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transience's top 25 video game characters with writeups. (what the hell?)

RPGuy96 | Posted 6/18/2007 8:23:55 PM | message detail | #201
I'd like to replay Xenogears...but I don't think I can stand the text speed for another fifty hours.
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http://www.rit.edu/~zmb0386/Top100.pdf
trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 8:24:20 PM | message detail | #202
I bought a gameshark once for the sole reason of upping the text speed.
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zizzy
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trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 9:16:56 PM | message detail | #203
#12: Samus Aran (Metroid)

wall jump. bomb jump. screw attack. speed booster / shine spark. space jump. bunches of cool beams. super missiles. power bombs.

Samus has the best set of abilities in any video game. that's why she's awesome. period.
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zizzy
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ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 10:25:22 PM | message detail | #204
This top ten is going to be great.

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Called "Godslayer" by some, feared by most.
trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 10:55:42 PM | message detail | #205
#11: Vivi (Final Fantasy IX)

Vivi is great. he's essentially the only conscious black mage in the game, and he's got a bit of an existential crisis going on because of it. it's not especially deep or anything, just "who the crap am I?". he spends a lot of time moping about, but not in an annoying way. it's more introspective, trying to figure things out. his reactions to whenever he sees black mages are always great, and he has my favourite line in the entire game: "All I can do... is sit with them." Vivi feels attached to the other black mages and watching him take responsibility for them is really neat.

...but let's be honest here, it's all about the black mage costume. I remember the first time I saw that thing on the GIA back in 1999 or 2000. I was just off being really disappointed with FF8 and was kind of down on the FF series in general.. until I saw that. the second I saw Vivi, I was like "..oh my god, I need this game." black mages are just that awesome to me, especially considering my love of the original Final Fantasy. you really can't make a more appealing character design, and his battle animations are great. Vivi is just all-around awesome.
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zizzy
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KleenexTissue50 | Posted 6/18/2007 10:56:27 PM | message detail | #206
vivi is a cool dude
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience
ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 10:57:29 PM | message detail | #207
Someone loves him some FFIX...

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trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 10:57:56 PM | message detail | #208
FF9 has three great characters and a whole lot of bad. those three make up for the bad though
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zizzy
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Kloggmonkey | Posted 6/18/2007 10:58:12 PM | message detail | #209
Eww... this list went downhill right when Zidane was announced.
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DNEA
KleenexTissue50 | Posted 6/18/2007 10:59:00 PM | message detail | #210
I'd say 3 good, 2 medicore, and the rest are pretty lousy.

I kinda like Steiner and Garnet.

I guess Garland would have been kinda cool if he had more than 5 seconds of screen time.
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I made a living on time trial blowing myself off to cross the finish line at ludicrous speed. -transience
Kloggmonkey | Posted 6/18/2007 11:00:06 PM | message detail | #211
FFIX has only one good thing and rest is all ass. Just guess who it is. >_>
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DNEA
Drakeryn | Posted 6/18/2007 11:01:15 PM | message detail | #212
I started FFs with the PSX era, so when I played FFIX, I had no idea that Vivi was modeled after an earlier character design. One day my brother emailed me a screencap of FFI (or something) and I was like "wait why is Vivi in this game?"

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PumpkinCoach | Posted 6/18/2007 11:01:24 PM | message detail | #213
Bobby Corwen and Stiltzkin are by far the best members of that cast.
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ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 11:02:06 PM | message detail | #214
It's Vivi.

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GenesisTwilight | Posted 6/18/2007 11:03:09 PM | message detail | #215
Bobby Corwen should have his own game
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Kloggmonkey | Posted 6/18/2007 11:04:13 PM | message detail | #216
It's Vivi

No, it's Necron: destroyer of all things **** and my hero.
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DNEA
trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 11:13:31 PM | message detail | #217
I take an insult from DNEA to mean I've got a good list :)

if I get one from Semi too, it doubles!
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zizzy
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Drakeryn | Posted 6/18/2007 11:14:22 PM | message detail | #218
Semi, DNEA, and HGR are like the Necron squad. You get a comment from one, you can count it as getting a comment from them all.

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trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 11:15:11 PM | message detail | #219
ooh, a trio of hate. woohoo!
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zizzy
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ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 11:16:15 PM | message detail | #220
I hear on weekends they each like to cosplay like Luc, Yuber, and Sarah.

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trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 11:17:06 PM | message detail | #221
I hear DNEA is the Sarah of the bunch.

...Sarah's the best of the bunch, too.
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zizzy
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trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 11:17:59 PM | message detail | #222
...you know, it's amazing you like that game so much when you hate those characters like that. the last time you hated characters that much, it was FF9.
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zizzy
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ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 11:18:53 PM | message detail | #223
The other 105 guys are pretty cool. You know how it is with Suikoden!

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Kloggmonkey | Posted 6/18/2007 11:19:51 PM | message detail | #224
I hear on weekends they each like to cosplay like Luc, Yuber, and Sarah.

So THAT'S why you were making out with Semi last week!
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DNEA
trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 11:20:01 PM | message detail | #225
I dunno, I always thought Suikoden characters sucked for the most part and that the storyline and addictive nature of collecting all 108 carried the game!

excepting mainstays like Viktor and Flik and stuff
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zizzy
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ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 11:22:13 PM | message detail | #226
Viktor is pretty sucky, but yeah, they're not very deep characters or anything, but they're all pretty fun, the ones that don't just disappear after you find them anyway. In Suikoden III's case, Chris, Hugo, and Geddoe were great, even if the villains sucked something awful.

Geddoe, in particular, kicked ass. Nothing quite does it like punching people in the face!

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trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 11:22:53 PM | message detail | #227
what the

I thought you were a Hugo and Chris kinda guy

whatever!
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zizzy
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Dorobou | Posted 6/18/2007 11:23:29 PM | message detail | #228
HM fantasizes about Shion cosplaying as Luc while vacationing with her in Burmecia.
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ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 11:23:56 PM | message detail | #229
Never said I liked him more, yo!

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trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 11:24:50 PM | message detail | #230
"in particular" tends to mean a sort of favouritism!
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zizzy
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ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 11:26:09 PM | message detail | #231
That's because I just remembered that one point during the game where Geddoe punched that one NPC in the face! Those two were better characters, but Geddoe was cooler. That sorta thing.

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trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 11:26:55 PM | message detail | #232
I never liked Geddoe's little group. or Chris's soldiers. actually, there isn't much I actually liked in Suikoden 3!
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zizzy
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trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 11:27:11 PM | message detail | #233
exception: Sgt. Joe, the badass.
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zizzy
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ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 11:27:51 PM | message detail | #234
Joe is the first thing you notice in that game.


"WTF a talking duck"

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trannyscience | Posted 6/18/2007 11:39:45 PM | message detail | #235
aw yeah, time to go home

25 - Miguel (Chrono Cross)
24 - Meredy (Tales of Eternia)
23 - Miles Edgeworth (Phoenix Wright)
22 - Lulu (FF10)
21 - Dirk the Daring (Dragon's Lair)
20 - Zidane (FF9)
19 - Cloud (FF7)
18 - Bebedora (Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits)
17 - O'aka XXIII (FF10)
16 - Alice Elliott (Shadow Hearts)
15 - Crono (Chrono Trigger)
14 - Kuja (FF9)
13 - Fei (Xenogears)
12 - Samus (Metroid)
11 - Vivi (FF9)

top 10 predictions plz
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zizzy
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ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 11:53:27 PM | message detail | #236
Yuri, Sgt. Joe, Joachim, Albert Simon, and uh...

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Dorobou | Posted 6/18/2007 11:56:16 PM | message detail | #237
don't be dumb hm the top 10 is all tales series characters
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ZFS | Posted 6/18/2007 11:58:19 PM | message detail | #238
ive got money that lloyd irving is top 5 for using two swords even tho thats not cool

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Lady Ashe | Posted 6/19/2007 12:01:20 AM | message detail | #239
dante, kratos, yuri.
Dorobou | Posted 6/19/2007 12:03:57 AM | message detail | #240
yea well jade curtiss is definitely top three because hes like citan only smarter
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"That's not Mike Tyson. Are you kidding me? Mike Tyson does not have a handlebar moustache, and he's not white. Plus this guy's wearing pants."
Kloggmonkey | Posted 6/19/2007 12:11:30 AM | message detail | #241
10. Mort the Chicken
9. Rhapthorne
8. Zool
7. Kamek, aka Wizardheimer
6. Rufus (All of them)
5. Rad
4. Random Generic Skullmonkey #23
3. The Third Strongest Mole
2. Lester the Unlikely
1. The evil rock from Hydlide
0. CHRISTOPHER LLOYD
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DNEA
transience | Posted 6/19/2007 12:11:38 AM | message detail | #242
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/detail.php?board=8&topic=36148330&message=395217219

what ever
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xyzzy
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Kloggmonkey | Posted 6/19/2007 12:13:16 AM | message detail | #243
yeah besides dist is superior
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DNEA
transience | Posted 6/19/2007 12:14:00 AM | message detail | #244
Dist's chair is superior; Dist, not so much.
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xyzzy
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Kloggmonkey | Posted 6/19/2007 12:14:21 AM | message detail | #245
That goes without saying.
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DNEA
Dorobou | Posted 6/19/2007 12:15:52 AM | message detail | #246
Dist's chair is unrankable. That much ownage is unfair to compare to lesser beings.
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"That's not Mike Tyson. Are you kidding me? Mike Tyson does not have a handlebar moustache, and he's not white. Plus this guy's wearing pants."
transience | Posted 6/19/2007 12:18:56 AM | message detail | #247
http://namco-ch.net/talesoftheabyss/character/img/dist_pic3.jpg

the next time someone insults Kuja's character design, I'm posting this picture.
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xyzzy
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ZFS | Posted 6/19/2007 12:22:36 AM | message detail | #248
Yeah. Dist is pretty dumb looking.

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transience | Posted 6/19/2007 12:23:45 AM | message detail | #249
The Mouth, The Eye, The Huge Hand and The Monocle -- something's gotta give there.

oh yeah, and The Chair.
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xyzzy
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Dorobou | Posted 6/19/2007 12:24:10 AM | message detail | #250
Please. That >>> a transgendered monkey in a thong
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