The Worst Video Game Character Ever

[Canadamus Prime]

I would say Sephiroth, or as I like to call him, Sephiroth Bates.

 

[xplosive59]

Natalya from Destroy all Humans 2, FUCK HER! Her escort missions were the worst part of an already mediocre game, she has a gun but she never bloody hits the target and also runs straight at the enemies instead of staying in cover. *****.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Ashley in Resident Evil 4. She was helpless and you should have been able to let her die. I never liked that game anyway so she was the icing on the whole cake. Of shit.

Ashley is one of the only good AI companions ever created. Why? Because that ***** did what she was told. You told her to hide in a dumpster and she hid in the goddamn dumpster and stayed out of your way until everything with a five mile radius of her was dead. She also had enough sense to duck when you were shooting at something behind her.

In fact, I think Michael from Achievement Hunter put it best:


Anyway, I think my vote for worst game character is a tie between every single protagonist in the Killzone franchise, and every single protagonist from the Gears of War franchise (except for Baird). They're all a bunch of fucking assholes and I hate them. The only one of them who is even mildly entertaining is Baird, and that's just because he's a sarcastic prick and hates all the other characters just as much as I do.

 

[hoboman29]

Vault 101 because it wasn't until Trouble on the Homefront that I figured out I was supposed to care for characters I knew for a full 5 minutes. What made it worse was that to me my character would have been saying something like "Woo wasteland here I come!" when he left but dialogue made it sound otherwise.

 

[AD-Stu]

The entire cast of Final Fantasy VIII gets my vote. Is it a coincidence that's the only FF game I've ever played? Probably not But seriously, every single one of those emo little turds and their nonsensical plot can go die in a fire.

Gerald* from The Witcher has to be up there too. There's all sorts of games that I've never bothered to finish because they just didn't interest me. The Witcher is the only one that I've stopped playing because the game didn't interest me and I actively hated the character I was being forced to play though.

(*yes, I know it's really spelled Geralt...)

 

[slypizza]

Sakura from "Naruto" seriously she just ruins the whole game show for me ><

 

[Lunar Templar]

Axel of Mega Man X fame
never liked him and he severs no purpose other then 'a shooty' character since X leaves for a game (X7 sucked so hard ...)

Kratos
sorry but 'mad at the world' for... what ever lame reason they settled on dose not make for a good character

the cast of FF7
i can't think of any body in this game i liked looking back on it, FF8 has the same problem actually

 

[BishopofAges]

My proposal for worst character stems from A) Being balls deep in Earthbound again and B) Because I am an old bastard who likes to make people remember old games.

My choice is this feculant cud right here!

Pokey Minch
I hate him soo much, causes butttons of trouble, apologises for nothing, and above all has ZERO reason for doing anything other than a piss-fit over Ness because Pokey's father hates his family (and probably takes it out on Pokey or his brother)

 

[renegade7]

Oh boy, that's a toughie. Because I hate quite a few characters.

First, from Final Fantasy 4, there is Edge the Ninja. Now, usually his high attack and elemental Blitz moves are very useful for getting through random encounters. Bosses however are a different story. You see, Edge is supposed to be the fast and hard hitting one, but the upshot is that he has low HP and very little defense. In boss fights, especially towards the end, he manages to die so often that it's not even worth reviving him. You end up being left with the option of either putting him in the front row to do some extra damage at the start of the fight, or putting him in back and compromise his damage dealing ability but gain a slim chance that he'll survive more than 3 turns. Also, towards the end when every one has the best equipment, Kain and Cecil STILL do more physical damage than he does. So bravo for making random encounters slightly easier to deal with, yet being utterly fucking useless when some extra fast attack power would actually needed.

And then Navi. Hey, YOU listen Navi...shut up.

And Miranda from ME2...god dammit, I hate her so, SO much. It's like, she exists for no other purpose than to try so very hard yet fail miserably to add some kind of sex appeal to the game. Every dialogue scene with her is either focused on her butt or her chest, her voice is just a dull monotone and she has absolutely nothing interesting to say. "Oh, my daddy made me sad so I ran away from a life of luxury 'cuz I secretly have a bad girl side".

And EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER IN METROID OTHER M. Adam Malkovich was built up in Fusion to be like this awesome, brave, super-intelligent war general sort of guy. Now he looks like a Final Fantasy reject in a generic sci-fi space suit who stops just short of telling Samus to make him a sandwich. And then of course there is Samus herself, who would not just make him a sandwich but apparently would happily burn to death while doing so. But really that was just a case of them being poorly handled. They were bad characters in that particular story, not always.

Uggh, that's my ranting for the night.

 

[Warachia]

Jay, from Tales of Legendia, this guy directly gets the main characters fiancée killed, as well as almost kill every main character (excluding himself) simply because he wanted to try out a new piece of machinery that he says is safe when it's lethal to use, he directly fuels a war through his actions, and causes tens of thousands of people to die just so he can try out another toy, as well as constantly slow you down wherever you go when he's not busy backstabbing you.
Incidentally, he is not a villain, he's part of your party and the game wants you to like him.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Rosh Penin from Jedi Knight Academy.

Only one that I can list from the top of my head.

THIS. He was a douche. That was his best characteristic. His entire purpose was to annoy you. Just infuriating.

 

[SilverBullets000]

Someone has already mentioned the Gear cast, so I'm going to move on and say Fi, who does deserve so much more hatred than Navi. At least Navi didn't annoy you to let you know that you're batteries are dying.

Virta Fighter 5 also had the most annoying voiceacting ever, making all the characters who spoke english top my most hated characters list. I still hear, "Heavyweights mean nothing to me!" in my sleep.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

I have a parade of names but I'll try and hold back so I don't fill 2-3 pages.
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Dante
Master Chief
Kratos
Marcus Fenix
Tidus
Wakka
Yuna
Lulu
Rikku
Cloud
Sephiroth
Hope
Vanille
Squall
Selphie
Seifer
Zell
Shinji
Rei
Asuka
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Just a sliver of them off the top of my head, the funny thing is they all have the same thing in common of being very generic seemingly rushed one-note characters.

 

[Geth2]

Carth Onasi from KOTOR. I didnt matter if you chose light or dark side for you to be able to hate this idiot, and when he finally leaves your team he runs off like a little wuss and then he runs off and hides.

 

[Mikodite]

Awww... I actually kinda liked Vanile, not that I care anymore after XIII-2 ending debacle... and I'm surprised I do cuz those sorts of characters...

and I have no problems with Sandal. I mean, kind of a decent portrayal to have mentally challenged characters in video games like other forms of media... and one that isn't demeaning.

anyway, that fucking god child. I gotta laugh out of that... but I like to pretend that bullocks never happened...

Well, let's see... there's Riku from Final Fantasy the Tenth and Tidus for that matter...

Just about the whole bloody cast of Dragon Age: Origins, except Wynn cuz she's given just about as much personality as a posterboard. Sten is a solid contender, no doubt.

In Dragon Age 2 it's gotta be Fenris, hands down. Stupid whiny emo elf b@$t@rd mother f***er. I've hardly ever seen as much self important whining outside of an angst filled Final Fantasy game...

Navi, Ocarina of Time. Useless sprite. Can even heal like all other fairies. Apparently, her way of "helping" is to have a big freaking mouth for such a tiny iridescent orb. Can't STFU for five minutes spouting obvious and utterly useless information. And that lil jingle of hers is exceptionally annoying. She's like the obnoxious babysitter from hell. Great idea, let's have her pause the game five seconds after start up and every five minutes there after to remind the player what it is they're supposed to do like a nagging mother... AS IF WE'RE GONNA FREAKING FORGET

Can't comment on the FF characters as I've never played a Final Fantasy game.

Though I have to admit, I found Isabela more annoying than Feneris in DA2. I mean, much of that drow's character could be chucked up to just having been badly socialized his life, and I didn't fully hate him until the quest where I had to talk him out of killing his sister. It didn't help that his voice actor reminded me of Dan McNeely from the Godlimitation games.

Isabela... geez what a piece of work. Aside from the fact that she was a selfish bragget, she was a lipstick lesbian who had to remind everyone that she was a bi slut. Ok, its one thing to be open about your sexuality, its another to wave it in our faces! You didn't see the other bi option in the game do this, did you (in fact you could go the entire game without ever knowing...)? When she left the party I wasn't that upset considering that my Hawke was playing her role anyways (melee DPSer). Course, that one line she says to me... and I think you can figure out the context that generates it:

"...Speaking of Romance, I hear that you, Anders, and Justice have gotten it on. As they say, two's company, three is better!"

Drives a nail in my head!

Course, there's always metrosexual straight fag Zelos out of Tales of Symphonia. He was a royal tool. Again, a bragget who went on about his sexual exploits in a manner that would make Private Tucker blush, with homophobia that would have him hold contempt for any male character he meets. to put to perspective, if he was a female character there would be a fucking shit storm.

And the magikoopas in Super Mario World. Dear god their stalking little asses were annoying.

 

[The Youth Counselor]

As anyone knows, there are many choices for this category, but one stands above all else for me.

Spoiler: This dumbass, right here

I hate Kratos. I hate him with such a passion, it hurts. This man is willing to destroy the entire world with a temper tantrum, which is generally what all the games are. Not to mention, everyone thinks he's SO BADASS!!! just because he goes off and kills everything that he sees, without even realizing he's being played, and because he somehow manages to fuck every girl he sees. Without a doubt, I think he's the worst character ever.

I agree that he's an unlikable character.

However there are few games where I get to play as a full fledged villain (and not one of those games where you can make good or bad decisions) and I love the subversiveness of the character (Kratos is really just a really angsty teen who has issues with his father) and how he paralells with his own fanbase.

As for me:

Natalya from GoldenEye (Really a fault of the programming)
Navi from Zelda:OOT
Flippy from Starfox
Miranda from Mass Effect

 

[Syzygy23]

Hope from FFXIII, I mean, just look at him.

Spoiler: LOOK AT HIM!

He annoyed the hell out of me and was such a whiny bastard after his whole ordeal with Snow. The only thing he was good for was being a medic, and that was it.

Holy shit, that's a DUDE?!?

What is up with Japanese developers and these... Tranny characters? You can't throw a rock in a JRPG without hitting one.

Nathan Drake.

He's a two-dimensional smug asshat who commits mass murder for his own selfish reasons.

THANK YOU!!!

This is what I have been telling EVERYONE who has ever brought the subject up, and they won't LISTEN!

Just look at that fucker:

With that shit eating grin and stupid fucking undeserved 5 o'clock shadow. He is the honkiest ***** ass cracker I've ever seen, all he does is crack stupid ass puns and sneak up behind minorities and choke them out in their respective countries.

And this is coming from me, a white guy. What does that say about your character design when even white people think your character is TOO WHITE?

Nathan Drake is the dumbest sack of shit ever squeezed out of an artist's pencil-sphincter. Just looking at that picture makes me grit my teeth. FUCK.