Animation Source Forums

Ms.Pac-Man,and Pac-Man,whenever they get cornered by the Ghosts that chase them around the maze.

Nintendo has gotten some good writers on those games, that's for sure. I'm not sure about the Xbox games, I can't think of any I actuelly care for the characters in.

-ahem- Call of duty maybe? XD
no, not just because its my favorite game, but because its about war.
I mean yeah, when you play these games you feel like your apart of it and when someone dies its like real war. (kinda...real war is MUCH more emotional) And half the reason I like the games so much is because its emotional and trys to make the player feel like a real soldier. (i have the ps2 version but have played through the xbox campaign) and in the xbox campaign at the end either my favorite character or your sergeant dies and i chose to save my favorite character. XD I couldnt let him die, even if i did the achievement wouldnt be worth it. i couldnt it would ruin the rest of the game for me. XD
anyway yeah, im wierd, but thats my outlook on the whole -feel or a character- kinda thing...yeah im pretty wierd like that.

I can understand that, it makes a war game better to be that way, I only have Star Wars Battlefront 2 and your partners are all meaningless CPUs with no emotion, even in the Rise of the Empire storymode.

Yeah, War games always get me.

I would have to say that the Sly Cooper games give the player a good feel for the dynamics of each character. I mean, the storyline, the controls, the gameplay... it's all centered around how each character "ticks".

Aye, as far as I know the Sly Cooper game are one of the few where gameplay abilities stay relatively close to the story. Sly's a stealthy trickster and thief; Bentley is a robotic, mechanical, and demolition expert; and Murray is... well, brawn.
Credit to the developers because they managed to stay with that idea through the final game where they added even more characters.

And it's not the character dynamics that is the only thing to shine but the story and the twists in events really portray the emotion of the characters on you. A cartoony style? Yes. But you can easily feel the emotions the characters go through.

Another game I want to put up on this list is Final Fantasy XII. Thought in the first release of the game the characters all eventually end up being the same in combat, the story really dives into the characters emotions and thoughts.

One game that really made me feel for the characters was Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Probably one of the most emotional side-quests in the Zelda series was when you reunited Anju and Kafei.

All very good examples. I've played Majora's Mask and my nephew spent forever on that side quest!