Top 50 Video Game Characters of All-Time - Guinness World Records

Let’s get to the short and straight. You voted at gamers.guinnessworldrecords.com, and after 13,000 votes have been counted, here are the top 50 video game characters of all-time according to Guinness’ statistics:



1. Mario (Donkey Kong, Nintendo, 1981)
2. Link (The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo, 1986)
3. Master Chief (Halo: Combat Evolved, Microsoft, 2001)
4. Solid Snake (Metal Gear, Konami, 1987)
5. Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII, Square, 1997)
6. PAC-Man (PAC-Man, Namco, 1980)
7. Lara Croft (Tomb Raider, Eidos 1996)
8. Gordon Freeman (Half-Life, Valve, 1998)
9. Kratos (God of War, Sony, 2005)
10. Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega, 1990)
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“The world has seen so many pivotal characters throughout the history of gaming that asking our readers to narrow it down to just 50 was a challenge in itself,” says Gaz Deaves, Guinness World Records Gaming Editor. “Some of the choices on the list are obvious, some less so, but it’s sure to get gamers talking about their favourites.”

Surprised to see some of these results? So were we. I could swear Ryu is cooler than Eddie Riggs…

View the complete list at the source.

Source: Reviews On Q

 

knew mario would have been one before even looking

 

Why is sonic #10?

 

cause sonic is badass and oldschool

 

Link should be number 1.

 

I'm actually surprised Mario got #1, I would expect PAC-Man to have..anyways, thanks for sharing. Interesting .

 

How Is Donte From Devil May Cry Not On There!

 

Dante is number 28, though if this wasn't voted on by people in your age group, I could understand how it should have been overlooked from the list entirely.

 

Only like these eight guys. The rest should just burn in hell, especially Mario and his god damn mustache.

 

And this is what's wrong with gaming.

It's this very statement that even put "Soap" in the same league with the characters that built the history of gaming. Not that soap wasn't a compelling character, but what did his character really do for gaming? it's just a voice actor.

 

^This.
Mario is one of the reasons gaming is where it is.
Not everyone plays video games, but even if they dont they will mario more than they will know soap.

 

sonic and kirby should be higherXD. pikachu too. never even heard of kratos..

 

Sonic should definitely be higher and Link should have gotten number 1.

 

Yay link! Crash Bandicoot and Spyro should have made top 10...

 

I don't really care who built the first blocks of gaming. Does it even matter? Time changes, and there might come a time when all off these old-school characters get kicked off the list, which I'm happily looking forward to.

And just so you know, I'm not one of those CoD suck-ups.

 

I'm just saying, the poll was about who the greatest video game characters of all-time are, and characters like Soap aren't changing the course of other games like some characters have. You don't think of Soap first when you play Modern Warfare, you think Multi-player. When I ask if you want to play Marvel Vs. Capcom, you might think of Ryu as your favorite character in the game, but he's transcended his own franchise to move on to bigger things, because he's a memorable character than means something to the history of gaming. You could argue that every character in Super Smash Brothers is bigger than anyone in a Call of Duty game, as when you see them, you know almost all of their names. If I saw Soap I would say, "Yeah, that guy from Modern Warfare."

 

I totally agree.

 

Where is the pong bars! They are the original game characters! And heck they probably took the most beating! Not a fan of mario but link master cheif (not a big halo fan XD) goddam Freeman, cloud, pacman, an solid snake deserve to be up there. Not a god of war fan (Ninja gaiden 2 FTW!) and I wish captin price was higher up on the list (how in the world did soap beat him!!!!!)

 

I disagree as I think of twothings when it comes to cod: modern warfare series, soap and the first sniper rifle you get in cod 4 XD but then again I like campaign. Of course I think home front will have some better characters (and story and campaign)

 

I've mostly enjoyed playing Mario when the N64 was released, that time there wasn't many great games. So I would have to agree with Mario being #1