PC Gaming Week: Techradar’s most loved and hated PC gaming characters

PC Gaming Week: Techradar's most loved and hated PC gaming characters

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PC Gaming Week: Techradar's most loved and hated PC gaming characters

Introduction

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While we might remember a game’s sprawling levels, high-powered weapons or snazzy graphics every so often, it’s the characters that tend to stick in our heads.

Whether it’s empathy for a protagonist or pure disdane for an immoral baddie, our feelings toward them are often subsconsciously based on our own life experiences and determine the choices we make in games. Not that we’ve ever grabbed a crowbar and eradicated an entire research facility overrun by Xen while wearing an orange HEV suit in real life, but you know what we mean.

As part of our annual PC Gaming Week, techradar takes a look at a few of our most loved and hated PC characters past and present.

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Kain

Loved: Kain, (the vampire) from Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (pictured)

One of the most enduring vampire-game characters yet, Kain was the ultimate pawn in a tale of mythic woe and epic battle. The character has a rich story that came to plenty of twists and turns and it even spawned a sequel.

Hated: Booker De Witt – Bioshock Infinite

Very few characters have left me feeling like I wished I never played a game, except …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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