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3khc
06/26/18 11:34:23 AM
#1:


Best Character - Results (17 votes)
Mario
17.65% (3 votes)
3
Link
35.29% (6 votes)
6
Samus Aran
47.06% (8 votes)
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Calwings
06/26/18 11:35:28 AM
#2:


Pikachu deserves to be in the Trinity more than Samus. But regardless, Mario is the best of the group.
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Zikten
06/26/18 11:36:01 AM
#3:


I never really thought of Samus as a major figure. maybe cause I never was into her series. I would put Pikachu above her
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KainWind
06/26/18 11:36:12 AM
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Jeff AKA Snoopy
06/26/18 11:36:18 AM
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The best character of those 3 is Samus as she is an actual character. Mario is basically just a heroic dude and Link is silent protag.

Nothing wrong with that, but they don't have a lot of inherent character to them
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PiOverlord
06/26/18 11:36:32 AM
#6:


People are going to say Link even though he is barely a character because "Lel, he's so cool"

Also, Samus shouldn't be on this poll no matter how much you like her. Pokmon is Nintendo's 2nd biggest franchise, and Pikachu is its mascot.
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LittleRoyal
06/26/18 11:36:46 AM
#7:


Metroid is dead. FE is their top franchise beyond Mario and Zelda.

After its 13th game (the one that revived the franchise with Chrom)
It got 2 spin offs, 2 crossovers, a card game, 2 sequels, a full remake with improvements, and a mobile app which alone made over 300 million dollars as if 5 months ago, by now most likely over 400 million
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Garioshi
06/26/18 11:37:33 AM
#8:


Link has won the GFAQs character battle how many years in a row?
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creativerealms
06/26/18 11:37:59 AM
#9:


Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
The best character of those 3 is Samus as she is an actual character. Mario is basically just a heroic dude and Link is silent protag.

Nothing wrong with that, but they don't have a lot of inherent character to them

Outside the horrible other M Samus isn't much of a character ether.
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Hayame Zero
06/26/18 11:38:31 AM
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PiOverlord posted...
Pokmon is Nintendo's 2nd biggest franchise, and Pikachu is its mascot.


Maybe video game sales alone make it 2nd, but Pokemon is the biggest media franchise in the world. It's grossed more than Star Wars.
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DevsBro
06/26/18 11:39:19 AM
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I think it's interesting that no matter how many times we make this topic, half or more of CE falls for it every time.
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3khc
06/26/18 11:40:02 AM
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Falls for what?
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Lost_All_Senses
06/26/18 11:45:16 AM
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Garioshi posted...
Link has won the GFAQs character battle how many years in a row?


Humans are annoying. That's why the more someone shuts the fuck up the more they are liked.
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3khc
06/26/18 6:00:17 PM
#15:


Nah, the trinity never changes.
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Kisai
06/26/18 6:06:16 PM
#16:


Calwings posted...
Pikachu deserves to be in the Trinity more than Samus. But regardless, Mario is the best of the group.

This. All Nintendo does is Mario, Zelda, and Pokmon games nowadays. We're lucky if we ever see Metroid anymore.
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glitteringfairy
06/26/18 6:08:43 PM
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KainWind posted...
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Questionmarktarius
06/26/18 6:11:03 PM
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Hinakuluiau
06/26/18 6:17:49 PM
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I swear every now and then this topic gets made with the exact same posts about Pikachu and Kirby.
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CM_Ponch
06/26/18 6:29:21 PM
#20:


Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...
The best character of those 3 is Samus as she is an actual character. Mario is basically just a heroic dude and Link is silent protag.

Nothing wrong with that, but they don't have a lot of inherent character to them

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3khc
06/27/18 4:03:03 AM
#21:


Metroid Prime 4 is coming to Switch.
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Zack_Attackv1
06/27/18 4:11:08 AM
#22:


Yeah. Hopefully it's not as monotonous as this retread.
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tainted_emerald
06/27/18 5:10:10 AM
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Hayame Zero posted...
PiOverlord posted...
Pokmon is Nintendo's 2nd biggest franchise, and Pikachu is its mascot.


Maybe video game sales alone make it 2nd, but Pokemon is the biggest media franchise in the world. It's grossed more than Star Wars.

Problem is, while the Pokemon games seem to be tied to Nintendo consoles, the IP itself doesn't belong to Nintendo alone. On paper they have about 1/3 ownership, with the possibility of more due to having shares in one of the other companies. Game Freak has another solid 1/3 though.

That's probably why people don't really consider it a main Nintendo property, even though 95% of the games have been Nintendo console exclusives.
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3khc
06/27/18 5:59:22 PM
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Samus is iconic. Pikachu is a mascot.
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Smashingpmkns
06/27/18 6:01:26 PM
#25:


Pikachu is more iconic than Samus and probably Link at this point.
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FlyingForever
06/27/18 6:06:46 PM
#26:


Samus. Link is cool as well but Mario's always been lame
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3khc
06/28/18 3:49:02 AM
#27:


Samus was one of the first female protagonists in gaming. And the reveal was mindblowing. No way an electric mouse is more iconic.
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Tmk
06/28/18 3:54:41 AM
#28:


Samus is an actual character. Link is basically a blank space with "insert a character here" written in it. Mario is somehow even less of a character and could be replaced by a hollow tree stump with a mustache and owls in heat hidden inside and nothing would change.
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Kolibri X
06/28/18 3:56:18 AM
#29:


I agree with TC. Those are the 3 most iconic classic Nintendo franchises in my mind. But I did grow up playing NES and SNES.
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Awakened_Link
06/28/18 3:56:29 AM
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This is a stupid poll.
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Jerry_Hellyeah
06/28/18 4:07:25 AM
#31:


Samus is not a character, holy shit.
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PiOverlord
06/28/18 4:12:40 AM
#32:


Tmk posted...
Samus is an actual character. Link is basically a blank space with "insert a character here" written in it. Mario is somehow even less of a character and could be replaced by a hollow tree stump with a mustache and owls in heat hidden inside and nothing would change.

Please play the Mario games before posting. Mario has a lot more personality than Link. BotW Link's personality was making faces occasionally.

The only Links with actual personality are SS and TP Link tbh.

Mario in Odyssey alone shows a lot of personality.
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Tmk
06/28/18 4:13:03 AM
#33:


Jerry_Hellyeah posted...
Samus is not a character, holy shit.

Yeah she is.

You must be confused. The main character of Metroid is named Samus, not Metroid. Easy mistake to make.
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ColdOne666
06/28/18 4:14:06 AM
#34:


Metroid is garbage, nobody cares about ti anymore.
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Tmk
06/28/18 4:14:53 AM
#35:


PiOverlord posted...
Please play the Mario games before posting. Mario has a lot more personality than Link.

If he did you would have cited it instead of just saying he does.
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PiOverlord
06/28/18 4:17:33 AM
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Tmk posted...
PiOverlord posted...
Please play the Mario games before posting. Mario has a lot more personality than Link.

If he did you would have cited it instead of just saying he does.

I don't got time to waste like that. It's 3:16 AM where I live. I'm about to go to bed. The RPG's, Odyssey, Sunshine, Mario's little dialogue when he sleeps, etc...
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SavenForever
06/28/18 6:01:44 AM
#37:


Metroid isn't really in the Top 3. Pokemon would be more popular.
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Smashingpmkns
06/28/18 11:02:10 AM
#38:


3khc posted...
Samus was one of the first female protagonists in gaming. And the reveal was mindblowing. No way an electric mouse is more iconic.


Well, Pikachu actually is more iconic and more well known than Samus is or ever will be.
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Mako_Sharknado
06/28/18 11:14:07 AM
#40:


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PiOverlord
06/28/18 11:51:26 AM
#41:


I really wanna know what makes Link such a good character.
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3khc
06/28/18 2:01:59 PM
#42:


He uses a sword left handed and doesn't afraid of anything.
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Questionmarktarius
06/28/18 2:12:39 PM
#43:


PiOverlord posted...
I really wanna know what makes Link such a good character.

For awhile, at least, it was because he kept quiet and didn't get in the player's way - give or take the 80s cartoon.
Unfortunately, everyone else just got even more cutscenes and dialogue, to compensate.

BOTW's problem isn't that it's an empty world with too much walking, but that every damn thing is diluted. From the samey enemies, to 120 forgettable microdungeons, to the highly fragile and disposable weapons, to giving link pretty much all the abilities he's ever going to have in the first twenty minutes or so, everything just seems generic and watered down.
They went with quantity over quality, and ended up on the high side of mediocre.
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3khc
06/28/18 8:28:45 PM
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Toon Link has personality. That counts, right.
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Tmk
06/29/18 5:08:29 AM
#45:


Pretty low Nintendo standards if "he makes facial expressions" is what passes for a personality.
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HagenEx
06/29/18 5:13:40 AM
#46:


They're all garbage characters with zero development.

Can you please switch those for Commander Shepard, Solid Snake and Nathan Drake?

Thank you.
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Tmk
06/29/18 5:15:06 AM
#47:


Nathan Drake is generic-brand factory designed boring protagonist guy who is like the human equivalent of white noise.

Shepard doesn't really have a character, at least a defined one, nor even a defined gender, because you have total agency over how they are.

Solid Snake is an actual character though.
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NeuralLaxative
06/29/18 6:17:04 AM
#48:


Kids these days never player Metroid on an NES smh.
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