Games you didn't want to play because of the main protagonist

[Sehnsucht Engel]

RPGs that let you customize your character's appearance, but you can only play as a male. >_> Any of the newer final fantasy games. I played the tenth, and that's enough for me. I also tend to favour any game that has a female protagonist, like tomb raider, bayonetta and similar. I haven't gotten around to trying Remember Me yet, but I was kind of looking forward to it, until it didn't get the greatest reviews.

 

[redhatman]

Mass Effect : Infiltrator. it sounded awesome and i loved the idea, then i got to play it and found out it was about a gruff space marine saving the love interest from a evil mad scientist...

haven't heard of that before.

What? I've heard all manner of people saying all manner of stuff about Mass Effect, but I seriously don't think you played the same thing everyone else played. The wasn't even a scientist in it until the second one... And the main character was one you created yourself and could decide the personality of(to an extent), so... You created a character you didn't like?

Confused.com.

Mass Effect : Infiltrator is an IOS game, i loved the actual games but the story of infiltrator is just too stupid.

 

[Fox12]

I'm more worried about David Cage than I am about Ellen Paige. He's not a good writer, which is bad when the whole crux of your game is the story. Also, there's a female protagonist, so I'm not looking forward to seeing what creepy, fetishistic, rape culture situations he forces her into. Honestly, Heavy Rain wanted to make me vomit. He needs some professional writers to help him not suck. I am grateful he's had an influence on other, better, developers, especially adventure game developers. Tell Tale games was influenced by him, despite the fact that the are far superior to him in every way.

I may sound biased, but what exactly was wrong with Heavy Rain's writing / storyline / its structure? Is it some of the forced violence / sex object scenes or flat characterization?

I like Heavy Rain as an idea, but it was poorly executed, and there are many plot holes. Why does Ethan have blackouts at the beginning of the game, and then wake up with origami figures? I know it's a red herring to mislead the audience, but it still needs an explanation. In reality there was an explanation, but it was removed from the game because the developers realized it didn't make any sense. As a result a huge plot hole remained. Why does Scott Shelby think about capturing the killer, when he is the killer? It would make sense for him to lie to other characters when he's talking, but it makes no sense for him to lie himself. He only thinks that way to mislead the audience, but it still doesn't make rational sense. His motivations change as well. If the main character arrives to save Shaun, and the other characters aren't there, Shelby lets him go. However, if the other characters do arrive, then Shelby tries to kill the main character in order to create an elaborate chase sequence.

As for female characters, Heavy Rain just felt creepy. At one point I was forced to strip the female character down at gunpoint while porno sounding music played. If the player messes up, then he forces you to strip her at gunpoint, and there's no choice in the matter. Every encounter Madison has ends up like this, what with a creepy doctor tying her to a table, or a creepy hotel manager who stares at her. It got weird fast, and I felt like most of it existed for fan service. The Last of Us handled a similar situation with Ellie very well, where the villain in question was demented, and Ellie was obviously traumatized by the experience. Heavy Rain, on the other hand, seemed to have a sick enjoyment of those scenes, and that's what turned me of. People hate on Trope Against Women, but sometimes I think those videos make a really good point. It's kind of like Sucker Punch, in that it tried to fetishize women while simultaneously "empowering" them. You can't have your cake and eat it too, and as a result the game simply felt insincere.

I like that David Cage wants to make story based games, and I didn't even mind the quick time prompts. Again, The Walking Dead was very similar, and I loved it. It's just that David Cage is not a fantastic writer, and sometimes his ambition surpasses his actual skill. I'll withhold judgment on Beyond Two Souls, but I highly doubt it will be the masterpiece "interactive drama experience" that David Cage is striving for.

 

[Seracen]

God of War...Kratos isn't even a good anti-hero anymore.

He wouldn't even make a sensible villain at this point...he's just a vindictive, blind jackass...

Oddly enough, new Dante didn't actually piss me off, it's just that the game WASN'T DmC (I didn't mind it as much as I thought I would).

I'll note that I DID play both, just to get it out of my system, but I'll never touch these games ever again.

 

[DSK-]

I would have to say Dragon Age 2. I know I keep bashing the game, but the truth was I really couldn't identify with Hawke up intil a quarter of the way through. I dunno, it just felt rather wierd, especially when I was forced to make certain decisions and I couldn't do what I wanted specifically - which hurt somewhat because I tend to play games 'as myself', if you know what I mean.

Otherwise, I'd have to say that I won't buy or play FarCry 3 because of the protagonist.

 

[Pandabearparade]

I fucking hate the protagonist in Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Dragon Age Origins. There are more, but I'm not gonna list them here. They're always so annoying and full of shit. And they talk too much, they think they're funny when they're not and they're ugly.

Wut.

Seriously, that makes no sense. Zero sense made. In Fallout and the Elder Scrolls you are the one -making- the character. You can't craft a character who doesn't annoy you?

 

[Amaror]

Dragon Age. I felt like nobody really cared about what you did, or who you were. I felt like a pissant.

Uncharted. It's like Yahtzee said - Drakes' a friggin' psycho.

The first one or the second one.
I agree on the second one. I didn't care about what my guy was doing and the world didn't seemed to care either. In Origins it was pretty much the opposite. People congratulate me when i helped them. When you do do the defence of that down particulary well, without anyone dying, then there's even a big speech talking about how great you are.

 

[ninjaRiv]

I fucking hate the protagonist in Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Dragon Age Origins. There are more, but I'm not gonna list them here. They're always so annoying and full of shit. And they talk too much, they think they're funny when they're not and they're ugly.

Wut.

Seriously, that makes no sense. Zero sense made. In Fallout and the Elder Scrolls you are the one -making- the character. You can't craft a character who doesn't annoy you?

Subtle self loathing joke. Maybe a little TOO subtle... Sorry. I do that, make jokes that only make sense in my head.

 

[Amaror]

I fucking hate the protagonist in Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Dragon Age Origins. There are more, but I'm not gonna list them here. They're always so annoying and full of shit. And they talk too much, they think they're funny when they're not and they're ugly.

Wut.

Seriously, that makes no sense. Zero sense made. In Fallout and the Elder Scrolls you are the one -making- the character. You can't craft a character who doesn't annoy you?

He's joking, because all those character's are
1. pretty much you, because you choose who they are and
2. because all of those are silent protagonists.

 

[Keymik]

I fucking hate the protagonist in Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Dragon Age Origins. There are more, but I'm not gonna list them here. They're always so annoying and full of shit. And they talk too much, they think they're funny when they're not and they're ugly.

Wut.

Seriously, that makes no sense. Zero sense made. In Fallout and the Elder Scrolls you are the one -making- the character. You can't craft a character who doesn't annoy you?

I suspect he was trying to make a funny.


On topic: I haven't encountered a game yet(or atleast remember one) that I couldn't keep on playing because I disliked the main character. I do remember hating every moment in Modern Warfare 2(?) with the guy that had a skull mask.. I don't even remember his name because he was clearly only there to be a guy with a skull mask. I laughed when he died.
That and every main character in that game got worse with every installment.

 

[Fox12]

Kratos. What a prick! He was barely bearable in GoW 1... GoW3 really tested my patience. The game was fun though.

The Batman Arkham games.

I played them, but Batman himself is easily the least enjoyable aspect of them.

Try cracking a fucking smile once in a while you miserable, joyless, gormless, constipated, uninteresting, zero-dimensional prat.

Yes! Agree! He's such an ass... Never a thank-you, always ignore people who wants to help him, shrug them off with his "I could have handled it". No character development at all throughout the two games.

Batman, as an overall character, is fantastic. Batman in the Arkham Games, on the other hand, is pretty 1-dimensional.

 

[RejjeN]

The Witcher 2

I tried playing Witcher 1, but I just couldn't stand Geralt(or whatever his name is), he just feels so much like a complete Mary Sue to me.

 

[Chaos Isaac]

I cringed a fair bit while playing the early .hack//GU games. Haseo is a thoroughly unlikeable asshole (although her mercifully mellows out as his character develops) and it made me want to reach into the game and punch him from time to time.

What D: Haseo was great. Any time he was being an utter asshole, it was pretty obvious where he was coming from and typically not doing it just to be an ass. Though, he starts with a kinda dickish persona as it is.

Anyways, a game I didn't want to play because of the main character(s). Well...
Tales of Graces: Ten minutes in, I wanted to quit. Thanks Asbel. THANKS.
Star Ocean; The Last Hope: While your starting cast isn't... anything, I wanted tos ee if anything cool was happened. Then I met this stupid little girl who is really not a little girl that ends every sentence with a dull monotone 'hey' or some shit and just I wasn't going to deal with her.
Halo 4: Die Master Chief. Die. Your adventure was fun but I need new people.
Army of Two 3: No, you don't replace Salem and Rios with two asshats to make Salem the villain. First of all, Alpha and Bravo are shitty character names. Second of all, you fucked up the characters. Salem and Rios were never super serious, great characters. But they were fun and silly and I could play rock paper scissors to see who would run out and get shot at while the other took out the gatling guy or whatever who was shooting at the other player.
Some Megaman games: Eh, I always liked Bass or Protoman's design better in the early days. And when Megaman Zero for the GBA came out, found my favorite two entries in the series. (3 and 4 were not my favorites, but were fun.)
Shadow the Hedgehog: Bro, you should have died in Adventure 2 when your character didn't suck and weren't repeating the same goddamn thing for years.
Metroid; other M: Who are you and what have you done with Samus?
Left4Dead 2: Shut up Ellis. You're not funny. Also, the rest of the cast isn't as enjoyable as they were in the first.
Tales of Symphonia 2: Haha... wow. No thanks.


That's a few off the top of my head.

 

[Genericjim101]

Bioshock Infinite, Infamous, Uncharted series, Prototype 1 & 2, Devil May Cry series, Metal Gear Series, Nier (western version).

Just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are tonnes of others. These are ones I've avoided due to strong feelings of apathy or disdain generated by the main character alone.

I implore you to PLEASE rethink playing Bioshock Infinite: unless you've already spoiled the plot for yourself you'd be missing out on a potentially good experience.

Now I'm done shilling to a random stranger I've usually stuck with a game but sometimes begrudgingly so. Two examples of this are "Final Fantasy 10", and "Metal Gear Solid 2". With FF X I was too used to Zidane from FF9 and in comparison Tidas seemed goofy but without charm. MGS2 I understand the idea of the S3 Plan, just as well it meant something else as it failed in causing Raiden to have a solidifying (pun intended) character forming experience and being anything like Snake.

 

[The_Scrivener]

The Batman Arkham games.

I played them, but Batman himself is easily the least enjoyable aspect of them.

Try cracking a fucking smile once in a while you miserable, joyless, gormless, constipated, uninteresting, zero-dimensional prat.

Oh, also, that Riddick game, Assault on Dark Athena. There's a point where Riddick finds an escaped prisoner, a little kid, hiding in the ventilation. He promptly starts growling baaaadaaaassss one-liners at her. What an arsehole. I promptly stopped giving a damn about what happened to him.

I love you.

Batman is an idiot. In addition to that game having way too many crack-the-vent-open quick time events, the idea that this pajama-wearing self-important clown goes around tip-toeing to make sure he only hits bad guys hard enough to knock them down and never ever accidentally kills anyone, crook or civilian, is (here it comes) batshit retarded. I hate the very idea of Batman so much.

Attention Batman: you kill people. You have to. Gotham is not a magical universe where only bad people die because of you. Just because the camera pans somewhere else doesn't mean that people offscreen aren't dead because of your actions. DEAL WITH IT.


OP: Final Fantasy X. I may try it again soon cause of the remake but I recall going from 6, 7, 8, 9 into 10 and thinking that the hero was such a goddamn whiny boyband loser that I couldn't take it. Confused, brooding heroes: sure. A bandit with a tail: sign me up. But a pro athlete mop head who cries about everything: get the hell out.

 

[teh_Canape]

the God of War series, I quit it after I got to half of GoW2
I really just could not take how bad he went from enraged yet driven and focused character to a violent ****
in my opinion, Asura is what Kratos should've been

 

[TheCommanders]

I think his name has come up a few times already but it bears repeating: Marcus Fenix (stupidest misspelling ever, by the way, Phoenix looks way cooler). Everything he says is just... painful, due in part to the horrendous script. But his voice was so annoying that I went and looked up what sorry ass poser was voicing him... only to find out it's John Fucking DiMaggio?? Come on man! I know for a fact that you are way better than this. Were you actually trying to make him sound like a human in the recording booth, but the director told you to dumb it down for the main demographic gaming companies think plays shooters? Did you have a cold? Did you just not care? Seriously, man, you're Bender!

 

[OpticalJunction]

Witcher 1 and 2. I didn't like the notion of not being able to play as a girl in an RPG. Fortunately I got over it and played anyway, and I'm glad I did. Both games are cool.

 

[SageRuffin]

Oh, that's an easy one: The Witcher series.

The games probably are the bees knees, but I don't wanna play as Geralt for several reasons (of which I'll spare you all of them). As such, I've never looked at the games past a simple glance.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Games I won't play because of the main protagonist, also partly rabid fanboys constantly droning on about them.

Metal gear solid- don't know the protagonists name, but he annoys me when I see the trailers, instant turn off.

Do you mean Solid Snake or Big Boss? Unles you're actually talking about Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 2 (the actually hated one), which one turns you off and why? (minus fanboyism) I'm not trying to offend I'm just really curious.

OT:
I regretted every second playing the new DmC. What we had before was a stylish, child at heart, responsible, and fun to be around with Dante. Sure he was a stupid silly but I like protagonist that have fun when they slice and dice.
Then we get a swearing bum (UGH 2DARKNEDGY4ME!), sex addict, uninspired in design Donte. Even the new devil trigger lacks creative design, all it was was lazy colored in fanservice.

Plus he acts like a douchebag to everyone then ended up a major tool:
One second: "What makes you think I give a @#$%!"
Next second: "How can I help?"

Once I beat Son of Sparda (easy...) I played half way through DMD (also easy...) until the game eventually crashed. There I was DONE.
To hell with Donte. (no pun intended)