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* The ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series has a few:
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' we have Kaidan Alenko, the resident NiceGuy and male love interest.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has Jacob Taylor, who is the OnlySaneMan in a DysfunctionJunction and a friendly, level-headed man. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he's also the only romance option that cheats on Shepard by the sequel.]]
** On the flip side, guys ([[EvenTheGirlsWantHer and girls]]) loved the badass WrenchWench Tali so much that she was upgraded to love interest in the sequel, remaining incredibly popular even against competition like [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Liara]] and [[MsFanservice Miranda]].
** Liara and a paragon Shepard are seriously nice as well.
* Once Carth Onasi from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' gets over his trust issues, he turns out to be a pretty swell guy. His EstablishingCharacterMoment ''was'' holding on and waiting for you to get to the last EscapePod, then nursing your intermittently conscious butt back to health. He is also a romance option for the female PC.
** In the sequel there is the Disciple, who is also a possible love interest for the female PC.
** In both series the main PC can be played as such, specifically in the second game where the Jedi become the HeroAntagonist in comparison to a moral, just, kind Exile.
* The Main Character in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' almost never speaks, but he seems like a really nice person, both in his few dialogue choices (always polite, considerate, and caring) and in action (helps almost everyone whom he meets overcome their psychological issues, works at a daycare center, hospital, ''and'' a tutor).
** Also the Male and Female Protagonists from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''.
** Rise Kujikawa from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''. Notable, because you'd pretty much expect her to be very {{Tsundere}} when you first see her. Twin tails, ZettaiRyouiki, one of the female leads and a love interest, voiced by Creator/RieKugimiya in the Japanese version... you get the picture. But not only is she ''not'' a {{Tsundere}}, she's even been described as the ''anti-Tsundere''. She's bubbly, outgoing, a gigantic flirt and acts quite down-to-earth despite being a famous (former) IdolSinger. 
* A non-romantic example: Scott Shelby in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' is an overweight, asthmatic private detective, but he's also a really nice fellow who can [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath single-handedly stop a general store robbery through the sheer power of his charisma.]] In another subversion of most Nice Guys on this page, he quickly became an EnsembleDarkHorse. In fact, his only real flaw is that [[spoiler: he's a vicious, twisted serial killer. Karma's a bitch, ain't she?]]
** It's saying a lot when [[spoiler:the nicest character in such a bleak story turns out to be the most evil character.]]
* DragonAge's Alistair is about as nice as is possible to be, unless you hit his BerserkButton. Leliana is very sweet, and even Zevran, despite being an assassin hired to kill you, is good-natured and easygoing. Not coincidentally, they are three of the four potential love interests in the game.
* The nicest characters in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' are [[TheChick Merrill]] and [[DeadpanSnarker Varric]], mostly because Merrill doesn't really get how or why to be mean to people and Varric limits himself to poking fun.
** Varric never goes anywhere without [[ICallItVera Bianca]], and we all knows that ''she'' is as vicious as he is snarky
* Zack Fair, from the ''Final Fantasy VII'' prequel ''VideoGame/CrisisCore''. He's upbeat, sincere, utterly loyal, completely {{adorkable}}, and just wants to be a hero (in the very best sense of the word). Because of this, he manages to make friends with practically everyone he encounters, including ShrinkingViolet Cloud, the Turks and pre-Nibelheim Sephiroth. Contrast to how Cloud, the main character of ''Final Fantasy VII'', starts out ''his'' story as a vain, arrogant, apathetic asshole who deliberately antagonises his employers, and earns either fawning admiration or loathing from everyone around him until he grows up a little.
* GenkiGirl Moria from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' is one of the few people in the game that is not an obnoxious asshole who urges you to kill him, also, most ghouls in their town.
** Of course, during her sidequest, she pretty much encourages you to expose yourself to near fatal amounts of radiation, and severely injure yourself. [[ForScience All in the name of research, of course.]] And you don't actually HAVE to do it, you can instead just crush her dreams and leave her horribly depressed. Or you can nuke her hometown and leave her as a radioactive ghoul... YouBastard.
* Atrus from ''{{Myst}}'' is friendly, helpful, peace-loving, wise and sensible.
* Guy from ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' is charming, laid-back, patient, and mature. In a world where all major characters have DarkAndTroubledPast, he is the only one who manages to move on and thus grows up to be genuinely cheerful and all around pleasant simply rather than becoming jerkass, angsty, suicidal or omnicidal like the other characters (except Mieu). Other characters and especially [[ChickMagnet girls]] notice, lampshade, and take advantage of his nice guy qualities though, [[AllergicToLove much to his chagrin]].
* A GenderFlip example: Flonne from ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' is the kindest and most caring angel you'll ever meet [[LoveFreak talking about love]]
** And from the same guys who made ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'', [[TheMessiah Marona]] from ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'' is this trope taken UpToEleven.
* Stefan Bekowsky from ''VideoGame/LANoire'' is this compared to the rest of Cole's partners, who are a (somewhat loveable) sexist, a despicable SmugSnake, and a WW1 vet with an initially abrasive attitude. Bekowsky himself? His worst flaw is occasionally flirting with female victims.
* Link from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' franchise.
* Stocke from ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria''. [[TheStoic He may not be the most demonstrative of Nice Guys]], but one of the required sidequests for OneHundredPercentCompletion and the GoldenEnding? Helping a little girl play dress-up.
* Tails of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' is easily one of the nicest characters in the cast, and is even perfectly alright with accepting [[BigBad Eggman]] as a friend if he doesn't have an evil scheme at the moment.
* Similarly, Luigi from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''. He's very open, compliments people he's competing against, doesn't have Mario's {{Jerkass}} tendencies, and overall helps anybody with a problem he can solve.
** Mario himself is about as inoffensive as it gets, being a sort of all-purpose problem-solver/[[OneManArmy private-army]] as a result of random people asking him for help and Mario never refusing. He does have the aforementioned tendency to abuse Bowser (being justified only 9 times out of 10), but to any non-militant-koopas he's friendly, gregarious, and charitable.
* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has played merry hell with this trope.
** Isaac was openly identified as a NiceGuy by the [[AllThereInTheManual extras for the first game]], since he's a HeroicMime in that one. Then in ''The Lost Age'', he got to speak for himself, and [[GoodIsNotNice he was good, but not very nice]]. The shift might be justified by all the crap he went through in the first game and the pressure he's still under in TLA, but it was still pretty jarring to a lot of players.
** Ivan was identified as a sweet kid, but had some issues with MindOverManners even in the first game, which he was even called out on.
** Mia has a little bit of DeadpanSnarker, but is mostly a gentle WhiteMagicianGirl and the first truly nice player character in the series. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is healing an elderly couple, she quickly puts her trust in Isaac's group despite the doubtful circumstances of their meeting, and her most aggressive moment is even fully merited - revulsion with her cousin, Alex, upon realising the extent of his betraying their Clan's ideals.
** Piers in ''The Lost Age'' is probably the first genuinely nice ''male'' player character. He's initially standoffish due to some trust issues, but once he {{defrost|ingIceQueen}}s, he is quite mellow and gentle. Heck, his EstablishingCharacterMoment scene even has him try to comfort and empathize with an abuser, and mentally kicking himself after he's been driven to lash out with his Psynergy.
** ''[[VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn Dark Dawn]]'''s Matthew is generally held to be a sweet guy, though being as he is the son of the aforementioned Isaac and [[SymbolSwearing a known pottymouth]], this might need to be taken with a grain of salt.
** Amiti on the other hand is completely transparent, and ''[[SpoiledSweet pure sugar]]''. ''Even to the nation presently at war with his''. He's just that nice. It's a genuinely shocking moment when he first voices [[BlackAndWhiteMorality his opinions on criminal justice]], and even then, he calms down after a gentle reprimand and a reminder of what's at stake.
** Sveta of Morgal is so far the straightest example of this trope (even though she's not human, but a [[CuteMonsterGirl Beastwoman]]. She leads the party despite only just meeting them, helps them even when their goals come into opposition with her country's leader, Volechek [[spoiler:(who is also her brother)]], protects the lives of people to be executed as part of her country's festival, and does her part to save not just her own people but the whole world. She's also an ActionGirl who ''isn't'' passive-aggressive, and recognises that [[spoiler:she can't leave the Grave Eclipse running for a second even though it would ''kill'' her brother, because to do so would only kill more innocent people.]]

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* Masayuki in ''VisualNovel/AProfile'' is so nice that it unnerves some of his friends and classmates.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'''s Tohno Shiki is a decent, compassionate guy. Don't fuck with him or he'll make you DeaderThanDead. Or for that matter, fuck him. Dude's a living aversion of GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex. His niceness was most likely a result of a traumatic incident where he almost died so now he ended up appreciating life more.
** Shiki is more of an average guy then a real nice guy. Sure he'll risk his neck to rid of a killer if he feels its within his power (or if he's force to) and he'll put on a smile for you but in truth, he don't really care all that much for some strangers. For example: When he first heard of the murders his thought process was: Must suck for the victims; oh well, nothing I can do, on with life. He also admits when helping Arcruied that that he's not really doing it to help the city, he's helping her because he wants to help her. Guess he's one of those "fake nice guys" the guy above was talking about; definitely a nice guy but not a saint.
*** On the other hand, regarding strangers, when he [[spoiler:was facing Nrvnqsr Chaos, witnessing the latter interrupting their confrontation to murder and devour a bypasser who had nothing to do with anything, for no reason whatsoever, was what got him out of being afraid of the monster, and replaced the fear with hatred and anger]].
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'''s Emiya Shirou is considerate, [[StayInTheKitchen slightly overprotective]], thoughtful and an ''[[FoodPorn amazing]]'' SupremeChef.
* In ''VisualNovel/LuxPain'', out of all of Atsuki's new friends, Ryo fits the definition and is well known for being the nicest guy at Kisaragi High School because he's so helpful. Of course, he's a character that [[BewaretheNiceOnes you don't want to anger]] but his annoyance is always justified. And of course, his nice guy attitude is what attracts the ladies and his [[HoYay best friend]] [[BrokenAce Hibiki]]. He's also the TeamDad of the group.
** Yayoi is the nice girl of the group always worrying about everyone's safety and like Ryo, she's the TeamMom of the group.
* Hideyoshi of ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' is... pretty normal compared to [[BigScrewedUpFamily the rest of the cast]]. And nice, too seeing how he's always trying to calm down fights. And [[SatelliteCharacter he hasn't done anything noteworthy yet.]] Then again, this ''is'' the ''WhenTheyCry'' franchise, so we shouldn't call him out yet...
** To further shove this in your face, [[spoiler: he has ''the lowest survival rate in the series,'']] while his wife [[RichBitch Eva]] ([[PetTheDog who adores him]]) [[spoiler: has the ''highest.'' [[MoralityChain And after he kicks it, she horribly snaps. EVERY time.]]. ]] Owwwwch.
** George (who happens to be Hideyoshi and Eva's son) and Jessica can probably apply for this too. With the same, necessary caveat, of course. George to an almost ridiculous level, to where almost any sarcastic jab Battler or Jessica makes results in a scolding from him.
** Hideyoshi is slowly becoming an EnsembleDarkHorse because of how normal and friendly he is. In fact, the fandom is displeased that he hasn't gotten much character development.
** According to Episode 1, all he wanted was a family that would accept him because his died during World War II.
* Sonia Nevermind from VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2. She's polite and charming and gets along well with everyone, and she doesn't have a mean bone in her body. [[spoiler: Which is probably why she's one of the few students who survives the entire game; she provokes no one into killing her and she never has any desire to kill anyone so she isn't executed.]]
* Akane in ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' is a sweet IllGirl who is very concerned for everyone's safety. [[spoiler: Nope. That's all a front, and she's the one who set up the game, kidnapped all the players, and orchestrated the murders of three people. Being kidnapped and murdered nine years previously (and no, that's not a typo) by Ace turned her into quite the MagnificentBastard.]]
* Luna in ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' is a sweet, pacifistic girl. [[spoiler: It's not a trick, even though the game wants you to think so. In the AB game, she ''never'' chooses betray.]]

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