Here comes a controversial topic right here, of which you all constantly criticize me for. The mystery behind why I like (deeply love) Sir Daniel Fortesque. Well, before I get into any detail, let me ask you this. Why do you all love Master Chief so much? To me he is boring and overrated, I mean he hardly talks, he looks like a guy in dirtbike armor, and he is in an overrated average husk of a game. I am sorry, but he just doesn’t appeal to me. A certain element of mystery is acceptable, but when the character doesn’t do anything out of the ordinary it really just annoys me. Anyway, back to Sir Dan, because you all just seem to hate him dearly. Just look at him, he is a skeleton (skeletons are awesome), he has one eye and he kills zombies. Where in Khorne’s name can you play a zombie game where you play as a skeleton? That totally defies the physics of games, because generally in most zombie games you get some generic guy with two guns, who says nothing except for cheesy diologue. Ya, I know most of you are probably sitting back in the glow of your computer screen laughing your asses off right now, because those aren’t sufficient reasons, but hey, let me list the real reasons of why I think Dan pwns (even though those are some elements as well).
Like I said before, look at Dan himself. Yes, he might just be a skeleton with one eye in some knight’s armor, but hey, looks can be deceiving. Besides, most of you probably don’t get my morbid sense of awesomeness. I have always liked skeletons ever since I was just a young Padawan, and I doubt that will ever change. Sir Dan was a really big breath of fresh air for me, because at the time most characters were really generic (except for Boba Fett, Darth Vader, and Indiana Jones who I also dearly loved, and still do to this day). In the second game he gets this really kickass golden armor, which really compliments his golden shield in my opinion. You know when you see him in that armor he is going to kick some hardcore ass.
His story is just hilarious, I mean you expect the main character of a game to be some triumphant, heroic, manly hunk of muscle when Dan is the exact opposite. He was the leader of a milita of knights, and in a battle against the evil necromancer Zarok, he was the first one to fall as he was struck in the left eye with an arrow. the king of Gallomere was embarrased at this, so he changed everything and made him look like a hero, even though he was pretty much cannon fodder (or in this case, arrow fodder). Talk about hilarious. One of his most important battles, and he gets killed at the first line of arrows. Sure, he sucked when he was alive, but in the first game he makes a point that he is badass. He didn’t use guns until the second game, and he can even use his own arm as a weapon. Master Chief just blindly shot at everything, he didn’t have the balls to take on an army of zombies using mediocre armor and medieval weapons. Sir Dan also manages to speak (or more accurately, mumble) with no jaw at all. Talk about determination, I mean Sir Dan has no jaw yet he manages to talk, while Master Chief has a perfectly good jaw and he says sh!t. What a load of ass on Halo’s part.
Look at his weapons. Could you imagine how fun it would be to go around smashing zombies with a giant hammer? A hammer that could possibly be equivalent to a Gravity Hammer? What about a giant glowing blue sword that has the durability of a lightsaber and is the size of Soul Edge? Or a giant battle axe that magically come back to you every time you throw it? Or a ball of lightning that surrounds your hand that you can shoot like Force Lightning? Or even a gatling gun? Yes, a f#cking gatling gun. Anyway, he has the most awesome weapon set, and he must be pretty strong if he can lift all of these weapons with no connecting tissue at all. Even better yet, he can stun people just by running into them, like actually cause them to see stars and such. You can even kill enemies like this, and it is fun as hell (didn’t know hell was that fun…). His hammer is just pure win, is makes zombies fly back about ten feet with a small shockwave of purple…whatever the purple energy field is. His magic sword kills zombies in one hit, so he could just cut down an army of zombies which numbers in the millions with no problem. His golden shield is pretty cool too, as it protects Dan from anything any character in any universe can throw at him (Gorechild couldn’t even do anything to it). He also has his dragon armor that makes him impervious to heat and flames, and in addition to that it turns his skull into a dragon head that lets him breathe fire. That is just awesome.
Well Factpile readers, there are my reasons for this. You still may hate me for liking Dan, and you all may hate Dan himself. But here, let me just leave you with this picture as you finish reading this.
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