Characters you despise, but aren't supposed to.
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It's not misogyny, realistically, Robert Jordan wrote for Conan for four years. I feel the Wheel of Time was his way of making female characters that were empowered. Unfortunately, and someone else put this very well higher up, it comes off as a chauvinistic interpretation of empowerment. I'm not saying he was a chauvinist necessarily, but his interpretation of empowerment is making his women unlikable and making his men the subject of ridicule, even when they're the plots "messiah". It's an interesting interpretation, but all it is is role reversal, which is unrealistic and equally annoying.Giest4life said:
Everyone in PETA and everyone in Greenpeace for their murdering of thousands of humans and animals. Also their hatred for progress.
Morrigan from Dragon Age
Fixer from Republic Commandos
Soap McTavish (only in MW2 cause he's a prick in that one)
Ashely Williams from Mass Effect (I even killed her with my guy characters)
Jack and Zaeed from Mass Effect 2
Kat from Reach
Alyx Vance from HL2
Everyone except Khan and the kid from Metro 2033
Fixer from Republic Commandos
Soap McTavish (only in MW2 cause he's a prick in that one)
Ashely Williams from Mass Effect (I even killed her with my guy characters)
Jack and Zaeed from Mass Effect 2
Kat from Reach
Alyx Vance from HL2
Everyone except Khan and the kid from Metro 2033
Guess you won't enjoy Mistmantle then. And it's cool, Loamhedge wasn't the absolute best, possibly one of the worst of the series.Magnesium360 said:
Harry from Custom Robo. and Noel Vermillion from Blazblue.
Harry never shuts up,
Noel never stops bitching,
Both of them can die in a fire.
Harry never shuts up,
Noel never stops bitching,
Both of them can die in a fire.
Everyone likes him because he's a blank slate. You can paint on whatever personality you like and it wouldn't effect the characterization.Atmos Duality said:
OT: I've never liked Superman. He's just so square and wholesome to me that he's impossible for me to connect with.
Thank God there are games where she doesn't show up..NORMALLY. I actually liked her in Windwaker, if only because Tetra is actually likeable as a character, she's a snarky, tomboyish, rather fun character.8-Bit Grin said:
Guess why Freemen's mind is so awesome? Guess. It's 'cos Ross Scott makes him a and a I qoute straight from TvTropes and Ross Scott's own mouth. "He has shifting paranoia, egomania, mild schizophrenia, over-aggressiveness, petty motivations, and immaturity in general" yeah, he's nuts.
I agree wholly, although, as i am still fairly early in the game, i cannot say for certain.ArkhamJester said:
Here is my opinion of the charecters so far.
Lightning- Cool enough, just a little psycotic though.
Snow- Dear god STFU!!!
Vanille- Gahh! get it away! kill it with fire!!
Sazh- decently cool, mainly because he doesnt talk as much, but does seem to posses every black sterotype square knew of.
Hope- a liitle whiny, but bearable because he hates everyone else in the group and wants to kill snow.
Fang- just met her, but she seems cool enough.
Whiny protagonists - That means Frodo Baggins, Harry Potter and Shinji Ikari amongst others.
"The HERO" - Again, see above for examples. The kind of lawful/neutral good pussy who either whines his way through the adventure or stumbles idiotically through them like the meatshield he is.
The CHOSEN ONE - You know the type. Harry Potter, Rand'al thor etc.
Generic love interest for hero - "THIS IS YOUR WOMAN YOU LOVE HER" to paraphrase yahtzee(with, of course, 0 punctuation 8D).
Tsunderes. I hate them all with a passion. The most perfect example of a fucking ***** tsundere with NO REDEEMING QUALITIES (and to boot, also being a generic love interest for the 'chosen' one) is Naru from Love Hina. By god, I hate that character. Same with that sword-swingy chick who always goes on about strength and honor, yet gets defeated by a twig of a boy.
Space marines that are not 40 K - we get it, you've got a gay bromance goin' on in your brown little world, now just stick your lancer up Dom's ass.
Handsomely grizzled guys with short brown hair. Seriously. That's one of the reasons I kinda like JRPGS. They dare go a bit further than "HERE IS YOUR GREY WORLD AND UNINTERESTING MAIN CHARACTER"
Gordon motherfucking freeman - yes yes, he's supposed to be the player, but fuck that, to me it feels like a goddamn copout.
Alyx vance - Sweet jesus, the hype surrounding this chick is ridiculous.
Rubi. Just Rubi.
Kratos
The cast of final fantasy seven
Stupid villains
James Bond - I find most of the movies insanely boring and the main character isn't much better.
That motherfucking DENZEL (OUR GOD AND SAVIOR) kid from FF7 AC(I liked the movie because it was basically an extended fight scene with admittedly awesome choreography, and because it had sephiroth pwning cloud in the first half of their battle.)
Also, BATMAN
"The HERO" - Again, see above for examples. The kind of lawful/neutral good pussy who either whines his way through the adventure or stumbles idiotically through them like the meatshield he is.
The CHOSEN ONE - You know the type. Harry Potter, Rand'al thor etc.
Generic love interest for hero - "THIS IS YOUR WOMAN YOU LOVE HER" to paraphrase yahtzee(with, of course, 0 punctuation 8D).
Tsunderes. I hate them all with a passion. The most perfect example of a fucking ***** tsundere with NO REDEEMING QUALITIES (and to boot, also being a generic love interest for the 'chosen' one) is Naru from Love Hina. By god, I hate that character. Same with that sword-swingy chick who always goes on about strength and honor, yet gets defeated by a twig of a boy.
Space marines that are not 40 K - we get it, you've got a gay bromance goin' on in your brown little world, now just stick your lancer up Dom's ass.
Handsomely grizzled guys with short brown hair. Seriously. That's one of the reasons I kinda like JRPGS. They dare go a bit further than "HERE IS YOUR GREY WORLD AND UNINTERESTING MAIN CHARACTER"
Gordon motherfucking freeman - yes yes, he's supposed to be the player, but fuck that, to me it feels like a goddamn copout.
Alyx vance - Sweet jesus, the hype surrounding this chick is ridiculous.
Rubi. Just Rubi.
Kratos
The cast of final fantasy seven
Stupid villains
James Bond - I find most of the movies insanely boring and the main character isn't much better.
That motherfucking DENZEL (OUR GOD AND SAVIOR) kid from FF7 AC(I liked the movie because it was basically an extended fight scene with admittedly awesome choreography, and because it had sephiroth pwning cloud in the first half of their battle.)
Also, BATMAN
I'm going to get shot for this...but,
I absolutely despised Ezio from ACII (I haven't played Brotherhood yet so maybe he's gotten cooler). He's the main reason I couldn't get into the sequel. The first was because, well it sucked, but for ACII, a lot of the experience was ruined cuz I really did NOT like Ezio.
Partly it had to do with his voice. Never before until I played ACII did I realize I despised Italian accents with a passion. I would have GREATLY preferred if the characters just spoke fucking Italian, gave us English subtitles, and be done with it. I don't get this whole "realism" mumbojumbo everyone was whining about with Altair. He's already speaking ENGLISH! It doesn't matter if you give him a flippin' accent! If you want realism, make him speak Yiddish/Arabic/whatever instead. Don't give him an annoying as hell accent.
Plus the guy was a total pansy. He was always whining about something or the other. Okay, shut up, half of his family was killed. DON'T MATTER. I didn't like him.
Anyway, end of my rant.
I absolutely despised Ezio from ACII (I haven't played Brotherhood yet so maybe he's gotten cooler). He's the main reason I couldn't get into the sequel. The first was because, well it sucked, but for ACII, a lot of the experience was ruined cuz I really did NOT like Ezio.
Partly it had to do with his voice. Never before until I played ACII did I realize I despised Italian accents with a passion. I would have GREATLY preferred if the characters just spoke fucking Italian, gave us English subtitles, and be done with it. I don't get this whole "realism" mumbojumbo everyone was whining about with Altair. He's already speaking ENGLISH! It doesn't matter if you give him a flippin' accent! If you want realism, make him speak Yiddish/Arabic/whatever instead. Don't give him an annoying as hell accent.
Plus the guy was a total pansy. He was always whining about something or the other. Okay, shut up, half of his family was killed. DON'T MATTER. I didn't like him.
Anyway, end of my rant.