LOL,Gordon Freeman beat Snake,Link and now beating Mario

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Carl on 11 October 2009

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Someone brought up Half-Life sales, but I honestly wonder how legitimate that can be. I bet there's a large number of those people who don't care about Gordon at all. For one, Gordon is a character you never see or hear in the game, so he doesn't exactly leave a large impression on most gamers (hence, the "who is Gordon?"). It's not a slight to the character or game, that's just how it is. Secondly:

Counter-Strike.

Using this poll as being representative that Gordon is more popular than other characters (or his popularity at all) wouldn't make any sense, especially considering the Steam advertising behind a ton of recent votes. By that logic, apparently Bub and Bob must be popular characters since they beat Master Chief?

The poll has no credibility for measuring such a thing.

Btw, while Snake was close, Link was about 50-50 with Gordon as well. On the last day Steam rolled him over (Snake managed to avoid such a fate, lucky him).

Valve themself released the sales figures.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/12/04/valve-releases-half-life-sales-figures/1

And at the red part. The same could be said of any other character.

The poll is not about who is most popular. The poll is about the greatest hero. But judging by Mario being in the final... It seems to now be Popular Character vs Gaming Hero.

Thankfully, the hero is winning.

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Dgc1808 on 11 October 2009

Didn't know Half-Life was that popular. I didn't know who Freeman was until Seece's most iconic character threads.

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shio said:

win by a mile. stop whining you anime lovers.

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^"Anime lovers"?

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sergiodaly on 11 October 2009

Carl2291 said:

c0rd said:

Someone brought up Half-Life sales, but I honestly wonder how legitimate that can be. I bet there's a large number of those people who don't care about Gordon at all. For one, Gordon is a character you never see or hear in the game, so he doesn't exactly leave a large impression on most gamers (hence, the "who is Gordon?"). It's not a slight to the character or game, that's just how it is. Secondly:

Counter-Strike.

Using this poll as being representative that Gordon is more popular than other characters (or his popularity at all) wouldn't make any sense, especially considering the Steam advertising behind a ton of recent votes. By that logic, apparently Bub and Bob must be popular characters since they beat Master Chief?

The poll has no credibility for measuring such a thing.

Btw, while Snake was close, Link was about 50-50 with Gordon as well. On the last day Steam rolled him over (Snake managed to avoid such a fate, lucky him).

Valve themself released the sales figures.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/12/04/valve-releases-half-life-sales-figures/1

And at the red part. The same could be said of any other character.

The poll is not about who is most popular. The poll is about the greatest hero. But judging by Mario being in the final... It seems to now be Popular Character vs Gaming Hero.

Thankfully, the hero is winning.

what carl said... i for once never play a mario game and i dont miss it ... but i played HL and HL2 and its a gaming experience that i remember and will continue if the fat ass valve keeps bring those episodes and a HL3 if ever...

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Alby_da_Wolf on 11 October 2009

Gordon Freeman = Dr.House = Gebx
He can't be wrong!!!

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vlad321 on 12 October 2009

I'll put it out like this for people who complain about Snake vs Gordon.

Gordon = Video Game hero
Snake = Cinematic Hero
Link = a mix of both

Making gordon silent you project your own personality and do little format you can gather. Simply put he is a custom hero just like the game will be a different experience for everyone.
You are SHOWN his personality not told through cinematics.

Snake on the other hand is the opposite. He is a movie hero. You are todl throough cut scenes what he is through hours of cut scenes. I'm sorry, but I can go watch the father ad have characters be VASTLY better explained ad fleshed out than that sorry Snake. Snake is the wrong way to make a hero in Video Games.

Link is in between, however he deos the same thing in basically every game since LTTP except for in Majora's Mask.

Mario is just a plumber.... who jumps..... and can't get laid for the life of him after a decade.....

Hence, Gordon wins.

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