not sure if anyone said this but it would suck to be henchman number 4 mane that guy got wasted good.

You know, thinking about it...it'd suck to be Conker from Conker's Bad Fur Day. Anyone who's played that game'll know what I'm talking about.

ninja gaiden. going all that way to rescue your dad but he still dies. or any regenerating enemies. i mean, you get killed, regenerate, and oh no! you get killed again.

One of the many down-sides of reincarnation and karma when they're against you.

Ladies love a giant mushroom every now and then

c'mon think about how popular youd be with the ladies.all you have to do eat a few apples/rats to get longer

Max payne may have no wife and kids, but he gets to be a uber badass. though he doesnt get to quit using cliche metaphors, EVER.

"it was cold outside and i was using metaphors like a wannabe mystery novelist with a bad case of writers block and a thesaurus" -Max PAyne

aries. :(

naw you guys have it all wrong

i think it would suck the most being a pilot in any shooter ever, especially in games like r-type where it is impossible to not get hit for more than 10 minutes

100000000 little shots coming at you from every direction on a 2d plane? <i>that</i> sucks

Gordon Freeman - if you refused to accept the G-Mans offer at the end of the game. :)

voldo. It would truly suck to be him.

It would suck to be Dash Rendar.
To know that Han Solo wrote the definition of cool and you were just a wannabe player.

I would have to say link from Ocarina of Time. First off he has Naive yelling at him every 10 seconds. Naive the most annoying NPC of all time.. Anyways After he beats Ganon, he gets turned back into a boy and never gets to score with Zelda. For crying out loud! He saves the world from darkness and doesn't get any p00n. I for one, would be really pissed.

any of them that I control............... I kinda suck at the games.... Lots of dead heros................

Probably the KOTG from Warcraft III...

Your weapon is throwing neon birdies at the opponent, and everyone calls you "ghey."

everyone says cloud, i say Aeris, youget freaking shanked from behind that must suck

What about any of the characters in DBZ budokai? The biggest badasses in the universe and they all get there arses kicked by a flamer w/ a rocket pack. O and Vincent Valentine from FF7, your in the middle of a nice 30year nap inside your warm comfy coffin and some spikey haired punk wakes your ass up and asks you to help him, and then when all is said and done your arse gets left out of the ending sequence!!

Luigi because he does all the work and Mario still gets the girl!!!

How about someone from one of those weirdo japanese hentai porn games. Be forced to have sex with your relatives and demons and shit like that.

Yeah, Max definitely ALWAYS gets the shit end of the stick. I just wanna see Max go on a vacation and get him some ass. That, and maybe get over that head cold that gives him the generic gravel throat.

the peasants in "Trogdor, the Burninator!"

or

any of the pikmin (from the game of the same name) getting eaten by weird animals in the most violent of fashions.

edit: oops, i just realized both of these don't jive with the "playable characters" criteria. still, it would suck to be either of these.

it's no fun to just shoot them... I prefer some of the more brutal weapons (baseball bat) that part of the game is so much fun, I've never felt like playin a mission

any of the random gang members from Manhunt, anyone that has ever played it knows that... when your not payin attention and james earl cash is right behind you with a machete, ouch

Rebecca Chambers from Resident Evil 1, fuck 0, that shit ain't canon. Imagine being a stupid 18 year old girl, first time on the job, trapped in a mansion filled with rotting monster dogs, zombies and fuckin green monsters that can lunge and swipe your head off in one clean swing.

Being the only live player on your team in Counter-Strike with the other team having 5 live players. Not enough for it to be hopeless but close enough that it might as well be.

What about those suicide lemmings from "Lemmings"? You know the ones you blow up so they can destroy walls and stuff but you had to get your timing just right so most of the time you blew them up for nothing. Now that would suck.

Cait Sith.

...I mean, really.

definitely Max Payne. he loses in BOTH games.

i've got to say Squal from FF8.
the guy was so tragically angst-ridden he was hardly able to speak.

One of the worms in the game Worms. Ya know ya gonna die, and the way it happens will probably amuse anyone who happens to witness ya death

Any nethack character.

Your odds of survival are very small and no saves.

no doubt about it:
LARRY LAFFER

Great answers everyone..

Larry Laffer, Luigi, Pacman

damn - the Abobo comment had me laughing hysterically for awhile there.

Qbert, hell even frogger.. god I feel old.

Hmmmm
What video game character would get my vote?
Life wise - I'd have to agree with Max Payne.

Otherwise, personally I'd have to say it would suck to be the very first grunt/footman/archer in wc3, knowing full well that if the "boss" has poor micro.. I'm already as good as dead.

He did get it a couple of times, but I remember one time was when you had to bring a girl a condom, and it showed her silhouette and yours.... and her enormous wang..... That was a death scene.

totally agreed poor guy heh would be awful to be Max!

Hey, i'm new, but how about all those inocent bistandards in grand theft auto that you just use for target praticing? i wouldn't like to have that job...lol

what about Gau from final fantasy 3/6.

first of all, he sucks, and secondly if he wants to get any powers he has to jump into a horse/crab/robot and presumably hide up its ass for like, 6 hours until we find him again, probably all covered in animal innards, only to be left on the blimp cause we never got to jump into any cool monsters. that must suck large!

Paperboy, customers are never happy, dogs chasing you, obstacle cource at the end of your route.... and what do you get ........ your picture in the newspaper saying how much you suck when you die.

the monk from eternal darkness, lets just say he was victim of the shortest boss fight ever

Bridget from Guilty Gear. Imagine trying to assert your masculinity after 16 years of being raised a girl. And having to do it with a Yo-yo...

Or Zappa from the same series. Being possessed like that kinda sucks...