Top Five Video Game Protagonists of All-Time

PlanetXbox360: "Characters are what give the games we play personality and… for a lack of a better word… character. They serve as mascots for companies, faces for branding, and personalities that gamers can connect to. Franchises are built upon them and (for better or worse) serve to often define a particular console."

[TurismoGTR]

I <3 Solid Snake!

Snake, Mario, Nathan Drake, & a few others remind me of WWE Superstars like...

Hogan, Shawn Micheals, Triple H, etc.. Huge stars, BIG $$

[DarkCharizard_]

1. Mario
2. Link
3. Snake
4. Master Chief
5. Sonic

[Mikefizzled]

Are you serious Sonic?!

[jlar]

HAHAHAHAH.......Sonic

Most people don't really know who link is, none of my friends do. Everyone knows mario...even the girls ;)

[UltimaEnder]

Sonic was dead in the 80s dude, sorry to tell you!

[Iroquois_Pliskin]

Snake should have been placed higher in the list

[nveenio]

Nathan Drake is my favorite of all time. That doesn't mean that Uncharted is the best franchise of all time (though it is). It just means that Nathan Drake is the guy all other guys want to be.

[VanguardOfCalamity]

I'd have to add Kratos and Shepard

[GamersRulz]

Snake is a legendary Character, even planet xbox couldn't resist to put it ahead of Master chief.

[Iroquois_Pliskin]

Yeah, though so too. Snake is just to much of a legend, how many game characters survived 20 years and are still remembered and loved such as Snake?

[Skateboard]

Where the F is Kratos?

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[alexcosborn]

Really... Kratos?! I always found him a bit derivative and uninspired.

[Getowned]

Kratos is a douchebag. lol i like the list tho but i don't think kratos belongs in it.

[Skateboard]

Disagree.

[vyke3]

Kratos is uninspiring? Did You ever wonder why his skin was pale? it is the ashes of his dead Family.

[Goeres]

Link and MC got no personality whatsoever.

[scark92]

Snake is my favourite and why is there 2 pages for such a small article

[UltimaEnder]

I want me a William Wallace on this list, oh wait he's from a movie...

[KFox109]

This is a really bad list. Outside of Solid Snake, all the other characters have absolutely no personality. Master Chief is a big, green block of nothing, and Cortana outshines in every way imaginable as a character. These protagonists are only "the greatest" because their games made THEM immensely well known, but switch them for a block with legs and you'd still have the exact games, with protagonists with just as much personality. Not to bash on the writer, but he or she needs to be able to tell the difference between a successfully/well known protagonist and an actually well written one...

[btk]

Snake? Snake? Snaaakkkkeee...

[Firstkn1ghT]

Master Chief is a soldier of war. Created for the one purpose to save the human race. Emotions and personality are erased from his mind at an early age. Personality is a weakness.

Solid snake has a personality of a cartoon character.

[devilhunterx]

is that your excuse for the generic space marine syndrome?

[iamnsuperman]

Master Chief may define the Xbox brand but he has no personality. It kind of goes against what you have said in the description. Like a commenter pointed out it is more a top 5 character that appear in famous games. At lot of these character, well, do not have character.

For me (my opinion) Sackboy should get at least an honourably mention. He is exactly what the Playstation brand is, high quality and diversity and weirdly he has some personality.