I think we can all agree that many of the best games out there give you an option when it comes to picking characters. There are traditional fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur, Tekken, and Street Fighter, Nintendo classics like Super Mario World 2 and the Super Smash Bros. series, RPGs like Final Fantasy and Pokemon, and open world exploring games like Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Even some classic games you wouldn't normally think of give you choices, like Sonic 3 where you can choose between Sonic, Tales, or Knuckles, and Streets of Rage where you can choose between... erm, the white guy the black guy and the chick.
I'm sure I'm leaving a bunch of games out of here so feel free to include them. I figured instead of making a bunch of threads asking people who their favorite character is in each game, we could just combine them all in here.
My choices:
Classic Mortal Kombat: Johnny Cage. He's a goofy type of character but a bad ass fighter. I love his low blow move.
Newer Mortal Kombat: Le Mei. She's quick and she has an arsenal of moves that allow you to attack your opponent without giving them much time to recover.
Soul Calibur: I'm a Talim fan. Once again, she's quick like a cat and she's able to attack the enemy and get out of range before they can counter. Honorable mention goes to Astoroth.
Super Smash Bros.: Usually I like to use Marth, he's got great smashes, he's good at edge guarding, and his counter move is very useful. That said, I've found that I'm quite competent with Donkey Kong as well.
Pokemon: It's hard to choose just one pokemon that you enjoy using, but I always enjoyed water pokemon, and Lanturn is a good choice. It gets rid of electricity's advantage over water types and it can learn ice moves to take down grass and it already has the water moves to take out ground.
Super Mario Bros 2: By far my least favorite Mario game. I mean, you don't even get to shoot fireballs in this and in the end the whole thing turns out to be just a dream! Whoops, spoiler alert. But when I'm playing this game I'm hard pressed not to use Luigi. Having his epic jump makes things so much easier.
Sonic 3: Gotta go with the original gangster, Sonic. Sure, Knuckles can fly and climb walls and all that jazz, but Sonic is the faster of the two and he can use all the special moves the shields provide you.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance: In the first one it's hard not to pick Wolverine. Every character has similar moves, but Wolverine has a unique bunch after he fills his rage meter up. Deadpool is also a lot of fun because of his teleportation abilities and his weapon based moves. In the second one my favorite is probably Phoenix, she just owns. Her powers are amazing and if you team her with Wolverine, Storm, and Gambit she has three amazing fusions and you get the X-Men team boost. Not too shabby.
I'm sure there are tons of other games I'm leaving out here, so feel free to add your own.
Special thanks to The Natural for inspiring this thread with his Favorite Mario Kart Character thread which you can read here: http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showthread.php?t=148631
I'm sure I'm leaving a bunch of games out of here so feel free to include them. I figured instead of making a bunch of threads asking people who their favorite character is in each game, we could just combine them all in here.
My choices:
Classic Mortal Kombat: Johnny Cage. He's a goofy type of character but a bad ass fighter. I love his low blow move.
Newer Mortal Kombat: Le Mei. She's quick and she has an arsenal of moves that allow you to attack your opponent without giving them much time to recover.
Soul Calibur: I'm a Talim fan. Once again, she's quick like a cat and she's able to attack the enemy and get out of range before they can counter. Honorable mention goes to Astoroth.
Super Smash Bros.: Usually I like to use Marth, he's got great smashes, he's good at edge guarding, and his counter move is very useful. That said, I've found that I'm quite competent with Donkey Kong as well.
Pokemon: It's hard to choose just one pokemon that you enjoy using, but I always enjoyed water pokemon, and Lanturn is a good choice. It gets rid of electricity's advantage over water types and it can learn ice moves to take down grass and it already has the water moves to take out ground.
Super Mario Bros 2: By far my least favorite Mario game. I mean, you don't even get to shoot fireballs in this and in the end the whole thing turns out to be just a dream! Whoops, spoiler alert. But when I'm playing this game I'm hard pressed not to use Luigi. Having his epic jump makes things so much easier.
Sonic 3: Gotta go with the original gangster, Sonic. Sure, Knuckles can fly and climb walls and all that jazz, but Sonic is the faster of the two and he can use all the special moves the shields provide you.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance: In the first one it's hard not to pick Wolverine. Every character has similar moves, but Wolverine has a unique bunch after he fills his rage meter up. Deadpool is also a lot of fun because of his teleportation abilities and his weapon based moves. In the second one my favorite is probably Phoenix, she just owns. Her powers are amazing and if you team her with Wolverine, Storm, and Gambit she has three amazing fusions and you get the X-Men team boost. Not too shabby.
I'm sure there are tons of other games I'm leaving out here, so feel free to add your own.
Special thanks to The Natural for inspiring this thread with his Favorite Mario Kart Character thread which you can read here: http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showthread.php?t=148631