The Drawbacks of Being a Hero

January 30, 2008 | By: Steven Wong

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Even with power and wealth to spare, there's a downside to being a hero. Here are gaming's most popular and why it sucks to be them.

Gordon Freeman, from Half-Life

As a brilliant physicist and symbol of the rebellion, Gordon Freeman has the brains, the babe (Alyx Vance) and the firepower. So why is he so eager to hang up his hazard suit?

- He's forced to do the Time Warp again, again and again
- No matter what, he's still the G-Man's patsy
- He spent years studying to become a theoretical physicist, but ends up being an inter-dimensional gun for hire
- Often needs to run through sewers or smear himself with disgusting Antlion Queen goo

Source: Valve Software

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spazout0504 at 5:01 pm on July 19th 2008

Holy god some of you people need to get lives. THEY ARE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS IN VIDEO GAMES. Not to mention half of you type like complete retards. What are you guys, 12? God put away your hard-ons for these stupid video game characters. IT'S A JOKE. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY. Go outside or play sports or something, ffs.

dimentiaprophet6 at 3:56 pm on July 19th 2008

Goddammit people, you stupid ***sexual nerd boy super fans ruin an otherwise somewhat humorous article. Let me point out some important things about you comments. princeoffire59: "Sheik is Zelda's disguise, she wasn't transformed. weren't we told that Samus turns into energy? Therfore it can't really be all that uncomfortable." ITS A GAME YOU STOOGE. Next up, mlbfan4491 you need to calm down before ending up ****ting your pants in rage idiot. you sound worse than half of these moron fan boys. xsiqqqqqqqx: "Solid Snake is a classic character that deserves justice and respect." Your aware he is fictional character right? Also just so you know Link? yeah...not real. I know your heart broken but hey you always have shoulder to cry on here you pathetic piece pf genetic filth. and to all those I haven't addressed for your butt-******y may you all be erased from the genetic pool. and for your sake I hope you don't have children because they are already good as ****ed.

spiderjon1 at 3:01 pm on July 19th 2008

LIES! samus saved everyone! this website is b.s.

ohweknow at 1:14 pm on July 19th 2008

The reason why people get so upset about this because, like sports, gaming is a lifestyle. AND just like sports people get upset when someone talks trash or doesnt know what they are talking about...and does it constantly...like this website. Yea these lists can be funny but they have classified gamers as the low lifes of the earth on other lists and they seem to come out with lists that lack 50% of the truth.

ahzrei2003 at 1:08 pm on July 19th 2008

I doubt that any of the people who write these articles have ever played a video game in their miserABLE LIVES.

mlbfan4491 at 12:28 pm on July 19th 2008

my GOD! wat the hell is wrong wit you ppl!!!!!! You've all got your heads up your asses! You (the flamers) are the biggest d-bags on this site your saying stupid articles r ruining it well guess wat you nerdy fan boys? YOUR THE ONES RUINING IT *******S! you get hyped up about every f'ing article that you don't agree with our take too seriously even though its a joke! i'm sick and tired of going onto this site only to see that all the ***-ass fanyboys are crying about how..."Oh no! MARIO 64 DIDN'T MAKE THE #1 SPOT ON THIS GUYS TOP TEN LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THIS GUY IS AN ******* WHO PROBABLY LIVES WITH HIS MOM IN A BASEMENT AND NEVER PLAYS VIDEOGAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" You've ruined this site *******s! I use to be able to go on this site and read about some videogames and see wat some ppl are saying on the comments. But NOW...........every f'ing fanboy goes up in arms over every f'ing thing that doest go their way! **** YOU FLAMERS!

xsiqqqqqqqx at 12:11 pm on July 19th 2008

Gamedaily, I have one demand. Please pull your heads out from the gaping abyss that is your ass. Solid Snake is a classic character that deserves justice and respect. Let's be honest. Everyone has enjoyed playing as Link. Stop picking on good games just to cause a stir because frankly, I'm really tired of the 3rd rate articles I read here. You have managed to become the only gaming tabloid. What is the next ridiculous article? GIANT FLYING SQUIRRELS ATTACK SONY HEADQUARTERS TO DEMAND EARLY RELEASE OF LITTLE BIG PLANET. Sadly, that would be more truthful than most of the other stories on this site.

pepsicola55 at 12:02 pm on July 19th 2008

Seriously, they're just jokes. I'm (atleast I used to be) a huge Nintendo fan and I thought all of them were funny so really there's better things to get upset over than an article that makes fun of videogame characters.