7 Unlucky Protagonists Who Really Didn't Sign Up For This, Are You Kidding Me

some video game heroes are born great some have greatness thrust upon them and some get given sweet robot arms and then spend the whole game complaining about them I never asked for this in the spirit of Adam Jensen here are seven video game protagonists who are just trying to get on with their lives and really really didn't sign up for this watch out for spoilers ahead for the following games a mr. Freeman I had a bunch of messages for you but we had a system crash about 20 minutes ago and I'm still trying to find my files just one of those days I guess one of the most iconic first-person shooter heroes of all time is memorable precisely because he's not some muscle-bound bro instead at the beginning of half-life Gordon Freeman was a theoretical physicist a bespectacled man of science just heading to his job at black mesas anomalous materials lab they're waiting for you Gordon in the test chamber unfortunately a disastrous resonance cascade fills the entire Black Mesa complex with hostile aliens and that's before the government soldiers arrived to rub out any remaining witnesses still Gordon takes the transition from physics nerd to Rambo in his stride and by half-life 2 episode 2 he's become the figurehead for resistance against the combine and based on the body count a mass murderer this is a man with a PhD from MIT who should be using his mighty brain to solve complex equations not gun down waves of soldiers instead he hasn't done any science in ages physics puzzles don't count you are a courier hired by the Mojave Express to deliver a package to the new Vegas Strip what seemed like a simple delivery job has taken a turn for the worse even in a lawless post-apocalyptic desert like the world of the Mojave wasteland from Fallout New Vegas you think a courier would be able to go about their business of delivering packages without being shot in the head and buried in a shallow grave by travelers of friends and yet here we are Reuters the game was rigged from the start still you've got to admire the courier's dedication to the job they've promised to deliver the platinum chip to mr. house and by god they're going to do it even if it means fighting giant radscorpions crucifixion happy future Romans and yes Chandler from friends to get it back oh I mean this is fallout you can just decide to declare yourself ruler of New Vegas and rule with a deadly army of securitrons the point is they're clocking up some serious overtime here hope you're keeping track courier company the sledge hammer wielding hero of Red Faction guerrillas resistance Alec Mason starts out as an average mining engineer he's arrived on Mars in the hope of a better life but when he meets up with his brother damn it quickly becomes apparent that the red planet has some societal issues to work through how is that the EDF down the road and everything else forget the propaganda free Mars is over it turns out the Earth Defense Force is spending zero time defending earth and a lot of time oppressing Mars after Dan is murdered at the very start of the game Alec ends up forced to join the Red Faction an underground resistance fighting against a totalitarian occupying force that's guilty of all the usual stuff prison camps torture death squads could you not have mentioned those things before I moved all the way to Mars sounds like they're having problems with their encoder you get us down there and Isaac and I can fix it 48 hours max despite being named after two different sci-fi authors Isaac Clarke is most definitely not into science fiction he's just a systems engineer trying to get a job done a job in space granted but signing on to a mining ship doesn't mean you're automatically up for Lovecraftian space horror I mean I imagine you assume a certain amount of risk is involved with space mining but generally is to do with remaining safe around dangerous machinery and being sure to wear the right protective gear not having a head torn off by space zombies or performing amateur eye surgery on yourself with a drill always check your contract is the lesson here I personally made sure that my outside Xbox contracts stipulated no unknowable space horror the way there are more pages goddamnit cheer up handsome we're here Alan Wake who is enough the hero of Alan Wake that the game is called Alan Wake wouldn't exactly be your first choice to stand up against the literal forces of darkness for a start he's a writer not a fighter my name is Alan Wake I'm a writer see worse still he's not even a very good writer and he's been afflicted with writer's block for two years which is probably around the point that you transition from struggling writer to just plain old unemployed so when he and his wife Alice take a vacation to bright Falls she decides to buy him a typewriter in the hopes he'll find inspiration in the adil accepting surprise Alice what is this instead his wife drowns he passes out for a week and when he comes to a dark presence is possessing the townspeople and the pages of a terrible unfinished novel seemingly written by him a dictating the future cabins for rent in maybe just book Disneyland next time fortunately the taken as they're known can be killed with a combination of a flashlight and a revolver so Alan spends the majority of the game shooting things and very little time writing and ending to the novel that will bring Alice back and drive the darkness away what's wrong with just writing and everyone lived happily ever after Alan problem solves a bit and the org about by Mike Schmidt the protagonist of five nights at freddys could probably be forgiven for thinking he was signing up for a safe albeit relatively boring job as a night watchman at a pizza restaurant there's no way that pizza can kill you except gradually over a series of years due to congestive heart failure what he probably wasn't expecting was the fact that Freddy fazbear's pizza is populated by animatronic animals and electronic animals that are allowed to roam freely around the restaurant at night because if they stay still for too long their joints lock up okay so it's going to be a little creepy keeping watch while those robots stamp around but it's not a deal breaker right oh there's also the fact that if they spot a human being they'll assume that they're an animatronic skeleton out of their costume and forcibly stuff them into a spare robot suit killing them the only party devices you know anime again repeat your eyeball mask I feel like that part should have been explicitly mentioned in the job advertisement further exploration reveals that five kids were murdered here by a man dressed as one of the animatronics and that one of the robots bit someone in the brain back in the 80s they used to be like a walk around during the day too but then there was the bite of 87 yeah it's amazing that you can live without the Merkel moment how far do you actually have to go to get your restaurant shut down around here these people must really like pizza you can't help but feel a bit sorry for bumbling space janitor Roger Wilco from the Space Quest series there he is mining his own business making sure the floors of the spaceship Arcada are adequately waxed and taking on duty naps in his broom closet when the ship is attacked by the nefarious Aryans through a combination of puzzle solving and blind idiot luck he foils the Sirians plans saves the galaxy and is awarded the golden mop for his services to the janitorial arts sadly for Roger from the first game in the series onwards his newfound fame means he's constantly being abducted shoved into time rips by his own son and pursued by killer androids somehow though Roger always comes out of it okay avoiding the series's legendarily unpleasant debts but even after saving the galaxy multiple times he remains a sanitation engineer of some sort or other right the way up to Space Quest 5 when he finally achieves his dream of becoming the captain of a ship yes it is a garbage ship those are the video game heroes who'd much rather be at home with a cup of tea than fighting an evil space monster on a crashing spaceship in the middle of an explosion got a favorite reluctant hero that we missed let us know in the comments and like and subscribe for more videos like this from outside Xbox thanks for watching thanks for watching this video about reluctant heroes in video 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Length: 9min 42sec (582 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 03 2015