thats how it starts, talkin about fav characters and then someone gets a dildo in the eye......what a cruel world.

A novel thread query for once.

If we're going by personality, vocabulary, manners, fashion sense, and bearing, etc, then I'll have to go with
Maximilian Strauss from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, the regent of the Tremere.

Aran Linvail, the guild leader of the Shadow Thieves from Baldur's Gate II would be a runner-up. Or alternate, depending on the day and company.

(Even if, in terms of clout, I feel like one of those nameless "commoners" that you scroll your mouse over in the urban areas.)

Who I aspire to be: Check out my user name. The crafty, self-made roguish detective with a heart of gold in a decadent, vice-laden cyberpunk future.

Linvail was interesting. He was different from the thief guild master in the 1st Baldurs Gate. I liked linvail more as I thought he had more character. My favorite thief character in all the games was Saemon Havarian as he really just reminded me of a jack sparrow type thief who bullshit his way past anything. Lying, double bluffing his way through problems and only thinking of how to get past his next mission. He was a bastard but one of my favorite ones at that ;)

I have a serious one, kind of, the Tentacle from Maniac Mansion. I haven't played any other games from that series or ever watched the show so I can only go by what I know from the original game. I would imagine there are more than a few people in here who can relate to him/her/it. The Tentacle was the poster boy (or is that poster limb) for every misguided misunderstood teenager that ever felt alienated and at the same time destined for something bigger and greater in life away form all of his/hers/it's detractors.

Francis York / Zach Morgan from Deadly Premonition. I'm completely opposite to him actually, but i feel connected to his personality.

Like Hitler!

Oh that's cute. :P Yes technically you are spot on but not all misunderstood artist feel the need to kill everyone. On the whole I'd say only 9 in 10 fall into that category.

I haven't downrepped anyone on this forum ever. But i might if someone answers "Neuron".

Who?

http://www.gog.com/forum/unepic/neuron_is_on_the_verge_of_starting_to_irritate_me/page1

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/most_frustrating_bosses/post21

Oh good, just getting ready to hit that game full blast. Now I have something to look forward to. :D

Wasn't that the only way you could ever play Half-Life 2 on PC though, I mean other than by pirating it? Alternatively you could get it for PS3 or Xbox 360.

Edit: Anyway my pick goes to B.J. Blazkowicz. Yeah that's me, I'm definatelly him!

Stanley from The Stanley Parable - There's some guy constantly narrating my life and everything, its creepy!

I'm inclined to pick Raziel from Soul Reaver.
Admittedly I'm basing that answer off of only having played Soul Reaver 1 -- haven't played any of the subsequent LoK games (yet).

Did he appear in Return to Castle Wolfenstein (the only Wolfenstein game I've played) ? I really enjoyed that game, finished it twice.

Well this is getting a bit controversial isn't it ? I've read a fair bit of German philosophy in my time and the main one, Heidegger (not the one in FFVII btw), can't be mentioned without HITLER getting dragged into the conversation. So I'll say this now :

"Heidegger therefore Hitler" is a non sequitur. A Heidegger reader / advocate is not necessarily a "Nazi" or a Nazi sympathiser. Certainly I'm not and Hitler can rot in hell for all I care. Politics is based on lying, philosophy is precisely the opposite. Philosophy does not serve politics, politics is actually philosophy's eternal inferior. Politics schmolitics : I loathe and despise it.

As far as I'm aware Half Life 2 has always been playable on Steam. My comparison of Steam with Ingsoc and the Combine was a bit of an exaggeration but not a total exaggeration.