Top 5 Game Heroes We Want to See Lose
1. Desmond Miles – The Useless
Where previous characters were at least, in some part, vital to the franchise they're tied to, the pinnacle of needlessness in video game heroes is Desmond Miles. Here's a character that is so superfluous that the name won't ring a bell to any outsider of the Assassin's Creed story, as the regular Joe is rarely shown in branding. Not even Ubisoft thinks this bland puppet is an essential part to their games.
Desmond is forced into the Assassin's Creed lore in a pitiful attempt to connect to a contemporary audience, because impersonating a parkour-using vindicator isn't enough for some reason. By having this puppet use the Animus network hub, the series loosely ties itself together. That's really what Desmond is: a puppet; nothing but a catalyst for better things worth exploring.
Lore has gone so far as to make Desmond eternal. That name is tied to the Animus. Then again, since the computer is subject to compromise, hopefully there will be a day where any trace of this figure will be erased. It's not like any content would be lost, since a vessel is already a blank slate.
Seriously, Desmond Miles is a name, not a person. Let it die already.
The butthurt in the comments is more entertaining than the article.
I was actually hoping for a list of video game characters who seem more like the bad guys in there games expect I find the same fanboy hate rants you could find on most video game comment sections on YouTube.
If all you do is write about hatred against any topic, maybe you should consider getting a life.
I really think you guys bringing the hate too far. I mean throwing blind stereotypes just to get a few comments that agree. I mean if you guys think that why don't you just get an engine and make games yourself. The Companies are making money. You're making next to nothing hating on this.
We want to see Nathan Drake die for being such an idiot. He is a crappy aim and a stereotype. I kill an NPC of him all the time in Garry's Mod for fun.
Commander Shepherd should also die, I hate his stupid voice, and no matter how much I change his appearance, he is not a personal character, just a wussy made by someone else.
Also any space marine character in video games needs to die because space marines are too incompetent.
Space marines are not incompetent!!!
All this sounds like to me is a list of heroes you HATE yourself, not who should actually lose. Take Raiden for example, he is a badass ninja now and his game is about cutting things up. Sure, its different, but how is it a "Fruit Ninja clone"? All it is, is a new style to try for gaming!
If you didn't enjoy Revengeance then you may not have a soul.
raiden? really? he started as a boring hated character sure, but now its a badass ninja, mgrising is an amazing game
Leo was a great character, he had very little time to adapt to piloting a mech and you are complaining? Get over yourself.
Half of these characters don't belong on there. Especially Raiden. I don't see why MGS fans hate a spin off so much.
Clickb8 in the most obvious shades of mediocrity. "I DON'T LIKE THESE CHARACTERS, THEREFOR, EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE THEM LOSE...AND BY EVERYONE, I MEAN ME. WEH WEH WEH." I r8 h8/8
this list sounds more like a list about how much you hate every character in gaming
Technically, "Leo Stenbuck" did lose (more than once), hence why he's not the main character in the second game.
Lightning -_-
Mario is a sour loser.
Desmond miles is dead in assassins Creed black flag
Master chief. He's too perfect. Nothing can beat him. I'd like to see him get his ass kicked just once though.
MARIO IS MENTAL!
Why isn't Link on the list? Yea he's one of my all time favorite Hero's, but I do want to see him lose at least once. Hell, the Hyrule Historia is separated into 3 different times and one of them is THE HERO HAS FALLEN. So why hasn't this been done yet? Link, Zelda and Ganondorf are always reborn again so why not just do it...
Why isn't Luka on this list. You know, Monster Girl Quest... Luka being the main character. Losing has its uh, bonus's you know.
Huehue
WTF!? Hey who said raided should die I like the guy like I like snake in fact I like to see them both tag team against a ridiculous amount of enemies
In the assassian's creed 3 Desmond miles dies to save the world
I just wanted to see Lightning die a horribly brutal death...instead, I got her ugly smiling face in that preview with the journalist. And I thought Tidus was bad.
The more I play FF7, the more I dislike cloud. If Vincent killed him half way in after Cloud finds out what he was I would have respected the game and Cloud a hell of a lot more. Instead we're stuck with emo-Cloud for another dozen hours.
I hope this idiot was banned from ever posting again. All he did was take popular game heros and made up some BS about them... not even well written BS at that.
Maybe that's what make the opening story of the Paper Marios so interesting. Judging from #2, Ruca from Tales of Innocence could also make it on this list, and that's unfair for both.
I was hoping Nathan Drake would get the dressing down he deserves. Joel and Ellie from the Last of Us as well. David was closer to a real hero, trying to restore some semblance of order in the post-apocalyptic world, instead of just murdering because "f*ck you, we don't like you."
just to be clear to you dude without Desmond or simply another character in his place the whole story would be pointless for AC i mean without him the story didnt work his ancestors memories held the key to saving the world from death so he is the only important character in the game considering you alone control the animus fool babbling bout which he does not know
Thank god no one picked Nathan Drake. Favorite video game hero of all time
You dont understand the role of most of these characters in the games