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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orca2040x at 10:55 am on July 19th 2008

wow this guy sounds like a parent trying to diss fantsy charector like really. Has a blade seared to his hand so it must be hard to go to the bathroom!!?!?!? seriuosly there not real ppl are they! who cares if it seams uncomfterble to be in a ball she's only a made up charactor!!!!!!!!all tho i really like video games liquid snake was not the best name for snakes twin bro....

princeoffire59 at 10:46 am on July 19th 2008

Well, this is a pretty bad article. I lol'd at Kratos' first one, but otherwise... As stated below, Sheik is Zelda's disguise, she wasn't transformed. And with the Samus Aran one about contorting into a ball, weren't we told that Samus turns into energy? Therfore it can't really be all that uncomfortable. Sorry for sounding like a nit-picker, but really, get a little more info and be a bit funnier with jokes next time.

f0rg0113n1ru1h at 10:36 am on July 19th 2008

I bet the person that writes these isn't even a gamer. It's obvious his look on gaming is not unlike the parents who believe they're only for children. so he does a **** job and gets paid for not even doing proper research and btw, it says wrath of the lich king came out in 1999 on its page, which isnt true

f0rg0113n1ru1h at 10:34 am on July 19th 2008

I think this is really dumb. Zelda wasn't turned into sheik by some1 else, she does it so that she can stay safe. and Zelda is NOT out of his league. and btw kan***ris103, Link isn't semi-girly. so don't get so into yourself

ksdwaffen at 10:33 am on July 19th 2008

You know.. I really wonder if the guy that posts stuff about games really knows what hes talking about or just really seems to hate his life enough to blame other things then the problems at home that really effect his judgment on games. Its a wonder why people j ether bash theses posts and continue to read them just for lauphs but no one ever takes this crud seriously thats why aol's point of view on games really isnt even credited. Thanks for the laughs though!

kandikris102 at 9:58 am on July 19th 2008

This artical great! I'm a Lengend of Zelda fan. When the later games came out, I started to say Link is semi-girly, but nobody else agreed! I'm glad someone else does too.