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lonardoflambado on 27 February 2010

The lamest character ever is Dante (Devil May Cry)

Oh my God, he's is a badass-teenager-wannabe-gayish-ohmygodImsoincredible

 

Kratos is a good character, very well suited for the game he's in.

Shepard is also a good character, sometimes you really feel for him.

Nathan Drake is a good character, he's a movie star, he's funny, what's not to like?

 

A main character must be able to make his role well, if he's brutal, be brutal, if he's a badass humanity savior, be that.

 

But Dante (DMC) is another story, he is completely out of place, he's so damn stupid, childish, lame and BORING.

I never had any hatred for video game characters, some are boring of course, but a lot of them fit the role.

Some people here are hating the wrong character, I think.




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lonardoflambado on 27 February 2010

Ah, I forgot one thing: this thread is a JOKE.

Soon everybody will be saying how lame characters like Raziel, Snake, Cloud, Batman etc are...




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libellule on 27 February 2010
RolStoppable said:
Sharky54 said:
SPOILERS!!!!!!
SPOILERS!!!!!!
SPOILERS!!!!!!
SPOILERS!!!!!!
SPOILERS!!!!!!


Oh yeah, you didn't play through the first god of war. If you had, you would have seen where 1 he tries to kill himself(guilt) 2 where he held his family and cried(remorse/guilt/love) where he begged for ares to save his life(fear, love of life). Or in two when he was upset about what Zeus did to his army. How how he killed the last spartan. What about the moment when he killed Athena? All you see "Made by Sony only for playstation? hate it. He is generic and sucks move on now"

Just half an hour ago I said in the VGC IM that I think Kratos is a wimp because he begged for Ares to save his life because he was about to lose on the battlefield. Then I was told that this wasn't begging, but rather Kratos offered his life to Ares in order to secure the spartans' victory or something like that. Someone should post a video of that cutscene.

lot of spoilers :

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DEwCo3IU59EQ%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded



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Euphoria14 on 27 February 2010
RolStoppable said:
Sharky54 said:
SPOILERS!!!!!!
SPOILERS!!!!!!
SPOILERS!!!!!!
SPOILERS!!!!!!
SPOILERS!!!!!!


Oh yeah, you didn't play through the first god of war. If you had, you would have seen where 1 he tries to kill himself(guilt) 2 where he held his family and cried(remorse/guilt/love) where he begged for ares to save his life(fear, love of life). Or in two when he was upset about what Zeus did to his army. How how he killed the last spartan. What about the moment when he killed Athena? All you see "Made by Sony only for playstation? hate it. He is generic and sucks move on now"

Just half an hour ago I said in the VGC IM that I think Kratos is a wimp because he begged for Ares to save his life because he was about to lose on the battlefield. Then I was told that this wasn't begging, but rather Kratos offered his life to Ares in order to secure the spartans' victory or something like that. Someone should post a video of that cutscene.

Yes, he offered his life in order to win the battle because he was about to be destroyed by the barbarians.

They shows it from around 7:00 on.



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Feylic on 27 February 2010

Wow, how wrong could you be. Krato's is one of the badass characters ever made.



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toru_bozu on 27 February 2010
twesterm said:
Torillian said:
For him to look generic don't there have to be a lot of characters that look like him and makes it hard to pick him out of a crowd? I find it hard to believe that you couldn't pick Kratos out of a lineup of Action Game heroes.

He actually makes himself generic because every picture/gif you see of him he's either in the same pose or doing some brutal thing.  He does so many brutal things that he makes the act seem generic and not-amazing.

Again, don't get me wrong, the game looks amazing and it's actually a good game I'm sure because they do those kind of games right, it's just Kratos is painfully uniteresting.

Khuutra said:
twesterm said:

I get what they're doing with him, it's just they tried so hard that they just made him boring.  I guess that's what happens when you make a game that dictates you must be doing something amazingly brutal every 15 minutes but when all he does is that it just loses any of its value.

When was the last time you actually played a God of War game?

 As I said in the OP, the first God of War.  I'm just basing this off the countless random gifs,sigs, and avatars I see of him.  I see those and he's always doing about the same thing and he just makes it boring.

 

LOL! Judging just base on that... lame~

Same old same old. Uncharted's shiny rock.

 

twesterm said:
psrock said:
Funny thing, those are the type threads Twesterm used to closed for being nothing but useless just having no point.

Just one day after we got amazing videos of this great game, you decide to make such a thread,

imagine if I had made this after the Nintendo Summit:

Samus is boring

Waht do you think would happen?

Good thing I'm not a mod anymore!

(I was actually thinking about that after I made the thread :-p)

 

Not suprising...



AngelosL on 27 February 2010

so basically every xbox360 - wii owner thinks Kratos is lame and everyone else thinks he's badass ;P
Surprising.



slowmo on 27 February 2010
toru_bozu said:
twesterm said:
Torillian said:
For him to look generic don't there have to be a lot of characters that look like him and makes it hard to pick him out of a crowd? I find it hard to believe that you couldn't pick Kratos out of a lineup of Action Game heroes.

He actually makes himself generic because every picture/gif you see of him he's either in the same pose or doing some brutal thing.  He does so many brutal things that he makes the act seem generic and not-amazing.

Again, don't get me wrong, the game looks amazing and it's actually a good game I'm sure because they do those kind of games right, it's just Kratos is painfully uniteresting.

Khuutra said:
twesterm said:

I get what they're doing with him, it's just they tried so hard that they just made him boring.  I guess that's what happens when you make a game that dictates you must be doing something amazingly brutal every 15 minutes but when all he does is that it just loses any of its value.

When was the last time you actually played a God of War game?

 As I said in the OP, the first God of War.  I'm just basing this off the countless random gifs,sigs, and avatars I see of him.  I see those and he's always doing about the same thing and he just makes it boring.

 

LOL! Judging just base on that... lame~

Same old same old. Uncharted's shiny rock.

 

twesterm said:
psrock said:
Funny thing, those are the type threads Twesterm used to closed for being nothing but useless just having no point.

Just one day after we got amazing videos of this great game, you decide to make such a thread,

imagine if I had made this after the Nintendo Summit:

Samus is boring

Waht do you think would happen?

Good thing I'm not a mod anymore!

(I was actually thinking about that after I made the thread :-p)

 

Not suprising...

He gave up that duty for his own reasons, he wasn't stripped of the title.  I would wait till you've been around a little longer before you jump to conclusions regarding Twesterm.



restored_lost on 27 February 2010

is this an opinion of taste or judgment? If its taste then why make an analytical argument? If it is judgment then you should say kratos fails to meet certain criteria that makes an excelent character, then list the reasons why you feel he fails to meet the accepted criteria of a good character. that way your less likely to spark a flame war.

ex. judgement:
"but Kraton is just so uninteresting and generic looking in every way"

ex taste:
"I just don't see the appeal."

see how by the first judgment, you open the debate for analytical argument then mix your opinion of taste in there which gets things all messy, try and keep it organized next time.

keep in mind that there is no wrong opinion of taste, for example "i think nathan drake looks stupid" can't be argued, however opinions of judgment can be wrong, like "i think naughty dog failed to create a believable character in Nathan and here's why:(list). can be wrong.



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Tridrakious on 27 February 2010

Kratos is not a boring character. He's brutal and violent to cover his past.

He tried to make amends for his past. Killing his family in a raid of a village, but the gods wanted to use him. So he's now out for revenge.

His skin is bound to the ashes of his dead wife and child. Kratos is a tormented character and deserves the right to be angry in everything you see him in.

If you played Chains of Olympus you would have seen that he loved his family. There is a very tough decision at the end of the game that had to be hard for him.