Metal Gear Solid- Otacon

I'm basically out of the loop as far as MGS goes now anyways, but playing through the first game, I always let Meryl die, since that really fit with who Snake was, and to me made the story much more dramatic. Plus, Otacon and Snake were a good comedy duo, especially over stuff like ketchup and killing dogs. At the end of the game, if you finish it with Meryl, Otacon stays behind in order to allow you more time to escape, thus sacrificing himself when the US bombs Shadow Moses, even though they never do.

Otacon makes a return to the 2nd game, and is just as pessimistic. Although this time around, they build a dark story around his family that wasn't really needed. And then his sister gets killed, which is fucking ridiculous. They basically butchered his character in this game.

I know he's in the 4th game, but I haven't played through it all the way and don't have a lot of desire to, however he's a staple of the franchise.


GTA 3- Donald Love

Originally, he was supposed to be the main antagonist in GTA 3, who you're supposed to bring down and have chaos ensue on the city, however the idea was scrapped along with many other things, which in the end was probably a better choice.

Love disappears at one point and is never heard or seen again. Many people think he was killed, while others think he skipped town, I prefer to choose the latter. Rockstar has been tight lipped on the whole thing and he has yet to reappear outside of prequels that do his character no justice at all.

If he does resurface, hopefully they don't take into consideration that he needs to pay for framing people and being corrupt, since he and Ray were absolutely awesome at their position.

People who died in games who shouldn't have;

MGS2 - Emma
Silent Hill - Lisa
Super Mario RPG - Boomer, Punchinello
Syphon Filter - Phagan

As far as people who "shouldn't" die, I can safely say that anyone main stream from the Mario world will never be killed off. And Ganon technically does die in every game, however most of the Zelda games tend to be a retelling of each story, the only ones that are continuing are Link's Adventure and Majora's Mask.

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oregon trail - the indian who helps you cross the river

I don't remember this in my edition, or was that a joke?

If it wasn't, at least they captured the pioneers in the right sense, although there should've been an option to take a route to save time, only to be confronted by Mormons who slaughter everyone.