Looking to Hamlet, perhaps the definition of a tragic personality -- one who has within his greatest strength his weakness (that of thought), I looked to the first available hero figures in gaming to see if they fit the mold.
Kratos, driven by vengeance, indeed fits. His greatest strength is his love of family, one which he was tricked into killing, but it is that love which condemns him to an eternity of misery.
Mario, driven by his love of Daisy, then Peach, plods along a treadmill of endless rescues for a scant few moments of reward at the end of each game. His greatest asset, his loyalty, also his highest folly.
Nathan Drake, driven by a a childhood abandonment searchs for identity in his incessant trek for Sir Francis Drake's treasures, ignores the life that is laid bare before him.
Sonic... a hedgehog seeks... um... rings... Okay, I guess this is where it ends.
My point I guess, if I have one, is that if you look at our games, you can find some greatly troubling psychosis.
I don't even know where to start with Master Chief. An orphen raised by the government for the sole purpose of becoming a super soldier, one of whom he is the sole survivor, and apparently celibate -- his only companion a holographic AI. He must be one messed up dude.
Pitfall Harry - a crazed lunatic who searches the jungle for imaginary treasure not even realizing he's walking around in one great big loop.
"The Baneling is an explosive Zerg ground unit that can be created after building a Baneling Nest. You can morph Zerglings into Banelings for the cost of 25min/25gas and 20 seconds. Similar to the Infested Terran from Brood War, the Baneling is a suicidal unit and so this must be taken into account when attacking with them. Banelings have a splash radius of 2.2 and do not deal friendly fire damage to either your units or those of your allies. However, their attack range - unless manually detonated - is only 0.25, which is basically melee range and too short to go off from second row by themselves. But they can be detonated manually and they will also perform their "attack" upon death."
Duke Nukem. He never has enough bubblegum.
The main hero from DQV - He watches his father get killed in front of him as a boy and thrn spends the next 10 years in a slave camp. Later in life he and his wife are turned to stone moments after their twins are born and they stay that way for 10 years. Finally after being cured he gets to meet his long thought dead mother... and then she dies.
Marston had it coming.