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Gaming's greatest everyman heroes

Celebrating the average Joes of gamedom

Words: on January 8, 2013
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  • Zzombie99 - January 10, 2013 6:06 p.m.

    Jason Brody (Far Cry 3) and the Hero of Bowerstone (Fable II) are good ones.

  • Rye19 - January 9, 2013 6:50 a.m.

    Link?

  • BladedFalcon - January 9, 2013 10:04 a.m.

    Series of boys living in magical lands, all pre-destined to becine héroes of legend. Hardly sounds like everyman material to me.

  • Rye19 - January 10, 2013 7:28 p.m.

    He seems pretty "everyman" at the start of some games, such as OoT, Windwaker and TP. I mean he's just your average kid living in the tree next door, for example.

  • BladedFalcon - January 10, 2013 9:38 p.m.

    ...Again, you can't really be considered an everyman when fate has chosen you, trough different settings and time, taht you will become a Hero. Legend of Zelda Lore makes it clear that there will always be three sides of the triforce represented, so there's always going to be a link, none of the boys that eventually become link can be considered every men for that same reason.

  • KA87 - January 9, 2013 5:35 a.m.

    Did you mean that Mario was last seen unclogging pipes instead of clogging them?

  • TanookiMan - January 9, 2013 7:32 a.m.

    I guess he travels through pipes, so HE'S the clog? idk, just giving it a shot.

  • CountRichtertoffen - January 8, 2013 7:51 p.m.

    I liked this list, but I think it needed significantly more Guybrush Threepwood.

  • talleyXIV - January 8, 2013 6:43 p.m.

    He covered wars you know.

  • ObliqueZombie - January 8, 2013 5:51 p.m.

    ... John Marston?! C'MON!

  • FOZ - January 8, 2013 6:50 p.m.

    Marston was an outlaw. Riding around robbing rich people is hardly an everyman.

  • ObliqueZombie - January 9, 2013 11:25 a.m.

    Being an outlaw in an unlawful time? Not so out of character for a good number of people, I'd imagine. Besides, you played him as he tries to save his family and nothing more. Seems like a devoted everyman father if you ask me.

  • DRAGONJ - January 8, 2013 4:38 p.m.

    Nathan Drake? saved the world like 3 times? hello?!

  • BladedFalcon - January 8, 2013 8:54 p.m.

    He's a crook and a has treasure hunter for profession... Not exactly an everyman job :P

  • valance23322 - January 8, 2013 3:46 p.m.

    Alec Mason from Red Faction Guerrilla

  • pl4y4h - January 8, 2013 3:59 p.m.

    Or Parker from the original Red Faction.

  • Bloodstorm - January 8, 2013 3:34 p.m.

    Does Gordon Freeman really count? Even in our very boring world devoid of dimension hoping aliens, there is nothing 'everyman' about a Physicist that works at a top secret research facility.

  • bamit11 - January 8, 2013 3:28 p.m.

    You're missing Jason Brody. I mean, he was rich, but definitely not anywhere close to the badass he became.

  • needles - January 8, 2013 2:42 p.m.

    I don't see how Mario is an everyman. He jumps 10 feet into the air, smashes bricks like plastic toys and shoots fucking fireballs out of his dick.

  • Sy87 - January 9, 2013 10:31 p.m.

    Power of the mushrooms. Does that game even have a drug use warning? I thought the fire came out his nose. This is a scary revelation.

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