Videogame protagonist you wouldn't want to be

[TastySurvivor]

princess peach. I mean by god, how many times can you be kidnapped from your castle and not figure out you need to move?

 

[Kaez]

Commander Shepard, it's his job to save the galaxy from life ending machines that do this a lot.... that are millions of years old. And I thought the machines from the Matrix were bad

 

[Pearwood]

The guy from System Shock 1, not only does he wake up on a space station where everyone else was... shall we say mistreated by the AI but it was all his fault and he was trying to perform damage control by stopping his fuckup from completely wiping out humanity. Bad day.

 

[Quaxar]

The classics are taken? Well, then I'll have to improvise.

Faith from Mirror's Edge... I've never seen a person fall to their death so many times in a game.

 

[Bek359]

The Kid from I Wanna Be the Guy, given that his average life expectancy is a matter of seconds before becoming a fine pink mist.

 

[putowtin]

any character from the sims......
someones watching me telling me what to do!!!

 

[Grayjack]

Issac Clarke. That game hates him.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Heather from SH3

Spoiler

You're born into a cult that predicts one day you'll give birth to a dark god. You get rescued by Harry Mason in the first Silent Hill. Next, your entire life is one day fucked up by some crazy woman from your past that wants to cause you so much pain and misery that you give birth to an unholy God. You either give birth to said God and die, or have an abortion right there on the floor, and the God still survives to try and kill you. Even if you win, there's the possibility that you're possessed and go on a killing rampage.

Heather's life story in one picture

Spoiler

 

[viranimus]

Any of the playable chars from Friday the 13th for the NES

While it can be beaten it really is just an exercise in futility because even if you do manage to succeed the reward for it is practically non existant.

 

[ReaperzXIII]

Louis, L4D a black guy in a horror game? Come on thats just asking for trouble.

Any final fantasy protagonist, those guys have more mood swings than a pregnant woman with withdrawal symptoms.

Link and the pokemon protagonists, everyone assumes you want to do quests because of your silence.

 

[Enemy Of The State]

John Marston. He never gets time to be badass with all the side-quests and escort missions, and he can't ride anywhere without a Cougar eating his horse.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

John Marston, ummm yeah if you beat it you know.his life well sucks

edit: damn it first time i was ninja'd, and the post was right above me

 

[Sacman]

Tidus his voice actor is terrible...

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

Any SPARTAN. Seriously, conscripted at the age of six to fight the Covenant. Trained rigorously for years until you undergo the genetic treatment, which might kill you and hurts like a ************ for days if not weeks. Then, for the rest of your life, you're a soldier. You fight. Watch your friends and allies die. And then YOU die.

I don't know about you, but THAT sucks.

 

[Tinneh]

Gordon Freeman, obviously. I would have nothing but survival to look forward to each and every day, and I don't watch enough Man vs Wild to fantasize about that, regardless of how big my guns will be.

Yeah, but you get Alyx Vance. I guess that's cool.

I would not want to be the Vault Dweller. That would suck horribly.

 

[Tinneh]

Though, you have the coolest looking suit ever, that doesn't matter, your still on an infected ship, the definition of totally fucked. (Plus you go insane after words)

I have not played this game yet!

 

[Tinneh]

The classics are taken? Well, then I'll have to improvise.

Faith from Mirror's Edge... I've never seen a person fall to their death so many times in a game.

And it's not even fun to watch, DICE should have added third-person ragdoll deathcams, that game would be awesome for ragdoll deaths.

 

[VivaciousDeimos]

Ethan Mars, poor guy the whole game is out to get him

I'll second this. Even if you beat the game with the good ending you still have one dead son and a potentially mangled finger.

 

[Tinneh]

Any SPARTAN. Seriously, conscripted at the age of six to fight the Covenant. Trained rigorously for years until you undergo the genetic treatment, which might kill you and hurts like a ************ for days if not weeks. Then, for the rest of your life, you're a soldier. You fight. Watch your friends and allies die. And then YOU die.

I don't know about you, but THAT sucks.

But you can moonjump!