Gordon Freeman Wins Gamespot's All Time Greatest Hero Competition

HighDefinition - 61 days 20 hours ago

I`m saying Nathan Drake, Uncharted 2 is defines EPIC and only a hero could survive all that.

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Pandamobile - 61 days 18 hours ago

Yeah, kinda Drake falls in the same category as Freeman. He's pretty much your every day guy who gets into some trouble, even if Drake did kind of bring it upon himself with the treasure hunting in all.

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Timesplitter14 - 61 days 18 hours ago

I'm kinda satisfied with Freeman, but I would've prefered Duke Nukem, Big Boss (wasn't there) or Bob & Bub

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Persistantthug - 61 days 18 hours ago

It HAS to be Mario. Sure, I understand many of you are reluctant to give Mario his due since he's not "cool" anymore, largely based off the fact that he's considered "cute" or "kiddy" and its only on the Wii...but there is no greater Video game hero that has the near 30 year legacy that Mario has. Sure, Gordan Freeman and Kratos and Snake and a few others are geared better for the "mature" crowd,

But they don't have the longevity of Mario, and to me, that's an important factor....perhaps the most important.

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Darkstorn - 61 days 18 hours ago

I think Solid Snake is the best video game protagonist ever. Sure, Gordon Freeman and Nathan Drake are great characters, but they just kill people and crack jokes (or in Freeman's case, he just kills people). Snake, on the other hand, is a true hero. He has overcome immense adversity and, as stated at the end of MGS4, he's had a "hard life." Not to mention the fact that MGS4 is one of the greatest games of all time, and in my personal top 3.

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Kigmal - 61 days 17 hours ago

Uhh what? I have played GoW and I'd vote Mario over Kratos for the simple fact that I grew up with Mario as a kid. Mario got me started on my favorite hobby, he has a special place in my heart.

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evrfighter - 61 days 17 hours ago

Interesting actually. It was the Free Man that took snake out of this competition. Not rubbing it in or anything because I think Snake is a good character. Just not as great as Gordon.

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Chubear - 61 days 16 hours ago

I had stumbled onto this thing on GS via some forum I was on and it was a good laugh for sure. Nice fun for gamers I guess.

Freeman and Snake were 50/50 and Freeman won by a hair. I had expected, and was looking forward to, seeing Snake and Kratos battle it out in the final but alas, it was not meant to be lol I guess G. Freeman getting it is great and I'd rather have that Xter win than anyone else outside of Snake and Kratos. Can't believe Mario made it to the finals but meh, whatever.

The Freeman wins, congrats.

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RememberThe357 - 61 days 16 hours ago

Kratos is king. There is and will never be a more badass character. But I don't never get my way :(

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badz149 - 61 days 16 hours ago

the 1st video game I've ever played is Street Fighter II or was it Prince of Persia on PC?....but I'd choose Ryu in a heartbeat! I still love his to this day!

btw, I hate Mario and Freeman! just can't get into playing both games!

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Shbzshar - 61 days 16 hours ago

go freeman... he beat the competetion bloody with a crow bar

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Bathyj - 61 days 15 hours ago

Kratos is easily the baddest ass of them all. He fights GODS for godsake.

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kwicksandz - 61 days 15 hours ago

Duke nukem is way more badass than kratos

One zap of the shrink ray and squish goes kratos under dukes Doc martins.

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Darkstorn - 61 days 15 hours ago

@1.12 and 1.13-
This isn't a contest for 'most badass video game character.'
Kratos is definitely a badass, but he's not a very deep guy. I like to get more out of video games than watching some dude rip off another dude's head, which is why I prefer characters who have something intellectually stimulating to say (unlike Gordon Freeman...)

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presto717 - 61 days 14 hours ago

I mean. Everyone knows Mario. Seriously. He is so iconic as far as gaming is concerned. Heck I don't even know who this freeman guy is.
Plus there's the fact that Mario has been around like forever.

Jeez.

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JoySticksFTW - 61 days 14 hours ago

Fail Statement right there

There's great reason for his rage.

Play all three games (including the great PSP CoP) - digging into his amazing back-story, witness him keep getting screwed over in the most heinous of ways, and seeing him continue to pay dearly for one choice he made in a single moment of desperation and weakness - and make that statement.

Much of GoW has to do with Kratos blaming himself for his life and coming to grips with that. Like the Elysium Fields section... don't want to spoil

Yeah, but he's far from just ripping heads and an intimidating voice.

Heck, it's not the gameplay of GoW that hooked me (though great - especially GoWII and CoP); it's the amazing story and a main character that you feel for so much that you're p1ssed off right along with him and you want to see his journey to the end.

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Sarcasm - 61 days 10 hours ago

I think Drake is probably one of the best new characters ever created. I mean damn, he's like a real person.

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Major_Tom - 61 days 10 hours ago

This entire argument is Invalid, Master Chief is the greatest fictional hero our race as ever known.

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sikbeta - 61 days 3 hours ago

Freeman all the way, Mario? It can't be and Kratos, he is a God not a hero

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Quickstrike - 61 days 6 hours ago

The only reason they got involved is because some of the users there got a boner from seeing so many B's in Bub and Bob.

I think Duke Nukem should have won because....ALL HAIL TO THE KING BABY!

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Darkstorn - 61 days 18 hours ago

Yes, but Snake's story relates to modernity in a very haunting way. It's hard to find a game with more social commentary than MGS.

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Tehdaza - 61 days 17 hours ago

Snake was Freeman's toughest foe in the tournament. Freeman edged Snake by about 120 votes.

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evrfighter - 61 days 17 hours ago

A physicist at the wrong place at the right time, the greatest hero of all time. Imagine that.

Clearly this shows that the people are sick of the same ol same ol. Gordon Freeman is the figurehead for next-gen.

Each version of Half Life did not set the bar. It ripped the bar down and put up a newer better bar for the next generation of fps gamers.

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likedamaster - 61 days 16 hours ago

Mario might have done a lot but there is no question this title belongs to Gordon Freeman.

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Arnon - 61 days 16 hours ago

There's nothing about Snake's story that is even remotely related to anything happening now, except for the fact that they both take place on the same planet.

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JoySticksFTW - 61 days 13 hours ago

"There's nothing about Snake's story that is even remotely related to anything happening now, except for the fact that they both take place on the same planet."

Wow...

um...

ok...

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Pandamobile - 61 days 20 hours ago

4chan really wasn't present after they got Master Chief taken down.

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Pandamobile - 61 days 19 hours ago

Are you stupid?

Gordon Freeman is pretty much PC Gaming's mascot. What Mario is to Nintendo, and Master Chief is to Microsoft.

He has nothing to do with the Xbox 360. At all.

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evrfighter - 61 days 17 hours ago

Gordon Freeman is a nice guy he gives the console kids some morsels. But he would spit in your face and ram his crowbar up your a$$ if you told him he was a 360 character.

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Arnon - 61 days 16 hours ago

Wow... this guy honestly thinks Gordon Freeman emerged on the Xbox?

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Arnon - 61 days 16 hours ago

A man with A PhD in physics vs. a man who's a plumber.

lolz.

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Sarcasm - 61 days 10 hours ago

"A man with A PhD in physics vs. a man who's a plumber. "

A man with a PhD in physic vs. a man who eats shrooms and gets bigger, eats flowers and shoots flame, eats celestial stars and goes on a flashing rampage.

*Fixed.

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Arnon - 61 days 9 hours ago

A plumber who does way too many drugs*

Fixed.

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evrfighter - 61 days 13 hours ago

I think it's hilarious that the FreeMan took out 3/4 of your list

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solar - 61 days 16 hours ago

after the debacle ending that was MGS4, i lost respect for the Snake.

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ghost-mutation - 61 days 19 hours ago

If this isn't reality then where the hell are we?

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WenisWagon - 61 days 18 hours ago

Don't mind him, he lives in Sony fantasy land

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Patchstation 3 - 61 days 18 hours ago

Were on N4G. What did you expect a droid to say?

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LuHawk22 - 61 days 15 hours ago

Man that I play xbox guy is Fat and Ugly

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chrisulloa - 61 days 17 hours ago

4chan voted out Master Chief as a prank, they tried to keep bub and bob in as long as possible lol. I love Halo, and even I was laughing.

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givemelbpbetakeys - 61 days 18 hours ago

he has a point

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Pandamobile - 61 days 18 hours ago

That's because your own personality is supposed to shine through his.

It's all about that extra level of immersion that Half-Life has.

Does it offend you that the character has glasses or something?

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DonCorneo - 61 days 17 hours ago

if that's the case, then Gordon Freeman is the greatest hero of all time, indeed.. of all time but only when i'm playing.

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likedamaster - 61 days 16 hours ago

They left out his personality so more people can relate, everything else had personality. Pure genius, in my opinion.

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