Ok so the Bombcast guys didn't pick York as the #1 best guy of 2010.
 
To me he is though. The way he introduces himself as "Detective Francis York Morgan. Call me York. Everyone else does." the same way every time, even at the town meeting is super dumb and cocky.
When he talks about old missions like that one guy who collected skulls and drank out of em, or the college professor who was cuttin open teenage girls; and he's SO CALM ABOUT IT. Like this is just his regular job, and he forgets that it's all completely fucked up.
He talks to himself when he's alone cos of that post-traumatic breakdown he had.
He really slowly falls in love with Emily over the course o the game and it's not out-of-nowhere or forced or anything.
He has really weird views on the afterlife. 
He's clearly not good with women and doesn't realise it.
He has weird superstitions about his morning coffee.
Fuckin-- The guy is scared to death of everything and puts his imaginary friend on auto-pilot for like 20 years.
 
I love this guy, he's fun AND creepy at the same time an he allways makes me laugh. Anyone else?

He's my favorite character of 2010 as well.

I agree. During the bombcast they did for day 1, they suggested they felt this way too (except Brad who hates everything about Deadly Premonition and wont even discuss anything possibly being good about it haha), but ultimately they didn't put it up that way. As Jeff said, and I agree, the only redeemable thing about Deadly Premonition is Francis York Morgan. No, the game isn't good and that's partially what appealed to me about it. I dont expect people to agree with that, as I know I'm weird when it comes to that, but Francis York Morgan being a great character... ya it's hard not to agree that character is well fleshed out throughout the course of that game.
 
Anyway, I'm just pointing out my opinion here- I'm not trying to argue GBs choices. I may disagree but that's fine. Nothing wrong with being of a different opinion.
I agree OP.

He's not just one of my favourites of the year, he's one of my favourites of all time.

More a Zack man myself.

" As Jeff said, and I agree, the only redeemable thing about Deadly Premonition is Francis York Morgan. "

I like the way he points at himself when he talks.

He is a rather intriguing character.

I do not mind that he lost to Mordin, but York/Zach will always have a special place in my heart.

" @ThePilgrums: I don't really think qualifiers like "for a 20 dollar game" or "for a Wii game" or "for a small developer" or "for a DS game" really key into the bigger accolades at all. The controls either work or they don't. And "you're playing it wrong" is kind of a cheap way to dismiss someone's opinion. "

I didn't watch much of the Brad/Ryan QL so I can't really comment. And also I don't like defending Brad. So I'll take your word for it.

Jus to clear up my opinion here: I think Deadly Premonition is a shitty game to play, the controls probably are complete shit, it looks bad, there's about 2 different enemies, it's boring, etc etc- but that's not what we're talkin about.
 
I got the impression that Brad genuinely wasn't sold on York as a character. I could totally see why someone would say York is a random mess of nonsense like some throwaway fighting game character- That's what I thought he was for a while. If Brad thinks York is a dumb choice, I'm totally cool with that.
Like I think the way he points at himself all the time is just because they have bad animators on that game; it's not really character thing at all.
 
But either way I think it all adds up and I think he's great.

" @ryanwho said:

" @ThePilgrums: I don't really think qualifiers like "for a 20 dollar game" or "for a Wii game" or "for a small developer" or "for a DS game" really key into the bigger accolades at all. The controls either work or they don't. And "you're playing it wrong" is kind of a cheap way to dismiss someone's opinion. "

But in this situation it makes sense. It's not like the Fallout: New Vegas argument; Brad just refused to learn the mechanics of the game. It's like if you popped in Black Ops, turned it on Veteran and tried to just run straight into anyone you see and knife them. Of course you'd hate the game, and it's not really the game' s fault. "

" @supermike6 said:

" @ryanwho said:

" @ThePilgrums: I don't really think qualifiers like "for a 20 dollar game" or "for a Wii game" or "for a small developer" or "for a DS game" really key into the bigger accolades at all. The controls either work or they don't. And "you're playing it wrong" is kind of a cheap way to dismiss someone's opinion. "

But in this situation it makes sense. It's not like the Fallout: New Vegas argument; Brad just refused to learn the mechanics of the game. It's like if you popped in Black Ops, turned it on Veteran and tried to just run straight into anyone you see and knife them. Of course you'd hate the game, and it's not really the game' s fault. "

Don't be stupid. The game plays like shit. Fact. It's not that Brad "didn't want to learn". That's completely ridiculous.  "

"Amazing!"

I have opinions on the middle east without ever being there. I'd say watching something for 100 hours gives you a good idea of how enjoyable it would be to play. A bit of common fucking sense can get you there, Hal.

" I have opinions on the middle east without ever being there. I'd say watching something for 100 hours gives you a good idea of how enjoyable it would be to play. A bit of common fucking sense can get you there, Hal. "

I don't think Woody Allen would agree with that.

Hal lives in a black or white word where you love everything about a game or you're a troll.

" @Hailinel:  If you think Deadly Premonition somehow has good controls then I'd really like to know, in your opinion, which games DO play like shit?  Cos when you break a weapon in this game, he does a shrug animation that leaves you standing there for like 10 seconds, incase you missed that. You press A to fire while there is a literal TRIGGER right there on the controller. "

 @I_smell
If you had played Deadly Premonition, you would know that you can change the entire layout of the controls. I personally have shoot on the right trigger and the left trigger take out weapon. Also, I never used melee weapons a lot, but I only used it until it was nearly dead, then when I was free of zombies, I would throw it away and then get a new one, if possible. With guns, when you hover over the head, without the lock-on button, the cross-heir (sp?) stays on the head for a second or so. If you played, you would have had a feel for it and knew when to shoot. Also, with the infinite melee and ammo guns, it's actually pretty easy to play Deadly Premonition. Not really that difficult unless you're one of those 'too stubborn to change anything' players.
 
Edit: To stay on topic, Francis York Morgan is pretty much in my top 10 great characters of the year. Yeah.

Yeah I imagine eating shit isn't so bad either if you hold your nose and pretend it's a shrimp cocktail.

Giantbomb broke my heart. He's my #1 as well