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#1  Edited By BeachThunder

The only criteria is that the character must have been introduced in 2015...

Personally, I'd say:

  • Undertale: Alphys, Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, and Flowey.
  • Tales from the Borderlands: Gortys
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Jenks is the best new character of 2015.

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@456nto said:

Jenks is the best new character of 2015.

This

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#4  Edited By gaggle64

Life is Strange: Max Caufield

She's just a well meaning photography hipster having a really REALLY stressful week. #teentude

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Jenks and Benedict Cumberbotch own the category.

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Singing shopkeeper from Crypt of the Necrodancer gets my vote. That guy is just rad.

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Can I nominate the entire cast of Until Dawn as a single character?

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I really like Undyne and Gortys, but I think Jenks is the winner here. Emily from Until Dawn also deserves a mention, I think.

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#9  Edited By monetarydread

The medic from MGS V. (I would spoiler that, but apparently I can't use spoiler tags on mobile)

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Nick Valentine.

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Nick Valentine.

came here to post this. flying pretty close to the sun here admittedly, but yeah, great character.

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Professor Goodfeels.

Far out!

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Worst new character: Hendricks from Black Ops 3. From the first cut scene he is annoying as hell.

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Nick Valentine - Fallout 4

D-dog - MGSV

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Manny Pardo. He's got thick skin, and the only detective suave and clever enough in Miami to catch that terrible criminal, the Miami Mutilator.

Edit: We allowed to mention characters from games we have not played a lot of personally (unfortunately, I've only played about 2 hours tops of BB at a friends place). In the case, Gehrman. "Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt" is more than enough to get him up there.

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Gotta be my boy jenks

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Jenks. Maybe Loaderbot.

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Ironsides from Fallout 4

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Life Is Strange: Chloe Price

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Manny Pardo. He's got thick skin, and the only detective suave and clever enough in Miami to catch that terrible criminal, the Miami Mutilator.

Edit: We allowed to mention characters from games we have not played a lot of personally (unfortunately, I've only played about 2 hours tops of BB at a friends place). In the case, Gehrman. "Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt" is more than enough to get him up there.

Dunno if that counts since Manny Pardo is actually a real person. Or was, I guess. Googling him reveals he was killed by the state in 2012.

On topic: Definitely Chloe Price from Life Is Strange. I've known enough broken people that she hit really close to home.

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#21  Edited By Technician

The Doll - Bloodborne

Kazumi - Tekken 7

D-Dog - MGSV

Ludacris - Forza Horizon 2 Fast and Furious

Jack-O - Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator

Peter Stormare - Until Dawn

Johan Ross - SOMA

D'Vorah - MKX

Jenks - Contradiction

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That little blue guy that got his voice stolen in the Witcher 3 was pretty cool.

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#23  Edited By Brackstone

The Bloody Baron. We could all name characters who are cool, or say fun, quotable stuff, but goddamn, the Bloody Baron was an actual character, with a complex personality, emotions, an actual character arc.

For my cool, fun, quotable pick, Bart, also from the Witcher 3. Turdy Dump.

EDIT: Almost forgot to give shoutouts to main man Kotal. Best MK character in terms of actually having a personality, with motivations that aren't just "I gotta stop the bad/good guy".

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Peter Stormare as The Analyst in Until Dawn.

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Johnny. Yes, he's one of the better characters for sure. And the highlight of his day is to take a dump in the morning, I can relate.

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That little blue guy that got his voice stolen in the Witcher 3 was pretty cool.

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@sunbrozak said:

Can I nominate the entire cast of Until Dawn as a single character?

Let's just cut to the chase and say that we're nominating Emily.

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Loaderbot for sure

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I really liked Quiet, but man is it a shame all the gross stuff they had to do with her.

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Jenks is the best new character of 2015.

This is totally the answer though, and i'm actually expecting this to be the face-off of Beast vs West during GOTY.

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Mom - Grow Home.

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I'm down for Jenks for GB but medic from MGSV is my top vote.

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Jenks

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I came in here thinking "of course it's Jenks, who else could it be?" Then I saw this:

Trolls from Witcher 3

And the Necrodancer shopkeeper...

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My faves:

Jenks & Ryan Rand - Contradiction

Gortys, Loaderbot & Vaughn - Tales from the Borderlands

D-Dog & Quiet - MGS V

Scarecrow - Batman: Arkham Knight (technically not a new character but they pretty much retconned him)

The Analyst - Until Dawn

Probably a lot more i have not met yet, like possibly likely Undertale

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Jenks is the winner, so we're really only discussing the runner-up.

I'll vote Stormare for runner-up.

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Geeze, it's so hard to minimize myself and actually choose a new character that everyone will approve of and like me for.
No, actually, Sunless Sea came out of Early Access this year so I'm going all in on the Dark-Spectacled Admiral. Man is unarguably the sole reason my captain's have been anything close to financially sound.

@sunbrozak said:

Can I nominate the entire cast of Until Dawn as a single character?

Let's just cut to the chase and say that we're nominating Emily.

Seconded.

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#38  Edited By Chocobodude3

My runner ups are:

Paul Rand-Contradiction

Emily-Until Dawn

Codsworth-Fallout 4

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Bloody Baron and Gaunter O' Dimm from The Witcher 3.

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I really like Undyne and Gortys, but I think Jenks is the winner here. Emily from Until Dawn also deserves a mention, I think.

Emily? Nah, man, Emily is not match for Chris. She just got MONKED!

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I can see Chloe being a very important character for sure. The story gives her a lot of room to be developed. I also like Chloe, I never once found her annoying. Chloe was exasperating in the same way a friend can be exasperating...but you would never leave them.

On topic: Definitely Chloe Price from Life Is Strange. I've known enough broken people that she hit really close to home.

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The only criteria is that the character must have been introduced in 2015...

Personally, I'd say:

  • Undertale: Alphys, Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, and Flowey.

I don't know if Flowey would count, then. He was in the Undertale demo that came out in 2013. The none of those other characters were in it though (the demo showed from the start of the game up to you leaving the ruins)

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I've only played about 2-3 games that came out this year, but, thankfully, one of them was Contradiction. It's a close split between Jenks and Paul Rand. Both of those guys just chew through scenery like no one's business. Turing from Read Only Memories is a close second.

As for the games I 'watched,' I'd go for Chloe Price from Life Is Strange, mainly because she's played by Ashley Burch, who's quickly becoming a favorite VA of mine. I like Gortys from Tales from the Borderlands, but not as much as 'basically everyone.' That game's story works as an ensemble cast, and Gortys just happens to be a great addition to it.

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#45  Edited By sadsadsad

@dave_tacitus said:

@dudeglove said:

Trolls from Witcher 3

What? I would have to ignore a bunch of things about them to not call them the worst.

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Can I vote for every robot in Fallout 4? (Seriously)

Or maybe Dom Pagnotti, the intense and excitable agent from NBA 2K16.

Who am I kidding. It's between Jenks and Emily.

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@paulmako said:

Who am I kidding. It's between Jenks and Emily.

This guy's got it figured out. End the thread.

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The Bloody Baron from the Witcher 3.

I saw both the endings from his quest line. Dam.. There has never been a character in a video game that i have felt so many different emotions toward.

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#50  Edited By Flexo

Well, Jenks, obviously. Other than that, i haven't played many 2015 games, but i have to give a shoutout to Read Only Memories' Turing. Such a cute lil' guy. Speaking of ROM, Chad Starfucker is also a really cool dude.