Biggest douchebag NPC's in gaming?

[zzkill]

Kormir from Guild Wars Nightfalls.

I'll one-up that with Trahearne from GW2. He's Kormir with an additional six years of writing experience that apparently went to waste.

Seriously, fuck that guy. He gives sylvari a bad name, and that's terrible.

I concur. Trahearne is a major story killer. Everything is nice (or at least enjoyable) until he arrives in the picture. He appoints himself marshal though he doesn't know a thing about the military, replaces your awesome mentor, and has bad voice acting. He's the leader, NOT you, even though it's YOUR story, but let's say that it would be weird everybody being the great hero. Even so, he brings no inspiration to the guys that follow him to their potential early deaths. He only seems like, how someone said, "disinterested, self-aggrandising and condescending".

If we could kill him... slowly... and very painfully... Now that would be enjoyable.


Capcha: yes, sir

 

[Mordekaien]

Mud.

Spoiler

Dear Mud, fuck you.
He is the most annoying NPC I had yet to meet, and I cound Arena fan from Oblivion in that list too.

 

[ExileNZ]

Everyone's forgetting the obvious:

Spoiler: This asshole

DAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMN!
Thread over.

(I'll get back to you when I can think of my own contribution)

 

[ExileNZ]

While on the subject of Dark Souls

Spoiler: After the Tomb of Giants

That dickhead Petrus! Leads a young girl into to one of the worst areas in the game, makes sure she falls down a pit and that her protectors die while he takes off! And if you save her, he goes after her again and kills her while she is praying for her fallen comrades and reflecting on her mistakes. Fuck that guy.

Though I would say the grand prize goes to

Spoiler: Legacy of Kain series

Moebious the Timestreamer.

Haven't played Dark Souls, but I can't believe I didn't immediately think of Moebius.

Actually, human Raziel's a pretty big douchebag as well. His final words in Soul Reaver 2 rightly piss off more than just the player.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

All the children characters in Skyrim, Assassin's Creed 3 and many other games (I don't know why they have to be unkillable AND all assholes), but my first pick was going to Lautrec, ironically. Since that's taken, Patches. No spoilers here, you probably won't know who he is until you see him if you haven't played Demon's Souls, but you pretty much know what's coming and still can't do anything about it if you want the Cleric set and all the Masks. Unfortunately for him, the first playthrough I got that far I actually was a Cleric, and honest about it.

 

[ExileNZ]

Mud.

Spoiler

Dear Mud, fuck you.
He is the most annoying NPC I had yet to meet, and I cound Arena fan from Oblivion in that list too.

Mud was annoying, but he wasn't really a douchebag. I mean, meta, sure he was - he was the only character in the game who could interrupt you mid-combat to spout shit at you while wolves tore you to pieces. He was clearly engineered to piss you off. But aside from being a stereotypical annoying dumb hick, I'm not sure he tops the douchebag list.

I'd more have to say Bullet, the guy who "welcomes" you to the colony. Now there's a guy I was glad to kill.

 

[Ambitiousmould]

Most Skyrim NPCs, but in particular:

"Do you get up to the Cloud District much? Oh, what am I saying? Of course you don't" you know, tht guy in Whiterun.
also the woman in Solitude that criticies your clothing, even when your wearing what she told you to wear to the palace. *****.

 

[octafish]

Captain Price. Fucking war criminals. I thought COD4 was meant to be bleak, I didn't realize I was meant to like those arseholes.

 

[T3hSource]

No particular NPC comes to mind as a douchebag,but most annoying award goes to: CLAPTRAP! -My god,how can people even tolerate that little piece of junk,let alone love him,just...argh...I wanna kick out his speakers into space and melt him down,so I can make something useful out of this garbage.

And one just came to mind that nobody still hasn't mentioned him yet.That guy who has his own music theme just to set the tune...

Spoiler: The biggest douche in from all the Dynasty Warriors

He WILL kick your ass!

 

[spartandude]

seriously people, why has no one said this

Spoiler: By Azura this is an obvious choice

 

[pirateninj4]

Everyone's forgetting the obvious:

Spoiler: This asshole

Bro. That son of a b*tch is going straight to hell. I'LL TEACH YOU TO LAUGH AT ME YOU B*STARD!!!

 

[janjotat]

I am surprised no one said GLaDOS yet. If you've played either of the portals you know what I am talking about.

 

[green gear]

i hate the child form mass effect 3, why dose shepard have to have nightmares about this child he never knew, why is shepard chasing this child in a dark park. Why do i have to do this 3 times. And why is the child also the Catalyst?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

This guy in Spyro 2. No douchebag per se but he was always bad news whenever he had a favor to ask, usually leading to some incredibly painful escort missions.

 

[Terminate421]

The Little Lamplight kids from Fallout 3. Yeah, those "child-killer" mods exist for a reason.

Also, Larry from The Walking Dead, especially in the first episode. Fuck that guy.

The instant that

Spoiler

I found a way to kill him, I took it.

Also, Nathan Drake. Fuck that guy.

 

[Padwolf]

The biggest douche bag NPC is Eric Sparrow. He takes every opportuiny possible to screw you over and make you look like a dick infront of Tony Hawk. He 'forgets' to sign you up to the Pro/Am contest in Vancouver, gets you kicked off the team once you finally get Tony's attention and then he steals the jump tape from Hawai'i and says he made the jump.

Fuck that guy. It's a good thing you can make him cry like a ***** in a second playthrough.

Yes! This guy! Such a douche bag. Though the tape was funny as I was playing a girl, yet they still thought it was him. At least you get to beat him and his team in Underground 2!

Those kids in Little Lamplight in Fallout 3. Damn those kids were annoying.

Also Roy Earle from LA Noire. Screw that guy.

 

[hermes]

Spoiler

Prince Charmles in Dragon Quest 8. Yes, that is his name; no, its not a name call (although most people would commit a typo when referring to him).
And, yes, he earns his name.

 

[thedoclc]

Maybe not the biggest douchebag, but certainly one who might qualify for absolutely the cattiest, worst thing to say: Aerie from Baldur's Gate II with a male protagonist if both her and Jahira's romances are active. You will have just escaped from imprisonment where Jahira discovers her murdered husband and genuinely wails about his death. Due to video game logic, it's possible her romance arc starts about two days game time after that (tripping flags). This might be excused in storyline by saying her feelings were divided. It is possible that Jahira's husband has been dead less than a week before the two start arguing, and Aerie plays the dead husband card like a venomous witch.

Granted, this entire tangled mess drew plenty of ire for bad writing.

Moira from Megaton in Fallout 3. Go get radiation poisoning for you? Travel into a minefield for you? Otherwise take pointless risks for you? You know, I don't think you're quirky; I think you're goddamn sadist and only pretending to be nice. Were I not a player character who got stronger by taking pointless risks, I'd probably ask the Sheriff to do something about your crazy ass. As it is, crazy video game logic dictates you dispense XP somehow when I comply with your nightmarish requests.

Councilor Udina. The rest of the Council can be forgiven in part because Shepard is an absolute idiot for not assembling proof to present to them. Hey, Shep. Take a few pictures of the proto-Reaper or something. Maybe grab a few witness statements from some of your crew. Pick up the body of one of the Collectors and let a few geneticists working for the Council do whatever your crew did in roughly ten seconds, so they too might realize they are the Protheans. Present them with -something- that lets them think you are rational and not merely an excellent soldier who buys lots of conspiracy theories. Shepard really is acting like crazy Captain Ahab from the Council's point of view. But Udina is...I could not shoot him fast enough.

Yes, I know, everyone hates the Council, but mostly because they're seeing events from Shepard's point of view. It's obvious to the players the Reapers are real. From the Council's point of view, it'd be like discovering one of their agents has a wonky conspiracy mindset, asking them for evidence, and having them fail to deliver.

 

[Lazy-Man]

Wow, no one has put her (and him) up yet?

Although you only really get to have proper interaction with her if you install the Restored Content Mod.

Yes, I am talking about Atris -- and Vrook, that gorram yī tuó shǐ.

Now I was a simple Jedi Knight, going about the simple training that one of my order would typically undertake on Coruscant, then I hear of a war on the outer rim, it only made sense that we Jedi provide what help we could for the civilians of the outer worlds. But what do the Council do? "Oh. We just don't think we know enough to help out yet." ... WTF!? Innocent civies were dying at the hand of that savage Mandalore "The Ultimate" and even worse the republic was losing the war quickly, the implored us to join them. But no, not officially we could. So it only made sense that me and some other Jedi Knights banded together to go and join battle with our bretheren in the Republic.

Fast-forward aprroximately a decade or so (and one particular incident on Malachor V), I found myself on Telos, being bitched at by Atris -- as if it wasn't bad enough when they exiled me after the war! She was all like "Meh meh meh, I'm Atris. I'm the last Jedi. Your actions have doomed 5 planets. You shouldn't gone of with Revan. The Mandalorain wars were folly. You're dumb." So you know what I did, punched her right in the fucking face! (Verbally of course). Showed that bish who's boss, then I took her last disciple, and turned her into my follower. HAH!

(Vrook was harder to beat, he kinda bested me with his lightsaber, although It turns out death field and force storm work wonders.)

 

[Siege_TF]

Any NPC you have to escort is automatically the worst NPC ever... fact.

But if I have to pick a specific NPC I'd go with claptrap. 90s comic relief character never get old

Funny you should mention Claptrap and Escort NPCs since the two escort missions with Brick in BL2 are a blast. Does Handsome Jack count as an NPC? I mean he's the antagonist, but at least he's not a platter of calamari.