Favourite gaming characters and why

Xiuying or The Boss.

Both are badass, strong and principled characters. Also awesome they're female in a world, let alone industry, dominated by male characters.

Had been wishing for Kojima (before falling out with Konami) to get the fuck over Big Boss and begin a new prequel duology or trilogy of The Boss pre, during and post World War 2.
 
So one of mine is Andrew Ryan from BioShock. It was in a period of my life I was quite into Philosophy and I thought a lot of his lines were well written and some also resonated with me. Some of my favourite were -

On the surface, I once bought a forest. The Parasites claimed that the land belonged to God, and demanded that I establish a public park there. Why? So the rabble could stand slack-jawed under the canopy and pretend that it was paradise earned. When Congress moved to nationalize my forest, I burnt it to the ground. God did not plant the seeds of this Arcadia; I did

Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute certainty? I know that my beliefs have elevated me, just as I know that the things I have rejected would have destroyed me. But the city... it is collapsing before my... have I become so convinced by my own beliefs that I have stopped seeing the truth? Perhaps. But Atlas is out there, and he aims to destroy me, and destroy my city. To question is to surrender. I will not question.
 
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