Your pics: If silent video game characters could talk

UPDATED: You told us what they'd say - see the results

Words: Justin Towell, GamesRadar UK

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Some game characters never speak. Whether it's a hardware limitation or a deliberate attempt to get you to connect more with your on-screen alter-ego, someone's hit the mute button on their entire lives. But what if they could talk? What would they say?

UPDATE: After getting the ball rolling with our own efforts (see page 2), we opened it up to you guys on Facebook and the GamesRadar forum. Some of you shopped together your own, while we've made the others up ourselves from your comments. Give yourselves a pat on the back - some of these are great!

Above: Sackboy by Sam Scarfone

Above: Halo 3: ODST by Jeremy Montalvo

Above: Modern Warfare 2's Ramirez by Aodhan Devlin

Above: Gordon Freeman from Half-Life 2 by EII2233

Above: Crackdown by Karl Smith

Above: Zelda's Link by Sam Scarfone

Above: Chrono Trigger by ssj4raditz

Above: Crackdown by Ravenbom

Above: Half-Life 2 by JohnnyMaverik

Above: Metroid by Ravenbom

Above: Flower by lemonleafs

Above: Pokemon by Hydrohs

Above: SoulCalibur's Voldo by Ravenbom

Above: Scribblenauts by Ravenbom

Above: Dead Space by (you guessed it) Ravenbom again

Well done everyone. Hit page 2 to see our original ideas if you missed them first time round. If you missed out this time and feel like having a go, you can still show your creative side in the forum.

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Hurricrane - 6 months 14 days ago

lol, I don't know why I wasn't expecting the TEETIES...

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tomthespesh - 6 months 14 days ago

The resident evil one is brilliant

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TheBoz - 6 months 14 days ago

Erm, Lemmings actually spoke, One of the most famous phrases in the early 90s was "OH NO!!!"

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GamesRadarJustinTowell - 6 months 14 days ago

Well, the zombies said 'urg' too. But it was hardly a dramatic monologue :)

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Fallen_Pumpkin - 6 months 14 days ago

Hehe, i liked that, made me chuckle :P

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AnonymouZ - 6 months 14 days ago

this fanboy accurately describes what i would want freeman to say:

"and with that said allow me to set the stage first:
in the middle of the epic final battle in Episode 3 with advisors, combine, zombies, and resistence fighters all present Gordon and Alyx are back to back in the thick of it all fighting for thier lives and watching friends and enemies alike die. Gordon suddenly stops turns Alyx to face him and kisses her for all he's worth and suddenly everyone stops the killing and watches.
Alyx: Gordon.......wow this was unexpected
Gordon: I've wanted to do that for the longest time now, you know for if we don't make it
Another kiss between the two and then Gordon launches into a group of advisors and the chaos begins anew"

BUT, since i'm not such a fanboy myself... i think THIS would fit better:

"I'VE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING COMBINE ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING PLANET!"

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TheBoz - 6 months 14 days ago

You got busted lol. If the Lemmings could talk "to the gamer", I can just imagine what they will say when we "sacrifice" them. I won't swear on a post, but I think we can all imagine lol. Am I wrong in thinking, was there a Lemmings cartoon or a song or something? I might be wrong here.

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GamesRadarJustinTowell - 6 months 14 days ago

OK, OK, busted! We did *try* to leave out characters that sort of speak. You should've seen the Shadow of the Colossus one where Wander is... well, tell you what - I'll put it in the forum post then you can see ;)

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Xplosive59 - 6 months 14 days ago

what about characters that shouldnt speak such as habringer from mass effect 2

Harbringer: MY ATTACKS WILL RIP YOU APART SHEPARD!

Shepard: you've already said that 10 BLOODY times in the last 5 minutes, shut up goddamit!

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Hydrohs - 6 months 14 days ago

I wonder what every character from the Pokemon games says. Maybe they just go around saying their names all the time like the Pokemon do...

reCaptcha: the clicking. But I thought it said the dicking.

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kjdubz22 - 6 months 14 days ago

Besides the beginning of Bioshock where you say like two lines I'm guessing the whole game he'd probably want to say "F!*k you kindly." Otherwise I'm sure Link would have a few words to say to Zelda if he had the chance.

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TheBoz - 6 months 14 days ago

@Justin, it's half the fun on these features, you wait till someone pulls me on a comment I don't take it to heart and hope you haven't lol. Never got to see let alone play Shadow of the Colossus, seen clips and reviews etc, I love it when games like that try and do things different. @Xplosive59, oh yes, I'm with you on that train of thought, number of times I have killed an irritating character lol.

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xboxrulez - 6 months 14 days ago

omg 12th, thats ice cold mofo.
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thats rite, xboxrules (and master chief) are back on the scene, with 2cents to share.
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may think silent man from killzone 2 (if he could speek, if he had some1 to listen to him lol owned) "may ashamed!" haha
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for great content, x marks the spot ax

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