Disappointing Game Characters

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-Drifter-

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What game characters, be they enemies, allies or anywhere in-between, were the biggest let downs?

Normally I don't contribute to my own threads in this way (at least not recently) but I really have to get this one off my chest. My most disappointing game character is easily...

The man on the cover of Fallout: New Vegas, for those of you who don't know. In the NCR, these guys are the best of the best. Before joining forces with the NCR they were an organization dedicated to weeding out and killing slavers with old revolvers and rifles so powerful the kick alone could probably end a life.


You don't see any for most of the game and only a few people mention them, but it's enough to get you hyped up for when they arrive. And, as the game's conclusion approaches, they finally show.

Looking like this:


Not quite what one would hope. What's worse is that they're hardly relevant to the plot at all. I wound up siding with the NCR, and their only significant contributions were standing around being useless while I protected the president and later helping me cross a bridge. That's it.

And wearing their armour makes you walk funny.

And for an added bonus, here's my second most disappointing character. None other than...

I don't use the word protagonist in this case because, when you think about it, you aren't really the main character; Martin is. Sure, you start off as the protagonist, but soon after you save Martin from Kavach he takes ever, with you playing as his friend/body guard/errand boy. In the end, it's he who makes the sacrifice and kills the villain, not you.
 

DaHero

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Pvt. Ramirez and Master Chief. If both are supposed to have plot armor why do they always die?
 

Onyx Oblivion

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Gotta go with the Dragon Age dog every loves so much. >_>

Seriously. I get the Piece of Wood from his random searches...

And then never use him again after Lothering. Ever.
 

Wuffykins

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Superman.

Alright, before I do get the 'Derp! He's a comic character!' onslaught, you do have to admit that his game outings have been pretty sub-par, right (let's not just focus on that N64 one btw). As an established character, Superman can pretty much damn well do anything. Fast enough to turn back time? Check. Crazy powerful? Yeah, I don't need to give examples there. Also he's technically a friggin' genius as well, though less comic writers tend to utilize that aspect of him.

Anyway, whenever a game comes rolling around, he is seriously gimped, and I'm willing to bet that it's because of technical limitations rather than scope of vision, though even there I'd say that the designers aren't aiming high enough. Death & Return of Superman for SNES? A beat em up where Supes couldn't fly more than a couple of feet off the ground, and even there it was only for drop kicking (not counting the specialty flying missions). Superman Returns? Well, firstly movie licensed games aren't well known bastions of quality, and I will give it a few points in concept (haven't played it myself, so I'm not going to call it crap) but limiting Superman to one city doesn't really work. Spiderman, yes. Superman, who can go pick up food in Cairo and be back fast enough to tell Lois & Jimmy it's from a Take-Out place around the corner, no.

Seriously, the moment it's possible to make a full sandbox game of Planet Earth, with option to go to the freakin' MOON when I feel like it, where you can literally destroy everything everywhere, that is the exact moment that someone needs to make a Superman game. Tell me you wouldn't play that if it was released.
 

Discrodia

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Disappointments... hmmm....

Hawke. Definitely. Even the generically good approach I usually take in Bioware games, in DA2 I simply couldn't find a choice I thought corresponded with me. I just felt really let down by DA2 as a whole, not the least because I didn't feel like I was actually roleplaying, just watching some character act very roughly like I was controlling them.

So... yea.