Ah, New Year's...an excellent opportunity to take a step back, assess the damage and humiliations racked up by a life of unmitigated sin, then figure out how to do it all again -- but better this time. And let's face it, few people need to make a life-change or two quite like a video-game character.
So as 2010 winds down, we caught up with a few gaming icons and asked how they planned to improve on disaster in 2011.

"I resolve to choose my friends a little better. So, Sully, Elena, and...I don't know, the Pope? What's he got going?"
- Nathan Drake, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

"I re-sOLve to uSe sCIenCe to pre-sERVe all MAn-kiNd. In wHAt, I'm nOt suRe yeT."
- GLaDOS, Portal

"I shall DESTROY the gods of Olympus! Wait...I did that. I shall DESTROY the gods of Asgard!"
- Kratos, God of War

\"Control! CONTROL! WE HAVE TO RESOLVE SOMETHING! Delta out."
- Marcus Fenix, Gears of War
"A real man is always resolved! The fight for peace will lead to war!!!"
- Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid

"Diet. I'm binging 15 monsters in a row now, and those things are like big bags of cholesterol. I'm gonna effin' die here, man!"
- Pac-Man, Pac-Man
"Only death awaits you all, and your spirit energy will live again as a part of me. I must also call my parents more often."
- Sephiroth, Final Fantasy 7

"I resolve not to shoot more endangered or extinct species unless they're honestly between me and some lovely piece of treasure."
- Lara Croft, Tomb Raider

"I resolve to solve any puzzles with a rocket launcher. Then I'll give your mom her first orgasm."
- Duke Nukem, Duke Nukem

"I resolve to shoot many bullet at leetle funny man. Let him think that is being funny when he is dead already! HAW HAW HAW HAW!"
- The Heavy, Team Fortress 2

"I resolve to be in the next Halo game."
- Master Chief, Halo: Combat Evolved













