Most Overrated/Underrated Character

MoogPaul · February 2008

Who do you feel got screwed out of a long life in video game history? Who caught a free ride to the top? I want to know your opinions. Lets keep this away from "omg you think that character, you're stupid, blah blah blah."

My choice for underrated character... I'm going with Rocket Knight. Lots of potential in that character and had two solid platformer/action games under his belt. I mean come on... small animals with rockets for christ sake.

My choice for overrated.... Kirby. Kirby and his cohorts caught themselves a free ride when HAL Labs worker Iwata started climbing up the ladder, esp. when Kirby creator Sakurai started working on the Smash Bros game for N64. Kirby has a ton of games, a lot of them being junk in my opinion. At least nothing good post-SNES. Reportedly, this is why Sakurai left HAL and Nintendo, because Kirby titles and spin-offs were being shoved down his throat.

What are your choices?

DarkWarrior · February 2008

Solid Snake is underrated. Seriously. He's been in 2.3 modern games and he's already aged 30 years and on his way out. His model wasn't detailed but he definetly only seemed mid-20's to me in MGS1.

Alas poor Snake, I hardly knew yee.

MA17 · February 2008

Oh man this is hard.

Could we get a poll up? Do people still do polls?

Man, let's see, who is most over rated and under rated.

Jesus this is hard.

ARGH I CAN'T....OH MAN HOLD ON

Seriously though, a poll would really make it easy to see what everyone thinks, because, I mean, for me at least, seeing what people think is very very very important.

SHIT FUCK ME IN JESUS' ASS I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER THE QUESTION

I play a lot of video games, though, you know? And I'm sure you all do too, so it's really difficult to think about who would be considered rated in a way that is either over or under what would really be considered a good baseline of rating. I mean, sure, on the one hand you've got the people who everyone knows, the Marios, the Luigis, the King Koopas, the Goombas, you know, the real salt of the Earth kind. Like Princess Toadstool, and Koopas, and Cheep-Cheeps. The people everyone knows. Are they over rated because everyone knows them? God, who knows? WHO CAN EVEN KNOW THAT? That's what makes this so hard.

I'm going to get a bottle of water. Oh god, I needed that. I'm seriously like sweating.

Ok, so over rated characters. Man, that's such a good question, because it really makes you think. You know? You have to really look deep within yourself and ask "what character is over rated?" and that's not something I'm sure we all feel comfortable with. That just makes it such an interesting line of query. It's challenging.

FUCKING SPACE RAPE WHO?! WHO I SAY IS OVER RATED AND UNDER RATED?! GOD SHIT FLINGING DAMN IT

To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure I'm getting any closer to coming up with an answer. I guess maybe Mario is over rated, and Luigi is under rated, because, you like, have to have a brother or a friend before you even SEE Luigi. I mean, unless you play two player by yourself, but that's just sad. That's like, pass me the Kleenex sad. So you really need to have other people in your life or pretend that you do to even know that Luigi exists. How crazy is that? They put a guy in the game, but most people won't even see him. They'll be like "Mario Brothers? That doesn't make any sense because all I see is a guy named Mario, and his brother is like, not even present". Maybe they think that the Princess is your brother. Or maybe all those Toads you rescue from the other castle. Maybe people think that those Toads are your brothers, so when the game is called Mario Brothers, they think "oh I get it, I'm rescuing my huge crazy family from a series of like, feudal lords who for some reason are kidnapping us". You know, I'm surprised they never made a game that explains why it is that Mario never gets kidnapped. I mean, King Koopa pretty much just kidnaps like, everyone. He bothered to kidnap all of Mario's Toad brothers, but never ever did he kidnap Mario. The guy has literally kidnapped 1/3 of the entire human population of the Mushroom Kingdom (Princess Toadstool), but he never so much as considers kidnapping Mario. That just really needs to be explained. Maybe they could make a sequel about it. Like Mario Brothers 2.

Ok, I've got it. Mario is over rated, and Luigi is under rated.