normal moral standards (being a demon and all), and Tira's just unhinged and in with a bad crowd). What I love though, is a good villain.

Classically, the best for me is Sephiroth. He set the look and feel for so many RPG bad guys that followed - it could be argued that Final Fantasy has basically been recycling the Sephiroth archetype with the male baddies ever since, and failing to match it each and every time. He's that perfect combination of coldly logical, demented and damaged. Plus he looks f@cking cool.

I'm also a little surprised, given the Portal-loving nature of a lot of posters here, that GlaDOS hasn't had a mention. So much of what was wonderful about Portal was her dialogue - so devoid of emotion to begin with, and the alternately pleading and threatening as everything begins to shift. A perfectly pitched villain, with feet planted firmly in both the comedy and drama camps. Great theme song too.

Back on the theme of moral ambiguity though, there's always this woman, starring is what is undoubtedly my favourite videogame cutscene ever. Is she evil? Is she real? Is she just a figment of the main character's imagination, or a manifestation of his feelings of guilt? Whatever, she's damned creepy...

Raz, from Psychonauts. He is everything I wish I was.

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