So I'm curious to know who you all think is the hardest game hero. The guy that's just so hard, he oozes testosterone and pure awesome. The kind of man that Chuck Norris wish they could be.

My pick would have to be Kratos. This guy not only killed the God of War, but as a mortal, he can leap off of the back of a flying pegasus a thousand feet up, onto the back of another flying enemy and breaks its neck, then leaps back onto his pegasus without really even noticing it's actually there.

Is anyone harder than this? Does anyway beat Kratos for the manly stakes? Show me.

Duke Nukem. He shoots up aliens, making references to Bruce Campbell, and at one point, literally takes a dump on a dead enemy's face. That's just bad-ass.

Captain Falcon.

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw&NR=1
FALCON PUNCH!

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=iQz6vBv3JIM&NR=1
(it's not actually Captain Falcon doing the kick in that video, but that pretty much IS a Falcon Kick)

There is no hair under Captain Falcon's helmet. There is only another Knee.

Snake. Solid Snake.

C'mon. It's right there in the name.

Garrett from Thief.

"I've always equated feelings with getting caught; they both get in the way of my money."

This isn't even a competition. Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden) takes the gold.

When you get bitten in the head by a demon, thrashed around by the neck, thrown into a stone wall, and fall into lava and still get up to fight it, nobody beats your coolness.

Gordan Freeman, he could steal Bruce Campbell's one-liners, bur chooses to stand mute and beat ass with a crowbar.

Lo Wang of Shadow Warrior.

Nobody fucks with Wang!
Oooh! Sticky Bomb a' like you.

Ixus Illwrath:
Gordan Freeman, he could steal Bruce Campbell's one-liners, bur chooses to stand mute and beat ass with a crowbar.

Oh, so true!

Organization_XIII:
This isn't even a competition. Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden) takes the gold.

When you get bitten in the head by a demon, thrashed around by the neck, thrown into a stone wall, and fall into lava and still get up to fight it, nobody beats your coolness.

Damn right. Plus he fights not for the good of the world, not to get the girl or to prove that he's awesome. All he wants to do is kick ass for being wronged. You do not cross Ryu Hayabusa! Dante's probably a close second, followed by Ryu from Street Fighter. I'd like to see a fight between Kratos and Ryu Hayabusa. Ryu would kick his ass, but it'd be damn entertaining.

dang, i agree with two people here, for me it's a tie between duke nukem and lo wang. i think lo wang wins because while duke has mighty foot, lo wang uses a katana in a first person shooter which is a total "fuck you" move on his part. not to mention the tied up nude tomb raider. easy win. gordon gets sliced in half

I must be the only one that played BERSERK on ps2 and Dreamcast. Guts could make god piss herself.

Marcus Fenix anyone???

Even if the DMC Dante is extremely cool, he isent nearly as awesome as his namesake Mr Dante Alighieri.

JakubK666:
Marcus Fenix anyone???

Ugh, Tidus is harder them that twat.

Pfft, none of them holds a candle to Dizzy Egg. When he goes hardboiled, nothing can stop him.

..Or was that Chow Yun fat..?

Irrok the Wide:
I must be the only one that played BERSERK on ps2 and Dreamcast. Guts could make god piss herself.

Is that Sword Of the Berserker that you mean? I played that on the dreamcast a while ago. Main character with a huge sword? Loads of random qta events?

Well, kinda an odd take: The knight from Ghouls 'n Ghosts.
That guy may not have been the toughest, but he had big swinging steel plated testes. To go against the minions of evil knowing that:
a. your armor F! sucks.
b. you will die at the slightest touch without your armor.
makes you one brave MoFo.
Seriously, my real vote would be for Dirk the Daring from Dragons Lair.

Nah...JC Denton from Deus Ex. The hardest man evar. That guy ends up taking out massive government agencies and conspiracies with his trusty (stolen from a badass-security scientific facility) Dragons Tooth.

Knuckles the Echidna. Anyone seen the "Awesome the Hedgehog" toon by Egoraptor? And he frequently swears in Sonic Heroes!

Captain Falcon is also good. You can solve anything with a Falcon Punch!

Alex D (female) from Deux Ex: Invisible War. She's such an ass-kicking, assertive bitch it's funny.

Serious Sam

The most kick-ass hero ever? No doubt it's Gordon Freeman

Strafe Mcgee:

Irrok the Wide:
I must be the only one that played BERSERK on ps2 and Dreamcast. Guts could make god piss herself.

Is that Sword Of the Berserker that you mean? I played that on the dreamcast a while ago. Main character with a huge sword? Loads of random qta events?

That's the one. Sword of the Berserk(er) was dreamcast. Berserk was japan-only ps2 prequal. And there is a six DVD Mini-Series. Guts always looked for an excuse to get medieval. He's a hybrid of Conan and Ash.

Are we forgetting the awesome that is Link? Sure he never says anything and dresses like a girl, but you know what, his ancestral line is constantly saving the world in drag. Killing the same pissed off manbearpig and saving the same incompetent princess without asking for so much as a decent handjob.
He puts on a dress, kicks some apocolyptically powered dude's ass, and tells the pricness she's a dumb whore for not being able to do it herself, she is afterall magical and shit.

So, my vote goes to Transvetite McGee, IE: Link's lineage.

Cortez of TimeSplitter fame.

Robots, ghosts, zombies, mutants, Russians, scuba men, dinosaurs, monkeys, gingerbread men, cacti, ninjas-- Cortez has defeated them all as well as traveled through time. The man does not fear a paradox either.

Solid Snake, Solidus, Max Payne, Gordon Freeman, Any vortigaunt and Hitman. C'mon. They are all fookin' cool, had their fair share of flips and/or assassinations, get into fist cuffs and are hardened battle loving testosterone/green fluid leaking men/aliens. Think about the way 47 (Hitman to the noob) headbutts people in Blood money.

Its gotta be Kratos. He's so manly, he killed a man three times, a feat not even Chuck Norris has been able to equal. Then, Tommy Vercetti. He gives people who betray him a decision - burial or cremation.

I'm Between Doomguy from Doom (duh) and Caleb From Blood.

Frank West He can kick heads off in Mid-air plus a whole lot of other body-destroying moves and if he does get hurt a gallon of orange juice fixes that.

c'mon guys. let's be serious. MAx F!ing Payne. Got his wife and baby girl killed, Begin shootin his way through billions of thugz and gov agents, make his way out a theater on fire, get a shot of Valkyr > badtrip > Wake up in a puddle of his own vomit and skips the O.D part, run in snow from the streets to the top of building, swear and curse like he breath, get betrayal like free giveaway money, Ends the game full of bullet holes... And he still have that psycho smile on his face.

Captain Price from Call of Duty 4 is so pimp. but i have to say that ryu hyabusa is just an absolute beast.

Abbadiel:
I'm Between Doomguy from Doom (duh) and Caleb From Blood.

I loved that game HARDCORE. A pity the sequel sucked so much caulk. And had no witty one-liners.

Has to be either Bill and Lance (aka Jimbo and Sully) from Contra 3, who blast their way through wave upon wave of alien scum, while doing such things as jumping along moving missiles, and they do it all without any wimpy thirty lives codes. Their hardness is summed up in the opening: "It's time for revenge", "Let's attack aggressively".

The other one worth mentioning is the protaganist of Smash TV, who fights his way through wave after wave of men, and some seriously difficult bosses, does he do it for justice? for revenge? for the sake of doing good? No, he does it to win a truckload of money.

That's why these guys blow the competition out of the water, and could teabag most of the others mentioned here to death with their balls of steel.

Ixus Illwrath:
Gordan Freeman, he could steal Bruce Campbell's one-liners, bur chooses to stand mute and beat ass with a crowbar.

Sing it, brother. And, he could arguably out-think every other bastard on this list. He has a seldom-used degree in theoretical physics from MIT!