Your Most Played Video Game Character?

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What video game character have you played as the most?

Over the totality of your time spent gaming, which character do you figure you spent the most time controlling?

Your answer could be a specific character that you spent many hours playing as in a single game or as that same character across multiple titles.

It could also be a created character you made for an RPG/MMO or some other type of game that you put countless hours into?

Obviously this isn't something I expect you can calculate exactly but still it would be nice to know what character you have spent the most time with throughout gaming.

For me, If I had to guess it would probably be Super Mario (Aka Mario Mario). This is somewhat by design of course, because Nintendo intended Mario to be a Mickey Mouse type figure for gaming so they could slot him into multiple projects.

I have played pretty much every mainline Mario platformer. Mario is also one of most played characters across Smash Bros and Mario Kart. I don't really play the Mario Sport games or Mario Party. I most recently played Super Mario Sunshine on Switch, adding about another 20 hours playing as Mario.

Other notable contenders would probably include Link, if you count all the different version as essentially the same character. I've played a few mainline Zelda games, used him a bunch in Soul Calibur II on Gamecube, and also use Link/ToonLink/YoungLink in Smash.

Nathan Drake is probably up there as well across 4 mainline Uncharted games and Golden Abyss. Kratos is probably top ten as well.

If you count the player character from Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow as the same character, that's probably the tops as I think I put over 100 hours into each of those games back in the day. 

What about you?