8 of the Most Hateable Video Game Characters

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Some day Bethesda will learn that having every NPC fire off their small pool of canned lines if you so much as walk within earshot is a terrible idea. Eventually I just started using invisibility when ever entering a city just to get these cretins to shut up for once. It's not the least bit immersive, because real people don't tend to recite their life's story every time someone brushes elbows with them.

 

[Nazulu]

I don't agree with this list at all. C'mon, Navi was worse than the Owl.

The correct answer is Alyx Vance.
Gordon! Gordon you forgot to put Alyx Vance on the list Gordon! Gordon I'm going to run ahead and get myself killed while you're smashing crates Gordon! Gordon, when I die it's Game Over for you as well Gordon! Gordon, Zombines Gordon! Gordon, you have to spend a chunk of Episode 2 saving me from my much-deserved death Gordon! Gordon, I've got the hots for you, even though you're a personality-deficient pair of disembodied hands Gordon. Gordon, I've got the hots for you despite the fact that you're twice my age physically, and four times my age chronologically Gordon!

Agreed. The first time I was really focused on the game, second time she got old really fast. And I wasn't really motivated to save her in Episode 2 either.

Also grew really tired of the useless drag along objective in Ico.

And of course, the rest of my list would go to most of the cast of Final Fantasy 10. I find the whole thing so fucking retarded that I can't ignore it. Tidus should've topped every list easily.

 

[StatusNil]

No, no, no, no and no. There is a pinnacle of awfulness that towers over all these petty irritants. And it is in Mass Effect 3, naturally:

"I am... The Catalyst."

He heard you don't like genocidal killbots, so he created these genocidal killbots to solve the problem of you not liking them. Now please to pick one door to personal death and Universal Doom, color your choice!

 

[Nazulu]

Eight characters doesn't even come close to covering everything. But why the Owl thing instead of Navi?

Because with Navi you can speed through what's being said. With Kaepora Gabora if you try that without paying strict attention you can get caught in a loop.

No. With Gabora you can just press the button once to skip his stuff, and then select the non repeat option, and he doesn't make a sound, including he has fun theme. Navi is with you absolutely everywhere, reminding you with her annoying "Hey" when ever she spots something or just whenever.

 

[Amir Kondori]

The correct answer is Alyx Vance.
Gordon! Gordon you forgot to put Alyx Vance on the list Gordon! Gordon I'm going to run ahead and get myself killed while you're smashing crates Gordon! Gordon, when I die it's Game Over for you as well Gordon! Gordon, Zombines Gordon! Gordon, you have to spend a chunk of Episode 2 saving me from my much-deserved death Gordon! Gordon, I've got the hots for you, even though you're a personality-deficient pair of disembodied hands Gordon. Gordon, I've got the hots for you despite the fact that you're twice my age physically, and four times my age chronologically Gordon!

Westin Phipps, a mission giver in the superhero MMO City of Villains

Most of the NPCs you worked for in City of Villains were gangster, mad scientists, evil spirits, sentient televison sets... Westin Phipps was an unassuming man who looked like an accountant and whose job - his actual job - was to crush what little hope the already oppressed and hopeless had... and he'd get YOU to do it for him.

This was years before City of Heroes/Villains had its moral choice system in place, but regardless of that it wasn't unusual for players to intentionally fail some of Phipps' missions. Even Evil Has Standards, as tvtropes has it, and Phipps was so loathesome players would let targets escape and timers run out rather than put up with his congratulations for a job well done.

Brilliant missions though. The writing was so good Phipps could really get under your skin. Hateable fur sure, but very very memorable too.

My favorite quest giver in that area was the TV. TV demands death to books and videogames!

Are you sure Alyx can die? It never happened to me.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

GTA San Andreas; OG Loc. That voice, that voice, oh my God that voice.

Fallout 4; Paladin Danse. Give the Vault Tech Rep turned ghoul a job, Danse says some crap about killing him instead.

GTA4; Cousin Roman.

 

[Squilookle]

Yeah I'd say Alyx deserves to be in there too, and I'd also pick Navi over the Owl.

Natalya is more of a love hate thing though.

See, her tendency to roam around through gunfire is maddening as hell, but if I remember right, Control is the only level where she needs to fear shots fired by the enemy. In say, Archives and Bunker, the guards don't even shoot at her, and stray shots from them don't harm her. If she stands between them and you, they'll actually hold fire and run around her to get a clear shot at you, which can make for a handy (though unpredictable) human shield for you. She's at her worst in Control where you have to protect her from 4 different directions while she has the nerve to ask you to keep the noise down, but in the other levels you can either just run ahead and leave her to her own devices, or in Bunker you can even just leave her in her cell until everything else is done. This can make the Bunker HEAPS easier.

Where she really redeems herself though, is the Jungle. She can see further than you can, and her magnum lays down the law. She never misses a shot. It's so impressive I used to trigger the Xenia boss fight and then stand back and let Natalia take her on. When I'm dodging an onslaught of RPGs and trying to save my skin, hearing a revolver blast abruptly bring the boss music to a halt is almost enough to forgive Natalya for everything else.

It's just a shame she won't let me play the Archives like Bond did in the movie

 

[Nazulu]

Where she really redeems herself though, is the Jungle. She can see further than you can, and her magnum lays down the law. She never misses a shot. It's so impressive I used to trigger the Xenia boss fight and then stand back and let Natalia take her on. When I'm dodging an onslaught of RPGs and trying to save my skin, hearing a revolver blast abruptly bring the boss music to a halt is almost enough to forgive Natalya for everything else.

I remember this well. It was so odd to me to see a com partner really competent at defending themselves for once, so I actually enjoyed letting her do most of the work. Funnily enough, I don't remember the parts where she was annoying. Must be that long ago

 

[Geisterkarle]

Also, Snow. The best part of Final Fantasy 13 was seeing Lightning punch him in the face for being a fucking idiot.

Those two hitting each other only leaves winners ...

 

[Dalisclock]

How did Diana Allers not make this list? Granted I didn't really mind her and her bulldog face, but there was a vocal backlash to her.

And Claptrap?! CLAPTRAP! He's like Navi, except he makes borderline War-Crime level bad jokes.

I think one of the reasons I haven't finished borderlands 2 is because of Claptrap. After I played through an hour or so of it, My biggest question about the game was "Can I kill it? Someone tell me I can kill it, or at least lock in a tub of acid somewhere"

 

[Dalisclock]

Also, Snow. The best part of Final Fantasy 13 was seeing Lightning punch him in the face for being a fucking idiot.

For that matter, what about Tidus? I almost quit the game(basically stopped playing for like 2 months) because of how much he irritated me.

 

[SlumlordThanatos]

For that matter, what about Tidus? I almost quit the game(basically stopped playing for like 2 months) because of how much he irritated me.

See what I mean? 8 spots on a list isn't nearly enough. Tidus is the reason I think FF X is the second-worst game in the series (with the fanservice-driven sequel as the very bottom of the main-series barrel).

I never understood why everyone liked that game so much when so much of the cast acted like they had brain damage.

 

[Silverbeard]

This thread made me realize that there aren't any video game characters that I specifically hate. I sit here, fingers hovering over my keyboard and searching my brain for a character I'd single out as especially hateworthy. None come to mind.
There are plenty of annoying video game characters, though. Are the two equal? I don't really think so...

 

[DefunctTheory]

Are you sure Alyx can die? It never happened to me.

She can, though the way her health works, you have to be really be trying to kill her. She has a monstrous amount of health and regenerates it faster then you can damage her under normal circumstances.

I'm with other people in the thread. Kaepora Gaebora (The Owl) gets mentioned because of a handful of annoying text dumps, but Navi is no where to be found? How bizarre.

 

[Dalisclock]

For that matter, what about Tidus? I almost quit the game(basically stopped playing for like 2 months) because of how much he irritated me.

See what I mean? 8 spots on a list isn't nearly enough. Tidus is the reason I think FF X is the second-worst game in the series (with the fanservice-driven sequel as the very bottom of the main-series barrel).

I never understood why everyone liked that game so much when so much of the cast acted like they had brain damage.

It's wierd because on paper, X sounds great. Hell, reading the TVTROPES page after I finished it, I kept thinking " A lot of people must have played a different FFX then I did, with the same world and characters but somehow awesome" It's just that none of the interesting stuff comes through in the actual game, hidden behind crappy dialouge, bad VA, an annoying as shit major villian(you know who I mean) and generally crappy pacing.

I have a similar feeling about XIII, except XIII is even more extreme in "Great ideas, bad execution" department.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

I gotta ask: Where's the Glarthir hate?

You work your way up to the top of the Arena and become Cyrodiil's Grand Champion. What's your reward? Weekly cash drops and a Bosmer fanboy with a hard-on for the Twilight Mother.

By Azura? Azura says you need to go eat a dick, you torch-carrying abomination!

 

[Hazy]

Spoiler

"Man, that sure was a cool McTwist you did over that helicopter. It would be a shame if someone... TOOK CREDIT FOR IT!"

 

[Odbarc]

The kind of enemies or bosses/characters I've always hated most were repeat-encounter types.
My best example I can think of off the top of my head would be Ultros from Final Fantasy 6. I suppose he technically was never killed in the first encounter and it splits up your party but you end up fighting him 3 or 4 times. When I beat someone, I want them dead and gone forever.

It's not so bad when you don't fight them just as you get close and they run away or something. But one the fight takes place, I want it to end there. Even though your own character(s) arbitrarily gain power over time from leveling up and stuff, I don't like how my enemy(s) did too.

I think the best fights are ones you know are coming very early and you never really get to that point until much later. Usually the final boss. The best example of this is (again with FF6) Kefka. Though you do encounter him in a fight 1/4 into the game, he runs away and he never feels like he was properly defeated. The situation felt more like 'survive' than 'defeat' in the build up to that fight. And it's kind of nice to feel the tension of being attacked and cornered into a fight you weren't necessarily supposed to win (other than the game requires you to).


Another character I hated was that NPC in Metroid (Fusion?) where you HAVE TO talk to Adam ALL the time. Long dialogue screens break the immersion of the game and there's no means to turn it off either. After one play through, I just wanted to run from point A to point B because I knew where I was going and how to get there.

 

[Dalisclock]

The kind of enemies or bosses/characters I've always hated most were repeat-encounter types.
My best example I can think of off the top of my head would be Ultros from Final Fantasy 6. I suppose he technically was never killed in the first encounter and it splits up your party but you end up fighting him 3 or 4 times. When I beat someone, I want them dead and gone forever.

It's not so bad when you don't fight them just as you get close and they run away or something. But one the fight takes place, I want it to end there. Even though your own character(s) arbitrarily gain power over time from leveling up and stuff, I don't like how my enemy(s) did too.

Ultros I didn't mind, mostly because Ultros was kind of silly to begin with and wasn't even a main villian. He's just kind of there to annoy you. I mean, come on, he's an evil octopus who decides to wreck an Opera of all things. It felt like comic relief, kind of like Gilgamesh in FFV.

No, what got me with this kind of thing was Fucking Seymour in FFX, who is the closest thing to a main villian in the game(Sin doesn't really count, because Sin just kind of shows up every so often and stirs some shit before flying off again). Seymour, on the other hand, is supposed to be the big bad(and apparently the Pope) but dresses like even more of a clown then Tidus(if such a thing is possible) and you have to keep fighting him, where his fights are more and more annoying each time.

 

[FPLOON]

Spoiler

"Man, that sure was a cool McTwist you did over that helicopter. It would be a shame if someone... TOOK CREDIT FOR IT!"

Oh glob! FUCK THAT MUTHAFUCKER! It's one of the reasons why I really don't like replaying through the game's story... especially that one sequence in Russia... *shutters*

OT: Shit! I can't think of any other characters I hate... except the Boilizard in Sonic Adventure 2... I was already not liking some of the levels that you just have to play through and that fucker was the last straw before beating the game and coming to the conclusion that Sonic Adventure DX was the better SA game...

Other than that, whenever Slippy would say "I can't stand to see Fox like this!" in Star Fox: Assault, I would immediately respond "Then, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!" every fucking time...