Gamespot writes:
"That's it. The votes are in and you, the faithful, the fans, the readers of GameSpot, have decided on the single greatest game hero of all time.
You have decided to follow the Free Man.
GameSpot offers its heartiest congratulations to Gordon Freeman, the hero of the Half-Life series, and the winner of this epic competition."
Freeman had a total of 107,581 votes to Mario's 85,280.
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I can't fk with this list. They missed on alot of games probably before the writers times. Also I know people loved some portal but I was never a fan.
Tomb Raider 1
Driver 1
Abe’s Odyssey
FF6
King of Fighters 94
Mortal Kombat OG
LINK 2 the past
Street Fighter 2
Resident Evil 1
Infinite but not the first two games? Witcher 3 but not the first two games?? GTA V but not literally any of the games before it??? Portal 2 but not the first? Also if you're going to play Shadow of The Colossus play the remaster and not the remake. Can't say I disagree with the list but my man it's all over the place.
Awesome list! Hot take on Fear (and it's hard af expansion Persaus Mandate!) Bioshock Infinite is stellar, so is the Witcher 3 and you nailed it by having Ocarina of Time. So many fantastic games! Gotta play 'em all! Next one on my list is Prey after I beat Dead Space 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction.
The 2024 Game Anniversaries include some major titles including Half-Life 2, Uncharted 2, and Minecraft.
I picked him over Mario, but very disappointed that Kratos was not in the final.. a bunch of little girls must be visiting gamespot putting Mario in the final. Anyone that has played GoW would never vote Mario over Kratos.
The thing with Gordon Freeman is, is that he's not some highly trained military operative like Snake, a military cyborg super-human like Master Chief, or a muscle-bound kill machine like Kratos. He's just an every day guy that gets thrown into a gigantic sh1t storm.
Gordon's an MIT graduate working as a physicist in a research facility known as Black Mesa when the sh1t hits the fan. Before that, the most he's probably done with a weapon is fire it at a firing range; and this on some level, will connect with people, and they can maybe relate to a similar, hypothetical situation that they might be in.
His actions spark a world-wide rebellion against an oppressive force stationed on Earth. He becomes a public figure for resistance and freedom. Freeman really is a hero, and an awesome one at that.
Since /b/tards from 4chan were skewing the poles left and right trying to cause people to get ticked off and it worked when they united everyone to have Bub and Bob defeated.