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Lara Croft Crowned Most Iconic Video Games Character of All Time, According to BAFTA Poll (www.bafta.org)
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What an.... interesting list. What are we thinking?

Personally I'm stunned Lara Croft made the top five and Agent 47 seems like an odd choice. Small sample size?

**The full list: **

  1. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider

  2. Mario, Super Mario

  3. Agent 47, Hitman

  4. Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog

  5. Sackboy, LittleBigPlanet

  6. Pac-Man, Pac-Man

  7. Link, The Legend of Zelda

  8. Master Chief, Halo

  9. Kratos, God of War

  10. Shadowheart, Baldur’s Gate 3

  11. Arthur Morgan, Red Dead Redemption 2

  12. Pikachu, Pokémon

  13. Steve, Minecraft

  14. Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid

15.Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot

  1. Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy VII

  2. Astarion, Baldur’s Gate 3

  3. Kazuma Kiryu, Yakuza

  4. Ellie Williams, The Last of Us

  5. Nathan Drake, Uncharted

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[–] Broken_Monitor 26 points 7 months ago (5 children)

They polled gamers, for sure. Non gamers are only gonna recognize part of this list, and thats what makes them truly iconic - being known by people who dont even care about video games.

Thats gonna be mario, sonic, pikachu, pacman, and maybe Zelda (but probably not Link). The average person will know those but would have no clue who Lara Croft, Nathan Drake, or Solid Snake is. Kazuma Kiryu?? I’m an avid gamer and wouldn’t recognize that name.

[–] givesomefucks 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and maybe Zelda (but probably not Link).

It would be a picture of Link under the title Zelda...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

And they'd say "Oh, Peter Pan!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

They polled game publishers. The list is more like "which game publisher is paying us the most."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

the poll was engaged with by over 4,000 players from all over the world

So gamers, and a non-trivial but not even remotely representative group size

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Wasn't link only the official in-game name starting with botw? Not saying it wasn't link before, but previously they asked for your name first and only used Link if you didn't give one, so many casual players wouldn't have known it's Link.