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Kasz216 on 26 April 2009
The Ghost of RubangB said:
I agree with almost the whole thing. I just have no idea why Pac-Man is on there. Calling him overrated would have made sense when he first died off, but in 2009? Who's even going to defend him? That's just a sad low blow. He's not hanging on for dear life like Donkey Kong and Sonic are right now, the poor bastards.

Some of the others might be a little too new to be considered most overrated ever, but the top 2 are perfect, and in that order.

I agree.

 



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phinch1 on 26 April 2009

I dont think chris is overrated, but i do agree on the muscles thing since code veronica he must have not come out of the gym and ate roids for breakfast



1337 Gamer on 26 April 2009

this list is pretty good but it needs to include mario in the number 1 spot!!



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saimcheeda on 26 April 2009

Im going to post the video game icons soon and apparently some of the people here are on that list too



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NFGBlinkAC on 26 April 2009
mibuokami said:
Carl2291 said:
Opinion... how that word is suddenly brought up a lot when people are proved wrong.

Okay, if thats your "opinion" i suppose i cant argue with it.
But the point still stands, i know people who have had trouble with Safer and even Bizzaro Sephiroth. And he has a lot of depth in his character + backstory.

Good God, what else do you want me to say? This entire list is someone's freakin opinion.

edit: Lets get over this again:

Me: Seph is missing from list

You: Why should he be in the list?

Me: No character depth, easy to kill

You: No he is hard to kill and has lots of character

Bold = your opinion. (I like how I'm automatically wrong because disagree with you)

Uhh, do you not know what character depth is?  If you did, you would clearly see how much character depth Sephiroth has.  Fail

 



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mibuokami on 26 April 2009
NFGBlinkAC said:
mibuokami said:
Carl2291 said:
Opinion... how that word is suddenly brought up a lot when people are proved wrong.

Okay, if thats your "opinion" i suppose i cant argue with it.
But the point still stands, i know people who have had trouble with Safer and even Bizzaro Sephiroth. And he has a lot of depth in his character + backstory.

Good God, what else do you want me to say? This entire list is someone's freakin opinion.

edit: Lets get over this again:

Me: Seph is missing from list

You: Why should he be in the list?

Me: No character depth, easy to kill

You: No he is hard to kill and has lots of character

Bold = your opinion. (I like how I'm automatically wrong because disagree with you)

Uhh, do you not know what character depth is?  If you did, you would clearly see how much character depth Sephiroth has.  Fail

 

I disagree, I do not think he has much character depth, he feels very two dimensional to me. You are not arguing over a boolean, there is no true / false statement. This isn't even something that can be agreed upon due to general consensus, there a many people that can subjectively say that they agree/disagree with me; what part of this constitute a fail?

As far as FF villain goes, I thought Kefka was better, I thought Garland was better, I even thought Ultimecia was better because I at least can pretend she's Rinoa.

 

 




Fossil on 26 April 2009
mibuokami said:
NFGBlinkAC said:
mibuokami said:
Carl2291 said:
Opinion... how that word is suddenly brought up a lot when people are proved wrong.

Okay, if thats your "opinion" i suppose i cant argue with it.
But the point still stands, i know people who have had trouble with Safer and even Bizzaro Sephiroth. And he has a lot of depth in his character + backstory.

Good God, what else do you want me to say? This entire list is someone's freakin opinion.

edit: Lets get over this again:

Me: Seph is missing from list

You: Why should he be in the list?

Me: No character depth, easy to kill

You: No he is hard to kill and has lots of character

Bold = your opinion. (I like how I'm automatically wrong because disagree with you)

Uhh, do you not know what character depth is?  If you did, you would clearly see how much character depth Sephiroth has.  Fail

 

I disagree, I do not think he has much character depth, he feels very two dimensional to me. You are not arguing over a boolean, there is no true / false statement. This isn't even something that can be agreed upon due to general consensus, there a many people that can subjectively say that they agree/disagree with me; what part of this constitute a fail?

As far as FF villain goes, I thought Kefka was better, I thought Garland was better, I even thought Ultimecia was better because I at least can pretend she's Rinoa.

 

 

 

This shit happens every. single. time. Anyone ever bringes up  FF7 in an "Most overrated___ever" list, the fans immieatly rush to defend the text-book example of an oedipus complex.



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Pristine20 on 26 April 2009

wow @ all the whining! The list is about overrated characters not overrated games! I have to agree with it for the most except that Mario definitely deserves #1.



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theRepublic on 26 April 2009
saimcheeda said:
mjc2021 said:
This list is dumb. Just an excuse to mock popular franchises (i.e. get attention).

 

 uh....this list is made by ign not me....

Did anyone besides Rubang click the link?

This list was decided by the VOTES of IGN readers.  IGN just complied the votes and tried to come up with reasons for why the vote turned out the way it did.



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Quickdraw McGraw on 26 April 2009
Khuutra said:

No sir. Wrong.

You will take note that Wander is similarly silent but he is oneo f th best characters in the history of the medium. It's just a different method of characterization.

No, I am not comparing Gordon Freeman and Master Chief to Wander - just saying that that method of determination is flawed.

If I came off as saying characters without dialogue are inherently flawed I apologize, as that is not necessarily true at all.

Although to be fair, the scenarios between MC/Gordon and Wander are completely different and I would argue that a comparison is not exactly fair.