Design Dorks Gaiden: The Top 15 Video Game Characters of 2023!

EDIT: Was not realized during the stream, but there are a few hiccups where small 10 second or so bits were lost to connection issues due to winter weather. Sorry, not much I can do, I think all the core points and arguments are intact, but there are a handful of points where a conversation will abruptly jump to something completely different.

It's that time of year again! 2023! Bonkers year for video games, some of the most mindblowing games I've ever seen came out and also Starfield, many of which had some fantastic characters and stories! Today we'll be going through 15 of our favorites, whittling the list down until we can definitively say our favorite video game character of 2023!

Timestamps do not necessarily show where a character places on the list (Though they do show a general trend of the discussions), moreso when they were discussed. I.E. "This character is amazing, here is why, we shouldn't cut them yet" happens multiple times: So not spoilers of placements, but, like, half spoilers?

Also ALL THE SPOILERS for all of these games!

0:00 - Intro
4:55 - Explaining what this video is
7:49 - Listing the 15 Characters
10:08 - Fake Peppino (Pizza Tower) Discussion
15:05 - Isaac Clarke (Dead Space Remake) Discussion
18:00 - Wyll (Baldur's Gate 3) Discussion
20:55 - Dion Lesage (Final Fantasy XVI) Discussion
24:57 - Luke (Street Fighter 6) Discussion
33:17 - Peter Parker (Spider-Man 2) Discussion
40:46 - Karlach (Baldur's Gate 3) Discussion Part 1
42:29 - Kraven the Hunter (Spider-Man 2) Discussion
47:34 - The Princess/You (Slay the Princess) Discussion Part 1
56:33 - Karlach Part 2
59:56 - Slay the Princess vs. Luke, into further Slay the Princess Discussion Part 2
1:07:51 - Gale (Baldur's Gate 3) Discussion
1:15:02 - Top 5!
1:17:24 - Chai (Hi-Fi Rush) Discussion
1:25:55 - Kazama Kiryu (Yakuza) Discussion Part 1
1:36:01 - Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate 3) Discussion
1:43:17 - Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3) Discussion
1:52:30 - Kazama Kiryu Part 2
2:12:02 - The Top 15 Decided

From that point forward it was a loosy-goosy banter covering a few comments and just discussion future plans and stuff. It's an end of year video, we can sacrifice some structure for that!

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