10 Video Game Protagonists Who Were Way Too Satisfying To Kill
For the sadists in all of us, these guys were the paintbrush, their games the canvas.
Bringing down a tough boss can be one of the most rewarding aspects of any video game: after fighting hard against a seemingly unstoppable foe, you find a way to outsmart them and live to fight another day. But sometimes we gamers yearn for something more: sometimes repeatedly killing off the protagonist is just as fun as actually progressing through the game. This can be for a number of reasons: perhaps the main character just isn't very likeable, or perhaps the developers have simply given players so much freedom that it'd be a sin not to get to work killing the player character in as many inventive ways as possible. The freedom to decimate the protagonist in a number of imaginative ways can seriously increase a game's replay value: who among us hasn't spent hours of their life finding out every way a certain iconic video game heroine could perish? Sure, it appeals to our natural sense of morbidity, but really, the developers are the sick ones for including so many unique and gratuitously violent death sequences in their games: we're just taking glorious advantage of it. Are there any other video game protagonists you just love killing? Or were we a little too hard on any of these characters? Let us know in the comments!