that rpg attitude of not giving a personality to the hero and make him/her mute so you can easily relate to it is not good in my opinion, i love characters with their own personality, but can u guys imagine Link talking??? noooo probably that' s why nintendo want him to keep it shut. so i guess it depends but in general, characters with personality pelase...


ooh and am i the only here who usualy give the same name to nameless heroes ??

sometimes it depends on what type of games but i' ll say that in general, i name the hero " Gayan" , specialy in RPG' s (dragon quest 8 now), cool isn' t it ?? no ?? ok...

I dunno. Hard to say. Adol from Ys has always been a mute except in Ys 3. Be he was wandering from Ys in that one.

I hate RPG' s that have already created a hero for me, i want to create how he/she looks, what skills they have. It just doesnt feel like an RPG, if i have a predefined character to play with. Only game where that worked out right in my eyes, is Planescape: Torment, but i dont think anyone in this forum ever played that game!

I like both. Take Fable for instance. Silent hero (except for his emotes). Great game. Then there' s Final Fantasy X. The hero has QUITE the personality. Once again, great game. I think if the director of the game knows what he' s doing, either can lead to a pleasant experience.

The best thing about speechless main characters(IMO) is that you can make up their own personality! You can imagine what they say- what the verbal equivalent to Mario' s " Uuuh huh!" in Paper Mario is! You KNOW how pissed off Link is when he makes those screams, because YOU' RE him! Can you imagine a life where Link could talk? Outrageous!

Still, I love games where your character can speak just as much. You know how determined they are to save the world/princess/whatever by the things they say. They don' t need someone else to put words in their mouths to be great(except the voice actors). They simply blurt out insults at their enemies, and you know what they want...

Funnily I only realised my preference after playing GTA. Number 3 was ok but it was missing something. Vice City came along and as soon as Tony opened his mouth I knew what it was. I think you can tell a better story with a main character who talks.

In some titles it works to be mute, Legend of Zelda for example would be wrong if Link could talk and I agree other RPG' s with characters you can name and create the appearance of are cool. I just like hearing the main characters name spoken and him have something to say when the bad guys come along other than just " !!!" .

My favourite RPG main character is Ryodo from Grandia 2.

I' d play either recreationally, but i haven' t been able to get really into an rpg since i played Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest, back when i was little.

In FF serie i always named the main character to my own name.

The best thing about speechless main characters(IMO) is that you can make up their own personality! You can imagine what they say- what the verbal equivalent to Mario' s " Uuuh huh!" in Paper Mario is! You KNOW how pissed off Link is when he makes those screams, because YOU' RE him! Can you imagine a life where Link could talk? Outrageous!

Hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate it. We' ve had a hundred years of cinema and TV in which nobody has had the remotest difficulty empathising with the hero or heroine, even if they had a personality diametrically opposed to ones own.

Singling out the actual protagonist to be a silent character does more to jerk me out of the " reality" of the game than any other factor. Create the characteristics and skills all you want, but if there are only a few basic character models to begin with, where' s the problem in having them each have a distinctive voice?