Board 8 > Scarlet Rates User-Nominated Video Game Characters

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 7:33:06 PM
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I haven't made a topic in quite some time. I haven't successfully completed a topic... ever, probably. But we'll gloss over that for the moment and focus on the here and now. You, suggesting the things you care about, and me, rating them and perhaps even providing a modicum of commentary, such as it is.

I have no other words. Get to nominating.

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Inviso
03/25/21 7:34:09 PM
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Tali'Zorah nar Rayaa (vas Neema) (vas Normandy)

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NFUN
03/25/21 7:36:38 PM
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Luther (PSO2)

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 7:40:03 PM
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Inviso posted...
Tali'Zorah nar Rayaa (vas Neema) (vas Normandy)
93/100

The Bioware experience used to be grounded in the humanity of its various characters, anchoring itself to real, moving stories that spun out from surprisingly complex concepts. I always thought that Tali had a significant amount of nuance; as a character she grew from a Rumspringa teen into a genuinely important leader in her culture. Ascending into adulthood seemed to come with unique baggage and the death of her optimism served to help the series in its transition from the sleek science fiction of the first game to the high-stakes finality of the third. Tali always remained a little bit sheltered, a product of using human culture as a crutch to maintain the illusion of her naive nature in the back third of the trilogy. I think this probably allowed players to appreciate her romance as one that included a certain amount of protectorship for the character. And the mystery of her face... that was something pretty alluring. I think the unknown always plays itself up well in keeping a player glued to a character of any nature. Introducing it as something that could be attractive just makes the entire affair a little naughty, like something forbidden.

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 7:40:17 PM
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NFUN posted...
Luther (PSO2)
No idea.

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NFUN
03/25/21 7:43:44 PM
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oh i thought you looked up images or whatever for ? characters. got nothing then

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 7:44:49 PM
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Sometimes I do.

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 7:48:06 PM
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NFUN posted...
Luther (PSO2)
22/100

A badly-designed Spock sporting ears that remind me more of overturned ice cream cones than any sort of meaningful listening appendage.

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Inviso
03/25/21 7:52:05 PM
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James Sunderland (Silent Hill 2)

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IfGodCouldDie
03/25/21 7:54:03 PM
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Bowser (Nintendo)

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 7:55:24 PM
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Inviso posted...
James Sunderland (Silent Hill 2)
55/100

The more removed I get from the early 2000s, the more I realize just how overrated games from that era were. The writing in particular in Silent Hill 2 is pretty awful. The attempt to hybridize a Twin Peaks-style mystery with the lumbering drudgery of early Resident Evil ultimately produced a rather mediocre cast of characters that were ultimately only buttressed by the standard horror tripe that really has never done anything for me. I think it's okay for us all to admit that horror is the most worthless genre. Breathe in, breathe out. Silent Hill 2 is not as good as we all wish it to be.

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HanOfTheNekos
03/25/21 7:56:13 PM
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Anakin Skywalker (Boy)

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 7:58:27 PM
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IfGodCouldDie posted...
Bowser (Nintendo)
63/100

There is a certain amount of playfulness in Bowser that started somewhere around the time that the games stopped being a purely familial affair. There's a little bit of a self-awareness in the series now, knowing that it's flimsy plotting is just there to provide framework for amazing gameplay. It's the side series where Bowser really shines. A murderer and conqueror playing tennis? Driving cars? Allowing his archenemy to spend an entire story lodged within his innards? That's the meat that drives Bowser out of a utility villain into a completely goofy - and maybe a little toothless - component of a the Mario franchise.

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Inviso
03/25/21 7:58:28 PM
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Makoto Niijima (Persona 5)

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andylt
03/25/21 7:58:33 PM
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Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles)

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 7:59:44 PM
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HanOfTheNekos posted...
Anakin Skywalker (Boy)
11/100

Worthless. No one wants to crawl through small doors. No one. Free play should just have gliding sections for Boba Fett and R2 everywhere. Anakin Skywalker (Boy) is the sole focus of a bad mechanic. A slowdown mechanic.

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Underleveled
03/25/21 8:00:06 PM
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Luka (Bayonetta)

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 8:02:17 PM
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Inviso posted...
Makoto Niijima (Persona 5)
65/100

Without having played Persona 5 yet, the design seems fine. Not particularly remarkable or anything.

andylt posted...
Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles)

73/100

My favorite part of Xenoblade is when characters say the names of other characters. Juju! Sharla! That's Dunban over there! That's the meat of Xenoblade. I think there's something a little off about XB1's voice acting - it always seems a little delayed from line to line. Everyone is constantly shocked, even when they're happy or sad or whatever Riki is. Shulk probably is the most shocked of the cast, and that's fair considering that the Monado Monado Monado Monado Monado Monado, right? I think Monado is the new buffalo in Xenoblade. Lord knows that XCX suffered from a lack of Monadoing.

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 8:02:52 PM
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Underleveled posted...
Luka (Bayonetta)
49/100

When Bayonetta is not on the screen, all other characters should be asking, "Where is Bayonetta?"

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Snake5555555555
03/25/21 8:03:11 PM
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Yarny (Unravel)


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Xeybozn
03/25/21 8:03:34 PM
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Big the Cat (Sonic Adventure)
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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 8:07:01 PM
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Snake5555555555 posted...
Yarny (Unravel)

58/100

A major problem with games like Unravel - and this isn't actually a problem, just a side effect of the game's style - is that you are only invested in the characters up to a certain point. I'm always reminded of Jeff Winger in Community. If I break a pencil, you don't care. But if I name the pencil Fred, you become attached the pencil and you cry inside when it breaks. Yarny is Fred the Pencil. You cry when it breaks, but it doesn't particularly linger onwards after you've finished Unravel, which is often the problem with the Braid/Unravel/Limbo style of indie-trip game.

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Inviso
03/25/21 8:08:05 PM
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Lee Everett (Telltale's The Walking Dead: Season 1)

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IfGodCouldDie
03/25/21 8:08:12 PM
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Cloud Strife (FF7r) (assuming this would be different than just Cloud or just his FF7 incarnation)

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 8:09:08 PM
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Xeybozn posted...
Big the Cat (Sonic Adventure)
36/100

As with all Sonic characters, Big suffers from having dialogue in a Sonic game, something that would cripple even the most amazing of creations, a category which, by definition, could never include a Sonic character. In all seriousness, Sonic Adventure comes from the era where we started integrating voice acting, and those delays, those simple sentences, they just do in any character from a game that didn't give enough attention to detail. Even Final Fantasy X suffers under the weight of being one of the inaugural games in that strange time. It sucks to suck.

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Shonen_Bat
03/25/21 8:11:21 PM
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Samus Aran (Metroid)

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Snake5555555555
03/25/21 8:12:28 PM
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Nice comparison.

Jack Slate (Dead to Rights)


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Great_Paul
03/25/21 8:13:17 PM
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Yuffie (Final Fantasy VII)

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NBIceman
03/25/21 8:14:17 PM
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Laguna Loire

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 8:15:19 PM
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Inviso posted...
Lee Everett (Telltale's The Walking Dead: Season 1)
52/100

Something that I think gets far too overlooked in the Walking Dead from Telltale - it's boring as shit. How many useless descriptive items do I have to listen to Lee provide insipid, dull commentary on? Yes, it's a telephone. No, I don't care that it doesn't work. Don't waste my time, Lee. You're always wasting my time. And, lest we forget, Lee makes bad decisions. That's what the entire story of Walking Dead boils down to, in the end. No matter what Lee does, he makes bad decisions. He's bad at decision-making. The end of the game, no matter what you do, highlights that fact. And when, despite your best efforts, you can't stave off the inevitable, that's on Lee. That's on Lee having relied on me clicking damn telephones and cans and fenceposts for 15 hours, letting me do all of his heavy lifting for him.

IfGodCouldDie posted...
Cloud Strife (FF7r) (assuming this would be different than just Cloud or just his FF7 incarnation)
86/100

Cloud is Cloud is Cloud. Doesn't matter if he's in Smash or a dress. It's still the same stoic-faced pretty boy, only in this rare instance, those qualifiers aren't negatives. Cloud being who he is allows other characters to flourish at the outset of the game - a blank slate that gains notability in the absence of heavy characterization. I've always found the story of FF7 to be extremely engaging, and FF7R brought new brushes to an old painting, allowing me to look at the game with fresh eyes. I love it.

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scarletspeed7
03/25/21 8:20:06 PM
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Shonen_Bat posted...
Samus Aran (Metroid)
92/100

Much like Adam Strange, Samus captures my imagination. The possibility of space exploration and the potential dangers that come with it allow me to really ease into the role of Samus. She becomes a totem for a concept that I dream about, and for that, she does well in my personal ratings.

Great_Paul posted...
Yuffie (Final Fantasy VII)
94/100

A great ninja. Truly, there are few better. I fully supported Yuffie's efforts to steal all of my materia. After all, it was getting to become a bit of a timesink. Better to just rely on my weapons and be done with the purples and yellows and greens and blues. Let the kid have it all.

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Laguna Loire
57/100
I have never really been able to engage with FF8. I've tried countless times, and while their are sequences and concepts that really pull me in, there's a pervasive amount of blandness that fills the rest of the cracks. Laguna really proved to be unremarkable to me; naturally there are narrative difficulties to overcome in how Laguna is presented, and I think in greater hands Laguna would be more intriguing, but FF8 always struck me as "the game after 7 and before 9", or "the game we made because the bosses said we needed to make a game".

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Snake5555555555
03/25/21 8:32:07 PM
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Missed mine:
Jack Slate (Dead to Rights)

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Shonen_Bat
03/25/21 8:36:05 PM
#33:


Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club)

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Underleveled
03/25/21 8:42:28 PM
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Bagley (Watch Dogs: Legion)

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hombad46
03/25/21 8:47:17 PM
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Jin Sakai (Ghost of Tsushima)

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Raka_Putra
03/25/21 8:47:50 PM
#36:


Naked Snake

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changmas
03/25/21 8:56:38 PM
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Princess Zelda

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pyresword
03/25/21 8:56:48 PM
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Hornet (Hollow Knight)
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Eddv
03/25/21 9:01:06 PM
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Vayne (Mana Khemia)

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Hbthebattle
03/25/21 9:03:30 PM
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The Hand in the Toilet (Majora's Mask)

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BetrayedTangy
03/25/21 9:19:47 PM
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Gwyn, Lord of Cinder (Dark Souls)

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Anagaram
03/25/21 9:56:19 PM
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Meryl (MGS)

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Murphiroth
03/25/21 10:18:16 PM
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Vergil (Devil May Cry)
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PrinceKaro
03/25/21 10:28:14 PM
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Hu Tao (Genshin Impact)

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Johnbobb
03/25/21 10:45:47 PM
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Kassandra (Assassin's Creed Odyssey)

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UF8
03/26/21 3:56:14 AM
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Skhbaatar (Warship Girls R)
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HanOfTheNekos
03/26/21 3:43:18 PM
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Lieutenant Kasan Moor of the 128th TIE Squadron (Star Wars: Rogue Squadron)

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NBIceman
03/26/21 3:47:11 PM
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Madeline (Celeste)

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Fastbreak
03/26/21 7:18:51 PM
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Jin Kazama (Tekken series)

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azuarc
03/26/21 7:24:36 PM
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Reno Jackson (Hearthstone)

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