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The best Asian videogame character (2D/Anime not counting)
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Kazuma Kiryu is better than your favorite videogame character no matter the race.
He can sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek2D1w4_Tlo
He can dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWqo5UsXyg
He can drive a taxi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeiJhKIA6ds
He's great with animals
Has an eye for talent and is big in real estate
Really great with the kids
and much more. Most videogame characters aren't even half as talented as this man.
Kazuma Kiryu
Absolutely fell in love with this guy playing through Yakuzer 0. Kiryu was great too but every time his sections came back up I found myself trying to speed through them to get back to Majima's sections.
Came here expecting Yakuza love, I'm proud of seeing a lot
malikhaing_bayag
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Bamco loves Philippines. Talim and Josie are Filipinos. 
Razgriz-Specter
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Lots of good ones already posted so I will go with one from one of my favorite series
It ain't Ace Combat without her.
Even as just a cameo or paintjob
It ain't Ace Combat without her.
Even as just a cameo or paintjob
Came to post this,Morgan and Alex are awesome.
I didn't know they were half german though.
So OP, you start this thread and use an Asian nick name and avatar and yet you don't know what or where Asia is? smh.
Anyway...
Rashid from Street Fighter V:
Mitsurugi from SoulCalibur (aged 22, 29, and 46):
Tekken has way too many good ones. My favorites are Law, Lee, Lei, and Hwoarang.
Anyway...
Rashid from Street Fighter V:
Mitsurugi from SoulCalibur (aged 22, 29, and 46):
Tekken has way too many good ones. My favorites are Law, Lee, Lei, and Hwoarang.
I'm kinda the opposite. I prefer classic Faith's less realistic design and reboot Faith's more realistic depiction.
Knives Chau was playable in the Scott Pilgrim game.
GlassBurrito
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All of your lack of respect for Segata Sanshiro has been noted
Fuck right off, Karen was awesome. Don't just hate because Mirei died pathetically and nobody even noticed.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
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These guys here:
Special mention: Wei Shen
Kazuya Mishima
Heihachi Mishima
Ryu
Special mention: Wei Shen
enfieldvball
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Haha nope, totally wrong character, pretty sure most of the main VAs from SD were asian with the exception of that one famous actor who's white
This is Wei Sheins VA:
http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Will-Yun-Lee/
You are the only one in existence to care ;D
As for the continents mix up, I was awake for 25+ hours. Excuse me.
(also the name isn't necessarily Asian)
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So I forgot about Rouge from PowerStone.
You've cared enough to continue sprinkling your salt a decade later.
Fake, knock-off Pullum.
Had to google who this fake was.
Can she hit you with an umbrella and throw you off a moving aircraft? Didn't think so.
Grettir_the_Swole
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Onimusha 3's Takeshi Kaneshiro
Came here for Onimusha 3. Didn't leave disappointed.
Predates by 3 years, and has infinitely higher chances of ever actually appearing in a game again due to Fighting Layer EX.
It just sank in that we are never getting another PowerStone...
Usually that would upset me. But it's worth it in this case, because it probably upsets you more.
Lots of good ones already posted so I will go with one from one of my favorite series
It ain't Ace Combat without her.
Even as just a cameo or paintjob
Is that the original Ridge Racer racing model repurposed for the Ace Combat series?
Suburban Thug
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I will go with Wei Shen as well. He just oozes style and I really loved his character development in Sleeping Dogs. Square needs to give us a sequel, I've bought the original twice!
He's from Eagleland(US), not asian.
Does this count as "anime"?
I feel like to induce an exclusion rule there has to be a stricter definition for what you're excluding.
There's something admirably simple about Ryo that sums up Shenmue being about an extraordinary story in an ordinary world.
Despite his revenge quest, he also likes to play with kittens, collect capsule toys, and goof off in the arcades playing video games. For an otherwise cold, laser-focused character, there's a pretty genuine and endearing human warmth to the fact he has kinda childish hobbies. Just reminds you he's really just a boy trying to be a man.
The series isn't afraid to knock Ryo down a few pegs either. In the original Shenmue he did a few "badass" things, but the sequel makes it clear Ryo was just a big fish in a small pond, and Hong Kong is a whale threatening to swallow him up. That's just more interesting to me than a character constantly being put on a pedestal.
In fact, most of his character arc in Shenmue II is breaking the hard-headed, impulsive, assholeish Ryo from the first game and rebuilding him as a calmer, more thoughtful iteration.
lucebuce12
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No it's her sister
Heart of Black
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RIP Misawa
SixMachine
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Emma Stone literally was casted to play a character who was asian and pacific islander in the movie Aloha. She also voices this character.
KneehighPark
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LOL, you'd be surprised how many people I know who subscribe to that definition.
I can tell you first hand that this way of thought is way too widespread in America, and it's really bothersome (to me at least). I've had people at my last job tell me I wasn't Asian, because I'm Indian, and not Chinese/Japanese/East Asian
This reminds me, I really need to play Power Stone again.Rouge from PowerStone
no mention of Rikimaru from tenchu ?? GAF, you keep disappointing me
Not even the best in that franchise... Tut tut
Diablohead
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Everybody's favorite.
I only played the MP of ME3 but every story or screenshot I see of this guy, it's always goofy lol
lucebuce12
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I know she voiced that character in Sleeping Dogs but....
Jesus, seriously? Freaking Hollywood.
QuantumSquid
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I think the protagonist of Sleeping Dogs was a pretty cool character.
FlutterPuffs
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...I was half kidding but it seems that some DO still think south asians/middle easterns aren't really asians.
but it's ok OP, you learnt something today!
I still dont understand excluding 2D/anime characters to stop a waifu war though. Just ask those who do to stop, there are plenty of great characters with 2D/anime-esque designs.
It's akin to a certain president banning people of a certain religion because of a few bad eggs.
but it's ok OP, you learnt something today!
I still dont understand excluding 2D/anime characters to stop a waifu war though. Just ask those who do to stop, there are plenty of great characters with 2D/anime-esque designs.
It's akin to a certain president banning people of a certain religion because of a few bad eggs.
Really, it's because I work with SAs who... Well I'venever spoken to any Iranian who said they were "asian" or heard anyone say that. So I always thought... Actually I never thought. Middle Eastern is a US term I let slip into my subconscious.
Gai Murakumo
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The #1 next to Kiryu.Wei Shen, motherfucker!
As a kid, because I'm Syrian I always marked myself down as "Asian" on standardized tests and shit before finding out we're apparently White. It's confusing and really dumb imo.
I was gonna be cute and put Shaheen saying that the Middle East is in Asia but decided not to lol.
Edit - My understanding as an Arab is that Middle Easterners are Middle Easterners, not necessarily "Asian", just "from Asia". Idk. It's stupid and I just wanna be called Arab, not Asian and I sure as fuck ain't White.
I think the first Assassin's Creed is literally the only game where the lead character is Syrian so it's still my favorite out of all of them.
The Broken Ska Record
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Everybody's favorite.
Oh god. I remember the thread about the Mass Effect novel where he breaks into some guy's place and eats cereal.
PassiveObserver
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It's Kung Lao, obvs.
It's Kung Lao, obvs.
MK9 turned him into a bitch tbh.