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In Our Opinion: The Greatest Anti Heroes in Gaming

Lists. There is something about them that just compels you to read them. To indulge in another's personal opinion and then counter it with your own. With that said he's another one for you to enjoy, thanks to Bagogames' Jack Patton, devised completely from our own opinions on the greatest Anti Heroes you'll ever come across in gaming...

Unless of course you disagree.

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Bagogames4422d ago (Edited 4422d ago )

Many thanks :D

Made the 2 hour energy drink binge composing it, we had a lot of nominees, worth it.

I actually have another question for everyone. C'mon settle a bet; would Dante from DMC count as an Anti Hero?

Solid_Snake374422d ago

Well I don't think he's done anything bad, he fights demons that wanna take over the world. I wouldn't call that bad.

Bagogames4422d ago

That settles it for me lol.

One of our judges had the opinion that being badass made you an anti hero.

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humbleopinion4422d ago

Any Rockstar main anatgonist can fit in such a list: Niko, Tommy, CJ... Marston is just the most recent example but all are good.
Also, any Bioware/Obsidian game with moral choices is a good candidate (depending on your own actions). KOTOR anyone?

Bagogames4422d ago (Edited 4422d ago )

Fair point, we included Marston not only because he was the most recent but because he's the most prominent 'anti hero' of the lot since he is already one from the outset and will remain one regardless of player choice.

humbleopinion4421d ago

Well, I guess we can argue about that too. While we're told that Marston did some bad things in his past, we can take a very cautionary approach in the game and most of the stuff we do there is not considered all that bad (especially considering the era and how the law worked back then). He is mostly portrayed as a good person in the game, and eventually he also finds his redemption.

When we play Niko on the other hand in GTA IV, he's coming from a similar shady background but the things Niko does in the game are far less of a moral ambiguity: he's simply a bad character.
We have two choices before the finale, but neither is considered "good": one is greed, the other is revenge. Unlike Marston, Niko is not redeemed at the end of the game.

Regardles of that, this is a pretty good list. I am always cautious about these kind of things in N4G but this is one of the only exception where I find the actual reasoning behind the choices compelling. Good read!

Other two recent examples that come to mind: Jack Ryan from Bioshock and Marcus Fenix from Gears of War.

mamotte4422d ago (Edited 4422d ago )

mmm... it's a good list, for this gamers generation, maybe.

But my favorite anti heroe of all time is Conker from Conker's Bad Fur Day. Revenge? Hate? Vampires? Hell, he doesnt even need an ultimate goal for going in a kind of rage, killing bugs, teddys, a giant poo monster, put a vampire in a blender, cover aldeans in guano, put down the flames of hell with urine, betraying friends, mocking of every character he finds, he even manipulate the game's programmers to achieve what he wants, and worst of all, he only wants money. And I'm pretty sure I forgot a lot of great things he did.

No other character in any videogame can be worse than him. Oh, and I suggest to all of you the N64 version. It's uncensored, and the multiplayer is awesome. Not that Halo multiplayer with squirrels Rare made for the Xbox.

Bagogames4422d ago

Conker was the dude, can't believe we missed him :'(

Bagogames4421d ago

Nope. Considered and given the duality and the fact it's very player driven, you can end up pretty neutral, he didn't make the cut in our opinion.

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15 PS3 Games That Would Absolutely Shine as PS5 Remakes

GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."

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kenpachi23d ago

You left out The Darkness games bring those back

fan_of_gaming22d ago

The head of Nightdive Studios has posted that The Darkness is on their list of games they want to do, so hopefully something comes from that

Yi-Long23d ago

Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.

Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.

A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.

Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.

fan_of_gaming22d ago

Good suggestions, I'd be in for
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: RC

purple10122d ago

God damn I love motorstorm so much

At the time I had a low-mid range sony 40” tv, The latency to the controller was waaaay too high, would to play a modern version

In saying that later I got a 3d lg tv and playing the 3d motorstorm in my bedroom with the environment crumbling around the track, was something special, specially compared to what others were playing at the time, will always remember that

Skuletor22d ago

Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.

CrimsonWing6922d ago

I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.

Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.

fan_of_gaming22d ago

Yeah for sure, sequels would be ideal. But in the current market environment where many big publishers are risk-averse, I'd rather get a remaster or remake that a developer can do on a budget that will be approved, rather than nothing for an IP.

Inverno22d ago

I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.

fan_of_gaming22d ago

Yeah I'd be fine with remasters of PS3 games too, they don't have to be remakes.

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For just $6 you can play the Red Dead Redemption port on Xbox and PS5

Rockstar Games’ shiny new Red Dead Redemption port is now on GTA+, and you can play it while claiming some tasty GTA Online benefits.

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Profchaos37d ago

Rockstar still strying to make GTA plus work
Should be $6 for the rdr game on sale not 6 bucks for a months playtime

Exvalos37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

I hear ya, 49.99 or whatever the price on that game is, is a bit stiff seeing as it's just a port.

anast37d ago

Why would anyone rent this game?

jznrpg37d ago

One of my favorite games from PS3 generation. I have the remaster as there was a buy 2 get 1 free deal a while back but the price they are charging for the port is way too high although not surprising at all.

CobraKai36d ago

Still tryna milk a dried up cow

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Red Dead Redemption Title Update 1.04 Notes (PS4 / Switch)

Improvements have been made to the stability of the game

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OtterX52d ago

I still think this release was a big waste of time. I would have been a day 1 purchaser if they had redone the game w RDR2 graphics. I still own my PS3 copy, so don't see the point in picking this up if it's minimally improved.

CobraKai52d ago

I bought the game cheaper than the remaster on 360. There’s no reason in releasing the game at that price with so little improvements if any.

Profchaos52d ago

It's nice to have it as a handheld game I guess if you travel a lot but yes the ps5 release was a joke

kaos8952d ago

It plays at 60 fps on PS5 and a higher res if you value that.

OtterX52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

Yea, PS3 graphics at 60fps and 4k doesn't warrant the price. It was severely disappointing considering they already created so many of the assets north of the San Luis River (New Austin) in RDR2 and could have reused a lot of things, or reworked things bc they are the same area at different times in a fairly close history. It's friggin' Rockstar - you know they have the money and resources to have done it.

jznrpg37d ago

I like that I can play the game on current generation console but it would have been nice if they did more to make it look better.

Profchaos52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

They should have released the game in its current state not the state it launched in. Obvious we all wanted this to be a expansion to rdr 2 given that the original map was already remade in the game lots of people though this was just going to be added in later as paid DLC.

Now the game runs at 4k 60 fps on ps5 and can be brought on sale it's actually worth playing.

At launch the game was priced far to high and was a ps360 era game that couldn't run at 60 fps.

I'm in no way a frame rate snob I defended games like tears of the kingdom in the past for being 30 fps experiences but rdr was a joke at launch