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  I don't recognize some of these characters: green-haired chick, dude to the right of her, guy in front of... : HamChowder
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    The top guy between Price and Kratos is from Lost Odyssey. : Kentor
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      Bottom guy looks like a Dragon Age character. : Masem
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        Looks like Loghain to me : valael
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          This is a terrible painting. : Kentor
          • Yeah it is pretty awful : Crimsonbeak
  • Dude to the right of the green haired chick is Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain. Not sure if he's really defin... : DrWaffles
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    Green hair chick, I think is KOS-MOS (Xenosaga). : Masem
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      How is that remotely close to KOS-MOS? : Kentor
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        http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2005/09/project_kos_mos/kos-mos400.jpg : Masem
        • Yeah I guess you're right, but I still maintain http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24445258#itemanchor_2... : Kentor
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      But how did KOS-MOS "define the decade"? : Volatus32x
      • Don't ask me, beyond big ambitious projects that failed.... : Masem
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      Is that the main character from Beyond Good and Evil? : Bull
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        Yup, it's Jade and that puzzles me why they would pick her. : K1Bond007
        • Not Alyx? : nevlos
  • Person in front of The Boss is Tim from Braid (note the hourglass). : Masem
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    I almost missed the pictures on the wall! King of the Cosmos, Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright : trebarg
    • There are also the portals for...Portal : Volatus32x
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  Funny how few I recognize. My of a symptom of how poorly characterized most game characters are. Just sim... : trove
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    Yeah I had the same problem. I recognized Nick from Uncharted, kratos, halo guy, Raz from Psychonauts, t... : valael
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      I'm not even sure I understand the premise here. The games that defined the decade would have to include many games.like wow that simply have no character to use.

      Nov 05, 2010 5:33pm PDT
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      I'm not even sure I understand the premise here. The games that defined the decade would have to include ... : trove
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        It's "characters" that defined the decade, not games However, I do agree that it's weighted weird. At ... : Masem
        • But they are so generic and unrecognizable. How useless is that? : trove
      • Illidan or Arthas would be easily recognizable :P Or maybe just an undead rogue : Sovos
  • Once I read the list I could recognize a few more. I think the worst thing is that while I do think some ... : sigpro
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  You've got Alyx. I think if you are talking defining, she's likely more defining than Gordon was in term... : Masem
  • Gordon was so 90's. : Brian Leahy
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    both are pretty lame characters. its not really a game about characters : spiderfill
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      Seriously. Valve is incapable of making or recognizing memorable characters. The best ones they had were ... : ArB
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        Can TF2 count? : King Kavik
        • Real matter of factly I thought it made no sense to create such unique characters in a game where there'd... : greasyjohn
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        glados? those stupid turrets? : valael
        • oldmanmurray : ArB
      • seriously? you just completely discount L4D2's cast because they're not L4D1 characters? what about the e... : SniperWolf22
      • Please stick to "Rawlings-Chamberlain" posts, plz. : Crabs Jarrard
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        Fuck ArB I love you so goddamn much right now, I need to set your post to +INF so fucking bad >:( : abrasion
        • some of the other guys said I am a retard :( : ArB
      • None of their games have any real good playable characters in story driven games. The characters in L4D 1... : Mmmmmoo
      • Valve didn't create the L4D1 characters? Are you sure? They didn't buy a finished product. : sasoi
      • Actual their most memorable ones weren't human. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • At least Alyx actually qualifies as a character. : Arcanum
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  That guy on the left side standing in front of the woman. what's his left hand doing? : valael
  • and i only just noticed glados + portal + cake : valael
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  Terrible like every list. Wonder who the guy in the shadows is. : greasyjohn
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    "Would you kindly?" Frank Fontaine I think it was. : Big Luke
    • That's Andrew Ryan based on the partial silhouette. : Masem
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  They should of gotten this guy to do the art. http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/# The list is whatever, but... : Ooghijmiqtxxa
  • it looks like fan envelope art pretty terrible : spiderfill
• Some really good choices in there though... I don't see any characters I don't like, even if their incl... : kallanta
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  more like the last 5 years, not 10. : klearlyunseen
  • Video game characters are easy to forget. : pigvomit
  • Eh, Vercetti and Raz are there. : greasyjohn
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    Didn't notice Auron from FFX? : Grimmadog
    • or the girl from beyond good and evil? : lightsam
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  I don't recognize many of them so that makes me question how they "defined the decade". Some are good cho... : K1Bond007
  • same here. : zigzag
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  Is that HK 47 next to Altair? : dissembler
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    Affirmative, meat bag : Cheeziologist
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      Who's in the picture frame above him? : lightsam
      • katamari king guy : ass-street
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  Is that supposed to be the G-Man next to the portal in the darkness? : thecray
  • i think it's that bioshock character based on the "Would you kindly?" next to him : valael
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  No because Gordon freeman has no real character... he's you more or less, the camera never moves out to t... : Cubictoast
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    IMO, Valve fucked that up when they showed you his visage. Which was pretty early on. Should've had him f... : GreatGooglyMoogly
    • but then we'd missed out on cool things like this: http://lh3.ggpht.com/alexeiz/R6mD8DfdbqI/AAAAAAAAAC... : lightsam
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  Maybe 6 or 7 of those deserve to actually be there. Not that the rest didn't have fun games (some did, so... : Ebu
  • You would think that if they are going to define a decade they would pick 10 characters : peat
  • looks console only. : radula
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  My friend and I were looking at this earlier and got like 8. In this chatty or the weekend chatty I'm hop... : givemesnacks
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    Here's the list and it's fucking retarded: Wanderer - Shadows of the Colossus KOS-MOS - Xenosaga Eth... : Kentor
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      How the hell does Loghain qualify as an influential character? I loved Dragon Age, but he was neither mem... : Wisp!
      • He's the bad guy right? If this list is true this is the worst decade ever. WTF : umegastar
    • Appreciate it! : givemesnacks
    • LOL at including The Boss but not Snake. : MaxPete82
• This is shitty : Begawkiness
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  Spoiling RDR: I still fell sad that I could'nt save Marston sr. : ArtilleryMarker
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    But getting revenge was oh so sweet. : pgharavi
    • It was an amazing ending. One of the best ever for me. : TShandy
  • i had a bug where the kid just stood by and watched it was awesome and made the whole thing more enjoyabl... : valael
• this is a horrible painting, half of these are giving off a real Johnny Fiveaces vibe :| : Majuju
• Alyx defined the Half-Life series? pffffffffffff : Madwacker
• Fuck yeah Auron. FFX is my #3 game of all time. : squigiliwams
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  God damn that painting is terrible. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • I felt shitty thinking that. I am dead inside but I agree. : massdev
  • yeah it looks like something a high school kid would make : ass-street
• Unless I've missed him in this weird painting, Snake (MGS) is a glaring omission IMO. : MaxPete82
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  no Doom marine or Duke Nukem !!! what about Guybrush Threepwood or Lara Croft !!! : hanged_man
  • Wrong decade : MaxPete82
  • hate to break it to you but you are old and those characters are older than a decade ago :( : GloriousCow
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  He defined the 90s. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • All of the immense influence of HL stretches into this decade. : SpaecKow
• i like it : packav
• The only good thing about that painting is how fucking sinister Andrew Ryan looks back there in the shado... : Rethius