Who are the most original new characters this gen?

I'm curious, with a sea of generic protagonists and characters , who do you believe is the most unique/original and interesting this gen?

I'd like to suggest

Travis Touchdown

-An American Otaku

-has a serious case of moe (being infatuated by fictional characters)

-bought a beam katana at an online Ebay auction

-Starts a killing spree on twoseperate occationsin which he eliminates the world's top ranked assassins

-loves his kitty cat Jeane and often spends time playing with her

-makes a suggestive motion when he charges his beam katana

-watches mexican wrestling VHS tapes to learn grapple moves

-gets messages from the video renting shop regularily asking to return adult films with hilarious titles

-One of the biggest badasses known to videogames. Case and point

Well there's Benjamin Carmine, Alex Mercer, and To a certain extent Nathan Drake. I don't play that many games with original characters, they all seem to be the same old same old.

Ehh, Travis.....

And Nier's companion Kaine. She's a hermaphrodite, possesed and attracted to our main character. I'll give Nier himself an honorable mention because he has more depth than all current gen AAA protagonists combined.

Ëdit: And yeah.... She is a hermaprhodite. Read Grimoire: Nier if the vague ingame indication is'nt good enough for you.

And you know what..... Once you actually get close to a somewhat emotinal confrontation, it's a little heartbreaking to be honest. The entirety of Nier is bloody heartbreaking in fact.

I realize I also neglected GLADOS which is one of the most original entities we've had this gen.

I like a lot of the Mass Effect characters. Sheperad is pretty generic, but I think Tali and some of the others are pretty "different."millerlight89

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]I like a lot of the Mass Effect characters. Sheperad is pretty generic, but I think Tali and some of the others are pretty "different."funsohng

Kaine from NIER. She's a ferocious, foul mouthed warrior, but I can't really go into her more unique traits because they may spoil aspects of game for some.. But they are unique..

Edit: Oh, never mind. Someone spoiled it already..

Who thought Mario + slinky = Spring Mario..

Who thought Mario + slinky = Spring Mario..

UCF_Knight

Man I hated that power up :P. It gave me some trouble.

Give me Bee Mario

Original characters in this gen...nope can't think of any :P

Well Cole Phelps is the only character this gen that randomly screams at children, so I guess that's pretty original.

John Marston (idk if you played as him in Revolver or not). Yeah he definitely has some cliches, don't they all, but he is pretty awesome and done in a way you dont see in most games.

GLaDOS. An evil, crazed, half conscious, robot that is obsessed with testing humans. Sounds pretty original to me.

Who thought Mario + slinky = Spring Mario..

UCF_Knight

GLaDOS. An evil, crazed, half conscious, robot that is obsessed with testing humans. Sounds pretty original to me.

hoola

Kaine from NIER. She's a ferocious, foul mouthed warrior, but I can't really go into her more unique traits because they may spoil aspects of game for some.. But they are unique..

Edit: Oh, never mind. Someone spoiled it already..

Twin-Blade

I did'nt actually spoil much ;) This was prerelease controversy and many people don't even believe it.

GLaDOS. An evil, crazed, half conscious, robot that is obsessed with testing humans. Sounds pretty original to me.

hoola

Arakune: He's a bunch of bugs that decided to enter the tournament so they put a bag on with a mask so they could! That's what gamespot thinks at least. Not sure if that's more inventive than a failed experiment for the creation of a time traveling eldritch creature who has no idea that he's effectively a blob of soul goop. Ace6301

Nothing personal of course but that just goes to show that original does not automatically equal quality.

Mehrunes Dagon
[spoiler] :P [/spoiler]

Travis Touchdown for sure.

Man I hated that power up :P. It gave me some trouble.

Give me Bee Mario

millerlight89

Oh you're tellin' me.. that powerup was a pain in the nuts. :P

Bee Mario was infinitely better.

Why do I think of "Mario within tentacles" when I see this....funsohng

I have no idea. You have a recent encounter with an octopus? :P

does Sheogorath count?

Oh you're tellin' me.. that powerup was a pain in the nuts. UCF_Knight

GLaDOS. An evil, crazed, half conscious, robot that is obsessed with testing humans. Sounds pretty original to me.

hoola

This and only this.

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Arakune: He's a bunch of bugs that decided to enter the tournament so they put a bag on with a mask so they could! That's what gamespot thinks at least. Not sure if that's more inventive than a failed experiment for the creation of a time traveling eldritch creature who has no idea that he's effectively a blob of soul goop. Filthybastrd

Nothing personal of course but that just goes to show that original does not automatically equal quality.

[QUOTE="Filthybastrd"]

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Arakune: He's a bunch of bugs that decided to enter the tournament so they put a bag on with a mask so they could! That's what gamespot thinks at least. Not sure if that's more inventive than a failed experiment for the creation of a time traveling eldritch creature who has no idea that he's effectively a blob of soul goop. Ace6301

Nothing personal of course but that just goes to show that original does not automatically equal quality.

I personally like that bug thing from Blazeblue, I just don't find the character itself interesting, hardly an exploration of psychology.

It's original in the true sense of the word though, so you're spot on.

i like these guys (as far as original goes)

cave johnson and andrew ryan

nuff said lol

campzor

For real I came in here to say War as a joke.

[QUOTE="campzor"]

i like these guys (as far as original goes)

Pikminmaniac

I have no idea who that blue guy is. Could you enlighten me a bit? Is he from Darksiders?

ye he is from darksiders... he is the 'watcher' and he is looking over you making sure you do what the 'council' sent u out to do (from what i can remember)

he has like a hold on you so you do what you're told.

and yeee about war... i was just trying to find characters but couldnt think of any So i threw him in :P

Uhhhh ... I'm sure someone will come to me ... maybe ... uhhh ... hmmm ...

You know, there were quite a few characters last gen I'd give this label.

Katherine Marlowe from UC3.

Uhhhh ... I'm sure someone will come to me ... maybe ... uhhh ... hmmm ...

You know, there were quite a few characters last gen I'd give this label.

hakanakumono

Since I've already brought them up in different context, how about Kain and Raziel?

Kain becomes a vampire, rules for millenia and ruins the wings of his son because he's apparently offended that the son evolved before he did so.While Raziel does embark on a journey to kill his brothers and Kain, things are far from what they seem and it eventually concludes in the revelation that Kain has a device that enables time travel.

Plot twists are of no shortage from there on.....

Raziel is grown as one of Kain's lieutenants and ends up comitting something akin to sacriliege by evloving before his master does, in growing wings. Kain tears the wings apart and sends Raziel to his doom, where he becomes a malicious vampire spirit with the ability to assume physical form.

These two and their intertwined stories have more depth and character than anything we've seen this gen. Obviously their game were among the best released last gen. Last one did suffer from being more inspired by GoW than Zelda though.

Does'nt change that Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen did indeed start a legacy and both Soulreaver 1 and 2 carried it on their shoulders in an amazing way. This series was actually pretty damn good till the very end, last itteration just happened to suffer from lack of ambition and the harsher criticism at the time.

If anything deserves a HD remake it's Legacy of Kain: Soul reaver and onwards. I'd love another Blood Omen but it's isometric and has to be rebuilt entirely to fit in.

Sometimes, maybe it's better to let the glorious dead rest however.....

Edit: And while these games were not Sony exclusives, this is the franchise that should have killed Zelda. Between excellent writers, varied gameplay mechanics and amazing voice acters, OoT had nothing on these games, in terms of quality, unless you remember the N64 Zeldas with drugged eyes that is ;)

the First two (Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Legacy of Kain: Soulreaver) were PSX games and the franchise continued to it's end on PS2 and XBOX.

We praise Nintendo and Zelda daily, I'm just here to remind you that people used to create similar games and some of them were better.

If you played the first Soul Reaver, there is no way that you did not anticipate and ultimately indulged in the sequels-

Garrus and Wrex in Mass Effect 2.

Any Valve-made character. Including the TF2 cast.

There's

GLaDOS

Marston/Phelps

The TF2 crew.

Why do people say Nathan Drake? He reminds me of a lam Indiana Jones. Nathan Drake is in no way original guys. millerlight89

I thinkvashyron, zephyr, and leannefrom resonance of fateare original

I just think the fact that SPOILER: one is an ex-soldier that screwed up an "evolved" human by accident, one isa mass murderer, and one is an experiment that was supposed to die but didn't. I find that all of them being on a team is very interesting and a mix of these chracters hasn't been done before, at least not to my knowledge.

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]Why do people say Nathan Drake? He reminds me of a lam Indiana Jones. Nathan Drake is in no way original guys. DethSkematik

Cave Johnson. We're done here. [spoiler] Also, GLaDOS and Wheatley. [/spoiler]