Which Video Game Character is having the Worst Day

[Galletea]

Raiden from MGS. I mean, he finds out that he's basically been tricked since being a child soldier, his girlfriend turns out to have been spying on him, he has major nightmare and memory issues, goes a bit mental then his girlfriend pretends to have miscarried his child and gets married to his CO while he's off rescuing a small girl. No wonder he went a bit mad and became a cyborg, then ends up getting rather badly smashed up. After the ending of that series, it's a wonder he has any faculties left at all. Oh and he was pretty much hated in MGS2, for no reason other than he wasn't Snake.

I like him, even if no one else does.

 

[sonicspin]

Sonic on the following days:
Jan 5, 2004
Nov 15, 2005
Feb 21, 2006
Nov 14, 2006
Feb 20, 2007
Jan 8, 2008
Nov 18, 2008
Mar 3, 2009

Let's face it, the last time the blue guy had a REALLY good day was back in 1994. I hope I will live to see one last good game from him though. ^_^

 

[_Janny_]

Anyone in Silent Hill...

I would think perhaps Max Payne.

He should win an award for having the crappiest and most unlucky days. He gets shot/thrown out a window/ blown up/ almost fired. Everyone he cares about eventually dies and he is always the only one to survive everything. Even his apartment is blown up...

 

[dee_dubs]

I'm gonna go with Gordon Freeman, mostly because between the stasis and the slow-time-warps, everything that's happened to him since the start of the first Half Life must seem like one incredibly long day. Not to mention the fact that in all of that, the poor man's barely had a chance to catch his breath, let alone a meal and a few hours sleep. Can you just imagine that? His last meal must have been a few hours before the resonance cascade. That was about 20 years ago.

 

[RH3INLAND.]

Gordon Freeman, hands down.

 

[Sketchy]

I would say Frank West (Dead Rising) would have had the worst time. However, his bad day (or 3) are caused by his own complete lack of common sense and general retardation.

YOU WOULD THINK, that after seeing an entire town completely run down, and a HUGE number of zombies around, you would think that the first thing you would do would be to run away (made eaiser by the fact that he's in a helicopter). But no, he decides it's absolutely necessary to put himself in ridiculous danger to get his story. No amount of money is worth that, he is truly and honestly retarded.

He could have turned around, gone home and done ANYTHING else, and his day would have been fine.

 

[GuerrillaClock]

The family from Incredible Crisis. They have to deal with boulders, bombs, UFOs, missiles, booby traps, bank robbers, sinking ships, train wrecks and a load of other shit that I can't remember, all to attend some old womans' birthday. I know it isn't one character, but still...

 

[Slash Dementia]

The main character from Two Worlds... First your sister is kidnapped or something, then you have to save the world in an extremely glitchy world. Just imagine if life skipped a few frames on you when you did anything...
He also had a very bad voice and had to hear people talk like him too... He gets my vote for Video Game Character with the Worst Day.

(I actually enjoyed Two Worlds a bit.)

 

[cathou]

the guy in the Space invader ship (there must be somebody inside that ship)

I mean he have to kill the entire alien fleet by himself, with only 4 puny shield to help him. i hope he's paid well.

Pac-Man also seems to have a ruff day. He try to escape from an endless labyrinth with ghost chasing him, but each time he kill them , they keep spawning back...

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

Albert Wesker

 

[raemiel]

The guy from Painkiller. He has (according to the game) an attractive wife whom he loves in a great life and dies in some random car crash. The next thing he knows is that for some reason he is 'impure' and stuck in purgatory while his wife goes to heaven (he never finds out why he was impure either). After some indeterminate period of time which mostly involves fighting off demons an angel gives him a mission to pretty much kill all of hell's army including lucifer's generals.

That sucks, and it looks like he's made out of plaster or something too. Though he gets to use some fun weapons at least.

SPOILERS at the end he kills lucifer just to find out Alastor didn't completely die. The game ends with him surrounded by demons with only a shotty and it looks like he's about to die. Though from what I've read he does survive but then the story goes a bit silly.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

I nominate Manny Calavera!

...although technically, it was four years, not a day.

 

[WillSimplyBe]

I guess I'd have to say the main character from Bad Day L.A. That has to be pretty bad.

 

[GamerGeek]

I remember him

He was epic

((Gek))

 

[SoonerMatt]

I gotta go with Pac Man. Yes, good ol' Pac Man, from my favoritist game ever. Albeit he isn't having a bad day in the arcade, classic, oh no. He's having a bad day in the crappy sequal, Pac-Man 2. Poor, poor, disc.

 

[Wargamer]

Let's start by ruling out every character who is in the armed forces / a PMC / any lifestyle where they deliberately put themselves in the line of fire [of bullets]. These people consider being shot at a part of the job. Being shot at more sucks, but it logically sucks even more if you aren't meant to be shot at at all!

So, Gordon Freeman, the Vault 101 resident, Abe, etc. all have a much suckier time than Master Chief, Marcus Fenix, Nathan Hale, etc.

Next, we consider how well-equipped the person is to deal with a bad situation.
-Gordon Freeman is a fucking genius. He also has a HEV that acts pretty much as Power Armour. No official weapons training though.
-101's skills vary based on the life choices you make, but realistically the guy / gal has spent his/her entire life locked up underground. Weapons training consists of shooting a BB gun at targets / roaches, and playing baseball. Oh, and I guess beating up kids at school if you go the evil route. Armour consists of whatever you can steal, and even that wears out after a few hits.
-Abe has the ability to possess people, but otherwise he's useless. Possessing is frickin' awesome though.

Generally speaking, we should at this point remove anyone with supernatural powers from the equation; being mortal sucks far more than being Superman, regardless of how your day is.

From here it gets tricky... I mean, using the examples I've given, how do you decide which sucks more? Aliens invading (intact) modern America, or surviving in America after the Chinese (or possibly other Americans) have nuked every square inch of it?

I don't have an answer to this question... but hopefully my post will help people evaluate their own answers.

 

[spikenog]

Has to be Altier from Assassin's Creed. Talk about monotony.

^ This.

 

[IceStar100]

I going with Dracula from castlevaina(Spelling?) You wake up not bugging a soul just hanging out in your home. Then some dudes with a BMS fetish beat you with whips. Your own son wants to kill you. Plus your best friend is death.