I say Luigi Definatly the all time second best second string charicter. He wrote the book on it and set the standard.

word to that

Luigi is always second best. They should have a game where he murders Mario and kidnaps the Princess, and you have to pick how he kills him.

How can you feel sorry for Jin? I don't feel any pity for Jin - I only feel power glowing from my fists when I play him and beat grandpa's ass into the ground! Die Old Man! Argh!

btw - I am da Tekken Masta

I have to say Vemps from Giants Citizen Kabuto. You walked around in a heard basicly waiting for someone to eat you, throw you into the sky like a skipping stone, or steal your soal.

Max Payne most definately.

Edward from Final Fantasy 4. Not only can he not fight, but he is on the emotional level as a pregnant woman. YOU SUCK!

Billy Lee from Double Dragon. Is my brother fighting along side me? or is he kidnapping my GF and trying to kill me? Well it all depends on which version of the game I'm in... I'm soo confused.

(On a side note I miss the DD games. They should make new ones)

Oh and how could I forget being played by the guy from Party of Five in the movie version of Double Dragon?

I'm putting in another vote for Abe of the Oddworld games.
Somebody mentioned Munch of the same series but I think Abe's got it worse. Munch takes 2nd place for that. Besides, Munch isnt a cripple, he just needs to use the wheelchair to get around because hes got no legs, but a fin.

So yeah, being either character would suck because you die multiple horrible deaths until the player figured out how to solve the damn puzzle. And of course near all the puzzles are solved via trial-and-error. Poor guys. Cant help but love em, though.

lol max payne....true

now that i think about it thou....i gotta go with king hippo ...

Pikachu.

You're an anime cartoon-lookin' creature who's trapped inside a pokeball until your master decides it's time for you to fight. Then people are always making jokes about you, and hatin' you because you're so cute. Then you morph and evolve into other versions of you, which must hurt while you're making the switch. Let's not forget you're the "Timmy" of video games, where you can only say your name...it's hard to make friends when all you do is talk about yourself.

eh for me i would have to say the worst video game charicter to be would be ryo hazuki

well MGS2's Raiden and FFX's Tidus both look like chicks. Thats gotta suck. Was Tidus modeled to look like Meg Ryan? Damn...

But BomberMan's gotta have it pretty tough... How many times has he committed suicide, blowing himself up?

Mario
at least in Mario Bros. 1
I mean, he goes through tons of levels and stages, only to be met by a mushroom at the end and say "sorry, princess isnt here, so go on to fight another koopa" oy~..

I'd hate to be anyone in a Resident Evil game

If you wanna go newskool, I'd vote Voodoo Vince. It must suck to have to stab yourself in the face to make any of your abilities work.

There really is no contest, Max Payne wins by a long shot.

Oh, and Ken from Street Fighter. Goddamn he was a fucking pussy.

Cloud from FF7, for already stated reasons.

space penguin....

For me it would be kyle katarn from jedi knight 2. He is always falling down into some black pit.

Zack McKracken, he really didn't have any reason to have to go to mars to save the world, and getting attacked by a 2 headed squirrel has got to suck.

Max Payne

Reminds me of how Laguna from FF VIII looked like Sandra Bullock. There was a big stink on RPG sites about how the FF series would feature the first openly gay RPG character, it also taught me how idiotic FF fanboy sites are.

This post also reminded me of how much bomberman rocks.

Princess Toadstool (spelling?)

Why? Because she always seemed to be in some trouble that she couldn't get herself out of. I would hate that.

Oh! This one just came to me. Link would be a pretty bad character to be, maybe the worst. Why? Because all of his games are called "Zelda" and many people think that is his name, when it is really a girl's name, and the name of the girl he has to help.

I always felt bad for Max Payne

the dude on the ostrich in Joust.

You're eternally doomed to ride on the back of an ostrich. Oh the agony on the nutsack!

Probably Roger Wilco from the Space Quest series. I've only played a few of them, but it must suck pretty bad to get turned into a human fountain of blood just by picking up a harmless piece of scrap metal, or falling into a meat grinder because you didn't type "jump" fast enough on that conveyor belt...

What? Nobody said Parappa the Rappa? He's a 2d, rapping dog. He must go to bed every night hoping not to wake up. At least I would if I had to live that pathetic life he must lead.

Ok, I have a few.

1: Abobo from the Double Dragon series. He is one of the ugliest motherfuckers I have ever seen. If my face looked like I got stepped on by a horse, I would frag myself.

2: Anyone in the Mortal Kombat series. Your entire life is getting the shit kicked out of you (if controlled by noobs such as myself), with the occasional falling into a pit of spikes.

3: Mario. He gets absolutely no poon, I don't care what anyone says. He risks life and limb to save that stupid cunt of a princess over and over, and doesn't even get a handjob out of the deal.

4: Yoshi. Whenever Mario wanted Yoshi to stick out his tongue in Super Mario World, he bashed Yoshi in the back of his head with his fist. That's fucked.

That's all I got for now.

Me, I'd say it'd suck highly to be any of the baddies from Mike Tyson's Punch Out! who you have to whack in the nuts to beat. I think Don Fernando or whatever his name was was a good example of this...

Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 2 for having his entire world turned upside-down and fucked in the ass. Or Luigi, for being one of the most looked over characters in video game history.

Along those lines, I'd have to vote for the poor schmuck in Crimsonland (BTW, d/l and play this if you haven't already, it's a blast)...

There's no hope for this guy, the critters just keep coming and coming.... he always dies in the end.

What about Barney from Half-Life?? I mean, he couldn't have had a great life with such a crappy job, and then the head crab thing? Too many donuts for poor old barney./..

Fei Fong Wong. Nothing like killing your entire friends and family then learning you're the slayer of god. Woot!

That's why everytime Mario was knocked off of Yoshi, Yoshi'd try his damnedest to get away.

The Doom guy.
At the end of Doom 1, he ends up in hell.
Then throughout Doom 2 he fights all of hell and for what? He escapes hell nack to earth only to find earth has been conquered by hell.

Wow, this is an old thread...

But it would suck to be Leisure Suit Larry. I mean, did he *ever*actually get any? I think he was a short, balding, badly-dressed 40 year old virgin.