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| 30 Characters That Defined The Decade*vote!* | |
| Posted By: Morpheus <SlimDKR@aol.com> | Date: 11/16/10 5:35 p.m. |
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Seems like I'm news hungry today... I just got GameInformer in the mail, and I'm not going to go through scanning everything(it's like, 7 pages) and for some reason GI.com still doesn't have it on their site, but the staff has decided to list the Top 30 Characters That Defined the tip of the 21st Century. Our favorite xenophobe has made number 4. "Master Chief is a man of few words. Even after saving the galaxy three times during the course of the Halo trilogy, we still don't know much about this faceless hero. But this anonymity is in part of what makes him such a significant character. Master Chief is the epitome of the hero archetype in video games. He provides the opportunity for the player to live out a classic power fantasy, to feel like you're saving the day without an unessential personality interfering with your experience. What Master Chief lacks in personality he more that makes up for in presence. The moment he steps on the battlefield, Master Chief is greeted with reverence from his fellow soldiers. He is mankind's last hope for survival, and stepping into his big metal boots feels suitably empowering. Equally rousing is the response Master Chief garners from his enemies, who run away in uncontrollable fear at the very sight of the iconic soldier. His reputation as an alien-slaughtering badass precedes him everywhere he goes. Thanks to Halo's innovative system for handling player damage--one now copied by virtually every modern First person shooter on the market--playing as Master Chief makes you feel like an unstoppable tank, while still retaining Halo's challenging gameplay. This isn't the only aspect of Halo to be copied by other developers. Building on the foundation laid by games like Half-Life and System Shock, Halo's cinematic take on the genre cemented the shooter's place as a medium for storytelling. After it's release, the anonymous shooting galleries of the Doom era were dead. No Matter what the challenge or how dire the odds, Master Chief always comes through in the end. He is the definition of the reliable hero, and although he might not be gaming's most robust character, he has played as vital a role in the industry as he does in Halo's fiction. Master Chief isn't just the face of the Xbox; he has defined the FPS genre for the past decade." Words to live by. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for The Rookie. He was in a subcategory: "Characters Who Missed Their Mark". Ouch. "It's not easy filling Master Chief's Mjolnir battle armor, which is something that players and ODST's protagonist quickly learned. Known only as The Rookie, he was a cipher with only trace elements of characterization. The fact that people still debate the character's gender is representative of how Bungie slipped in developing him(How embarrassing). Master Chief might not be particularly loquacious, but players gain a sense of how important he is to the human race in his interactions with other UNSC soldiers. In contrast,The Rookie is essentially an underdeveloped passenger." Here's where you come in--GI is giving you a chance to vote for your own Top 30! http://gameinformer.com/p/survey.aspx Vote for your character(MC is near the middle) or fill in your own at the bottom. Vote so we can keep Master Chief high in the ranks of the readers and fans. Maybe even higher!!
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| 30 Characters That Defined The Decade*vote!* | Morpheus | 11/16/10 5:35 p.m. |
| Voted *NM* | rolandk73 | 11/16/10 6:11 p.m. |
| Voted.....but | padraig08 | 11/16/10 11:31 p.m. |
| I Thought Of One This Morning. | Morpheus | 11/17/10 10:29 a.m. |
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