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[Principate]

Because in your example, that would be a simple crossover cameo, not what the OP (and every one else in the thread before yours) meant. So yeah, deal with it.

Except Mario originates as a spin off for DK, which is DK turns up in games like Mario Kart etc. So Donkey Kong in any game involving Mario would count.

 

[Sakura]

I'm 100% sure nobody else will say it, so Kobayashi Opera in Milky Holmes. He was the protagonist in the first game, but they changed protagonists to some shitty kid in the second. He shows up for one of the chapters and it really makes you miss him. I wish they'd make a third game starring him but the series sells like garbage so I know it was probably the last game.

 

[thelastcrusader]

I loved Jan Templar's cameo in KZ2.

Spoiler

He died.

 

[FinalD]

Packie McReary in GTA V. If you pick him for the big heist, he will talk about how he did something similar in Liberty City with Nico. Thought it was pretty awesome, took me right back to one of the best missions from GTA IV.

Edit: lol, not a protagonist, sorry about that ... Well at least he mentioned Nico -_-'

 

[Nairume]

Come to think of it, didn't the protagonist of Orge Battle also return in Orge Battle 64?

I didn't play that one

He does.

Spoiler

Destin shows up with several other key characters from the first game to assist the rebellion and menace you while you are working on the side of the Lodis backed government, and then can serve as allies/mentors when you turn face.

 

[Mephala]

He does.

Spoiler

Denam/Denim shows up with several other key characters from the first game to assist the rebellion and menace you while you are working on the side of the Lodis backed government, and then can serve as allies/mentors when you turn face.

...

Fuck. Tell me its on the VC. >.<

 

[Mupod]

I won't spoil the game, but if you've played it, you know what I'm talking about.

Well, you probably just spoiled it, although it's my own fault for putting the game on the backburner for so long. Although I did guess it already and I made a prediction post in the OT to that effect during the week of release. Although man, it's been so long I barely even know what I was talking about in that post. I'd have to replay the whole game :/

Wouldn't be the first time though. I didn't go back and finish ever17 until after 999 had come out.

 

[Nairume]

...

Fuck. Tell me its on the VC. >.<

It is indeed, and everybody should play it. It's amazing and actually manages to improve vastly on the original.

 

[Mephala]

It is indeed, and everybody should play it. It's amazing and actually manages to improve vastly on the original.

How so? Maybe this can tide me over until Suikoden 2 comes out here.

 

[Nairume]

How so? Maybe this can tide me over until Suikoden 2 comes out here.

More care to storytelling, a little more interactivity with the world, better summoning system, richer class system that doesn't complicate things more. Little things like that that add up to go a long way.

Only thing that comes out worse is that the game isn't quite as clear in regards to your chaos frame, particularly in relation to capturing/liberating towns due to them having individual messages for each class/character as to whether they've captured or liberated a town instead of the old digitized voice that yelled it at you in the first game.

 

[DorkyMohr]

This was pretty neat.

 

[Baron Von Beans]

GTA: San Andreas has a race mission against GTA III's protagonist, too. They gave him a French name, something like Claude?

Yes! I was waiting for someone to say it. While "Claude's" appearance is brief, it's certainly him. Believe it's an off road race in the woods, too.

 

[ryushe]

Leo showing up in the Vic Viper in ZOE2 was pretty neat and also made him a bearable character.

Surprised it took so long until someone said this.

Red is still the best, though.

 

[Riposte]

I won't spoil the game

Let's hope whoever reads your post doesn't have basic cognitive abilities then.

 

[Coxy]

I came here for that. I'm satisfied. Sadly, I also agree with the others: this was the only thing Darkengard 2 did right.

Came to say this. Drakengard 2 was a huge disappointment. Caim was the only part of it that they got right.

No love for Urick? I thought he was cool too, was also interesting that he could obtain the best sword from Drakengard 1 but snapped in half, so that was kind of a cool return too

 

[Typographenia]

I won't spoil it, but Harry Mason on Silent Hill 3

This was going to be my answer. However, I was thinking more along the lines of Silent Hill 2's

Spoiler

UFO Ending.

 

[Amentallica]

Such a cool battle.

As a kid, finding Red in Mt. Silver in Pokemon Gold and Silver was a pretty fucking incredible moment

My inner child wants to say Red at the top of the mountain in Gold/Silver.

I'd really have to agree with this. Throughout the entire game (in both Johto and Kanto), you hear about the trainer from three years ago that took down Team Rocket. You hear from his old rival how he was beat by him and lost his championship title to him. You even hear about the little things like giving the Mimic Girl in Saffron City a Poke Doll. He's built up as this legendary trainer, but you don't think you'll ever cross paths with him because, well... he was the player character of the first gen, and a silent protagonist at that. How would that even work, right? Then you get sent to Mt. Silver without much fanfare, and suddenly, the guy you probably spent a good amount of time playing as in the original games is now the true final boss of the newest entry.

Another one of my favorites is Genya "I'm totally not Alucard" Arikado from the Castlevania Sorrow duo:


Pretty great use of the character, in my opinion.

Just saddens me to think that I won't be able to experience that again. I care about no protagonist or antagonist in Pokemon games except for Red and Blue.

 

[Mupod]

Let's hope whoever reads your post doesn't have basic cognitive abilities then.

yeah that post should really be edited/deleted. I'm not mad because as I said I figured it out on my own, but it's a very obvious and big spoiler.

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

That's one hell of a VLR spoiler, haha.

 

[Wiggy]

Telltale Game spoiler!

Spoiler

Lee's return was my favourite part of Walking Dead Season 2

 

[lazyguy]

I don't know if this counts since he if playable later but not only does he appear in he game he is an actual boss when you first meet him.

I myself have never played any Yakuza game but my friend is a diehard fan and everytime we talked games he mentioned Kazuma Kiryu and how bad ass he was.
One night when I was at his home he was playing Yakuza 4 and he said he just wanted to know what happens next and finish it so I decide to watch him and then this scene happens and he went nuts doing some crazy anime screams, I kinda lost it too.
It was probably the most testosterone filled night I ever had.

 

[Riposte]

One night when I was at his home he was playing Yakuza 4 and he said he just wanted to know what happens next and finish it so I decide to watch him and then this scene happens and he went nuts doing some crazy anime screams, I kinda lost it too.
It was probably the most testosterone filled night I ever had.

The Yakuza experience.

 

[Squishy3]

Surely Dante in DMC4 counts, right? He's the first enemy you fight in the game!

 

[udivision]

Never played Phoenix Wright, but is that a good example?

EDIT:
I've played a little I mean.

*narrows eyes*

 

[DarkKyo]

How about Marth's visage being a big part of Fire Emblem Awakening? Does that count?

 

[Digital Snake]

This was pretty neat.

What is this from?

 

[molnizzle]

Recently, Dragon Age: Inquisition did it well with Hawke returning. The fact you can customize him/her was really awesome.

I disliked the customization. It totally ruined the "oh shit" moment of the reveal. I could have just gone with the default Hawke, but mine looked nothing like that. And really, it was the prompt popping up with the choice that killed the moment.

They should have figured out a way to import that shit. Or have a character design module on the Keep. Something.

 

[martino]

Hawke is a recent and good one.
Take important place in part of the inquisition events.

 

[Mzo]

What is this from?

Probably one of the Half Life expansions like Blue Shift.

 

[Astral]

I thought of another one.

The Arisen in Dragon's Dogma returns in

Spoiler

New Game+ as the final boss inside the everfalls. It is a cycle of life sort of thing where a new Arisen must rise and challenge the previous one who becomes essentially a god.

That twist was so fucking cool. The story was such ass until the post-game.

 

[OnionPowder]

Prototype 2 did this pretty well. Alex Mercer was the main protganist in the first one and then after that he tries to poison everybody in the city when Prototype 2 starts with you trying to take him out.

 

[Solid Samus]

I won't spoil the game, but if you've played it, you know what I'm talking about.

Yeah, I mean, this is the one, but even the picture is a damn spoiler xp

 

[Asbear]

Inclined to say

Spoiler

Hawke

in DA:I but you know... it really wasn't that well done lol. He got a cameo-like role and nothing more. In the end his whole arc even with inquisition was largely inconsequential.

Telltale Game spoiler!

Spoiler

Lee's return was my favourite part of Walking Dead Season 2

? Lee didn't return in Season 2.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Best first three posts ever

They actually evolved!

 

[martino]

Inclined to say

Spoiler

Hawke

in DA:I but you know... it really wasn't that well done lol. He got a cameo-like role and nothing more. In the end his whole arc even with inquisition was largely inconsequential.



? Lee didn't return in Season 2.

Spoiler

only if you don't shot him in the head end of saison one.

 

[MattyG]

2 does also has a short sequence where you play as Altair.

Oh yeah, the one where he meets Maria or whatever her name was in the tower, right? Completely forgot about that.

 

[JoJoSono]

Leo in Zone of the Enders 2. Makes him seem like an actual cool dude now.

Caim in Drakengard 2 as the sympathetic antagonist was neat. His ending cutscene is pretty sad.

Onimusha 4-Well it's a pretty cool twist.

 

[Astarte]

After seeing that one VLR I started thinking about what character it could possibly be and I'm pretty sure I just fucking spoiled myself if I guessed right. Fuck. I hate you.

 

[sd28821]

Tir McDohl in Suiko 2 (if you have a Suiko 1 save file).

this is my favorite

 

[Morrigan Stark]

I like how they gave them more colourful personalities in BL2. Lilith and Roland as a couple was adorable. xD

 

[Kubiubo]

In Castlevania: Symphony of the Night I always loved how Richter Belmont

Spoiler

was possessed by the dark priest, Shaft

and that you every so often encounter Maria throughout the castle.

 

[Vorpal]

Damn, I'm in the middle of Virtue's Last Reward and accidentally debunked my theories while reading this thread. Alas!

Lufia isn't the cleanest example of a protagonist returning, but I always loved the connections between 1 and 2. They took what could have been a one-off intro in Lufia 1 and expanded it into an awesome prequel.

 

[Dandy Crocodile]

I won't spoil the game, but if you've played it, you know what I'm talking about.[/IMG]

Seriously, this is a huge VLR spoiler, man.

Spoiler

Saying a character returns isn't a spoiler but a picture of the character who does return is just short of saying it outright.

 

[Mr. X]

Final Fight Streetwise

Pfffffff hahahahahaha

 

[Black_Stride]

Tommy Angelo in Mafia and Mafia II is a pretty cool example. Video with spoilers!

Mafia ends

Spoiler

with an aged Tommy being gunned down in his frontyard by two unnamed assailants.

One of the missions of Mafia II

Spoiler

has you, the player controlling main character Vito Scaletta, and your friend Joe Barbaro go to Tommy's house and murder him

.

Basically, the same scene, played out from two different perspectives.

By far the best and really really needs to get more credit.
When i played that mission in Mafia 2 i was like Holy Shit!
I already know whats gonna happen, but seeing it from the other side.....hells yeah!

The GTAV one....ohh fucking horrible. Waste of a character and seemed almost forced.
Claude in GTA San Andreas was okay though.......

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Spoiler

only if you don't shot him in the head end of saison one.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?!
D:

 

[Sectorseven]

Kano and Sonya in Mortal Kombat 2 was neat.

Most disappointing would have to be Crono in Chrono Cross.

 

[PsionBolt]

I'm 100% sure nobody else will say it, so Kobayashi Opera in Milky Holmes. He was the protagonist in the first game, but they changed protagonists to some shitty kid in the second. He shows up for one of the chapters and it really makes you miss him. I wish they'd make a third game starring him but the series sells like garbage so I know it was probably the last game.

Huh, interesting. I've only played the first game, but I'm quite impressed that they managed to create a new character that's actually less likeable than Kobayashi "I Have No Personality Whatsoever" Opera. It's hard to imagine a scenario where I'd be happy to see him again. Maybe I should get around to playing the second game.

 

[Not75Drops]

It flat out tells you in Hyrule Historia

..The spirit of links ancestor, the Hero of Time, teaches him his secrets..

But the other evidence being that hero of time is last seen entering the lost woods at the end of Majoras Mask and every song he teaches you to howl is from OoT or MM iirc

as well as a bunch of his dialogue, basically he regrets not being able to pass down his legacy so he gives it to the next link in line, and TP is after MM on the timeline even refers to him as son too

I think there's actually one song from the Wind Waker but yeah, it's pretty much confirmed to be him.

 

[Sheriff_Battlesnake]

LLoyd Irving gets to be the evil one on the second game, and it's amazing!

Maybe I need to replay that game (on second thought, I guess I own it since I bought the PS3 collection...) but I remember this feeling near X-2 levels of unfamiliarity with familiar characters. That and Emil non-Bosch'd out was Teepo level annoying. Admittedly at the time I was way more pretentious and enjoyed having heavy handed opinions.

While not a character, this gave me some special feelings. I had something else in mind but this is the only thing I could post without needing too much context and potential spoilers.