Gordon Freeman wins the Gamespot "Greatest Video Game Hero"
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Ahhh, well I haven't followed /b/ like...ever, actually. Shame, that would've been a lot funnier.The Infamous Scamola said:
Fanboys and people who can't accept that a character isn't great just because their game is fun. That is all.
So to review. /b/ loses, Mario loses, Freeman wins because Valve "bribed" people. Nevermind the fact that this shows Valve has a dedicated fanbase, this also shows people will be outraged about a company swinging votes on a website and yet not so much as put up one word of consternation when a company bribes another to make sure their new hi-def disc format wins. I am of course talking about Sony bribing Time-Warner. Which do you think would be more worthy of complaining about? Seriously people, learn to relax a little.
You must tell me how.HG131 said:
OT, that's bullshit. They specifically designed Gordon Freeman to have almost zero personality so that you can put yourself into that character. That does not make [b/]him[/b] a good character. It basically makes [b/]you[/b] the good character.
Bull crap..Mario should have won easily!!!!! *enraged*
Just cuz` my real name is Mario and i could have bragged at school that Mario is the greatest game hero ever..i would have gotten 20 chicks in the same hotel room + we`re going on a trip on halloween
What chick doesn`t like a hero?
Just cuz` my real name is Mario and i could have bragged at school that Mario is the greatest game hero ever..i would have gotten 20 chicks in the same hotel room + we`re going on a trip on halloween
What chick doesn`t like a hero?
I really don't see how he won. Wait. Scratch that. Here are a couple of theories.
1. Being the very blank slate that he is, some players eventually feel as though they are indeed Gordon Freeman, and thus they are voting themselves the greatest hero in video games. After all, I'd much rather be led in battle by a relatively scrauny, inexperienced, nerdy 30-something scientist with fancy weapons than a snarky supersoldier built for warfare with fancy weapons.
2. He's a nerd, thus making him more relatable to the stereotypical gamer. In their minds, that automatically makes him better than the aforementioned supersoldier with the fantastic armor, in spite of the latter actually having a definite personality. It also makes him better than other heroes, apparently.
Of course, these are only a couple of theories, and I'm not assuming that either of these is true. I just consider them remote possibilities.
1. Being the very blank slate that he is, some players eventually feel as though they are indeed Gordon Freeman, and thus they are voting themselves the greatest hero in video games. After all, I'd much rather be led in battle by a relatively scrauny, inexperienced, nerdy 30-something scientist with fancy weapons than a snarky supersoldier built for warfare with fancy weapons.
2. He's a nerd, thus making him more relatable to the stereotypical gamer. In their minds, that automatically makes him better than the aforementioned supersoldier with the fantastic armor, in spite of the latter actually having a definite personality. It also makes him better than other heroes, apparently.
Of course, these are only a couple of theories, and I'm not assuming that either of these is true. I just consider them remote possibilities.
I must disagree, while it's kind of cool for gaz's record and all that all they are happens to be back up with accents, there isn't a single piece of character development throughout anything, it doesn't mean that the game isn't one of my favorites games, because it is, but lets be realistic the game is set over a fairly small amount of time, all of which is in a combat situation, which makes it harder to establish character development or any universal back storyhappysock said:
Call of Duty isn't better than half life, just better at different things than half life, for example, being a varied non stop adrenaline ride. But while the story was great, it never held me to the standards that half life has.
=D
Which is funny because he's the only character who doesn't have any character. He never speaks and we know practically nothing about him. Even Master Chief has more personality than Gordon.
I think he won because he's basically the "you" character. Everyone wants to be the hero of a story and they do that through him.
I think he won because he's basically the "you" character. Everyone wants to be the hero of a story and they do that through him.
People are still arguing over this?
That contest was a popularity contest pure and simple, nothing more, nothing less. It shouldn't have been named "Which is the greatest video game hero", it should have been "Which is your favorite video game hero".
Reading some of the comments earlier on gamespot, bashing each other over the heroes backstory and such was pretty pathetic, and the hypocrisy of some of the stuff was somewhat hilarious. Like for example when mario fans were bashing Gordon for having no personality. Or the Link fans bashing Gordon for not talking.
As someone on the Gamespot forums said. "If this was about which one that is most powerful or has the deepest backstory, The Nameless One should probably have won by default. But he went out in the first round."
And yes, I voted Gordon, and while he might have beaten Link without that Steam message (They did not promise any discounts on it, it was a cool surprise when I saw that, even though I own all the HL games), I think he would have had troubles beating Mario.
It also surprised me how so many people over there had never heard about Freeman before. I saw quite a few people saying that they should test out the HL games, since seeing as he has such a huge following the games had to be pretty good at least. These people seemed to be some of the most reasonable people there, and I tip my hat off to them.
That contest was a popularity contest pure and simple, nothing more, nothing less. It shouldn't have been named "Which is the greatest video game hero", it should have been "Which is your favorite video game hero".
Reading some of the comments earlier on gamespot, bashing each other over the heroes backstory and such was pretty pathetic, and the hypocrisy of some of the stuff was somewhat hilarious. Like for example when mario fans were bashing Gordon for having no personality. Or the Link fans bashing Gordon for not talking.
As someone on the Gamespot forums said. "If this was about which one that is most powerful or has the deepest backstory, The Nameless One should probably have won by default. But he went out in the first round."
And yes, I voted Gordon, and while he might have beaten Link without that Steam message (They did not promise any discounts on it, it was a cool surprise when I saw that, even though I own all the HL games), I think he would have had troubles beating Mario.
It also surprised me how so many people over there had never heard about Freeman before. I saw quite a few people saying that they should test out the HL games, since seeing as he has such a huge following the games had to be pretty good at least. These people seemed to be some of the most reasonable people there, and I tip my hat off to them.
I mean you could vote for a badass with a gravity gun or some crazy italian that can't even keep track of the princess long enough not to lose her every 10 minutes. My vote goes to the badass that the best video games ever released on the PC centered around.
I think he is over rated for a video game protagonist. Alyx is a far more interesting character then Gorden.
Personally I would have voted for dog.
Personally I would have voted for dog.
