As promised, here is the list of my top ten male video game characters.
As with the female video game characters, the most important thing to note here is that this is a list of my personal favorite or stand-out characters from video games. The only criteria used to determine my choices was the positive impact they had on my experience while playing the game and the enjoyment I got from utilizing them or interacting with them. It’s as simple as that.
Note 2: Silent protagonists were not included since it is very hard to establish a set “character” when the idea is for the player to embody the character, so I have a hard time considering them a wholly separate entity from myself. So the exclusion of Link or any other similar characters was not an oversight but intentional.