Keeping up the momentum. ^^

What are your 10 favourite characters from the world of video games? You don't have to say why, or even put them in any particular order. But it's a good idea to include an image with the character's name to help others know who it is.

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So I begin, in no order :

- Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy 8)

- Illusive Man (Mass Effect trilogy)

- Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII trilogy)

- Noel Kreiss (Final Fantasy XIII Trilogy)

- Aiden Pearce (Watch_Dogs)

- Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)

- Kait Diaz (Gears 5)

- Yuuki Makoto (Persona 3)

- Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid)

- Quiet (Metal Gear Solid 5 The Phantom Pain)

Squall Leonhart
Laguna Loire
Fei Fong Wong
Elly Van Houten
Graaf
Miang
Citan Uzuki
Geralt of Rivia
Ciri
Schala

This is a quick post, mostly thinking based off my favourite games list. But a top 10 is far far too small, I can’t even fit Celes, the Figaro Brothers, Magus, or Sephiroth. Most of my top of the top tier characters are from one game, Xenogears.

Hey putting Geralt and Ciri on the list is cheating.

They are book characters and where way more fleshed out long before any of the games where even concieved as an idea.

No video game can compete with things created by real authors (even bad ones).

Hmm, I may have to come back to this. But this is my list at present.

Donkey Kong (specifically DK Country version)
Jim Raynor (StarCraft)
Arthas Menethil (Warcraft)
Master Chief (Halo)
Crash Bandicoot
Kane (Command & Conquer)
Beat (Jet Set Radio)
Leon S. Kennedy (Resident Evil)
GLaDOS (Portal)
Guybrush Threepwood (Monkey Island)

I don’t view the Witcher 3 and book series characters as the same.

Arthur (Ghosts`n Goblins)

Bayonetta

Earthworm Jim

Hershel Layton (Professor Layton)

Ichiban Kasuga (Yakuza)

Ken Masters (Street Fighter)

Leon S. Kennedy (Resident Evil)

Mega Man

Samus Aran (Metroid)

Wario

Mario
Link
Samus
Cloud
Kain
Terra
Nathan Drake
Kratos
Jill Valentine
Ori

To not fill the whole list with characters from Phoenix Wright I restricted it to one per franchise.

• Kyle Hyde (Hotel Dusk Room 215)

I tend to find many of the main playable characters uninteresting compared to other characters from the same games. That is not the case with Kyle Hyde. I love this sarcastic, blunt asshole. 

• Luigi (SMB2, Luigis Mansion, SSB Melee)

I'll take the scared goofball over the more famous brother. 

• Sarah Kerrigan (Starcraft)

Her transformation story in the first Starcraft was so good that Blizzard needed to copy it in order to try to reach equal heights in the sequel. 

• Captian Linebeck (The Legend of Zelda Phantom hourglass)

Obsessive and inconsiderate. The only thing that made me finish Phantom hourglass was the fun interactions with this guy.

• Franziska von Karma (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for all)

A much more human antagonist than her father. The hopeless strive for perfection she embarks is a joy to dismantle.

• King K. Rool (Donkey Kong country 1,2,3)

What can I say. I like goofy green guys. 

• The merchant (Resident evil 4)

Not as fleshed out as others but so darn iconic. Hates blue medallions and loves reloading revolvers. 

• Lady Lyndis (Fire Emblem the Blazing Blade)

The first character who greets you in the first Fire Emblem released outside of Japan. Stuck in my memory forever even if she is missing enough character flaws to make her believable. 

• Faith Connors (Mirrors Edge)

Cool. Very cool.

No order:

Lara Croft (except in the reboot)
Jill Valentine
Bowser
Sonic
Link
Yoshi
Ryu (Street Fighter)
Chun Li
Regina (Dino Crisis)
Kyle Hyde (Hotel Dusk)

It's hard to pick just 10 but after thinking long and hard, I think I'd go with these:

Peter Quill (from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Gamora (from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Drax (from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Groot (from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Rocket (from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Mantis (from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Nikki Gold (from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Cosmo (from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Lady Hellbender (from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Ko-Rel (from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy)

Like I said 10 is really difficult, I had to leave out some other favorites. There are so many great characters in video games.