Characters people love that you hate.

[SpaceBat]

Lightning from FF13. completely irresponsible, constantly gloomy, immature, aggressive, has very little character development and is generally just a very poorly done, generic character. Yet she's one of the most popular characters in the game and I'm willing to bet that a lot of the love comes from the fact that she's designed to be attractive.

Anyway the main person I have to talk about is the Main Character in Persona 3... Oh my god that guy was a dick. Seriously if you go for the antisocial loner character in a friendship based game you have to character develop him out of his dickish shell at some point... Think Neku from The World Ends With You (good game, should probably get back into that at some point.)

Crazy long 40/50/60 hour game and his character development is next to zero. Every other character is expanded upon and have arcs and all that awesomeness (<3 Aigis) but the MC remains unlikable and pretty much off-theme compared to the entire rest of the game

Yes, That's the point. He's a blank slate character; he's not supposed to have any character development. He's supposed to embody you to an extent, meaning that his character development comes from you and how you react to the events and people in the game. You're allowed to build him up however you want for that reason. He could be the biggest anti-social asshole you've ever seen, but you could also make him spray his power of friendship over everyone.

Neku from TWEWY on the other hand has a character of his own and it's so unbelievably bad it's astonishing. He seriously is one of the most obnoxious characters I've ever seen and his horrible scrip and the generally horrible dialogue in the game prevents me from really liking the game.

Also, more like 80/90/100 hour game, depending on how far you go with persona building. And yes, the party AI is absolutely atrocious. Also <3 Aigis, Akihiko and (especially) Yukari. Seriously, The answer increased the quality of her character a thousand fold. That scene... ;_;

 

[dimensional]

Garrus from Mass Effect series (havent played 3 but I expect he hasnt changed) its hard to say what I despise about him so much, for a start I dont like his design so thats one thing but really its his personality that irks me always thinking hes the good guy and yet you have to constantly bail him out and set him straight he just seems so goddamn weak and then hes all hey remember this Shepard etc reminiscing on old times crap I just really wanted to kill the guy finally got my chance at the end of ME2. Good riddance to an irritating shitty character.

Ah that felt better there is also Gordan Freeman because he isnt really a character he has no depth or personality whatsoever he isnt really a character at all really just an automoton you control.

Master Chief I just find the guy so boring and unlikeable I really wish they would drop him/kill him off and change it up a bit I may actually try and get back into Halo then.

Really though for every character I hate others will like for possibly exactly the same reasons except they have interpreted them differently so I dont have a problem with people liking characters I hate but they wont convince me I am wrong about them because to me I am not even if to them I am.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, I'm not going to go into why because I'm tired.

 

[TheWritenator]

I'm most likely going to get lynched for this but I have never liked Kaylee from Firefly. I just find her annoying and useless unless it has something to do with engines. She just feels like a huge Mary Sue and everone gushing about how great she is just makes it worse.


Also, slightly less lynchable, Kara "Starbuck" Thrace from Battlestar Galactica. I've never liked the reckless pilot charecter type and she seems to take the consept and elcetrifies it.

 

[Esoomspark]

Feferi from Homestuck.

Holy shit.

Her typing quirk.

typing "H" as ")(" and all the fish puns.

>skips most of her dialogue entirely

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

I know this really doesn't have anything to do with video games, but I'm going to have to say Jim Halpert from the American version of The Office. I just think he can be kind of a douche, and on rare occasions his pranks on Dwight just seemed to cross the line into bullying and harassment. I also hate that his life is just too damn perfect.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades.

Seriously, can't understand why people think she's so great. The Zerg were much cooler when they were being commanded by a disembodied floating eyeball with a cool voice, they were just so much more Alien. I liked the idea that they couldn't be negotiated or bargained with, they simply consumed.

Then Kerrigan takes over, and all of the sudden she's engaging in diplomacy and back-stabbing people while bitching about how angry she is at the guy who, thanks to his betrayal, turned her into the most powerful beings in the universe. The Zerg don't backstab, they just eat you! Seriously Blizzard, please bring back the Overmind.

 

[Acton Hank]

Juno from the 2008 movie, people call her charming and funny, but I just wanted to strangle her every time she opened her fucking mouth.

 

[McMarbles]

I'm really, really tired of hearing about Deadpool.