Legacy characters left? Ryu Hayabusa for helping push story presentation in gaming, Resident Evil for horror and third person shooters, Dante for hack and slash, Dragon Quest for RPGs, Doomguy for pushing FPS to mainstream audiences, Master Chief for further pushing FPS games to what they are today along with online gaming as Microsoft pushed that **** to what we have today, Minecraft Steve for leaving a huge impact on gaming to the point everyone tried to put in crafting mechanics to copy it, Pheonix Wright for making visual novels exist outside Japan, perhaps Arthur from Ghosts and Goblins for more iconic NES games... Anything else?