Poll: Ultimate PlayStation Character Tournament: Round 1 - Matches 33-36

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Tough draw for John Marston, that could be worthy of a finale.

Nathan Drake is beating John Marshton massively. Can we please keep it that way!

Agent 47 vs. Garrus Vakarian, the ultimate showdown...

@whizzkidd I'm having visions of Agent 47 ending up in an airlock and being spaced.

Love Persona, but I voted for Ethan. Sorry, not Sorry.

Ain't no stopping Nate.

Chloe... oh come on, she is awesome.

Nathan Drake is the most overrated, boring, and cliché video game character ever. Come on Marston, one of the greats!

"My side ain't chosen. My side was given."

Should've had Nahman Jayden instead of Ethan.

And Chloe is horrible. I'd vote against her no matter who she was coupled up with.

I'm surprised that John Marston is doing that badly. Sure Uncharted is good and all, but Marston is a way more interesting and badass character.

John Marston is awesome, but Drake is one of PlayStation’s leading figures. I have to go with Drake here.
I hope Chloe can catch up to Leon. 😟

Most of these were pretty easy decisions in my book, except for Hitman vs Garrus.

Poor John Marston

Ethan Mars will Jason and Shaun his way to the top

Ethan, Drake, Leon and Garrus. Second one was tough but Uncharted is way too important for me.

Also, I dont get how profanity is censored in the comments but offensive gifs get a pass.

Just Drake for me here. I have Persona 4 but haven't played it anywhere close to Kanji's appearance (beyond the intro, I mean) yet.

Whoever voted for Leon Kennedy over Chloe Price should put down their pads and walk away from gaming forever.

@Ryno I mean...John just kinda does what people tell him to do, but okay...And not in a video game sort of way, but a storyline sort of way. His character is bland.

Garrus or we riot.

@nhSnork you are missing the greatest character based dungeon interludes in the history of gaming. Kanji is a class act man, amazing character and regardless of how this vote transpires the writing aroubd Kanjis character are some of the best I have read.

I voted for Nate. John Marston is sort of boring and a stereotypical good guy. He just kind of walks around and runs errands for people and generally doesn't have much of a discernible personality beyond being a cool cowboy guy.

Nate didn't really have much of a personality either, but they fleshed him out quite a bit in later games, and at least he wasn't just monotone and boring to listen to.

I think the feeling of Uncharted being overrated comes more from those players that might not have played the games upon first release. The Uncharted games have influenced/created a whole new action/adventure genre. Same can be said about TLOU, keeping in mind the games of that era, TLOU knocked genre doors down.

We have so many great games and such better storytelling these days, these classics can seem overrated for sure, but in their time and day, wow! Go Nathan! Go Garrus! Garrus is amazing, btw. My FemShep always had Garrus at her side.

I don't understand the hate for Drake here. Apart from being overated which you could claim about almost any very popular character, what's so awful about him?

I LOVE both Drake and Marston ... It was sad that they had to meet so early, especially considering he could have gone much further in another bracket. Had to go with Drake though. Too many good times spent over the years, games and systems not to give him the nod. RIP John!

@get2sammyb @LieutenantFatman It's probably because he's an unrelenting, mass murdering psychopath. Or something. Even though everyone shoots him on sight anyway.

I like Nate, but choosing between him and John is tough. I think I'll skip that match. Everything else was an easy vote.

@DerMeister I guess that is an action film cliché where the protagonist killing bad guy mercs gets a free pass. Doesn't really fit with his personality I know.

@Bliquid I get it, their efforts didn't really hit home for you and you weren't convinced, that's fair enough. I feel the same way about a lot of games. Personally I think ND do it better than most when it comes to making interesting characters but there is always room for improvement.

I like John Marston, but come on, Nathan Drake is probably the biggest character of PlayStation nowadays. Of course that Nathan is my vote.

@Kidfried You wouldn't say that if you knew Garrus, it's actually impossible to hold a grudge against him.

Kanji is one of the greatest characters of all time! Go Kanji!

I also picked Leon (my favourite Resident Evil character), Garrus and Nathan Drake.

@get2sammyb No! Never!

Ethan Mars for PlayStation All-Stars.

To me the only time Chloe was really special SPOILER ALERT was when she was in a weelchair and begging to die! In the rest of the game I felt like she was just and edgelord yawn

@get2sammyb interesting. I thought a lot of these Internet cool kids would've gone the John Marston route

John Marston was an insta-pick. So many hours spent on that game so sad he's getting killed... again.

@get2sammyb You guys should do a similar tournament with characters you dislike more. Bubsy Vs. Big The Cat anyone?

Hitman and Garrus...so close

@themcnoisy oh, I'll be sure not to miss out on it all. I just grabbed P4G early when I bought a Vita and merely "tasted" the story and gameplay (with quite positive impressions as it is). I still have a sizeable backlog in Persona (as in, I'm still in the last dungeon(s) of the first game), and I don't want to skip ahead when all four entries are so conveniently accessible in their portability. There are many franchises that make it feel like a luxury to this day.