Poll: Ultimate PlayStation Character Tournament: Round 1 - Matches 25-28

Issue with last question. It has Joel vs Alduin not Ryu vs Sly as choices

Sorry, second last poll was repeated. Fixed now!

I voted for Gex and im not even sorry

A very good set of characters this week. I thought J&D would be giving Lara more competition than this so far - but I know that it’s still early and the votes may swing yet to make it closer. I chose Croft anyways.

I voted Jak, Gex, Joel and Sly.

How Lara is whupping Jak right now I don't know.
No particularly fondness for Gex but Niko is rubbish so...
Joel is better than a random dragon
And sorry Ryu, but Sly's my man. Or raccoon rather.

Tough one but all clear winners on my side. Happy with my choices. Gex all the way (for this round at least!).

People prefer Ryu over Sly? C'mon

Lara and Joel all the way.

VOTE SLY

wow Ryu vs Sly that was a tough one.

Lara, Gex, Joel and Sly. The only tough one was the last one but Sly is more representative of PS than Ryu.

Don't think I would've voted for Lara Croft if it wasn't for the reboot version.

Lara and Niko here.

Boi, Ryu better not beat Sly.
Also Gex all the way.
That and Jak vs Lara is a toughie.

Jak and Lara!? Really?? Geez, I vote for classic PS1 Lara and no other Lara.

JOOOOOEEEEL! I've been waiting for weeks to vote for him! I'm just glad he didn't get pitted against Ellie because he most likely would have lost.

Jeez I'm losing at all the votes

Another nice set of rounds! I’m really enjoying these polls, even though I haven’t had experience with many characters.
I wish NL would also run a series of polls like this with the myriad of iconic Nintendo characters they could be choosing. Good job Push Square!

Classic Lara Croft is an absolute legend, easy win.

Come on, Sly!!

another cool list to choose from. come on Jak & Daxter do some moves on that hag Lara

I wanted to vote Alduin, but unfortunately he was a pretty boring character. Joel was really generic too (honestly, The Last of Us in general was generic), but at least he had some sort of a personality.

I found Nico the most boring GTA character ever plus it was Xbox Xclusive so for me this cant be a serious PlayStation character.

Tight contests between Gex vs. Niko and Sly vs. Ryu. All knotted at 50%.

Sly loses we riot. Well, I'll riot anyway.

Niko and Gex are surprisingly close. I actually liked Niko, so I'll pull for him.

Joel was cool until the end of his game. Alduin don't stand a chance though.

Jak V Lara was pretty tough for me. I ended up picking Jak from a coin flip. Clearly not hard for everyone else, since Lara's stomping him by 40 percent.

@JoeBlogs He doesn't even have a beard in this picture!

I voted fro who I thought were the underdogs and was surprised to see most of them winning , anybody else vote underdogs an was surprised?

Vote Jak and Daxter people! Lara Croft is a traitor, don't forget about what they did with Rise of the Tomb Raider. xD

My vote:
Jak and Daxter
Niko (i never played Gex)
Joel
Sly Cooper

@KirbyTheVampire Generic? Sure, whatever you say...

@PS_Nation I feel your pain. Rise of the tomb raider was definately a low blow to the people that made her famous. But when I think Playstation brand and character development I feel like Lara was a bigger more enjoyable part of my life than Jak.

That being said hard to feel bad about losing to Lara Croft.

@PS_Nation Pretty much, yeah. Grizzled, grumpy older guy with a dark past who teams up with a young girl and slowly begins to show his softer side?

And the plot itself, and most of the plot points within? It didn't exactly blow me away with its originality. I've seen it all before.

It's a great game, and I loved how they portrayed the story and made the characters have shades of gray rather than be fully good or evil, but I've definitely seen many elements of it before.

Can I just congratulate Push Square on coming up with such a fun competition, it's really fun to consider some of these individual contests. Another way of celebrating gaming instead of all the negative content you find from other similar sized sites on N4G.

Jak & Daxter v Lara was a properly tough decision for me and made me really reminisce about my PS1 days, in the end I plumped for Lara, but it was damn close.

I am gonna say it now, I dont see anyone beating Joel personally.......my man-crush 🤣

ARE YOU KIDDING ME PEOPLES!!!
Joel vs alduin and alduin has like 5%!? Its freakin alduin!
If that wasnt bad enough SLY IS BEATING FRIGGIN RY MUTHAFN YU?!? PREPOSTEROUS I SAY! PREPOSTEROUS!!!

@get2sammyb That's for sure, lol.

Don't vote Nico, if you do you're part of the problem.

Bring back Cervantes

@legalstep No idea why people like Nico he is boring. He was in GTA 4 the GTA with exclusive contracts on Xbox..

@Flaming_Kaiser @legalstep I don't like Nico, but I sure prefer him over that dumb lizard

Two photo-finishes this week!

Asking me to vote between Jak & Daxter and Lara Croft is like asking me to chop off my least-favourite leg. That's just a cruel choice!

How is Ryu loosing to Sly?

@Frank90 Furry mascots in platformers seem to do pretty well, and all the Sly games are on PlayStation. Plus, as badass as Ryu is, he doesn't really have much of a personality.