The all time greatest video game hero

According to Gamespot.com readers.

So gamespot have been running a massive poll for the last month bent on discovering who is generally thought of as being the all time greatest game hero. As you probably guessed from the title.

Now, my personal view of this is it's a really, really stupid thing to do. Apart from anything else, their list of the heroes that could be voted for was deeply suspect but whatever, it's a light hearted feature, no-one cares.

What did interest me somewhat was the final was Mario vs Gordon Freeman and Gordon won with 107,581 votes. That's rather a lot.

What I find the most interesting in this final is how neither of these people are characters, by any stretch of the word - neither of them talk for fucks sake. And the fact that Gordon won? Yeesh. You could just about argue that he's a hero but... I feel a bit uncomfortable with that. He's not really there... I know the events you take part in in the Half Life games are monumental and epic but Gordon being the hero? I don't think so....

What's also obvious from the voting is- characters (and, by extension, real heroes who save the world despite their own deamons etc.) got knocked out of the running very early.

JC Denton, Phoenix Writght, Sam Fisher & Guybrush Threepwood all got knocked out in the first two rounds against generic idiots from early console games. Garret - fucking Garret, hero of the Thief games - some of the best written games created - got knocked out by fucking FROGGER.

So what do we learn? We learn that no-one has been listening to Daniel Floyd in his pleas to start thinking about games more in terms of story than... whatever the fuck frogger is. I'd struggle to call it gameplay.

EDIT:

One entertaining thing about this stupidity is Valve have offered 55.8% off the Half Life games because Freeman won 55.8% of the vote.

Heh. Heh heh heh.

Good old valve :)