When you think about it, video game characters go through twenty-seven types of hell to keep us entertained and amused. While we battle with eye strain and carpal tunnel syndrome, they're literally battling with almost impossible odds. Fighting, running, falling and dying many MANY times over, it's a wonder they manage to crawl to the end sequence with limbs and mental stability intact. If you have a particularly trying day at work, don't you just feel like pouring yourself a stiff drink when you get home? (if you're not in the pub already) If idiotic customers and confusing spreadsheets are enough to drive a person to alcohol, imagine how video game characters must feel as the credits roll by. With that, we present eight characters who really look like they need a drink right about now.
8. Daniel (Amnesia: The Dark Descent)
Although at the beginning of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Daniel does drink a liquid that causes memory loss, it's not really done out of a desire to drown any sorrows. It probably tastes icky as well. Having given himself a bout of amnesia to wipe horrific events from his mind, he finds himself descending (where do they get their ideas from?) into castle Brennenburg to atone for the terrible things that have gone on. With his sanity wavering throughout, Daniel is forced to bypass and hide from some of the most demonic creatures that have existed. All while being hunted by an invisible evil and having to relive terrible flashbacks. Had he been armed or able to defend himself somehow, he could have at least faced such terrifying ordeals with some other backup besides running and cowering in the dark. In essence, Daniel's mettle is pushed so far to the limit that when he does reach the end and defeat the evil, all he's left with are fresh memories of the whole thing again. If he had any of that wine left he found in the cellar, now would be a good time to break that bad boy out.
