{"id":931,"date":"2022-05-21T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/play\/?p=931"},"modified":"2022-05-21T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T16:16:48","slug":"who-are-the-most-popular-video-game-characters-who-is-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/play\/video-games\/who-are-the-most-popular-video-game-characters-who-is-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the most popular video game characters? Who is the best character?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Italian plumbers to electric-powered creatures, we all have our favourite video game characters, right? But have you ever thought about which characters would make a top list? Well, now you don&#8217;t have to, because we&#8217;ve just discovered Guinness World Records&#8217; <strong>most popular video game characters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Who are the most popular video game characters?<\/h2>\n<p>Our list contains <strong>famous video game characters<\/strong> from the long past to the present. Given that more and more game companies seek to use their iconic characters as representations of their brand, you can find many of these figures on shirts, cards, and even as Easter eggs within other games. And while Nintendo certainly claims the <strong>most famous video game characters<\/strong>, you&#8217;ll find representatives from most major video game publishers of the last thirty years.<\/p>\n<h3>Comparison: Most Popular Video Game Characters<\/h3>\n<p>This video shows some of <strong>The Most Popular Video Game Characters<\/strong>! Do you like Trevor as a character from GTA V? Or Steve from Minecraft?! Watch this video to find out some <strong>Characters<\/strong> you maybe didn&#8217;t know about!<\/p>\n<p>This probability comparison\/comparison video is made based on community discussions and relevant sources, numbers, and facts listed might not be up to date, valid, or in any specific order.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Comparison: Most Popular Video Game Characters\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCwWs8kcxyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>The most popular video game characters<\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: revert\">Sam Fisher<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sam Fisher is the reason most gamers can\u2019t walk through a narrow corridor without looking up to check for three green dots. He\u2019s got the sort of career history that makes Solid Snake look like a wheezy recruit in the Territorial Army: a highly decorated Navy SEAL, former CIA clandestine officer, member of a top-secret NSA initiative, and commander of his own covert unit. He\u2019s been performed by chainsaw-voiced veteran actor Michael Ironside in five of the six Splinter Cell games but in the more action-focussed Blacklist, Canadian actor Eric Johnson took over voice and performance capture duties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Daddy and Little Sister<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something magnificently weird about your first encounter with Little Sisters and their protective <strong>Big Daddies<\/strong> in 2007\u2019s BioShock. There\u2019s a sense that they have a purpose outside your firsthand experience &#8211; that you\u2019re an outsider intruding upon something real. And BioShock is brilliant because it doesn\u2019t let you ignore them: if you want to succeed, you have to engage. The fights that follow are the game\u2019s best &#8211; desperate, terrifying arm wrestles, which require you to throw all of your dwindling resources at your lumbering, elephantine opponent in an elemental fight for survival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Link the other exceptional franchise from Nintendo that is one of <strong>the most popular video game characters<\/strong>. We already threw some praise towards Zelda on this list, but you have to respect the main character of the series. With a new Zelda installment coming soon, all the great memories from Ocarina of Time come flooding back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Marston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Marston\u201cMy name\u2019s John Marston gentlemen. And you\u2019re dead!\u201d You might\u2019ve forgotten about John. It\u2019s been quite a few characters since we mentioned Bonnie <strong>MacFarlane<\/strong>. There\u2019s no reason not to recognize a game as good as Red Dead Redemption twice on the character list. That\u2019s a game that\u2019s good no matter how many times you play it. The story, the characters, the dialogue, it\u2019s all so well done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cloud Strife<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cloud Strife Final Fantasy<\/strong>, baby. We\u2019re talking about the best character in what is widely considered the best game in the series, <strong>Final Fantasy VII<\/strong>. His sword, his attitude, his troubled past\u2026 What\u2019s not to love about this guy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geralt of Rivia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In every installment of the franchise, <strong>Geralt of Rivia<\/strong> got that much cooler. The Witcher III is an exceptional game, and that\u2019s thanks in large part to our main man Geralt. Few characters have such unshakable confidence. You can\u2019t help but respect the White Wolf.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lara Croft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The original <strong>Tomb Raider<\/strong> for the original PlayStation was one of the first games we ever demoed in a store. She\u2019s come a long way. She\u2019s more than earned a top ten spot!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Princess Peach Toadstool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Princess Peach Toadstool is never a dull moment with Princess Peach around. She\u2019s getting captured, she\u2019s getting rescued, she\u2019s saving Mario, she\u2019s lapping her competition in <strong>Mario Kart<\/strong>, she\u2019s hitting people with a frying pan\u2026 Yeah, she\u2019s something else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kirby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo sure has a long line of iconic characters, doesn&#8217;t it? Next on our list from the &#8220;Big N&#8221; is the pink puffball that makes for the perfect plush doll. Kirby sucks up his enemies, copies their abilities, and overcomes the sorts of enormous baddies you&#8217;d think would pound him into a pulp. You can&#8217;t help but appreciate <strong>Kirby&#8217;s<\/strong> insatiable appetite and expansive ability suite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bowser<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mega lizard menace that&#8217;s been terrorizing Mario and the other inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom for decades is this guy. Bowser&#8217;s the ultimate video game big boss that&#8217;s been at the forefront of Nintendo&#8217;s biggest franchise right alongside its lovable protagonist. Side note &#8211; Bowser&#8217;s definitely one of our <strong>most popular video game characters<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pikachu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know Pikachu is <strong>video game\/mainstream royalty<\/strong> since most folks can mimic his voice with relative ease. That&#8217;s because the most popular <strong>Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong> of all time is still at the forefront of everyone&#8217;s memory. The lovable yellow mouse we&#8217;ve all come to adore is just so darn cute! The little guy even has his own movie, so you can never doubt Pika Pika&#8217;s popularity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mega Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Capcom&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Bomber&#8221; dominated everyone&#8217;s attention back on the NES. And even though he&#8217;s had a ton of character changes in the years since, everyone still refers to <strong>Mega Man&#8217;s OG model<\/strong> as the most recognizable. He&#8217;s small, but he&#8217;s a powerhouse that&#8217;s done work in his 0wn games and a bunch of Capcom crossover titles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yoshi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once gamers got introduced to <strong>Yoshi<\/strong> back on <strong>Super Mario World<\/strong>, a new star was born. Now that the super helpful dinosaur is sporting legs, he&#8217;s even more of a superstar within the halls of Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pac-Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pac-Man was really the <strong>first video game character<\/strong> to define an entire brand and become so popular as to be merchandised. So what&#8217;s so appealing about a yellow circle that eats up little dots? Well, it turns out that Namco, who owns the rights to Pac-Man, gave him an entire backstory. He&#8217;s a family man, married to <strong>Mrs. Pac-Man<\/strong>, with two kids. In later games, he has a kind and adventurous personality that really embodies the video game industry as a whole. Heck, even Mario creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, claims that Pac-Man is his <strong>favorite videogame character<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mario<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ask anyone to name one of the <strong>most popular video game characters<\/strong>\u2014even someone who&#8217;s never played one\u2014and they&#8217;ll likely say &#8220;Mario!&#8221; Mario has come to be more than just a famous video character; he represents video games as a whole and even&#8230;well&#8230;America as a whole. Mario&#8217;s not your typical video game hero. He doesn&#8217;t wield a sword or have a fancy outfit. He&#8217;s just a plumber and dresses the part. He reminds us of the everyman from the Mushroom Kingdom who just wants to find his love.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1653147923159\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">Who was the first female videogame character?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\"><strong>Samus Aran<\/strong>, the heroine of Metroid (1986) and its successors, is often cited as &#8220;the first playable human female character in a mainstream video game&#8221;.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1653148870590\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">Who was Nintendo&#8217;s first character?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Sheriff is Nintendo&#8217;s first protagonist that appeared in the arcade game with the same name back in 1979, two years before Mario appeared in Donkey Kong and one year before Game &amp; Watch and Mr. Game &amp; Watch was created.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1653148892734\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">Which is older Pacman or Mario?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Palutena: Yes, that&#8217;s PAC-MAN. He was born in 1980, which means he&#8217;s one year older than Mario.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1653148911626\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">Is Bayonetta a guy?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Bayonetta (Japanese: \u30d9\u30e8\u30cd\u30c3\u30bf, Hepburn: Beyonetta), real name Cereza, is the titular witch and protagonist of the Bayonetta video game series, developed by PlatinumGames and published by Sega and Nintendo.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n<p>Also read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/play\/is-cecil-harvey-in-final-fantasy-a-prince-what-is-his-gameplay\/\">Is Cecil Harvey in Final Fantasy a prince? 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But have you ever thought about which characters would make a top list? Well, now you don&#8217;t have to, because we&#8217;ve just discovered Guinness World Records&#8217; most popular video game characters. Who are the most popular video game characters? Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-cover.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5473,7,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fictional-characters","category-pc-game","category-video-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who are the most popular video game characters? 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