What Defines Successful Game Characters?

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday October 21, 2003 @02:10PM from the making-lots-of-money dept.

Thanks to TotalGames.net for their feature discussing what makes a videogame character popular. They point out that "almost every character-led game will see a significant chunk of development time spent honing, adjusting and, in some cases, scrapping characters", and discuss Link's famous make-over for Zelda: The Wind Waker, saying "...the outcry that greeted this graphical overhaul underlines just how important game characters are to players." However, the piece concludes: "But for every ignored genius, there are hundreds of mediocre and downright irritating game icons lurking on the shelves", citing Ty the Tasmanian Tiger and the Poochy-like Bitmap Kid as examples of the bad in character design.

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It's the hair. by TheSHAD0W · 2003-10-21 14:31 · Score: 4, Funny

Spiky hair = big bucks!
The greatest video game character by UltimaL337Star · 2003-10-21 16:27 · Score: 2, Funny

The ball from Pong, that guy was badass, he didnt take crap from no one... Did you see the way he was always beating on those lines whenever he could? sure he missed a few times but he always came back for more...
1. Re:The greatest video game character by chrismcdirty · 2003-10-21 16:51 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The ball from Breakout was much more of a badass. He took on armies of bricks at a time, and he took them out with ease!
  
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