welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
video game heroes who should have never
won
the truth is i hated you i wanted you
out of the way
i wanted my life back for this list
we'll be looking at games which pushed
the player to question whether they were
really playing on the side of the good
guys
naturally there will be spoilers
disagree about who the real villains
were in these video games
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number 10 the horrible goose untitled
goose game
a viral sensation untitled goose games
swam against the current of high-res
graphics and sprawling worlds
to provide players with a simple little
cartoon game where their only goal was
to help an awful goose ruin everyone's
good time
whether he was sneaking off with prized
possessions or honking loudly at the
most inappropriate moments
the goose quickly became the scourge of
his neighborhood there's no story to
justify his feathery terrorism
he's just being a jerk some geese just
want to watch the world burn
and that's exactly why everyone loved it
the pure catharsis of wreaking petty
mischief
on an otherwise orderly world
number 9 alex mercer prototype
everything i've given you you're not
even capable of appreciating it
mercer begins prototype as a bit of a
mixed bag sure
he unleashed a deadly virus upon new
york city and
sure he is now an unstoppable mutant who
devours innocent civilians to replenish
his health
but he basically stumbled into the
situation and really is trying to put it
right
the player can keep telling themselves
that for most of the game while they run
around with axes for hands
of course by the second game he has
become a full-blown super villain and
you wonder whether maybe
at some point during his murderous
rampage he might have just lost sight of
things
you can't kill me [ __ ]
all right then number eight tim braid
at a glance braids seem to be using one
of the most tried and proven formulas in
all of gaming
a side-scrolling platformer where a
brave hero tries to track down an
imperiled princess
the things that separated braid from the
pack however were a creepy gothic
atmosphere
and a time rewinding mechanic which
forced players to flip their
understanding of the situation
to solve the puzzle and as it turned out
they also had to flip their
understanding of the game's story
the princess was trying to escaped him
all along leaving traps behind her in an
attempt to slow him down
in the end all of the player's ingenious
puzzle-solving efforts were helping a
predator
track down his prey
number seven wander shadow of the
colossus
it is older you even equal
it all amusement another twist
on the save the princess formula shadow
of the colossus charts wander's quest to
bring his beloved back to life
by slaying a series of gigantic beasts
but something
always feels off the creatures aren't
sinister monsters
just big lumbering animals with each
majestic being the player stabs out of
existence
the quest comes to feel more and more
like a crime against nature
it's clearly taking its toll on wander 2
who looks increasingly sickly and begins
to sprout horns
by the time his quest is over he has
unwittingly unleashed an evil entity
known as dorman from captivity
and is possessed by it not great wander
not great
number six kazuya mishima tekken
tekken's original storyline saw kazuya
entering the iron fist tournament
to take revenge upon his father heihachi
for throwing him off a cliff
that's a pretty sympathetic motivation
as these things go
and watching kazuya take his dad down
and seize control of the family company
was a pretty satisfying way to tie
things up but then it was revealed that
kazuya had become so powerful by teaming
up with the devil
and that he was now running the company
even more evilly than his father had
across the sequels he continued to have
murderous disputes with various family
members
and also tried to use his private
military to conquer the world
we're not saying heihachi had the right
idea but
you know
[Applause]
number 5 trevor phillips grand theft
auto 5
it's arguable that no grand theft auto
protagonist has ever really deserved to
win
they're all violent gangsters who rack
up quite the body count inside the set
missions alone
never mind what the player has them
doing in their spare time but while the
likes of tommy vercetti and cj are
basically dragged into gang wars
which they otherwise might have avoided
trevor beats robs and kills basically
whoever he feels like without remorse
and sometimes without reason anytime you
switch to him
he's doing something insane or terrible
or both
there is literally no reason to root for
him he's an agent of pure chaos
with almost no redeeming qualities but
he sure
is funny so now what
now we keep a low profile and get on
with our lives
as friends what do i have a choice no
not really number four martin walker
spec ops the line we need backup
lugo distance about 100 yards away let's
move
spec ops the line arrived at a really
interesting moment in gaming
critics and players were starting to pay
a lot more attention to the disconnect
between video games which painted the
protagonist as a hero
even as they mowed down hundreds of
people during the game to play with this
paradox
spec ops had walker commit increasingly
horrifying acts
while he followed the orders of a
charismatic commanding officer
named conrad while this was already a
pretty morally fraught story
it really twists the knife at the end
when it reveals that conrad died some
time ago
and walker has developed a hallucinated
version of him to pin the blame on
walker like the player was actually in
control the whole time
happened he was out of my control was it
none of this would have happened if you
just
stopped number three jane sunderland
silent hill 2. how do you know about
that
at first glance james really seems like
he's going to be a straightforward
sympathetic hero he travels to silent
hill after receiving a letter from his
late wife mary
promising to meet him there instead he
meets a woman who looks a lot like her
maria as well as countless terrifying
monsters
but while it seems like he is slowly
piecing together what happened
the player is actually being drawn
through james's own repressed psyche
which is riddled with guilt from the
fact that he is in fact
the one who killed his terminally ill
wife on top of this crushing realization
the player will be met with one of six
endings some of which are utterly insane
but none of which are exactly happy
forgive me
[Music]
i told you that i wanted to die james
i wanted the pain to end number 2
kratos god of war after 10 years of
suffering
10 years of endless nightmares it would
finally come to an
end kratos epic quest for revenge begins
when the god of war aries
tricks him into killing his own wife and
daughter while that is an
excellent reason to climb up on olympus
to punch some no-good gods right in
their celestial faces
it ignores the fact that kratos placed
himself in aries service in the first
place
he was about to get killed on the
battlefield and so he made the ancient
greek equivalent of a deal with the
devil to save his own life
and it ended up costing him his family
the war kratos ends up waging on olympus
is thrilling
and the game's version of the gods
really do suck but it
is worth remembering that it all begins
with kratos
the mortal who had become the new
god of war before we continue
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number one joel the last of us
[Music]
when the world is thrown into disarray
by a mysterious zombifying pandemic
joel loses his daughter in the fray and
becomes a cold-blooded mercenary
doing whatever it takes to survive a ray
of light appears in this dark world
however
when joel is tasked with fairing a young
girl named ellie across the country
the hope is that her natural immunity
can be used to create a vaccine
however when joel discovers that the
process will kill her
he chooses to doom the whole world to
its dystopia rather than sacrificing her
it's a decision that comes from love but
joel winning ultimately means that a
whole lot of people will die
while also sparking a bloody cycle of
revenge in the sequel
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