Inventories: The Hottest Characters in Gaming

[derboo]

www.hardcoregaming101.net/inventories/hottest.htm

Characters with an extreme affinity for fire are common in video games, but there's been little in the way of heated debate regarding how well they complement the games they're in. Here we take a look at some of gaming's hottest characters to see whether or not their design, abilities and personality can really bring the heat.

[16bitter]

lol nice.

Obviously there's lot of room for debate here, but I'd have also included the pyrokinesis chick from Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy and the unkillable living fire guy from Commander Keen 4.

[Neo Rasa]

This is perfect article to warm up to after the east coast US just got owned by a blizzard over the weekend.

[Discoalucard]

Someone on Twitter suggested this from DMC4:

devilmaycry.wikia.com/wiki/Berial_the_Conqueror_of_the_Fire_Hell

Also need to go back and add this:

[GamerL]

Jan 25, 2016 21:15:01 GMT -5 16bitter said:

 Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

Now there's a forgotten gem.

I've often wondered why no one has ripped off it's psychic powers gameplay yet, there are similarities with some of the plasmids in Bioshock for an example, but no game has gone whole hog on the psychic thing yet as much as it did and it would be interesting to see what you could do with it with modern tech.

Psi-Ops also sticks out in my mind because despite the fact that it had pretty great gameplay, it has possibly the worst story I've ever seen in a video game, the whole thing was total, utter nonsense that was laughable in every way, including the dialogue, I'm talking The Room caliber stuff, it felt like it was written by one of the developers' 13 year old nephew.

Keep in mind it's been well over a decade but some choice examples of stupidity I remember are revelations like WW2 was really fought over the control of these artifacts that empower psychic abilities and the the US actually went to the moon to retrieve one of these artifacts but this occurred in the 1950's, not 1969 (huh?)

[Neo Rasa]

Berial was in the running, but he's kind of total chump throughout most of the game and he doesn't have a spark to his personality to make up for it (Dante of course battles him at the end of DMC4 but even Nero completely clowns him in mission 2). Still there's always room for me to expand on this, but while there are plenty of incendiary characters out there, not all of them rise above the haze with the right combination of explosive attacks in the game, hot design, and fiery personality to leave a burning impression.

I think one other 8-bit character that I gotta add is THE SUN from Super Mario Bros. 3. It only appears in one level and is so angry. It lacks any real charater but of course makes a huge impact since you only see it once and it's THE ENTIRE SUN.

[tobemorecrazy]

Fighting games a pretty rife with these kinds of characters, here are a few I'd suggest:

Hellhound from Blood Storm: www.fightabase.com/gameStory.aspx?id=303&cId=1846

Diablo from Primal Rage: www.fightabase.com/charMain.aspx?id=990

Blaze from Mortal Kombat: www.fightabase.com/charMain.aspx?id=462

Burnie from Alien Challenge: www.fightabase.com/charMain.aspx?id=574

Also, they have a whole tag for it on Fight-A-Base which could help in finding some more candidates! Including Ash Crimson, Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami, Fuuma, Fei Long, Sweet Tooth and others.

[Snarboo]

So when's the Coldest Characters in Gaming article going to hit? :V

[16bitter]

Jan 25, 2016 21:59:28 GMT -5 GamerL said:

Haven't tried playing it in awhile, but I totally agree about the story, even though plot is generally near the bottom of my list of things to criticize in gaming. I remember most of the voice actors being above average though.

[Neo Rasa]

Jan 25, 2016 22:55:05 GMT -5 Snarboo said:

So when's the Coldest Characters in Gaming article going to hit? :V

I'm waiting for what will roughly be one of the hottest days of summer around here.

[Kubo Caskett]

For a second I thought it was about sexually attractive characters (though that would've been nice).

[GamerL]

Jan 25, 2016 23:21:57 GMT -5 16bitter said:

Jan 25, 2016 21:59:28 GMT -5 GamerL said:

Haven't tried playing it in awhile, but I totally agree about the story, even though plot is generally near the bottom of my list of things to criticize in gaming. I remember most of the voice actors being above average though.

I think plot matter because when you have a good game but a stupendously stupid story that tends to be what sticks in your memory after man years, at least to me.

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Jan 25, 2016 23:36:55 GMT -5 Kubo Caskett said:

For a second I thought it was about sexually attractive characters (though that would've been nice).

Subverting that expectation is the intended joke.

Besides, what qualifies as sexy is so broadly subjective. E.g., i find dog-faced people repulsive but there're people lap it up like toilet water

[Maciej Miszczyk]

Planescape: Torment was made by Black Isle, not Obsidian (although to be fair a lot of ex-Black Isle devs have later worked in Obsidian)

[vivianjames]

More candidates:

Psychic Force series - Regina and Burn
Street Fighter - Dhalsim