bit_blaster
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meh honestly forgot about RDR2 after I beat it.
I think Solid Snake was much better, especially in MGS1.
I think Solid Snake was much better, especially in MGS1.
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Arthur Morgan is the greatest video game protagonist of all time.
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Rocco Schiavone
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The first Game is Red Dead Revolver.
GuinGuin
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Rykan
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Please explain why the best game in the series doesn't count.Doesn't count.
Thirty7ven
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Amazing message LMAO
Hey kids remember to try and be a good person when you know your days are numbered!
*farts*
GuinGuin
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The red dead revolver was straight trash.
Quasicat
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If we are looking at main protagonists, yes he’s up there. Looking at a game series full of protagonists, I would look at Mass Effect:
There are just so many awesome characters. Garrus goes with me everywhere. Tali is usually there too, but the dialogue changes between them depending on whether her and I are already involved. There’s also Jack, Mordin, Wrex, even Joker make the list of the best protagonists, all in the same game/series.
There are just so many awesome characters. Garrus goes with me everywhere. Tali is usually there too, but the dialogue changes between them depending on whether her and I are already involved. There’s also Jack, Mordin, Wrex, even Joker make the list of the best protagonists, all in the same game/series.
Eimran
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You misspelled Big Boss
D3SCHA1N
Member
I was somewhat willing to agree with you until you suggested Jack Marston was a better protag....
mortal
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I wouldn't go as far as saying THE greatest, but certainly one of the most interesting protagonists I've ever played as.
The 2 months I was playing RDR2 after work really felt like I was living a second life as this outlaw. I love how much it bordered on being an RPG at times.
The 2 months I was playing RDR2 after work really felt like I was living a second life as this outlaw. I love how much it bordered on being an RPG at times.
xBlueStonex
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I have been gaming since '95. Arthur is the best protagonist I have ever played, and RDR2 is one of the best experiences I've ever had, regardless of medium.
Saint Boot
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Tc spelled Samus Aran wrong.
killatopak
Member
Not my boy
I guess you can bundle him with his homie shepard.
I guess you can bundle him with his homie shepard.
LectureMaster
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Arthur is a very convincing video game character, you can empathize all the struggles that would happen on a real outlaw in his age. I especially love how Rockstar handed out the tidbit about his past, the tragedy of his wife and son and how it shaped him for what he is now.
hyperbertha
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People with these opinions either only play western made games, or have only been gaming for 5 years. I thought Arthur's arc wasn't very compelling at all.
Kerotan
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One of the best for sure but revolver ocelot is on another level. Both of them started off similar. Young men working for an organisation. Arthur got walked all over, whereas ocelot looked like he did but in reality he knew what was up and out played his superiors time and time again. You're... pretty... good... Arthur but you're no Ocelot!
Kokoloko85
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Answer is Robo Cod… prove me wrong
ChoosableOne
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Congratulations to everyone. My vote goes to Snake. Dutch was good though.
decisions
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I mean you can be reductive and immature about anything. Any great story has a simple theme, but the way that theme is expressed is what makes it great.
RDR2 does an amazing job of making the player empathize with Arthur and change their behavior along with him.
In the beginning I wanted to do what’s best for the gang, in the end I was less a gang member and more just about doing right by God, so I made sure to do every sidequest I could so that I could do as much good as I could before the end. The way the characters were written to handle this character shift has simply never been done to this level in gaming ever before. It’s absolutely commendable.
Anyways not sure why I gave you a serious response since you gave that of a 10-year old troll, but maybe someone else will read this.
Certainly one of them. He was also loyal to Dutch because there are a lot of complicated feelings when you follow somebody who pretty much raised you and was the only family you have ever known. He thought he could still steer Dutch in a better direction until the end when it became about getting John and his family out.
REDRZA MWS
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Ummmmm no……..
MrS
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I've met FJM and his beard isn't that long. That right there is some ZZ Top shit.I hope that isn't how your Arthur looked. If you weren't rocking a Father John Misty beard you were playing it wrong.
On topic, Big Boss says hi
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YoshiMadness
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Fair, but I'll argue that you don't have to be a child to enjoy adorable, cheerful characters.
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bender
What time is it?
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
While I enjoyed watching him grow and change into a better, if not good person, his naivete in following an obvious dunce like Dutch around for so long is almost unbelievable.
After taking in the events of both games, John Marston comes out looking like a much, much better protagonist.
After taking in the events of both games, John Marston comes out looking like a much, much better protagonist.
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YoshiMadness
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Come on now, dude has his own series of games. He's definitely been the protagonist on several occasions.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Agree to disagree.
Come on now, dude has his own series of games. He's definitely been the protagonist on several occasions.
YoshiMadness
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I guess, but he has objectively and factually been a protagonist numerous times. He's starred in his own games, what would that make him?
That's not even just my opinion, it's just objective truth. A character who stars in his own games would be the protagonist in those games. I don't see how that could be argued. Who's the protagonist in Yoshi's Story then, Carl Johnson?
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
I feel like it's both. Arthur is the best Protagonist of RDR2, but I think John is the best Protagonist of the series of that makes sense. Arthur popped up out of nowhere and stole hearts. Meanwhile John was a known character that everyone liked to begin with. But if you take Arthur at his best and John at his best I would personally take Arthur.
Also for the Record John would be in my Top 5. So it's not like I am leaving him out to dry.
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Meicyn
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I would say Roger Clark’s performance, for motion capture and voice acting, is what elevates his character to the best to date.
Some folks point out how unbelievable Arthur is for sticking with Dutch, but that in itself is silly to suggest. Human beings do irrational, illogical things all the time. Loyalty is exploited by bad faith actors even as we speak (see: politics). Arthur sticking with Dutch through thick and thin and only realizing he was used and cast aside when it’s way too late is a tale as old as time. Everyone goes through that at different points in their life.
Some folks point out how unbelievable Arthur is for sticking with Dutch, but that in itself is silly to suggest. Human beings do irrational, illogical things all the time. Loyalty is exploited by bad faith actors even as we speak (see: politics). Arthur sticking with Dutch through thick and thin and only realizing he was used and cast aside when it’s way too late is a tale as old as time. Everyone goes through that at different points in their life.
bender
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Come on now, dude has his own series of games. He's definitely been the protagonist on several occasions.
All of those games are bad.
It wasn't just his boss, he saw him as a father. Hard to unfollow them that easily. He does in the end which the game is about, how the gang falls apart.
YoshiMadness
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Yoshi's Island is the greatest 2D platformer ever in my opinion, but agree to disagree I suppose.
bender
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I do not agree to disagree.
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