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Top 5 Most Bad-Ass Male Leads in Recent Video Game History

Brandon Thompson writes: "In the world of games the male lead has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders. Among the things a hero has to accomplish is being a tough guy or a bad-ass in this case. While plenty have accomplished this throughout the history of gaming, few have made major impacts in gaming in the last ten years. What does it take to be a bad-ass you ask? Well first of all you have to be able to hold your own in a fight despite all the odds being stacked against you. There's no denying that the guys on our list meet that criteria. Besides being able to handle themselves, a real hero (or anti-hero) has to be able to almost win a fight without ever taking a swing. That is to say his appearance alone should be able to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies."

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vgn245110d ago

A top 5 without teh boobs? I'll approve it I guess.

moegooner885110d ago

Without Nathan Drake this list fails !!

BeaRye5110d ago

Nathan Drake? He's cool, but who calls Nathan Drake badass? He's cool and funny, not badass.

AnttiApina5110d ago

I don't like characters that are supposed to be "bad-ass" seriously: Marcus Fenix is a shallow character.

However, guys like Nathan Drake and Snake are great! The character developement in these games is great!

BiggCMan5110d ago

did anyone realize that the honorable mentions mention agent 47 from HITMAN, yet it says NO MORE HEROES, hahaha, FAIL!!

lovestospoodge5110d ago

have thee forgotten? drake got with chloe and elana...and climbed a vertical train hanging off a cliff

Lich1205110d ago

@BigC

Im not sure if they changed it but everything checks out. It lists 3 games and No more Heros and hitman are both their.

execution175110d ago

or Virgil (he's more badass then Dante)

meetajhu5110d ago

Solid Snake is the best video game hero ever made. He is there in every list.

otherZinc5110d ago

The Master Chief
AND
Commander Sheppard
must be on this list.

WildArmed5110d ago

it's definitely a tough call.

Ryu, dante, kartos gotta be there.
And if you've played MGS3, Naked Snake is their daddy! lol (solid snake's daddy that is)

I dont usually associate shooting games with 'badass'..
Sam Fisher are more badass than Marcus. xD
I mean COM'on fisher does crazy ass stealth kills!

Drake is pretty cool. Mainly coz of the stunts you get to do, but nothing that rarely stands out.

So my final list would be:
1. Naked Snake
2. Kratos
3. Dante / Ryu
4. Same Fisher
and i'll squeeze in a 6th here.

6th - Choas -> Darksiders 2 please! or the Guy from Yakuza 3 lol

I havn't played NMH but i heard the hero is pretty badass

vhero5109d ago (Edited 5109d ago )

No Cloud?? Epic Fail..

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LoaMcLoa5110d ago

Nice to see that you atleast mentioned Travis Touchdown. Number 1 Bad-ass for me :D

BeaRye5110d ago

Travis is a smarta55 and he just kills one assassin after another. I mean to move up the ranks in No More Heroes 2, you gotta be pretty bada55.

fourtwenty20095110d ago

...also evil Cole from inFamous says hi!

BattersUp5110d ago

lmfao at inFamous. You are hilarious, but not as funny as the practical joke inFamous was on anyone who bought it.

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BlackTar1875110d ago

one of my top 5 games this gen.

STICKzophrenic5110d ago

inFamous is an awesome game and Cole is a badass.

WildArmed5110d ago

lol.

inFAMOUS was my runner up GOTY for last year.
It's ok if you dont have any taste in gaming, but don't just start ranting off.

And yeah, inFAMOUS cole + double charged = badass black lightining

The guy from Prototype was pretty cool too..
what was his name?
Alex Mace? or Mercer?

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fourtwenty20095110d ago (Edited 5110d ago )

Kazuma is like a Japenese Tony Montana. Dude has a full back tattoo, eats the toughest gangsters for breakfast, and WILL F-you up. Way more bad ass then Ninja Gaiden, Master Chief, or Solid Snake.

Kratos, Cole, Kazuma FTW!!

GunShotEddy5110d ago

It's not a wise-cracking list. Master Chief would choke out Nathan Drake while drake cracked wise.

Drake gets laid and Master Chief kicks ass. Nuff said.

VG_Releaser5110d ago

How can anyone say MC ain't cool? He's cool enough to warrant HUGE marketing campaigns and multi-million dollar titles, franchises, and merchandise. Stop being a flaming fanboy. Looks like everyone got represented. Even the Wii boys got some No More Heroes love.

WildArmed5110d ago

regardless what i think about halo the game.
The marketting definitely make MC look VERY badass.

I mean have you guys not seem those amazing adds where he GAH!? I cant even explain how epic it was.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

HOW awesome is that!
xD

Gun_Senshi5110d ago (Edited 5110d ago )

Dante of DMC, the cosplay is of the emo kid nero, not Danta lol

Master Chief or Marcus are definitly not bad arse. MC is generic space marine which downgrades from Warhammer 40k, while Marcus...meh all the cast of GeOW is horrible

For snake they forgot something "walk thru mircowaves"

BattersUp5110d ago (Edited 5110d ago )

Why did they include Nero with Dante? Looks like some bad editing, lol. OHHHH. I see. You are a Sony fanboy. The whole bashing every single Microsoft character thing was a clue. Keep that in the Open Zone.

Gun_Senshi5110d ago (Edited 5110d ago )

lol fanboys always points fingers.

Kindly tell me how am I a sony fanboy? I'm more of a PC Fanboy.

What I said is a fact. The games are fun to play but the characters are generic, just like Resistance has generic characters

A Mute that don't even have a face which is a super space marine
A bald guy on steroids swearing only

Geeze I wonder where I saw those!

Oh wait why am I answering a duplicate account troll

Strikepackage Bravo5110d ago

Your clearly an Xbox hater, this was not about the genericness of the characters, its about the badassness of them. To say Marcus is not badass is just moronic, he is the very definition of badass, which is why so many call his character cliche.

MC is obviously Bad ass as well but for more subtle reasons, he's the tall silent type, who kills without a peep. Now go, the openzone is that way>>>>>

Gun_Senshi5110d ago

You want real bad ass characters?

Sam Fisher is an example, not generic hero Number 32423515234

CellularDivision5110d ago

I almost cried at the microwave scene :(

LeonSKennedy4Life5110d ago

Master Chief isn't cool...at all. Seriously. Marcus is cool because he does and says cool things. MC does nothing cool. Ever. He just happens to be the main character of your favorite game. That doesn't make him cool.

WildArmed5110d ago

I like MC.. I havn't completed the campaigns for any Halo game after combat evolved, but yeah.

I'm not a fan of Halo at all. I barely put 4-10 hours in halo 3.

But after watching this:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
I can't help think of MC as anything but badass.
Again, i'm talking about the portrayal of the character.

Marcus is ok, quite generic like Nathan Hale or Killzone 2 for that matter. (it takes me awhile to even remember Killzone 2's character's names!)

Sam fisher is very badass.
Right along w/ Snake.

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC4d ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC4d ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Exvalos3d ago

What a weird name, it's essentially devil may cry, devil may cry lol

Cacabunga3d ago

Best to good for me: 3, reboot, 1, 5

2 and 4 are trash, didnt like any of them.
5 has very good gameplay variety but i hated the foes.. it is just insects the whole time. Reboot has the best foes for me

Friendlygamer4d ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey6024d ago (Edited 4d ago )

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya4d ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde4d ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

SeTTriP3d ago

This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.

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5 Years Later, Devil May Cry 5 Still Quenches My Hack-And-Slash Thirst Like No Other

Huzaifah from eXputer: "Devil May Cry 5, the latest iteration in the iconic DMC franchise by Capcom, still holds its own as a fantastic hack-and-slash in 2024."

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The importance of audio: How music makes games better

How do composers make the iconic music tracks from games that we love? And just what makes them so memorable?

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