Hey guys!
Welcome back to Top 10 Gaming, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
Sometimes, characters in video games are good at everything, being real jacks and jills
of all trades.
But sometimes, a character has just one job to do, which they can either do really well,
or really badly.
So let’s go over the best and the worst of the one trick ponies in video games.
And to help me, we have…
Danny Burke from Most Amazing Top 10!
Say hi, Danny!
(Danny says hi and shit) Awesome, glad to have ya here, now it’s time for the Top
10 Video Game Characters that had One Job!
Number 10: Grayson Hunt from Bulletstorm.
Grayson Hunt is a space pirate captain who has an enormous bounty on his head after a
bunch of successful heists.
So all he has to do is avoid those who are looking for him, and live it up in peace.
But what does he do instead?
Takes his little ship up against the general’s gigantic ship.
And gets destroyed.
Just like Ishi said he would.
Number 9: Wheatley.
Oh yes, Wheatley is one of my favourite characters ever, mostly because Stephen Merchant is the
man.
Now, to be fair, Wheatley’s first job was kind of hard to complete due to the destruction
of the facility.
But then he had a new job: take over for Glados and save the day.
He didn’t have to do much throughout the game, and when we put him in place, what does
he do?
Frickin turn evil and force us to keep testing!
And he didn’t even do THAT job well!
Although, considering he was specifically built to be incompetent, if THAT’S his job
he’s totally nailing it.
Number 8: The Papers Please guy.
In Papers, Please, your one job is to inspect the papers of people trying to immigrate into
the fictional country of Arstotzka in 1982.
You need to see if they're a terrorist, a criminal, or worst of all... an anti-vaxxer,
and decide whether to let them in or keep them out.
In this case, the character is as competent at his job as the player makes him, which
means in my case, he’s totally incompetent.
I suck at most video games.
(Danny you can change that) Number 7: The protagonist of Hatred.
You may know hatred from some of our more disturbing lists, like the Top 10 Controversial
Video Games.
And in Hatred, you have one very, very grim job.
Kill as many people as possible.
The Protagonist of the game, ironically named The Antagonist, just goes around killing people
until he dies.
The goal is to make it to the nuclear plant and blow up the city.
Okay, this got dark, cheer things up Danny!
Number 6: Truck Simulator Drivers.
Yep, this one’s pretty simple.
In truck simulator, you drive a truck.
That’s your job.
You have one job.
And that’s it.
You take deliveries from point A to point B, as quickly as you can, damaging the cargo
as little as you can.
If you go quickly and don't crash, the driver is good at their one job.
If you go slowly and crash, they’re bad at it.
Pretty simple.
Number 5: The Tennis Coach from Grand Theft Auto 5.
Okay, first of all, I saw this in another video while researching, but I totally thought
of it before I saw that!
Just so we’re clear.
Anyway, when playing as Michael, you pay Kyle Chavis to teach your wife tennis.
That’s his job.
Teach tennis.
You know what isn’t his job?
Making sweet love to your wife.
But he does it anyway.
To be fair, he does still teach her tennis.
And he claims she told him there was an arrangement.
So I’m more inclined to blame the wife for this one.
Number 4: The Doctor from You Had One Job.
That’s right, we found this flash game while researching for this video, and my goodness
does it ever work out.
Not only does the doctor only have one job, to defibrillate the patient, but you as the
player have just one job: Press a single button, whenever the patient is going to die.
It’s not super complicated, or particularly fun, but I got an A+, so clearly I should
be a doctor.
Number 3: GLaDOS.
Yeah, two characters from Portal 2, I’m not sorry at all, I love that game.
GLaDOS, or Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, was the antagonist in Portal and much
of Portal 2.
But unlike Wheatley, GLaDOS is ruthlessly competent.
While she did end up getting defeated in both games, it’s hard to argue that GLaDOS didn’t
test subjects to the best of her abilities.
Good job with your job.
Number 2: The Assassins in Resident Evil 0.
In the prequel aspect of this game, we learned that there was an assassination attempt on
Dr. James Marcus, on orders of Oswell E. Spencer, in order to gain Marcuses research.
So two guys went in, lit him up with bullets, and dumped his body.
The problem?
They also let the queen leech loose, which reanimated Marcus, and caused the whole T-virus
outbreak.
So all that trouble was caused by a greedy scientist, and two guys who don't know how
to aim.
Your job was to shoot the guy.
Not shoot the case holding the dangerous specimen.
Nerds.
Number 1: The Surgeon Simulator Guy.
You guys might know about Surgeon Simulator, the game with the infamously-difficult controls.
It was made in just 48 hours for the 2013 Global Game Jam, and became pretty popular
online after further development.
And that surgeon is just awful, with hands waving haphazardly around, throwing tools,
slicing bodies…
it’s a mess.
You had one job: fix the person.
No, you’re not a whacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubeman.
You’re a surgeon dammit.
Stay in your lane!
That’s it for today!
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Until next time, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey (and I’m Danny Burke) this is Top 10 Gaming,
and it’s been real.
Later gamers!