Some of the best games are remembered as being amazing due to having such great characters. It takes a lot of effort to make a cast of characters truly likable. Have you ever considered how much effort goes into creating just one character? They are carefully sketched countless times, modeled and animated, voiced... Their personality is carefully sculpted along with the story, and eventually the character comes to life.
Sometimes, however, developers can get away with skipping some of these steps. Maybe it's a marketing cash-in on a famous figure. Maybe it's use of a franchise license. Maybe the developers were just fanboys of certain people like the rest of us are. Whatever the reasoning, the fact remains that recognizable figures have been finding their ways into video games for years now. Here is a list of the ten most stylized of these figures: the ten that have been blown up into something truly special.
Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires was a spin-off from the popular Dynasty Warriors series, adding a strategy element to the huge battles.
Best Friends Play Bujingai - The Forsaken City' is a Super Best Friends Play episode in which Matt and Woolie discuss at length the never ending rise of the superstar career of Japanese singer Gackt, the Immortal Vampire Lord. Oh, and they also play the PS2 title Bujingai - The Forsaken City.
They could have been the best... if they had been given a chance.
And my issue with bringing back such games is that they'll forego their basic mechanics. Turn based RPGs made into real time action games or faux MMOs.
Suikoden III is a classic! I played through and unlocked all 120 or so characters. I've been meaning to play IV and V all these years later...
Ippo is such an amazing game. Amazing manga and anime as well! Makes me want to play both Ippo games again. The PS2 ones were so amazing. The Wii version was so awful in comparison.
Yeah the wii game was hot garbage. There was 2 hajime no ippo games for the PS2 but there was a 3rd only released in Japan. VICTORIOUS ROAD. This version lets you create a boxer from scratch then delve into an extensive career mode where you can move weights, set your diet, choose your training and even develop special moves you see in the regular roster and much more. Such a gem of a game and probably the greatest boxing game ever
I also loved Black, Wipeout 3, and Killzone. I thought these were all underappreciated as well.
Many poeple seem not to like the very frist Killzone for some reason, okay granted it didn't look all that great but i was a great game nonetheless. I'm going to replay it soon and play through Hakka, Rico and the shadow marshall (forgot her name at the moment) parts on ps3. Black was a game that got the guns and sounds right, was light on the distruction but was a great shooter. Would love a remake of this game just as it was back in the PS2 days its another game that I played so many times. I remember when ending Black for the first time after the hectic shootout my hands were shaking a bit I was so ampped. Good times, good times.
Yes, that last scene in black was intense. It took me a few tries and when you finally did get it, it was like, what happened, did I really finish it, whew...
Definitely some good times. Good to hear from others who enjoy some good occasional nostalgia!
Gackt has quite a few characters based off him in the Final Fantasy series, namely Squall and Genesis (and probably other games). Could have done a little better than mostly sports game spinoffs and pop culture games though, I mean come on, they're a dime a dozen.
um... Jean Reno in Onimusha 3??
Poor list
I'm surprised they put Gackt's Bujingai character on the list instead of Genesis from Crisis Core. More people know about Genesis than Lau, tbh.
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