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Bad-Ass Video Game Characters

The story-driven game has become increasingly popular over the last console generation, and has been around even longer. The best video game plots rely on the game’s cast of characters to form a strong story. Without great characters, there is little to invite gamers’ interest in the title, and being that the key demographic for video games is something like 17-24 year old males, it stands to reason that the most well-received characters will be the uber-BADASSES in town. So without further ado, here’s the Top 10 Most Bad-Ass Video Game Characters (in no particular order, of course).

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femshep5540d ago

queue dudebro fanboy article and pointlessness

QuodEratDemonstrandm5540d ago

I wouldn't mind seeing a list of female badasses. I know my wife loves them. They do seem pretty hard to come by. I can only think of Bloodrayne and Tomb Raider off the top of my head... maybe a few of the women from Final Fantasy.

As for the list itself: I would have included Alex Mercer, Cole McGrath, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and Rico Rodriguez. Solid Snake is definitely a good fit... don't know about most of the rest, just because I never got round to playing the games they're in.

rodiabloalmeida5540d ago (Edited 5540d ago )

Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine and Ada Wong would fit a Female Bad-ass list very nicely.

Quagmire5540d ago

Faith from Mirror's Edge :)

airhorn955540d ago

I feel like if ur going to include Agent47 there should be at least one character from the GTAs. I no it's not the same level of badass, but I for one loved Niko.

WildArmed5540d ago

I was hoping someone would mention him xD
easily one of the most badass characters I've played

crazyturkey5540d ago (Edited 5540d ago )

no Mario? fail. Mario is so badass that even when he murders all of those harmless creatures, he looks cute doing it.

QuodEratDemonstrandm5540d ago

Then you would also have to include SackBoy... he takes their brains.

Quagmire5540d ago (Edited 5540d ago )

Kratos is as overrated as Justin Bieber

yep, you read that right, and I don't regret it. The game was epic, gory, and ott, and fun, but Kratos as a character is so 2dimensional. Kill, stab, gut, rip, have-sex-with, torture, sacrifice, rinse, repeat

There is little to no character devlopment from the start of the story, to the end. He starts as a testosterone-enraged alpha male, and ends the same way. Vengeance is the only fuel to his fire.

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Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary Website Launches With New Nomura Artwork and Merchandise

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.

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-Foxtrot29d ago

Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

solideagle28d ago

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Relientk7728d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Let Jango Fett Loose

LucasArts gave Jango Fett his own game in 2002, and it pulled Star Wars into a much dirtier, rougher, and more interesting corner of the galaxy.

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Relientk7733d ago

I remember playing this back in the day on PS2. What a sick game!

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Why the Wii is Such a Nostalgic System in 2026

The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.

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ActualWhiteMan35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg34d ago

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Smellsforfree34d ago

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Loktai34d ago

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.