Video Game Characters that it Would Suck to be

[Agarth]

Both Mario and Link have to save a princess pretty much every week, and get no reward whatsoever.
Any Grey Warden from Dragon Age because your being yelled at by a dragon every time you try to sleep.
A dwarf in the game Dwarf Fortress because you are destined to die a horrible beer-less death at the hands of elephants, goblins, badgers fish, starvation, ect.
Siegfried from Soul Caliber because A. Everyone in the world wants you dead. B. You are always feeling guilt for brutally murdering everyone you know. and C. You have to fight Nightmare. A badass who will no doubt kick your ass more times than you can count.

Honestly I could keep naming characters but I don't want to waste too much of your time so I'll stop there.

 

[Reaganomics]

Vaan from final fantasy 12 or any of the other characters from final fantasy 12 that were forced to travel with Vaan.

He is the most annoying character that I have ever encountered in a video game. It would be torture to be him or have to spend an extended period of time with him.

 

[New York Patrick]

The first scout cavalry unit you spawn with in Age of Empires II...

Your job is to wander into the unknown until you are either killed by wild animals, an enemy town center/militia, or come back only to be sent to your death with however many other soldiers your team has to die likely without gaining a significant foothold in a game consisting of more than 1 ai opponent. Worst of all, you aren't really that significant either way. You aren't even discernable from other scout cavalry units after a while.

Bleak, aint it...

 

[Tentickles]

A Hooker in the GTA universe. You know you'd get run over. Not a pretty thing.

A Ghoul in the Fallout universe. necrosis? for 200 years?! growing a tree ontop of your head?!

Any Marine in any FPS ever. Yeah, because I WANT to die every 30 seconds then be forced to continue fighting "terrorists"

A gnome in WoW. You have no knees. NO KNEES.

 

[Jedoro]

OT: Tidus from FFX. Seriously, watching the place you grew up and lived in get turned into rubble, then finding out you're not even real? Bummer.

I call your Tidus, and raise you a Jecht. Goes through pretty much the same thing, except doesn't have a love interest, doesn't get a Celestial weapon, and after all of that, he is forced to horribly and brutally murder thousands of people before being perma-killed by his own son, not to mention he, the non-real one, was the only one in his party to survive. Heck, he even killed his (second) best friend.

Didn't even think about that, actually. Unintentionally limited myself to playable characters, I guess, but you do have a point.

 

[The Geek Lord]

I am disappoint in all of you.
Clearly the worst character to be would be "You" in Zettai Hero Project: Darkdeath Evilman Vs. Absolute Victory Unlosing Ranger".

Until the end, where you turn into a complete badass and all that... Is what I was going to say until I remembered the final boss. I mean the final boss in the dungeons. You know, the one where he can kill you in one or two hits.

Kratos because his whole family gets massacred by him and***SPOILERS***then he destroys the world and kills himself.***END SPOILERS***Plus the only emotions he ever feels are sadness and anger.

There is such a thing as a spoiler tag. [ spoiler][/spoiler] Only without the space in the first one, obviously. IZ MAJEEK, as that one boss in No More Heroes said over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and...

Anyway.

OT: Tidus from FFX. Seriously, watching the place you grew up and lived in get turned into rubble, then finding out you're not even real? Bummer.

Well, you ninja'd the character I was gonna pick, but not the reason. I was gonna say, "Tidus, because I'd really hate to be a whiny annoying shit-faced pussy who's too fucking stupid to eat."

So I guess my second choice would have to be Forrest Kaysen, from Deadly Premonition.

Spoiler: Endgame spoilers and all that

After all, I wouldn't want to be a one-dimensional villain with absolutely no motivation who's sperm evidently makes trees start growing out of people and then I'd turn into a retarded stretchy rubber ball of fat and then I'd turn into a frog and then a giant fat man as opposed to being a regular fat man and I'm actually a plant and what is this I don't even

 

[ABLb0y]

Vanille from FFXII. Everyone hates you, and you have to pretend to be sweet and happy, whilst your emotions tear you apart from inside. Because you know, you either have to destroy the world, or get you and your girlfriend killed, and you accidentally killed your friend's son.

So, yeah, it would suck to be her.

 

[ExileNZ]

Raziel, the Soul Reaver.

Which is funny, because he's one of my favourite characters. But between burning for a thousand years and watching your very few friends die in front of you, it's a pretty tough one to beat.

 

[Catfood220]

Lightning, Snow, Sahz, Vanille and Fang from Final Fantasy 13. Why? Because they have to put up with Hope, one of the most hate worthy characters ever and his endless whinging.

Also the guy from the audiolog in Dead Space who cut his own limbs off so he didn't become a necromorph.

 

[William MacKay]

Chell from Portal OR GLaDOS after Portal 2: Chell has no friends and a crazy robot trying to kill her for science. and GLaDOS doesnt need friends: she just needs to test. except she cant, because Chell was the only living test subject.
or maybe Cole from inFamous: everyone hates you because of a bomb that you were made to deliver, your girlfriend thinks you killed her sister, your best friend betrays you and then, just when people start forgiving you (if you play good), you find out

Spoiler

it was your fault, as Kessler is you.

i would also agree with 'sims characters'. i had one character i was trying to get my character to fuck, so i locked her boyfriend in the bathroom with no lights. worst part: she got angry at him and dumped him.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I can't remember his name, but the Mages Guild informant in Oblivion that gets turned into a zombie. Apparently zombies in the Elder Scrolls work by necromancy/magic rather than zombies biting you, so some dude just turned him into a zombie. Personally I find that a fuckload creepier.

 

[Yopaz]

Shogo Akuji from Saints Row 2...that would be an awful way to go.
But, if we are talking protagonists...Leon from RE4...having to deal with Ashley all the time...ugh.

Hey, he gets to look up her skirt all the time as a compensation.

Nero from Devil May Cry 4. Seeing that someone was already using his character with a different outfit seems like a bummer, especially if he thought himself original.

 

[Tax_Document]

Dude from Amnesia.
Bam!

 

[Beryl77]

It's Gordon Freeman from Half-Life 1 and 2. He shoots his way through hordes of aliens and even the military from his own country tries to kill him, only to get the choice between death or being put into stasis at the end of the first half-life. When his "employer" awakens Gordon in Half-Life 2, he has to fight again alines and soldiers. So his life only consists of sleeping and killing aliens and soldiers.

 

[The Heik]

Any marine in Halo!

What, my half decent rifle for a pistol that barely does damage?
................Ok!

How do they not complain?!

Actually, I always gave them the best weapons, since they never ran out of ammo, so they actually did something even at legendary difficulty, and if they died I suddenly had a heavy weapon without having to wait for one of those incredibly rare restock checkpoints.

OT:Anything that goes up against a protagonist. It'd suck knowing that you WILL be defeated no matter what.

 

[immortalfrieza]

Prometheus is a character I would never want to be.... Love the guy for what he did for humanity, but what he got in return was not worth it... Zeus is the biggest douche in all of the Greek Pantheon, even beating Hades in how much of a asshat he is.

Apparently, at least in the stories, all Greek Gods were incredibly bad douches, not just Zeus. It appears that if you piss them off even slightly, you (and if you can have them) your children are going to suffer forever, even if it wasn't your fault.

OT: The MC of Persona 3, he/she goes through hell for a year and then

Spoiler

has to use his soul to seal away the big bad until the end of time.

 

[VanTesla]

Prometheus is a character I would never want to be.... Love the guy for what he did for humanity, but what he got in return was not worth it... Zeus is the biggest douche in all of the Greek Pantheon, even beating Hades in how much of a asshat he is.

Apparently, at least in the stories, all Greek Gods were incredibly bad douches, not just Zeus. It appears that if you piss them off even slightly, you (and if you can have them) your children are going to suffer forever, even if it wasn't your fault.

OT: The MC of Persona 3, he/she goes through hell for a year and then

Spoiler

has to use his soul to seal away the big bad until the end of time.

I know all about Greek Myth, took a class on it. Both Persona 3 and Persona 2s (male MC) got screwed... But there is a chance for Minato (persona 3 male MC name in manga) still. Philemon didn't even do crap in Persona 3, but fly around... Let Igor do his job as well, he is the Boss though... Shin Megami Tensei 2, MC had many suck endings, because of YAHWEH...

 

[PeacanPie]

Another character it would suck to be would be the chicken from the opening cinematic in Fable 3. Shot dead by an angry chef when you were so close to freedom...total bummer.

I agree with this statement. I felt more emotionally attached to the that chicken after the opening cinematic than I did any other character throughout the entire game.
I don't think I could handle all the trauma he/she went through. Not to mention, the only reason I'd ever want to be a bird is to fly. What's the point of being a chicken? You poop out eggs, you get eaten and you can't even fly.

 

[VanTesla]

The Master from Fallout...