Five Sexy Gaming Guys

Look at this GQ mother F%&$er!

I'm just going to make one statement clear: While this isn't a video game blog only geared towards females, given the fact that I am a girl, you're going to get some posts like this.  While game creators generally have guys in mind for the game's audience, it's always nice to have some eye candy for the ladies.  Guys, you can go divert you attention to Lara Croft or whoever is the current jiggly-bits character of your gaming fantasies.  I'll be distracted by these five fine gentlemen.

Dante (Devil May Cry series)

First up is our cover boy man Dante.  I said in an earlier post that the original Devil May Cry was my reason for buying the PS2, and the overall character design of Dante was a large contributing factor.  He had the looks, the style, and the bad-boy attitude that appealed to me.  Even with the second game being a huge disappointment, at least I had something nice to look at on the screen.

Vincent Valentine (Final Fantasy VII and its hundreds of spin-offs)

While a large number of fangirls flocked to Cloud and Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII, I was more attracted to the mysterious man sleeping in the coffin.  It says a lot when I found an optional character to be much more interesting and appealing than some of the main characters in the game.  He's a sixty year-old man in a 27 year-old's body thanks to some crazy experiments by the quack scientist Hojo.  Just don't get this brooding guy angry, or he may go all Chaos on you.  (Or Frankenstein's Monster. Or Jason.)

Raziel (Legacy of Kain series)

Next up in this list is the second star of a series that needs a proper sequel (or at least proper closure instead of ending on yet another cliff-hanger).  In the time before his master Kain threw his lead lieutenant into the Lake of the Dead, Raziel the vampire was quite a looker.  And he wasn't one of those sparkly Twilight vampires.  The vampires in the Legacy of Kain series are a cunning, menacing breed.  He briefly sported a nice pair of wings, before Kain tore the bones from them in a rage and cast him into oblivion.  He not only lost his wings, but also his jaw, his flesh, his abdomen, and his - umm - manly parts.  At least Raziel kept his great voice (courtesy of Michael Bell, who seems to have lent his voice to everything.)

The Prince (Prince of Persia: Sands of Time series)

Sensing a bit of a pattern in the first three guys, I picked someone with a bit of royal blood in him.  The Prince in Sands of Time was such a tease.  As the game progressed, he would become more battle-torn and gradually lose his clothing until he was doing acrobatics shirtless.  He got a lot angrier in Warrior Within before dealing with a conflicting split-personality in The Two Thrones.  I personally preferred him in the first game, though I have yet to see the Jake Gyllenhaal film version of this Prince.  I just want to keep my memories of the game, since I don't think Gyllenhaal could do the character justice.

King of All Cosmos (Katamari Damacy series)

Another man of royalty, High Highness the King of All Cosmos is by far the most fabulous dresser on this list.  His colorful sense of style is all his own, with long flowing capes and form-fitting tights that *ahem* accentuate the positive.  He's known to get a bit wild, known to have destroyed all of the stars in the galaxy in a drunken escapade.  But sorry, ladies, the King already has a Queen.








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