I think overpowered characters in videogames should...

Go the way of text games. Extinct. Harsh yes, but let us all be honest here, some characters in some videogames are so damn overpowered that you can solve anything with anything. (literally.) They mess up the story of the videogame and often times are braindead stupid when in cutscenes! However, I think that devs are finally learning that overpowered characters make the game totally unfun and unintersting. but let's take a look at a couple of overpowered charactors from this gen alone.

The Main character from fallout 3, with broken steel and all avaliable perks gotten. This single character can literally PUNCH 15 deathclaws and 5 mutant overlords to death without ANY healing at all. I mainly blame the totally design messups from bethesda on this, i could literally talk my way out of any situation and even kill everything just by looking at it. (literally, anything can die just from looking at it once you are totally maxed.) Also, being unholy amounts of rich shows that this single character can buy the entire wasteland with just 25% of his own money. This guy is just plain overpowered and it ruins the depth of being in a wasteland filled with monsters after you pretty much can kill deathclaws without any allies helping you, you start to realize how overpowered you actually are.

Alex Mercer, my goodness, this guy is like John Carpenters The Thing but with human thought. This guy goes faster than a freaking train, can literally eat people in less than a heartbeat. disguise himself as anyone he freaking wants, and absorbs giant monsters on a regular basis! If that is not overpowered, I don't know what is. Also consider he is the smartest human being on the freaking planet for absorbing so many people, he practically knows everything. Wanna know if aliens are being hidden by the government? *alex mercer eats a CIA agent just to find out.* "Yep, They do!" also considering the fact that he is in a practical God-mode throughout the game, he is a unstoppable monster of death and destruction! and about a story with conflict involved, I think that kinda lessens the atmosphere of being threatened constantly by giant monsters.

Also, let us not forget a level 35 dragon origins awakening hero... "the keep is in danger? what ever will we?-" *main charactor busts in with his dual swords killing everything in about one hit already. using haste, spirit warrior, and champion, he literally becomes a living wood chipper and kills everything!* "How ever will we thank you hero of... whatever?" *Hero of... selects* "You, and ogrehn, in the other room, NOW!" The main charactor of the expansion is so damn powerful in this game that if we just went here instead of defeating the final boss of the main game, you could literally kill it in a single hit with the overpowered charactor in this game. literally zero threat from anyone at all. elemenating the feeling of dread when you have to fight all the main enemies of the game.

Thankfully all of these have been insanely critisized by the gaming public and the critics. Now some games like in one of the half life episodes where your gravity gun becomes awesome, that is what a good overpowered feeling should be! make sense in the story, but still feel vulnerable if you don't pay attention.

What is your opinion on said characters that are overpowered and how they should be done better in videogames?

Dude, what?

I think that if I can make my character up to be this killing machine, more power to me. Going from weak dude to badass death machine is cool with me. I rather liked being able to one hit kill darkspawn in Awakening since it made my Warden feel like the badass Hero of the Blight he should be. Alex Mercer being super powerful made sense, at least it did for as long as I played it. I like seeing my character evolve.

Please stop making threads titles that end with "...". Also you might want to rewrite some of what you wrote because I have no idea what was your point in all of this.

" Dude, what? "

Dude, stay away from my overpowered characters!!! I love them! 

I think if you spend enough time in a game to make a character over-leveled you should be allowed to do things that break the game.  It should be a reward for those dedicated enough to stay with a game that long.  If you spent enough time in Fallout 3 to reach a level high enough to punch 15 Deathclaws and 5 Supermutants in the face and not die than so be it.  That's your reward. 

Thats the point of some characters dude and others where they eventually become overpowered is a good feeling.  I want to get to a part of some games like Fallout or Origins where I am pretty much God because I've worked hard to get to that point.

You literally used the word "literally" way too many times in your post.

You typed Literally seven times . I'm bored  .

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Please stop making threads

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And why the hell are you bitching about Alex Mercer being to powerful?  That games all about punching tanks to death and hijacking helicopters by jumping on them.  THATS THE POINT!

" I think if you spend enough time in a game to make a character over-leveled you should be allowed to do things that break the game.  It should be a reward for those dedicated enough to stay with a game that long.  If you spent enough time in Fallout 3 to reach a level high enough to punch 15 Deathclaws and 5 Supermutants in the face and not die than so be it.  That's your reward.  "

" You literally used the word "literally" way too many times in your post. "

I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot.

" I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot. "

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot. "

Wasn't it "Gamefaqs" since nobody here could understand how he felt and his life and junk like that and how he's an amazing writer and.. stuff? "

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot. "

Wasn't it "Gamefaqs" since nobody here could understand how he felt and his life and junk like that and how he's an amazing writer and.. stuff? "

" @ZeForgotten said:

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot. "

Wasn't it "Gamefaqs" since nobody here could understand how he felt and his life and junk like that and how he's an amazing writer and.. stuff? "

Oh, was it Gamefaqs? That just shows what a jerk I am. Can't even get my tauntings straight. "

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" @ZeForgotten said:

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot. "

Wasn't it "Gamefaqs" since nobody here could understand how he felt and his life and junk like that and how he's an amazing writer and.. stuff? "

Oh, was it Gamefaqs? That just shows what a jerk I am. Can't even get my tauntings straight. "

You jerk!  "

" @ZeForgotten said:

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" @ZeForgotten said:

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot. "

Wasn't it "Gamefaqs" since nobody here could understand how he felt and his life and junk like that and how he's an amazing writer and.. stuff? "

Oh, was it Gamefaqs? That just shows what a jerk I am. Can't even get my tauntings straight. "

You jerk!  "

To be fair, GameSpot and GameFAQs boards are literally the same thing. "

It's fun to have a character who is overpowered. Especially in the games you mentioned, Fallout 3 and Dragon Age. Considering these are characters who can progress (to a degree) as much as you see fit, it's really your own fault for making them "overpowered". If the player has the freedom and time to create a character who is powerful enough to take on very difficult opponents with ease, that's awesome and I'm grateful the developers gave me that option. 

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot. "

Wasn't it "Gamefaqs" since nobody here could understand how he felt and his life and junk like that and how he's an amazing writer and.. stuff? "

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@AlexW00d said:

" @ZeForgotten said:

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot. "

Wasn't it "Gamefaqs" since nobody here could understand how he felt and his life and junk like that and how he's an amazing writer and.. stuff? "

Literally. "

He reminds me of Lights Camera Jackson.    

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Some of us like feeling, literally, like a God. Don't take that away from us!

Except when it unbalances multiplayer I'm generally fine with overpowered characters.
You think being able to PUNCH 15 deathclaws and 5 mutant overlords to death without ANY healing at all is a problem, I think it's bad ass!
There are enough games out there to play if I want a challenge, but being nigh indestructable and being able to kick the ass of all that cross my path is pretty fun too.

There is this thing in the options called difficulty, you can usually slide it to the left or right...so...yeah, great thread.

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@AlexW00d said:

" @ZeForgotten said:

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot. "

Wasn't it "Gamefaqs" since nobody here could understand how he felt and his life and junk like that and how he's an amazing writer and.. stuff? "

Literally. "

He reminds me of Lights Camera Jackson.    

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Literally? "

I like being an overpowered character. It's only so much fun being a character that need to hide behind a car and bandage the paper cut he got on his finger.

Superman would totally lose to Goku.

I think someone put forth the idea that you keep posting despite constantly threatening to leave because you like feeling victimized. This desire to rid games of powerful protagonists seems to fit with that theory.

Every time I see a new Jay thread, I simply must click it. It's like having a court jester who thinks he's a king. 

" I think someone put forth the idea that you keep posting despite constantly threatening to leave because you like feeling victimized. This desire to rid games of powerful protagonists seems to fit with that theory. "

" Every time I see a new Jay thread, I simply must click it. It's like having a court jester who thinks he's a king.  "

" @Slaker117 said:

" I think someone put forth the idea that you keep posting despite constantly threatening to leave because you like feeling victimized. This desire to rid games of powerful protagonists seems to fit with that theory. "

Or he's the best damn troll I've ever seen. I couldn't intentionally write or think like this if I wanted to. "

" @Wrighteous86 said:

" @Slaker117 said:

" I think someone put forth the idea that you keep posting despite constantly threatening to leave because you like feeling victimized. This desire to rid games of powerful protagonists seems to fit with that theory. "

Or he's the best damn troll I've ever seen. I couldn't intentionally write or think like this if I wanted to. "

Like I was saying this morning. "

I think we've all gone to far!  Self destruct imminent!

" @example1013 said:

" @Wrighteous86 said:

" @Slaker117 said:

" I think someone put forth the idea that you keep posting despite constantly threatening to leave because you like feeling victimized. This desire to rid games of powerful protagonists seems to fit with that theory. "

Or he's the best damn troll I've ever seen. I couldn't intentionally write or think like this if I wanted to. "

Like I was saying this morning. "

Instant Giant Bomb infamy! He should pick an avatar and stick around. I'm enjoying this a lot. "

"I think that if I can make my character up to be this killing machine, more power to me. Going from weak dude to badass death machine is cool with me. I rather liked being able to one hit kill darkspawn in Awakening since it made my Warden feel like the badass Hero of the Blight he should be. Alex Mercer being super powerful made sense, at least it did for as long as I played it. I like seeing my character evolve. "

I actually like becoming overpowered, especially in RPG's...case in point, using rain of fire or chain lightning in Dragon Age II on a large group of enemies and watching them all pop like watermelons filled with ground beef.

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                    I actually like becoming overpowered, especially in RPG's...case in point, using rain of fire or chain lightning in Dragon Age II on a large group of enemies and watching them all pop like watermelons filled with ground beef.

                   

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True, but it does kinda ruin the atmosphere of some videogames and their stories however, where you are basically a God in the gameplay, but in the cutscenes you are vulnerable. It wasn't the way that devs meant it to be played.

Personal opinions anyway, it just kinda ruins the expierence for me personally.

"True, but it does kinda ruin the atmosphere of some videogames and their stories however, where you are basically a God in the gameplay, but in the cutscenes you are vulnerable. It wasn't the way that devs meant it to be played."

" Oh, and can the people here PLEASE stop acting like jerks for once? Please, My God, the mods here are lazy. espically considering on how much I am being harassed ON EVERY ******* BOARD!!!! and by the same people no less. Just shows ya who is the real immature kids on this site. (looks at a good 75% of posts filled with childish moronic stalkers.) "

" @ZeForgotten said:

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

" I thought you were sick of all of us jerks and were going back to Gamespot. "

Wasn't it "Gamefaqs" since nobody here could understand how he felt and his life and junk like that and how he's an amazing writer and.. stuff? "

Oh, was it Gamefaqs? That just shows what a jerk I am. Can't even get my tauntings straight. "