Unlikeable Lead characters

[Lord Kloo]

Don't see what everyone has against CJ from San Andreas.. its Ryder you've gotta hate on..

OT: Shepard.. what a twat, I suppose its how you play him/her
The Mason dude from Red Faction : Armageddon.. comes out with the most obvious commentary.. almost like the Duke but he's not making jokes about the obvious..

 

[Euhan01]

Nathan Drake - Reason's already explained
The protaganist (and gravel voiced veteran) from Vanquish, worst thing about the game.

 

[Sordak]

honestly i kinda liked fenix.

but yeah there are unlikeable main characters before, and i like that at times

 

[emeraldrafael]

Dante comes to mind. I could never get behind him as a character.

 

[BaronOfStuff]

Gordon Freeman; what is even likeable about this man?

 

[renegade7]

FF6, despite being one of my favorite games, had a really crappy main character IMO. She uses her magic to SET PEOPLE ON FIRE and then complains on several occasions about her inability to find true love or acceptance or what not.

 

[DestinyDriven]

So much hate for Nathan Drake and Alex Mercer.... O___O
Maybe it's just the females that like them, because I totally love them. <3

Also, seeing other people say how they don't like certain characters makes me Baww because I like them.

I don't really think I seriously have anything against any characters. If I had to choose though... maybe Duke Nukem or Grayson Hunt. I could do without the douchyness.

 

[Terminate421]

Nathan drake, every thing about him and uncharted series represents what is wrong with this generation of games. Perfect characters do not come from human beings. No ordinary human would kill hundreds and not be scarred by it. At least someone like niko bellic or master chief are used to or trained to kill things.

Also, super models dont do shit like that

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Well, his only motivation is stealing the priceless artifact before the villain does it first. Oh, and his wisecracking is really annoying, especially since he does while ending the lives of those around him. But if you really want to know...There's a swimming pool at the top of the Hotel in the city level. Jump into it, and then out of it. Once you do, TRY to make it through the next 10 seconds or so without flinching. It's impossible.

You can't really take points away from a wisecracking protagonist if they crack wise after murdering someone... because that's part of what you do in a game, or read about in comics, or see in movies. Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & clank, Spider-Man, John McClane, and even Batman (sometimes) all crack wise after, or shortly before, murdering someone. And those are just off the top of my head.

And it's been a while since I played Uncharted 1 or 2, but I'm pretty sure he had other motivations. It might've been his initial motivation (you know, because he's a treasure hunter), but if someone saves the world, can ya really call them a douchebag just because their initial intentions were to steal something? People change, and that makes Drake all the more believable.

Seems to me like you're grasping at straws for reasons to hate him, but to each their own.

Oh, and sorry for going off topic...

i'm roughly gonna agree with this

i would say "haters gonna hate" but i'll get a non stop argument from someone who is just too jealous they cant be like nathan drake..


OT:

quite a few FF's, your main guy is generally a random douche who doesn't know wtf is going on but then they generally have some awesome supporting cast members.



i just realized i dont really mind most characters...can't really think of too many more.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Nathan drake, every thing about him and uncharted series represents what is wrong with this generation of games. Perfect characters do not come from human beings. No ordinary human would kill hundreds and not be scarred by it. At least someone like niko bellic or master chief are used to or trained to kill things.

Also, super models dont do shit like that

and gordan freeman is entirely believable right? going around beating everything with a crowbar when you were a scientist with no voice or training what so ever?

yup, we nerds are extremely hypocritical.

 

[GiglameshSoulEater]

Ah yes, THAT problem with Mass Effect 2... If I'm honest Cerberus should have had next to no hold on you after a few missions since "We resurrected you" as leverage should only get them so far.

Off Topic: Is it ever explained why Cerberus knows about the Reapers but basically nobody else does?

Oh, the government of citadel space know about it. They just refuse to believe it.

The reason why your working with cerberus is because they are the only people who are listening. You need their help.

OT: I would say the main character from WET. She is simply a ***** - and for no other reason than because she can.

 

[Michael Hirst]

Final Fantasy 9. I actually liked Zidane as a main character but Vivi really took over for me in terms of character/emotional development.

Uncharted; Okay Drake is a douche, we all know this fact. I still find him amusing even though he is a douche meanwhile douche senior Sully is just great, cigar smoking wisecracking dirty old man.

God of War: seriously only in God of War 1 and Chains of Olympus did I find Kratos to be an actual character and it worked, tormented by a horrific past etc etc but God of war 2 and 3 just have him as the uber douche, a complete and utter childish idiot with no redeeming quality at all, selfish bastard even kills himself after single handedly causing the apocalypse.

Master Chief, seriously... for a story to be impress me the characters have to be effected by it, Master Chief is so "badass" he doesn't show any emotion or personal involvement he's just doing his duty. Cortana and even the black guy who thinks he's from Aliens have more personality than Chief.

Barney Calhoun, okay this is cheating since Gordon Freeman isn't a true character really just whatever the player makes of him but Barney is a complete bro and when he finally cashes in on those beers he owes Gordon they're gonna be completely trashed.

 

[Michael Hirst]

FF6, despite being one of my favorite games, had a really crappy main character IMO. She uses her magic to SET PEOPLE ON FIRE and then complains on several occasions about her inability to find true love or acceptance or what not.

I don't hate Terra really but she is outshined by an amazing supporting cast, Locke, Edgar, Sabin all have good story arcs and of course there's characters like Shadow and Setzer who are just compeltely f***ing cool.

 

[veloper]

Gordon Freeman; what is even likeable about this man?

To like out of pity, maybe. The poor guy is a mute.

 

[andreas3K]

WTF, people? I think Nathan Drake is cool.

Gordon Freeman is the most unlikeable main character ever. And that might seem a bit weird, because I'm not sure if he's even a character at all. He never talks, he doesn't have a personality, we don't know his motivation, and he's just as much of a mass murderer as Mr. Drake, but he doesn't even have anything interesting to say about it. He's just a pair of hands holding a gun. What a boring dickhead.

 

[Mikeyfell]

So having just finished Gears 3 I found myself watching the end cut scene and thinking to myself 'Marcus Fenix is as likeable and charasmatic as a damp sponge', I know thats supposed to be his thing, the brooding hero, but he never displays a single iota of emotion. This is in a game where even Baird actually has a second where he isnt being a sarcastic dick. I found myself liking the supporting cast more than the main guy. .
So my question is this, have you ever played a game where you end up liking a supporting character more than the lead?

Um... That's the job of the sporting cast.

Basic story writing tropes dictates that the lead cast does all the serious boring stuff like advance the plot and have character development. While the supporting cast gets to run around doing all the fun stuff and keep the audience entertained.

If you don't like the sporting cast the writers are ding a bad job.

Did you like Luke more than Han?
Do you like Batman more than the Joker?
Did you like Master Chief more than Cortana?


Marcus Fenix is as likeable as a damp sponge because Gears as a whole is poorly written but The supporting cast as a rule is supposed to be more likable than the lead cast.

 

[Batou667]

Faith from Mirrors Edge. Not only is she a complete harpy in the cutscenes, but the silly bint struggles to put one foot in front of another in the game. Playing through the story mode I exhausted every racist and sexist expletive I know. Attempting the three-star time trials, I made up my own ones...

 

[Ubermetalhed]

Commander Shepherd (male version). Christ is he horrifically bland and does he say some of the most lame dialogue I've ever heard in an RPG. Also 3/4 of the lead characters from the Mass Effect series should go in here aswell.

FFVII - Yuffie.

FFVIII - Zell,Irvine,Rinoa. Strangely Selphie is likeable even though she's pretty much a carbon copy of yuffie. I guess the lack of stealing all my materia/magic is a large factor...

FFX-2 - Suddenely Yuna and Rikku have become irritating as hell.

FFXII- Everyone bar Balthier.

 

[baddude1337]

The main character and supporting cast in San Andreas was so off putting I just could not play the game. Shame as everyone says it is their favorite in the series, but I just can't stand the whole gangsta thing.

I would say God of War, but the point of Kratos is to kind of be unlikable as he hates anything if it's alive.

 

[Gantiz]

The main character from Wet. I don't even remember her name, but damn was she a b*tch. I couldn't stand her.... I felt bad for her sidekick, Milo, and her other "friends".... really detracted from an otherwise fun game.