God of War. I haven't played any of them personally, but I have seen my brother playing bits of 3, and holy mother of fucking Christ I cannot overstate just how much I despise Kratos just based on what little I've seen. I have no intention of ever touching those games either, I seriously just hate Kratos that fucking much.
Games you didn't want to play because of the main protagonist
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I honestly could not tolerate Nathan Drake. He was so smug and he acted like he was clever, but I knew high school bullies who were more clever than he was. I would have minded this less if the other characters told him to shut up now and then, like any basic human would, but no, his friends and enemies alike respond to him like he's making cutting jibes worthy of William Shakespeare.
He worked the first one, mainly because the game treated him like a monster. Everybody hated him, treating him with fear and open disgust. The only reason he was picked for the job at all was because he was the only person in the whole world who was insane enough and had the kind of overpowering rage to defeat Ares. He was a mad dog that the gods had let off the leash and aimed in the general direction of something they needed destroyed. It was kind of refreshing actually, to see a a video game be open about the fact that you're playing a remorseless killer with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.BakaSmurf said:
After the first one though, they tried to play him off like he'd been betrayed, even though he'd done nothing to show he had in any way changed and was in fact doing the same kind of horrible damage to the world as the bastard he spent the entire first game trying to stop. It undermined everything that made the first game good.
Thus far it's interesting, but the camera doesn't like you. Like, Tomb Raider games doesn't like you. But only when you have to do the climby climby jumpy bits. The game also isn't terribly fond of telling you what buttons do what (at least for the PC version). I've only just gotten passed the "0" chapter though. I do like Nillin so far, although she seems to be recovering and dealing with the whole "no memories" thing absurdly well...Wenseph said:
OT: I am less likely to pick up a game if there's a male protagonist. Because male protagonists tend to be... pretty samey and boring in a LOT of media :/ The only exception really was the Assassin's Creed games but that's because when the first one was being advertised it looked SO COOL.
Most of the games I play have a bit of a "blank slate" approach to characters (especially RPGs or games with RPG-features), so their behaviour, personality etc. aren't really fixed anyway. I can't really think of a game where that wasn't the case and I hated the protagonist, especially not so much that I didn't want to play the game. Maybe I'm not playing the "right" games for that. Or I just don't remember. Yeah, that might be it.
Actually I agree with this before the mandatory "jk."Anthony Corrigan said:Half life, what a prat that Gordon Freeman is
Just kidding
Now it could have been that by the time half-life came out, I was a teenager and spent more time chasing girls and less time playing video games, or it could have been that Gordon Freeman reminded me of all my elitist nerd friends at the time; the kind of people who would play everquest, go on about how smart they were, and then criticize you for hanging out with any other people they felt were not worthy.
So, I've never talked to my nerdy school friends since graduating back in 2000, and I've never played half life anything either.
Tales of the Abyss. I can put up with bad characters because I finished Tales of Graces f, but Graces f is also way more fun gameplay-wise and don't have a nightmarish number of points-of-no-return where you can miss things. But yeah, I got to the part where Luke does his personality 180 after being a selfish turd up until that point AND I HATED HIM MORE. ALWAYS WITH THE EMO WHINING. Absolutely terrible. I never want to play as such a whiny, defeatist character ever again. I suppose that's why I like Skies of Arcadia so much; No one in SoA ever gets mopey and depressed about anything.
I was vaguely interested in Time and Eternity but 1. the game looks terrible in motion and 2. despite having a female protagonist, she's so bland in design and *of course* her game revolves around her interrupted marriage. Generally NIS games kind of tick me off with their writing and gimmicky characters.
I was vaguely interested in Time and Eternity but 1. the game looks terrible in motion and 2. despite having a female protagonist, she's so bland in design and *of course* her game revolves around her interrupted marriage. Generally NIS games kind of tick me off with their writing and gimmicky characters.
I had to think for a while till this post reminded me:
Geralt is pretty much the main reason I wrote off trying the Witcher series. I have other issues with the series as well, but Geralt is just unbearable.SageRuffin said:
Tales of Symphonia 2. Emil was just such a turd, I couldnt finish it, well I pretty much did considering that game on hard mode is still easier than falling asleep at your daughter's ballet recital that's coming up this sunday, don't forget. I stopped when I got all the old chars and learned that you cant level them up because it was too much work for the devs or something.
Another one I just couldn't do was Sonic something. It was in 3d. Oh dear god that voice, I can stand the hard as hell only way to know there wass a trap there is to die first gameplay but that voice. "You're to slooowww", "Step it up!", "Get your game on" wait that last one is from something worse, but still SEGA should have just left that thing alone and not given it a personality.
Army of two. I played this one with friends, but 200 sensual parachute rides in and those two where just army of too boring. They had no peronality so it was the shitty writing and code writing that did us in. *Run into a base get surrounded* "It looks like they were expecting us", *Land on an aircraft carrier* "there are a lot of jets here!". >.<
I beat this one, but only because we were making fun of it all the way through: Gears of War (3 specifically). "Dom I need your emotional support over here!"
Another one I just couldn't do was Sonic something. It was in 3d. Oh dear god that voice, I can stand the hard as hell only way to know there wass a trap there is to die first gameplay but that voice. "You're to slooowww", "Step it up!", "Get your game on" wait that last one is from something worse, but still SEGA should have just left that thing alone and not given it a personality.
Army of two. I played this one with friends, but 200 sensual parachute rides in and those two where just army of too boring. They had no peronality so it was the shitty writing and code writing that did us in. *Run into a base get surrounded* "It looks like they were expecting us", *Land on an aircraft carrier* "there are a lot of jets here!". >.<
I beat this one, but only because we were making fun of it all the way through: Gears of War (3 specifically). "Dom I need your emotional support over here!"
I don't think I've ever allowed a singular aspect to completely turn me off a game on its own. I mean, I can get through a good game with shitty characters; I'll just make fun of them along the way.
That's the joke.
Gordon Freeman is a player surrogate even more so than Link and most RPG protagonists are. He has literally NO vocalizations or visual representation in the games whatsoever.xDarc said:Actually I agree with this before the mandatory "jk."Anthony Corrigan said:Half life, what a prat that Gordon Freeman is
Just kidding
Now it could have been that by the time half-life came out, I was a teenager and spent more time chasing girls and less time playing video games, or it could have been that Gordon Freeman reminded me of all my elitist nerd friends at the time; the kind of people who would play everquest, go on about how smart they were, and then criticize you for hanging out with any other people they felt were not worthy.
So, I've never talked to my nerdy school friends since graduating back in 2000, and I've never played half life anything either.
That's the joke.
Your loss.NeoShinGundam said:
Pandabearparade said:
I agree characters are terrible but it didnt stop me playing for the same reasons as you're wife.Snowblindblitz said:
Bayonetta has got to be mine cus whole hair is clothing/weapon thing idiotic and she annoyed me in the demo I played.
I'm glad SOMEONE got thatInnegativeion said:I don't think I've ever allowed a singular aspect to completely turn me off a game on its own. I mean, I can get through a good game with shitty characters; I'll just make fun of them along the way.
Gordon Freeman is a player surrogate even more so than Link and most RPG protagonists are. He has literally NO vocalizations or visual representation in the games whatsoever.xDarc said:Actually I agree with this before the mandatory "jk."Anthony Corrigan said:Half life, what a prat that Gordon Freeman is
Just kidding
Now it could have been that by the time half-life came out, I was a teenager and spent more time chasing girls and less time playing video games, or it could have been that Gordon Freeman reminded me of all my elitist nerd friends at the time; the kind of people who would play everquest, go on about how smart they were, and then criticize you for hanging out with any other people they felt were not worthy.
So, I've never talked to my nerdy school friends since graduating back in 2000, and I've never played half life anything either.
That's the joke.
No I didn't miss it but look around and you'll see the majority did and that's what is so infuriating.Jim_Callahan said:
If you must "because of who you play as" then no. If you mean "what's on the cover" then sure. There was some RPG.. Record of something-or-other.. and it featured overly sexy women fawning around some guy, and the back of the box said over 100 characters and I was like "haha.. no."
As a rule, game covers that feel the need to use sex to sell the game aren't generally worth my time. However, I have not turned down a game because of who you play as.
..now, if the game was about playing as a serial rapist, yeah, I'd want to be so far away from it that another planet would be required.
As a rule, game covers that feel the need to use sex to sell the game aren't generally worth my time. However, I have not turned down a game because of who you play as.
..now, if the game was about playing as a serial rapist, yeah, I'd want to be so far away from it that another planet would be required.
I don't generally defend Star Ocean IV, since it seldom deserves it, but I've always felt people were too hard on Edge for that emo moment. The poor dude justShanicus said:
destroyed an alternate earth, killing a few billion people
I get that a million is a statistic to an audience, but I think the guy's justified in being emotional for a while after that. XD If anything, the rest of the crew's horrifyingly "well, that sucked I guess. so what's for dinner?" attitude toward it was far more disturbing.
On topic: no, poor protagonists don't make me stop playing a game. I've played as Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Captain Walker, and while i don't really like playing as an asshole, I don't mind doing so if the rest of the game is fun enough.
Marcus Fenix , that brooding slab of meat just kills my interest in the gears games. At least they could give the guy some personality so he is not just generic space marine #432. Starcraft does this well, Jim Raynor while being a space marine badass type like Fenix is actually portrayed as showing more emotions and personality than broody.
Generally if i find out a games lead is Troy Baker playing a broody white gruff character with a dark past it generally makes me weary...it's never stopped me from buying a game outright but it tends to put a con on my pro con list. It's weird because I don't hate his voice (he's quite talented) I just find his broody white gruff lead voice to be grating.