Videogame protagonist you wouldn't want to be

[Entrophyinateacup]

And state the reasons why you would not trade places with said character.

My pick would be James Sunderland, Silent Hill 2 is I think is as abusive as plots could be towards its protagonist.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Kratos. He may be a badass but his life is terrible and he seems to endure a lot of pain while winning.

Also, wouldn't want to be Link because then I would be a little fairy boy in a ridiculous hat. Zelda games are fun, Link is not a cool guy to emulate.

 

[Flishiz]

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.

 

[manythings]

Pretty much any of them. I have yet to encounter an (interesting) protagonist who doesn't have a really hard time of it. The only thing worse would be having to be an NPC because at least a protagonist can defend himself/herself.

 

[Terminate421]

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)

 

[MikailCaboose]

Kratos. He may be a badass but his life is terrible and he seems to endure a lot of pain while winning.

Also, wouldn't want to be Link because then I would be a little fairy boy in a ridiculous hat. Zelda games are fun, Link is not a cool guy to emulate.

Plus he saves the princess, oh how many times, traveling through volcanoes, swamps, deserts, etc. and doesn't even get a peck out of it?

 

[Ekit]

Gordon Freeman. I like being able to talk.

 

[RatRace123]

I wouldn't want to be Mario

Fat men shouldn't have to move like that. Plus all those rescues, and the most he ever got was a damn cake!

 

[Tagball]

Kratos. He may be a badass but his life is terrible and he seems to endure a lot of pain while winning.

Also, wouldn't want to be Link because then I would be a little fairy boy in a ridiculous hat. Zelda games are fun, Link is not a cool guy to emulate.

Blasphemer! I've been told I look like Link....I guess that means I'm a fairy now. Great.

Super On Topic: I wouldn't want to be any protagonist in Call of Duty. If you are a playable character in Call of Duty that equals death. Except for Soap MacTavish.

The fact that they die in really painful ways, also. What's next, being skinned alive?

 

[Joseph Harrison]

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

 

[Applejack]

Snake has a pretty bad life and never got anything out of it but an otaku

 

[bubba145]

Issac Clark no way though i do love the guns lots and lots of cool guns. though i wish i had a shotgun type gun though.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Mario seems like someone you wouldn't want to be.
Every other day your girlfriend gets kidnapped by a dragon-turtle and you have to go fight his army and get her back and hope she's actually there.

 

[Mortech]

I wouldn't want to be Mario

Fat men shouldn't have to move like that. Plus all those rescues, and the most he ever got was a damn cake!

Luigi is worse off. He doesn't even get cake. The best he's ever gotten is a haunted mansion that he then had to clean up.

 

[Rarhnor]

Gordon Freeman. I like being able to talk.

This. Plus, I don't like beards, and shaving myself with a crowbar? I'll pass.

 

[HarmanSmith]

Zoey from L4D. You're eventually going to have to repopulate the earth.

 

[-Drifter-]

Anybody in Borderlands. Sure, it'd be fun for a while, but eventually the soul-crushing boredom would set and I'd just want to end it.. Unfortunately, as soon as I killed myself I'd just respawn at the nearest New-U station.

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

I wouldn't want to be Mario

Fat men shouldn't have to move like that. Plus all those rescues, and the most he ever got was a damn cake!

Yahtzee said their equivalent of sex is....................cake

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

The character I made in White Knight Chronicles. I do all the fighting, and I don't even get a cutscene of me roundhousing someone? Even fucking Yulie gets to smash someone over the head with a bottle, but me? I totally fucking disappear from the cutscenes. I just stand there and occasionally give the supportful words of "...".