VGPOTW #6: In a galaxy far, far away...

So, I voted other because I think Jim Raynor from Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty should be up there. He's fighting a war against the parasitic Zurg, the Dominion forces that oppress the sector, and now the Xel'Naga. What more can you ask from a guy in power armor and a Gauss rifle?

I'm fully agreeing with Hollow Shell here, Raynor has been in deep **** and came back from it alive in StarCraft I, Brood War, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and even a bit in Heart of the Swarm. Makes all the other heroes in the list look like nothing compared to Raynor. Had to deal with betrayals, painful losses and barely having any support.

So I voted other aswell

Isaac Clarke, without a doubt, was my first choice. My love for horror games aside.. He stares down so many nasty monsters, and hardly even blinks in the face of danger. Seriously. How would you handle all those necromorphs?

Marcus Fenix can totally handle himself. Just look at the guy. So many space-roids. And, y'know, he had some nasty monsters to fight, too. Along with some personal demons and some major losses.. Dude's had a pretty rough go, but he never really let it get in the way.

Man.. So many popular space games and so few represented! I've ticked "Other" because I'm likely to come back when I have more important space-badasses to give honorable mentions to. At a time where my thoughts are more coherent, maybe. In the meantime, I'm going to use it as a placeholder to give a shout-out to Fox and Falco, from Star Fox.


Master Chief and the doomguy are both just so.. empty. To me, they're the exact representation of the "First Person Shooter machine" they used in Wreck-It Ralph to poke fun at such games {XD}

Oh, and, I haven't touched a FF game since FFX, so I was really confused to see Lightning listed. I asked a friend if it was a bad joke or if she's secretly an alien, and he just said, "She's an anime. Who knows." Trouble is, I still don't know which it is, lol.

Yeah, I knew that I was going to miss certain people for this one. Some of them might be deemed "stetches," and by reading some of these answers it made me go on full-on Homer Simpson. There are just such a wide slew of video games, sometime's it's hard to cover them all; that's why there's an Other option of course!

Satoshi Ookami said:

Since Raito-chan is there, I will vote for her.

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Who's that? Never heard of her before.

I suppose I'm the only person who voted for Doomguy, lol! Let me explain why he's so badass. Fistly, he doesn't fight aliens in space, HE FIGHTS DEMONS IN SPACE! Not only does he fight demons in space, he has closed not one, not two, but four gates to hell in the original Doom series alone. He killed "The biggest demon you've ever seen", on 3 different occasions, and he can fight his way through a slew of unlimited user made levels that put Doomguy to the test, truly stretching his limits! Doomguy is clearly the original space marine and also the most badass.

Satoshi Ookami said:

Who else could it be from the poll considering my love for Japanese games? =D

Lightning - abbreviated Light - she's Japanese => Light = Raito - she's a girl => -chan - all together, Raito-chan =D

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If you honestly thought I was going to instinctively know that, you are sadly mistaken.

My vote would have to go towards Fox McCloud of Star Fox series (since he isn't listed, I'll have to select "other"). In general, I feel that he's one of those characters that almost everybody could get attached to. He's not very happy-go-lucky, but he also doesn't go out of his way to get work done; he always tries to find some good middle-ground, and it never ceases to work for the guy.

Fox's got decent combat skills, and is also an expert at piloting all around, whether it be a tank, an airplane, spaceship, you name it. Of course, there are plenty of other characters that share similar set of skills, such as his friend Falco Lombardi, but what makes him actually distinct, however, is his ability to be leader. To have good leadership, it takes a lot, and Fox has most of it covered.

Aside from above, I'm also a pretty big fan of Captain Falcon from F-Zero. This guy is generally hard to get through, but he still has a lot of characteristics that most of us like to see in heroes. Only thing that disappoints me, though, is that his series has been put on ice for some time, which is unfortunate. I was a very big fan, personally!