Games you didn't want to play because of the main protagonist
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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance featured the single most insufferable, lunatic protagonist I've ever encountered. They didn't make Marche that way on purpose, but it can certainly come off like that.
This twelve year old kid is transported to a storybook world based on Final Fantasy and his emotionally traumatized friend's wish for his Mom to be alive again. His first reaction is that this place isn't real and he needs to go home. It turns out that the only way to get back to his "real" world is to destroy this one and everything in it. He doesn't have any particular rationale about why what he's doing is right. He thinks that everything around him is a fantasy and as such cannot conceive that there may be more at work than he perceives. All he has is that there are pillars supporting this fake world and he needs to destroy them so he might be able to go back to the real world.
Also, he's clearly doesn't understand the consequences of his actions, as evidenced in the dialogue of one of the Jagd battles. Jagd are the only places in the context of the story where people you fight in a battle actually die. Perma-death happens only in these lawless places.
So when I got to a part of the story that has someone dropping truth bombs on this deranged mass murdering psycho path, I ended up having to fight Babus under extremely unfavorable laws. I actually lost a fight for the first time in the game and Marche went to prison. I could've loaded it up and done it again but...that was the ending I wanted. Maybe he starts seeming less certifiably insane later, but Babus and Cid kicking the shit out of him while making him understand that they do in fact exist as they are now and that thousands of other people that did not exist in his world are here and alive, then throwing him in prison because geocide is never the answer is just too perfect. I don't know the actual ending of FFTA. I don't care. That's how that story will always end for me.
This twelve year old kid is transported to a storybook world based on Final Fantasy and his emotionally traumatized friend's wish for his Mom to be alive again. His first reaction is that this place isn't real and he needs to go home. It turns out that the only way to get back to his "real" world is to destroy this one and everything in it. He doesn't have any particular rationale about why what he's doing is right. He thinks that everything around him is a fantasy and as such cannot conceive that there may be more at work than he perceives. All he has is that there are pillars supporting this fake world and he needs to destroy them so he might be able to go back to the real world.
Also, he's clearly doesn't understand the consequences of his actions, as evidenced in the dialogue of one of the Jagd battles. Jagd are the only places in the context of the story where people you fight in a battle actually die. Perma-death happens only in these lawless places.
He just told the corpses of his slain enemies to APOLOGIZE and never get in an accident again. THEY ARE DEAD! CADAVERIFFIC! They are no more; they have ceased to be.
So when I got to a part of the story that has someone dropping truth bombs on this deranged mass murdering psycho path, I ended up having to fight Babus under extremely unfavorable laws. I actually lost a fight for the first time in the game and Marche went to prison. I could've loaded it up and done it again but...that was the ending I wanted. Maybe he starts seeming less certifiably insane later, but Babus and Cid kicking the shit out of him while making him understand that they do in fact exist as they are now and that thousands of other people that did not exist in his world are here and alive, then throwing him in prison because geocide is never the answer is just too perfect. I don't know the actual ending of FFTA. I don't care. That's how that story will always end for me.
I assume we're talking MGS2 Raiden here? 'Cuz the large reason he got disliked is less who/what he is, and more IIRC because MGS2 was marketed as a Solid Snake game only for Raiden to take over an hour or so into the game. If Raiden had openly been marketed as 'the new guy' and the opening tanker chapter was either omitted or an unlockable MGS2 would have done a lot better.shrekfan246 said:
The ending's still bollocks WTF Mind Fuck-WHATATWIST!~ but a vast majority of the Raiden hate is 'we were expecting Snake but we got THIS douche' hate. He does better on replays. You know, if you can be arsed to do so, which few people can.
... unless you're talking about recent MK Raiden, in which case I got nuffin.
I'm not. For the similar reasons as to why some people don't like Marcus Fenix, I don't like Gordon Freeman because I don't like who he is. How is it that a scientist is able to kill not just inter dimensional monsters, but trained militia as well. I just don't get it...Anthony Corrigan said:Half life, what a prat that Gordon Freeman is
Just kidding
Didn't like the protagonist from Far Cry 3 either, he was just a hipster on a drug induced mission and I would have much preferred to have played as his brother.
I simply can't give the Jak and Daxter games a try. Every time I think about it that damn commercial plays in my head and Daxter's voice just makes my skin crawl.
Pretty much everything Naughty Dog has put out in the last decade, but Uncharted in particular.
Pretty much every protagonist in every Japanese RPG of late, too. Christ. Used to love those things.
Pretty much every protagonist in every Japanese RPG of late, too. Christ. Used to love those things.
Dead Space 3, because I actually respect the main character too much. That game took one of my favourite video game protagonists ever, who I partly liked so much because he was one of the few action game protagonists that didn't take a casual approach to killing other people, and turned him into yet another action game protagonist who mows down other people like it's nothing. If they wanted to have a DLC or something where you actually do play as a hardened soldier character, then killing people would have been fine there, but while playing as Isaac? Fuck that.
Still Life.
They tried to make a Strong/Independent female protagonist, but instead created a *****.
There's a scene in which the pathetic but endearing side kick, saves the main character life after some stairs collapse, and instead of showing any form of gratitude she instead gets angry because he "touched her breast".
Maybe she was just in shock, played for another 15 minutes, still no apology/thank you, OK she's just a *****. I'm out.
They tried to make a Strong/Independent female protagonist, but instead created a *****.
There's a scene in which the pathetic but endearing side kick, saves the main character life after some stairs collapse, and instead of showing any form of gratitude she instead gets angry because he "touched her breast".
Maybe she was just in shock, played for another 15 minutes, still no apology/thank you, OK she's just a *****. I'm out.
I suppose it should be at this point that I state I didn't get into Metal Gear Solid until about two years ago, so I already knew of the existence of Raiden and his place as a major character in the franchise.Teh Jammah said:
Had I grown up with the original Metal Gear Solid and been 'tricked' by the bait-and-switch like everyone else, I might've been pretty disappointed as well. But it still wouldn't have been enough to make me hate the character/game.
I almost put down .hack//G.U. about thirty minutes in because Haseo was just a completely unrepentant prick. Glad I stuck with the trilogy though, as his character development from "prick" to "prick with a sense of decency" to "decent guy" is rather rewarding to see unfold, and it ended up becoming one of my favorite action-RPG series ever.
I have a few:
GTA: San Andreas. I don't dig the whole gang culture thing, although this was probably more an issue with parts of the story than the main character. I only played the game because a friend brought it over when they stayed the night.
Gears of War 3. Meatbag Fenix and the Muscle Patrol were dull characters. I probably would have played the game if the main character was literally a walking pile of meat rather than a walking pile of meat with a frown.
MGS: Rerising Rerevengeance Rewahateverit'scalled. Raiden.
Uncharted series. Lara Croft sans boobage and an appetite for murdering goons. Do not want. Ironically Tomb Raider 2013 turned out to be similar, but with boobs (and lovely hair).
GTA: San Andreas. I don't dig the whole gang culture thing, although this was probably more an issue with parts of the story than the main character. I only played the game because a friend brought it over when they stayed the night.
Gears of War 3. Meatbag Fenix and the Muscle Patrol were dull characters. I probably would have played the game if the main character was literally a walking pile of meat rather than a walking pile of meat with a frown.
MGS: Rerising Rerevengeance Rewahateverit'scalled. Raiden.
Uncharted series. Lara Croft sans boobage and an appetite for murdering goons. Do not want. Ironically Tomb Raider 2013 turned out to be similar, but with boobs (and lovely hair).
I agree with you on Dragon Age 2. Even with me picking more or less what Hawke was supposed to say she ended up seeming like a sarcastic, insincere douchebag.DSK- said:
OT: Gears of War. There is nothing appealing about giant macho ham sandwiches growling incomprehensibly, unless it's a Stallone movie.
Fair comment but the joke was that I didn't like him for his personality because being a silent first person character his personality was MINEbug_of_war said:I'm not. For the similar reasons as to why some people don't like Marcus Fenix, I don't like Gordon Freeman because I don't like who he is. How is it that a scientist is able to kill not just inter dimensional monsters, but trained militia as well. I just don't get it...Anthony Corrigan said:Half life, what a prat that Gordon Freeman is
Just kidding
Didn't like the protagonist from Far Cry 3 either, he was just a hipster on a drug induced mission and I would have much preferred to have played as his brother.
In my experience I only know what/who the protagonist is after I have already bought/played the game so I have never had this happen to me.
He's an insufferable sexist prat. There are LOTS of games which are not shooty (the irony is beyond two souls IS A SHOOTER), there are whole genres which have nothing to do with Call of Duty, RPGs, Platformers, puzzle games, Simshitty, the Sims and that's just off the top of my head, LIMBO, JOURNEY (ok will stop now) so why support someone whos head is so far up his ass that he thinks graphics are more important than STORY, who can't see that a game like "Tomas was alone" about a group of rectangles has more "emotion" than any of his shitty games will ever haveWoodsey said:
It's hard to tell sometimes. Moviebob says things that ridiculously stupid without a hint of irony.Keymik said:
Well, I'd never drop or avoid a game just because of the main character. To me, that seems a little petty, I don't let any ONE THING prevent me from playing a game. Well, if the game does one thing exceptionally bad, I'd want to drop it but whenever I start a game I have to finish it. And I might drop a game if the main character was seriously sexist or racist or any other branch of bigot.
Anyway.
These things said, I really didn't like Connor in Assassin's Creed III. Dude needs to take a serious chill pill sometimes.
And while new Dante isn't as bad as people keep saying he is, I still admit he's inferior to old Dante by a mile.
Let it be known, I do like those games, it's just that the characters are a little meh.
Anyway.
These things said, I really didn't like Connor in Assassin's Creed III. Dude needs to take a serious chill pill sometimes.
And while new Dante isn't as bad as people keep saying he is, I still admit he's inferior to old Dante by a mile.
Let it be known, I do like those games, it's just that the characters are a little meh.
FFXII... Vaan. I played the opening, thinking I'd get to play as this one dude... then I get stuck with Vaan and Penelo. Same reason I ditched FFXIII, Hope didn't live up to his name. they should have called him Annoying Jackass, or just named both him and Snow that and called it a day.