Best and Worst Characters

Games Radar felt it’s time to compile a list again, so they went for 10 best and 10 worst conceived video game characters of all time. A (un)surprisingly large number of FPS characters make it in, but a few familiar faces as well. #7 worst – Xana from Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, #6 best – Morte from Planescape: Torment, #4 best – Sander Cohen from BioShock, #3 best – HK-47 from the Star Wars: KotOR series, #2 worst – Martin Septim from Oblivion, and #1 best – SHODAN from the System Shock series.

6) Best – Mortimer ‘˜Morte’ Rictusgrin (Planescape: Torment)
Everyone has a friend they don’t really like – an abusive arse who lives to see you suffer, but who you still like having around. Mortimer Rictusgrin – Morte to his friends – is exactly that guy… well, head. He’s a sarcastic, lying and stunningly witty flying skull. By the end he accepts the blame for the lives he’s destroyed (including repeatedly causing the death of the immortal, amnesiac Nameless One – your character) but is redeemed through his friendship with you. Amongst a pack of memorable characters, Morte is the one you love Planescape for.
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2) Worst – Martin Septim (Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)
When it was revealed that Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean would be lending their voice talents to Oblivion, we thought we’d have seen the end of the soulless, monotonous verbal dirge that spews from the gobs of the game’s moronic residents. Captain Jean Luc Picard’s bleak rendition of Uriel Septim manages to make the Emperor look like a mad old pensioner, but he avoids this list by being killed off so quickly. Sean Bean’s character sticks around far longer though, at all times sounding like a man incapable of emotion. His script is a load of wank too, always going on about some rubbish nobody really cares about.

Even when he turns into a giant ferocious dragon he’s still a bit annoying, and embarrassing to watch – like if your dad turned into a massive mythical creature made of fire. He even talks about turning into a dragon like you’d talk about ordering a coffee. (One grande cappuccino with an extra shot, and I’ll be turning into a dragon to save the world – is there a discount for that?) Sean Bean may have been a British housewife’s favorite in the BBC series Sharpe, but stick him in a sound recording studio and he’s reduced to a painfully dull oaf.