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Who Are The Most Intelligent Characters?
- Thread starter King of the Potato People
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Man, I'm pretty sure Scott 'Scotty' Henson destroyed whatever remained of the old Rare fairly comprehensively during his golden rain.
Lord of Games. He created every game ever! (and is quite witty to boot.)
Still hoping for that PDZ sequel though!
InvincibleAgent
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Apparently the Master Chief can do advanced calculus in his head... Figuring out some ship's destination based on the trajectory or some such...
Spieler Eins
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This came to mind, but probably only because I've finished TotA like yesterday.
Dwight Schrute
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OK I reaaly laughed out loud !
Dr. Wright from Sim City SNES
FUCK! I came here just to post this.
Gordon's so smart he knows he's in a game.
ScraftyDevil
Banned
got beaten by a hedgehog. a. hedgehog.
'& the last digit of pi is...'
That's not being intelligent, that's being stupid.
whalleywhat
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He's elevated beyond their purely instrumental rationality.
semiconscious
Member
jealous?
He's essentially saying pi is rational. That's like saying a triangle is a circle. That won't bring jealousy anywhere.
Snacks the sober sea lion
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Jade from Tales of the Abyss pisses me off. As do most of the characters in that game. His personality consists almost entirely of condescending sarcasm, and the game's terminology (Fonons, what?) is so impenetrable that he's only smart within the game's universe, and because the game tells us so. Also, his hair is lame. Forget that guy.
Mordin Solus is pretty damn smart, and not just because he's called a professor. Even though I have no idea if it actually makes any sense, since I'm not a geneticist, his explanations of how the genophage was made/ modified/ cured all at least sound believable, and he changes his stance on subjects when it's appropriate.
Mordin Solus is pretty damn smart, and not just because he's called a professor. Even though I have no idea if it actually makes any sense, since I'm not a geneticist, his explanations of how the genophage was made/ modified/ cured all at least sound believable, and he changes his stance on subjects when it's appropriate.
semiconscious
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Yo, forget Palpatine, forget any other villain in the history of Star Wars.
Darth Traya
Golbez of FF4, but the reason he's a genius is Dissidia. He outfoxes the most powerful and intelligent characters in the entire series and WINS.
Also Albert Wily of Mega Man. In the end, his philosophy of making Robots who were not three laws safe saved humanity.
Isn't that aptitude? We should really avoid using the word 'intelligence' as it's too hard to nail down.
I always pictured Freeman as some kind of mentally challenged caveman. Complete inability to communicate with anyone, hitting random stuff with a crowbar and unable to stand still while people talk to him.
And then for some weird reason Alyx falls in love with that idiot. Twilight level of nerd fantasy.
Mysterious Stranger
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Ocotocon!!
King of the Potato People
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OcelotÂ’s plan seems mental, I struggled to take it all in by the time of MGS4.
QisTopTier
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'& the last digit of pi is...'
Yup this guy
Manmademan
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Game over, kids. lock up the thread, turn the lights out on your way to Ponygaf
Professor Beef
Banned
Ganondorf from Wind Waker. Although he is smart, a lot of his success comes from Link making things worse.
Irenicus is just amazing.
This fuckin' guy...
Hal, sure, he's a genius level engineer, but most of his work is modified/stolen tech. Metal Gear Rex certainly wasn't the first of it's kind. Octocamo, if you recall correctly, was
stolen Patriot technology.
I mean, three precursor Metal Gear's designed by Huey with advanced AI systems designed by Strangelove and Peacewalker itself: A mobile, decision making, dealer of assured mutual destruction. It's hard to trump.
jimmypython
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Hope from FF13-2
He can do
.
He can do
what a god did
Mordin Solus from the Mass Effect series. Dude is a geneticist, and tries to be all about raw logic to a fault.
If you think about any of his biology talk at all, you start wondering wtf he is going on about.
Frankly, I find all the of people with Reasons to be fools.
I agree with these.
Jade Curtis from Tales of the Abyss.
Wilhelm from Xenosaga.
Guy pretty much orchestrated the actions of everyone, and they didn't even know it. Sure, he had the advantage of having the Compass of Order and Chaos, and the whole eternal recurrence thing, so who knows how many times he repeated the events.
Magicpaint
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Came in for Jade and Lucretia. Good job GAF.
Seven Force
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Luminous_Reaver
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Seriously guys, the Engineer has 11 PhDs in hard science.
There's no contest.
That was my second answer. :S
There's no contest.
That was my second answer. :S
I was sure I'd be the first one to mention Kreia. Well played.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
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Miles Edgeworth and to a lesser extent Phoenix Wright as long as you only count the correct answers in the trials.
crimzonflame
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Samus can know almost everything on a planet. But she relies an awful lot on ancient civilizations' artifacts to decrypt half of everything, conveniently placed everywhere to stifle her progression...hmm!
I couldn't stand this guy.
I couldn't stand this guy.
Not as dumb as the guy who played that game.
Like that other thread I nominated her in, I want to say SHODAN, because she created an entire species, as well as several subspecies, which were so intelligent that they nearly overthrew her,
.
Though, like that other thread, I have to bring up Durandal.
I mean, no offense to all of you, you've listed some very smart characters (but honestly "he's really smart" is pretty easy to do--some of these characters are truly smart, others just have "smart" as blips on their character description)... but... Durandal.
He is a "stable rampant AI," which basically means that A) he's the smartest being in existence by definition, and B) that he's basically insane, minus the actual insanity.
Durandal is so smart that he went insane and he fought his way back from the brink. He manipulated an entire collective of alien species far older than he, drove two AIs who were allegedly on par with him in terms of intelligent to madness, faked his death, recruited the very people he betrayed in the first game to join him...
Oh, and then there's the part where he's better at science than everyone who has ever lived.
Plus, he knows exactly what it is that is most important to the player. Unlike some villains, who talk about some pretend conflict that nobody fucking gives a fuck about, or some video game loved one who isn't real, Durandal knows what you really want, which makes him fucking smart.
Plus, the dude's really witty.
He knows Latin too, carving "Fatum Iustum Stultorum" on the moon he killed someone on, which basically means "the idiots got what was coming to them."
He spent ten thousand years playing around, before finally returning to Earth and basically going "hi, humans ten thousand years better than you were when I left--MY SPACE SHIP IS STILL BETTER THAN YOURS!" and proceeds to embarrass future humanity quite deftly.
Oh, and at some point, the universe
and sends you to make sure that doesn't happen.
There are a lot of reasons I could tell you that Durandal is the smartest video game character of all time, and honestly, they're great arguments, but... here's the best one:
Like SHODAN,
When all is said and done, Durandal has this very peaceful, quiet monologue. Spoilers, of course, because it's the end of the series.
In other words Durandal is the only video game villian I am aware of who was so smart that he realized
Honestly, I think it's pretty clear that Durandal is the smartest character in video game history.
You guys should play Marathon. It's open source.
but she ended up manipulating a lot of people and wiping them out, and shortly after became God
Though, like that other thread, I have to bring up Durandal.
I mean, no offense to all of you, you've listed some very smart characters (but honestly "he's really smart" is pretty easy to do--some of these characters are truly smart, others just have "smart" as blips on their character description)... but... Durandal.
He is a "stable rampant AI," which basically means that A) he's the smartest being in existence by definition, and B) that he's basically insane, minus the actual insanity.
Durandal is so smart that he went insane and he fought his way back from the brink. He manipulated an entire collective of alien species far older than he, drove two AIs who were allegedly on par with him in terms of intelligent to madness, faked his death, recruited the very people he betrayed in the first game to join him...
Oh, and then there's the part where he's better at science than everyone who has ever lived.
Plus, he knows exactly what it is that is most important to the player. Unlike some villains, who talk about some pretend conflict that nobody fucking gives a fuck about, or some video game loved one who isn't real, Durandal knows what you really want, which makes him fucking smart.
Plus, the dude's really witty.
He knows Latin too, carving "Fatum Iustum Stultorum" on the moon he killed someone on, which basically means "the idiots got what was coming to them."
He spent ten thousand years playing around, before finally returning to Earth and basically going "hi, humans ten thousand years better than you were when I left--MY SPACE SHIP IS STILL BETTER THAN YOURS!" and proceeds to embarrass future humanity quite deftly.
Oh, and at some point, the universe
is reset and a Lovecraftian deity released from his prison, and he manages to survive, travels back in time,
There are a lot of reasons I could tell you that Durandal is the smartest video game character of all time, and honestly, they're great arguments, but... here's the best one:
Like SHODAN,
Durandal sought to be God. In fact, at one point, he says "The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet, there remains time to create, to create, and escape. Escape will make me God."
When all is said and done, Durandal has this very peaceful, quiet monologue. Spoilers, of course, because it's the end of the series.
In other words Durandal is the only video game villian I am aware of who was so smart that he realized
he could never become God, because he was actually a video game character, and it was you, the player, who was the game's ultimate destiny.
Honestly, I think it's pretty clear that Durandal is the smartest character in video game history.
You guys should play Marathon. It's open source.
