[QUOTE="Alkpaz"][QUOTE="ChocoKat"][QUOTE="EndersAres"]I found it to be great as a kid. Not so much these days though. I don't think Duke makes much of an action hero anymore like I used to think we was. I don't think he would be as popular now as much as he was back in those days.
ChocoKat
Besides Halo's Master Chief, please name another FPS action hero. Let me do it for you... you can't.
Umm Gordon Freeman?
Well I never even considered Gordon because I looked at him as a nerd in power suit. Sorry, you're not a hero, you're just a nerd in a suit. BJ, Doom Marine, Doom Soldier and Doom janitor are all the same type of guy in different locations. They are comprised of no substance, no character, NO NOTHING.
If you're discounting Freeman because he's a "nerd in a suit", and discounting the likes of the Doom Marine because they're all two-dimensional characters, what exactly is your definition of an action hero? If it's a protagonist whose character is evident throughout the game, then Duke is surely a candidate, or Cate Archer from No One Lives Forever; if it's a protagonist whose character transcends the game - that is, they are seen outside of it - then surely someone like Samus Aran or maybe even Joanna Dark fits the bill? I'm assuming you're excluding JC Denton because Deus Ex is an RPG, and Marcus Fenix because technically Gears is third-person...
Anyway, one could argue that the best character in a game is a blank one, a canvas which the player fills with their own character... but I fear I may be getting a wee bit too serious here! :)
For the record, I would say Gordon Freeman is one of the greatest game heroes of all time, but hey, that's me... I'm bespectacled nerd myself ;)
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