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[malfcn]

I knifed every merchant man in re4. His groan was great.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Patches is missing from the list.

 

[Kasper]

Definitely missing O'aka in that list.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

No Spelunky? m'kay...

Yeah what the hell? He's such a badass. He don't take no shit.

Also the RE4 merchant should have won.

 

[FFP2]

Spot on list. The RE4 merchant should have been number 1 though.

 

[rekameohs]

No' enough cash....

.....



....strangah.

 

[Storm Raider]

Forever A Loan at the top.

 

[braves01]

Tom Nook obviously wins. No other merchant is as morally unscrupulous as Nook is in utilizing debt slavery.

 

[Robert at Zeboyd Games]

Should have had Recette & Taloon but otherwise a pretty good list.

 

[jett]

WHATDYA BUYIN'

WHATDYA SELLIN'

STRANGER!

THANK YE

AH, I'LL BUY IT A HIGH PRICE!

This was rigged. Tom Nook can suck deez nuts.

 

[mattp]

fuck this list
re4 merchant is #1
this isn't up for debate

also, the people who made this list clearly never played crypt of the necrodancer

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Suffer not the shopkeeper to live...

Patches is missing from the list.

See? Missed two killable asshole shopkeepers. This is what the list misses: VENGEANCE.

 

[Maintenance]

Good list, Tom Nook is the boss.

 

[gelf]

RE4 merchant is number 1 for me. If he was in 5 and 6 I might have bothered to play them by now just for him.

2nd would be Stan, the perfect caricature of a slimy salesman.

 

[plutoknight]

Rodin is a glaring omission.

"Whatdya Buying?! I heard that in a game once"

 

[MrCunningham]

So, a NeoGAF joke thread becomes a top 10 list on GameTrailers?

the GOAT

Still my favorite. He kills you and then calls you a thief for the rest of eternity. That Koholint village shopkeeper doesn't play around.

 

[Gundy2010]

" I see you have an eye for things, guns's not just 'bout shootin', it's 'bout reloadin'. You'll know what I'm talkin' 'bout!"

STFU N TAKE MY MONEY!!!

 

[VinFTW]

Came in here thinking Merchant from RE4, was not disappointed...

 

[Hot Coldman]

Where is Recette

 

[themagicalkitsune]

Hail to the king.

 

[abstract alien]

Rodin is terrible, so I'm glad he didn't make it.

 

[fred]

Has to be The Merchant from RE4 for me. I thought he was a right dodgy looking fucker the first time I saw him so I shot him in the head lmfao. Needless to say I had to restart the game when I realised I couldn't buy fuck all without him lol

 

[Taruranto]

I could never look at Tom Nook the same way after than Animal Crossing Let's play.

 

[EhoaVash]

Agree with re 4

Also where is bayonetta Rodin

Only merchant to be fully playable in bayonetta 2

 

[Visualante2]

Tom Nook, introducing children to a culture of debt for over ten years.

Specifically the traveling moogle in FF IX was my favourite.

 

[Havel]

 

[Kouriozan]

03. Happy Mask Salesman (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
02. The Merchant (Resident Evil 4)
01. Tom Nook (Animal Crossing)

All is well.

 

[sgjackson]

spelunky dude and link's awakening murderer are definitely oversights. also i haven't played recettear but when people mentioned recette i was like "yeah, shit, she beats half the people on the list"

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

no Recette is horrible.

 

[Vhalyar]

No shopkeeper from Link's Awakening? For shame.

 

[Grizzo]

Still my favorite. He kills you and then calls you a thief for the rest of eternity. That Koholint village shopkeeper doesn't play around.

More than that, he immediately lets the world know what you did and every character in the game then proceeds to call you that.

Plus it looks like they're yelling whenever they're calling you "THIEF", as if they wanted to remind you how much of a scum you are.

 

[Majine]

Tom Nook has no soul.

 

[Ahasverus]

No Master Librarian invalidates this list.

 

[Kinyou]

I knifed every merchant man in re4. His groan was great.

The best part is that he appears again without mentioning it. Just quietly judging you.

 

[UrbanRats]

THEY'RE MASTERWORKS ALL, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG!
THEY'RE MASTERWORKS ALL, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG!
THEY'RE MASTERWORKS ALL, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG!
THEY'RE MASTERWORKS ALL, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG!
THEY'RE MASTERWORKS ALL, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG!

Spoiler

Worst merchant of last gen.

 

[Tizoc]

Good ol' Stan.

 

[TP-DK]

"No interest, eh? Can tell you're not going to last long here"

"What's the hurry? Where are you off to? Have you any manners?"

"Have you lost your Wretched senses? I'm Boldwin dammit and I'm not going down without a fight"

 

[kunonabi]

Very happy to see Rusty make the list but Renon should have been on there.

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

It's Chudley from Twilight Princess...dude gets bought out by Malo Mart, and so he goes totally bizarre and starts playing this song Malo Mart while dressed like an idiot.

This quest was optional, so I imagine a lot of people skipped over it, especially since no one visits shops in Zelda.

 

[ppor]

Torneko Taloon, GOAT shopkeeper from Dragon Quest IV

 

[Deleted member 57681]

the GOAT

THIEF



No Neko is a surprise. Goddamn highway robber.

 

[Tagyhag]

No Recette? So much for capitalism.

Seriously.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

The list made me realize that almost every Zelda game has at least one great shopkeeper. Especially the ones in Skyward Sword are all memorable.

 

[LuuKyK]

Chocolina was robbed.

 

[Reedirect]

RE4 Merchant should've been number 1. Other than that, this is a very solid list.

 

[Zomba13]

Chocolina was robbed.

It was a list of best shopkeepers not best stripper birdladies.

 

[Gold_Loot]

Stay tuned for next week "top ten blue sneakers worn by an antagonist" followed by "top ten desert rocks covered in dirt!"

 

[Maintenance]

It was a list of best shopkeepers not best stripper birdladies.

.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Definitely missing Recette.

 

[DigitalDevilSummoner]

He was a vendor