What side character deserved to be the main character?

[Scurrybt]

Personally, one I can think of is Zero from the Megaman franchise. He is way too cool to be relegated to a spinoff series.

[Fajita Jim]

Roy Batty

[OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle]

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Agreed on the FF12 take, everyone was more interesting than Vaan, eh maybe not Penelo

Everybody knows Balthier's the true leading man, though (including him). Proven by the fact that he is the one that shows up in War of the Lions.

Honestly, Vaan would have been more interesting if he was fleshed out more. He's got the whole growth & redemption arc cut out for him, but they just didn't use it very well ultimately.


My vote goes to Issun in Okami
Ammy never would have got off her butt and learned to leap before ya look without our little bouncing bug not a bug!!

[Scurrybt]

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Agreed on the FF12 take, everyone was more interesting than Vaan, eh maybe not Penelo

Everybody knows Balthier's the true leading man, though (including him). Proven by the fact that he is the one that shows up in War of the Lions.

Honestly, Vaan would have been more interesting if he was fleshed out more. He's got the whole growth & redemption arc cut out for him, but they just didn't use it very well ultimately.


My vote goes to Issun in Okami :Issun:
Ammy never would have got off her butt and learned to leap before ya look without our little bouncing bug not a bug!! :singleedge::issun:

Good point! Kind of like how Ghost in Hollow Knight wouldn't have been filled in on what to do if it wasn't for Hornet.

[GlaceonChireiden]

If only you knew the Zero seties s just as important to canon than classic and X and isnt really considered a spinoff...

Anyways to answer your question, would've loved to see Silver the hedgehog get a game of his own. Imagine a game taking place in his ruined future(s)

[Electric Cupcake]

Nevermind Silver.

Damn Sega for abandoning the original Mobius Freedom Fighter-verse.

[GlaceonChireiden]

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Nevermind Silver.

Damn Sega for abandoning the original Mobius Freedom Fighter-verse.

You'd have to yell at Archie for that, not Sega. The whole freedom fighter/mobius stuff was all related to the Archie comics (and if I have my info right, they still own the rights to that stuff). The games have always had a different canon than whatever the comics were up to.

Sega/Sonic Team have always kind of distanced themselves from that canon, the closest we ever got were sally/bunny appearing in spinball or the comic covers in the ps2 collection.

[Basho]

Jack Burton

Sanakan

Kobeni

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

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Sanakan

Sanakan was a main character in NOiSE

[Scurrybt]

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Anyways to answer your question, would've loved to see Silver the hedgehog get a game of his own. Imagine a game taking place in his ruined future(s)

That sounds so cool!

[Stranger]

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Agreed on the FF12 take, everyone was more interesting than Vaan, eh maybe not Penelo

Everybody knows Balthier's the true leading man, though (including him). Proven by the fact that he is the one that shows up in War of the Lions.

Honestly, Vaan would have been more interesting if he was fleshed out more. He's got the whole growth & redemption arc cut out for him, but they just didn't use it very well ultimately.


My vote goes to Issun in Okami :Issun:
Ammy never would have got off her butt and learned to leap before ya look without our little bouncing bug not a bug!! :singleedge::issun:

Arguably Amaterasu is a primary supporting character in everyone else's stories. Even Issun (is sun) was created by Amaterasu in advance of the events which would unfold. Yet all she does is support his ambitions in making her more than a supporting character in her own story.

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Nevermind Silver.

Damn Sega for abandoning the original Mobius Freedom Fighter-verse.

You'd have to yell at Archie for that, not Sega. The whole freedom fighter/mobius stuff was all related to the Archie comics (and if I have my info right, they still own the rights to that stuff). The games have always had a different canon than whatever the comics were up to.

Sega/Sonic Team have always kind of distanced themselves from that canon, the closest we ever got were sally/bunny appearing in spinball or the comic covers in the ps2 collection.

Following Sega's acquisition by Sony-backed Yakuza in the 00s there was an effort to shut down the larger Sonic franchise. This meant reversing their opinions on the comics, which had been officially licensed products meant to build the fanbase and lore beyond the minimalist game presentations. This was done in advance of things like Sonic Adventure.

Afterwards efforts were split between satisfying the fans who had developed and trying to kill the franchise's extended universe. Because it was necessary that Sega's downfall, engineered at the finance level by taking advantage of Japan's financial system, looked legitimate.

[Devsman]

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Well Zero is the reason why Mega Man X series became a thing.

Sort of. His look was. But in the ways that it was important for him to be the buddy, I don't see any evidence there was ever meant to be a reversal of the X/Zero dynamic.

Actually, I'd go so far as to see it looks a lot more likely that the main character of Mega Man X was always going to have X's final personality. Mostly because of the color scheme. Zero's red and yellow color scheme (in the first game, he has no green) is perfectly in line for a character like X. Red being the color of passion and anger, and yellow being the color of energy (among other things of course). Meanwhile, X's blue color scheme represents calm. They don't really flesh it out for a couple of installments, but those are pretty much opposite traits. Zero is the level-headed one, while X is the passionate one.

Ultimately, they changed Zero's look to Zero mostly because they were afraid people wouldn't be able to think of it as the new Mega Man, and redesigned X himself to look more like the classic Mega Man, who of course was blue because of the available colors on the NES palette. But I also think that, by sheer coincidence, it was a neat touch that makes them feel a lot more like a duo, that they should really have each other's colors.

[Stranger]

Zero was a spin-off that eclipsed the main franchise.

They brought X in to re-establish the existing brand so they could continue to release mainline games without splitting their marketing efforts.

Literally brought Megaman's corpse in and turned it into X, and altered Zero's personality to be whiny and edgy.

[Basho]

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Sanakan

Sanakan was a main character in NOiSE

this is true.
also on that tangent, in case you havent already noticed, the man himself has a new series out, "Tower Dungeon".
it is essentially Blame! but in a fantasy setting.

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

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Sanakan was a main character in NOiSE

this is true.
also on that tangent, in case you havent already noticed, the man himself has a new series out, "Tower Dungeon".
it is essentially Blame! but in a fantasy setting. :cozyspaceengineersc:

I've seen it mentioned a few times now and I can't wait to read it.

[Apollo702]

In 2016 my ex who (up until early 2017) was a great girlfriend and I re-watched Ferris Beuler's Day Off and were stunned to watch it with adult eyes.


Our Opinion of FB plummeted. His behavior in many cases was alarming!

And we both noticed that the movie could NOT function without Cameron. Pull that leg of the stool out and the whole thing collapses.