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#1  Edited By siddarth0605

Giant Bomb Community GOTY - Best New Character (Voting)

Welcome to the first of a month long project I am hosting to allow the fans of the site to offer their chance to vote for the GOTY awards. Over the next month I will be posting a new award every day and will let the fans vote on the winner as well as the runners up.

Previous Awards:

The 2011's 2010 Game of the Year

The Voting Process

So here's how we are going to do this. Starting in December I will put up a category for you guys to vote for. You will have free reign to nominate anything you want as long as it fits with the category and was released in 2011. When you reply to the post put your winner and runner up. So for example If I was voting for this category I would put down

Winner: Wheatley (Portal 2)

Runner Up: Charlie Cutter (Uncharted 3)

The way the scoring system will work is that the winner from each person will get 2 points and the runner up will get one point. At the end of the day I will tally up all the points and whoever has the most wins and consequently the 2nd and 3rd highest will be the runners up. For GOTY we will do a winner and four runners up but the voting process will still be the same.

The Voting will end on December 2nd at 11:59 pm and the winner will be announced the following day. At the same time the voting for the next award will begin.

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#2  Edited By AhmadMetallic

Winner: Cave Johnson (Portal 2) 
 
Runner Up: the dude from Bulletstorm

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#3  Edited By Video_Game_King

Lucifel wins my vote, and Duke Nukem comes in at second.

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#4  Edited By TehFlan

Winner: Cave Johnson (Portal 2)
 
Runner Up: Wheatley (Portal 2)

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#6  Edited By alexpiercey

Winner: Cave Johnson
Runner Up: Wheatley

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#7  Edited By ajamafalous
@siddarth0605 said:
 December 2st
Did you miss a number there?
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#8  Edited By MrFwankie

Winner: Wheatley (Portal 2)

Runner-Up: Cave Johnson (Portal 2)

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#9  Edited By zaglis
@TehFlan said:
Winner: Cave Johnson (Portal 2) Runner Up: Wheatley (Portal 2)
Exactly
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#10  Edited By Loafroaster

The arrow-to-the-knee guy from Skyrim.

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#11  Edited By imsh_pl
@zaglis said:
@TehFlan said:
Winner: Cave Johnson (Portal 2) Runner Up: Wheatley (Portal 2)
Exactly
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#12  Edited By AhmadMetallic
@Video_Game_King said:

Duke Nukem comes in at second.

funny..
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#13  Edited By Zippedbinders

Winner: Johnson (Shadows of the Damned)

Runner Up: Sissel (Ghost Trick)

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#14  Edited By mylifeforAiur

Winner: Wheatley.

Runner-up: Sandman. I'm so sorry, Sandman. You brave son-of-a-bitch.

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#15  Edited By siddarth0605

@ajamafalous said:

@siddarth0605 said:
December 2st
Did you miss a number there?

haha no it was just a typo but thanks for noticing that. I went ahead and fixed it

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#16  Edited By phish09

Winner: Wheatly (Portal 2)

Runner Up: Narrator (Bastion)

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#18  Edited By MannyM

Winner: Wheatley, no question. Stephen Merchant is fantastic

Runner Up: Drake - Nolan North. Despite the dramatic set pieces and entertaining action, the characters in Uncharted have always set it apart.

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#19  Edited By BeachThunder

@MannyM said:

Winner: Wheatley, no question. Stephen Merchant is fantastic

Runner Up: Drake - Nolan North. Despite the dramatic set pieces and entertaining action, the characters in Uncharted have always set it apart.

I'm pretty sure Nathan Drake doesn't count as a new character...

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#20  Edited By Ghostiet

Winner: Cave Johnson of Portal 2. "Good work, boots". Jesus, he's great.

Runner Up: Kinzie Kensington of Saints Row The Third. That game has some great characters (even Hulk Hogan as a crazy wrestler obsessed with MASTERING YOUR FEAR AND PAIN comes through), but I simply enjoyed the dorky FBI hacker the most.

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#21  Edited By AlexW00d

Winner: Zimos

Runner up: Cave Johnson.

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#22  Edited By DjCmeP

Winner: Wheatley

Runner Up: Cave Johnson

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#23  Edited By napalm

Winner: Professor Genki (Saints Row: The Third)
Runner Up: Johnson (Shadows Of The Damned)

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#24  Edited By Gabriel

Winner Cave Johnson (Portal 2)

Runner up Roy Earle (L.A Noire)

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#25  Edited By laserbolts
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Winner: Cave Johnson
Runner Up: Wheatley
This.
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#26  Edited By BombKareshi

Sorry if it seems like I'm copying everyone else, but I mean this:
 
Winner: Wheatly (Portal 2)
Runner-up: Cave Johnson (Portal 2)

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#27  Edited By CptChiken

Winner:Cave johnson(portal2) 
Runner up: Narrator (bastion)

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Winner: Zimo (saints Row the third)

Runner Up: Wheatley (Portal 2)

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#29  Edited By Mr_Skeleton

Winner: Adam Jensen

Runner Up: Varric

It's sad that everyone is going for the easy one with Cave Johnson.

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#30  Edited By Ravenlight

Holy crap, there were so many great or funny characters.

  • Bulletstorm Dude (Grayson Hunt)
  • Any of the characters from Bastion.
  • Cave and Wheatley. Does potato-GLaDOS count as a new character?
  • Many of the new Saint's Row: The Third characters.
  • I guess the Dovahkiin is technically elegible.
  • Adam Jensen from DX:HR (actually, many of the characters in the game are cool)
  • Minecraft saw an official release, so I guess Steve the Minecraft guy is in the running.
  • I think we can all agree that the titular Wappy Dog has a shot at this one.
  • Can salutes from Trenched/Iron Brigade be considered characters?
  • I though Roche and Ivoreth from The Witcher 2 were both pretty cool characters.

I guess my #1 pick is Cave Johnson; his dialogue is written and delivered so well.

#2 goes to Zia from Bastion. While she only had a few voiced lines and was mostly a MacGuffin to move the story forward, I though her backstory was the most interesting. The song she sings takes on an entirely new meaning if you dig deep enough into the fiction, as well.

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#31  Edited By alexpiercey
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Lucifel wins my vote, and Duke Nukem comes in at second.

Duke Nukem is over 10 years old.
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#32  Edited By GunstarRed

Missile from Ghost Trick or Charlie Cutter from Uncharted.

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#33  Edited By Xtrememuffinman

1) Cutter
2)  Wheatley

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#34  Edited By TobbRobb

Geralt doesn't count does he? Uhm.

Sigh... Cave Johnson wins everything/

I'll give a callout to Sissel from Ghost Trick, because that game is awesome.

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#35  Edited By Dalai

Since everybody else is doing it, Cave Johnson is my winner.

But my runner-up goes to Portal 2's defective turret.

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#36  Edited By SlightConfuse

Winner: johnson from shadows of the damned

Runner up: weatly or bastion narriator

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#37  Edited By Panpipe

I just spent about 10 minutes trying to write out a list of games with new characters this year. Horrible idea.

Winner: Wheatley

Runner Up: Garshasp :)))))

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#38  Edited By PeasantAbuse

Winner: Cave Johnson from Portal 2

Runner Up: Rusty Galloway from L.A. Noire

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#39  Edited By galiant

I don't feel like I've played enough games. I seriously can't think of a single new character.

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#40  Edited By nintendoeats

Winner: Rucks (Bastion)

Runner-Up: Kinzie (Saints Row The Third)

For very different reasons.

EDIT: Since I see this coming up alot, Rucks IS the narrator from Bastion.

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#41  Edited By YI_Orange

Despite the 2 obvious winners, I have to show my support.

Winner: Missile(Ghost Trick)

Runner Up: Wheatley(Portal 2)

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#42  Edited By TentPole

Winner: Cole Phelps (Such a great dick)

Runner Up: Charlie Cutter

EDIT: Cole Phelps is great at being a dick. I can't speak to his bedroom prowess.

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#43  Edited By Optix12

Winner: Zimos (Saints Row: The Third)

Runner Up: Wheatley (Portal 2)

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#44  Edited By Poost

Winner: Rucks (narrator of Bastion)

Runner-up: Cave Johnson (Portal 2)

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#45  Edited By Hizang

Winner - Wheatley - Portal 2.

Runner Up - Cave Johnson - Portal 2.

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#46  Edited By IBurningStar

Winner: Wheatley
Runner up: Charlie Cutter

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#47  Edited By Ursus_Veritas

Winner: Aveline Vallen, Dragon Age II 
Runner Up: Wheatley, Portal 2

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@TentPole said:

Cole Phelps (Such a great dick)

Say what now?

Anyway, winner: Cave Johnson

Runner up: Solaire of Astora. Praise the sun!

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#50  Edited By Animasta

Winner: Cave Johnson (Portal 2)

Runner Up: Missile (Ghost Trick)

If I could put 3 I would totally put Killbane there.