Video Game Protagonists you hate

[Knusper]

Alex Mercer. His only real hobby is eating people.

 

[Ben Agar]

Ezio struck me as pretty much a murderous dick. After Leonardo gives you the gun attachment for your gauntlet, Ezio runs across the street, kills three unsuspecting city guards with it, and then runs back to Leonardo to say "I love it! Thanks a bunch!" Stop looking so cheerful, you douche, you just committed a triple homicide to try the thing out.

I mean, a lot of those guards are just trying to do their jobs. Telling you that you aren't supposed to be on those rooftops is perfectly valid!

You might like this then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYWGBqh1v_w

 

[CleverCover]

The protagonists from Star Ocean:TLH

Played it for five minutes. Wished the ship actually did blow up.
Watched my brother play it. Wished the monsters would do the universe a favor and kill the entire group.
Watched it online. Clicked it off after Two Minutes.

And I usually adore RPG's about Space.

 

[knight56]

Anyone from Black Ops except Hudson.

Everyone else is forgettable, overly rowdy, jacked up on testosterone and universally have bad voice actors. (Woods being the exception only because he hams it up)

Hudson is just bland enough for me not to care.

 

[darksakul]

Tidus FF X
Who ever you play as(Commander?): Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Selffie FF VII
Hope FF XIII
Sora Kingdom Hearts Series
Guy Final Fight
Master Higgins Adventure Island Series
The Kongs Donkey Kong Country (I will only reconize the Original DK and Junior from the old arcade games)
Captain Falcon F Zero
Megaman.exe Megaman NT series (I do not even acknowledge the existence of Star Force)
Shadow the Hedgehog
Any Pokemon Protagonist other than Red (fuck Ash) and Gary
Master Chief Halo Series
Laura Croft

 

[Deadlock Radium]

Niko Bellic. After CJ from San Andreas, Niko was just boring.

This is so true. I hated Niko Bellic because he was so boring.
Also, Master Chief.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

John Marston, i want to roast his balls on an open fire.

Wow, looks like i really hate him.

 

[kingcom]

John Marston, i want to roast his balls on an open fire.

Wow, looks like i really hate him.

I hated him too, he is one of the biggest moron protagonists i've played in a while.

 

[Adam Green]

The new hero of Fable 3 (Bestiality)
Aya from Onechanbara (Smug annoying slag)
Tidus from FFX (Just because he's a nob in general)
Anyone in Eternal Sonata (gives you a serious case of The Gay)
Imphy from N3 (overly smug and too addicted to killing innocent people, trying to be like Pyramid Head with an army)
Rival in Pokemon R/B/Y/FR/LG ("Yeah, I'm gonna choose the elemental strenth to your starter and totally rape you with its final form". Then again, I did name him "Douche", so all's fairish)

 

[MirrorSweep]

50 Cent!

Ohh my god I will never play any game with his name on it ever again..was like grinding my ear against a cheese grater, and a cocky cheese grater at that.

 

[spartandude]

Master Chief....boooooring.

In the games most definately, in the books he isnt that bad

i hate that bloke from the Uncharted series

 

[NoTroll]

All the protagonists from the Resident Evil games. Watching Wesker beat the shit out of not one but two Redfields in Code Veronica was absolutely amazing.

 

[Reaper195]

Clearly you're gonna hate Caim if you ever play Drakengard (Although, he does have a reason as to why he can't speak..)

Never heard of it until I googled it. FF7/8/13 and the only JRPGs I've ever played and plan on playing. I just find silent characters make games boring and uninteresting, no matter how much they dress them up. Perfect example being Half-Life 2 (never played 1).

 

[dolfan1304]

How dare you disgrace the name of Duke Nukem

Though I do agree with Lara Croft, no personality at all.

 

[C.G.B.S]

I'm gonna add Dante from Devil May Cry to the list. I dont think he's been said yet

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Kratos.

They developers made an unlikable prick who's only thought is about killing things.
Then they gave him a family to try to make him likable.
Then they had him go and kill pretty much everything in such brutal fashion that any semblance of sympathy anyone might have felt towards him was destroyed.

Seconded.

No, Wait even better...

Spoiler: Proved

Yes, he did just commit the genocide of an entire city for his mindless vengence. Then after this he will go and bone Aphrodite. What depth!

 

[Bakuryukun]

Vaan from Final Fantasy 12. Basch was supposed to be the main character of that game...until it changed directors and late in development they changed main to Vaan instead all because Basch wasn't pretty enough. No joke.

and NOW Vaan is going to be in Dissidia: Duodecim instead of Basch! Go away kid! I don't care if you want to be a sky pirate!

 

[darth.pixie]

Nero from DMC 4. He handled well when you were playing as him thanks to the Devil Bringer, but he's gotta be one of the whiniest wussies in gaming. Half of his stuff about his girlfriend made me wanna puke.

Oh yes. I stood and got bashed by demons on purpose while cackling. I commited suicide so many times in that game that I've come to think of it as the only thing I did. And cheerfully.

I think they tried to make him too much like Dante and failed.

Also, Shepard. Maybe I just dislike Jennifer Hale (I will get you, Bastila! Hunt you down!!). Her voice always makes me want to pick renegade actions instead of paragon.

And Ezio. He was simply annoyingly cheerful.

 

[Z3RO180]

marcus fenix and master chief.

gears and halo are good games but come make the main charactr i litte bit more likeable insted of haveing them 7 foot tall and and in power armour with no emotion and the only thing interesting the have to say is were is the ammo.

insted make them 7 foot tall and in power amour and make them like shakespear.

imagen killing an alin with your fists while resiting macbeth...it would be awsome.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Video game devs can't always get characters right, and in most games there's always at least ONE playable protagonist that we have a negative reaction to, ranging from disliking to outright hating them.

Here we share those hatreds. Or we don't and the thread slips into obscurity. Whatever.

I'll begin first and piss off 99.99% of the male population here with my 3 most disliked video game protagonists:

Lara Croft
Duke Nukem
Cloud Strife

I can see why you might not like those charachters, I find it hard to like a charachter if they are a little too "perfect"

anyway I just realized you have an awsome username

It's not the 'perfect' quality that I dislike. They're just the ultimate juvenile embodiment of what's meant to be awesome. Lara's just a random chick who happens to have ridiculously-proportioned sweatermeat, and Duke is the ultimate 9-year-olds idea of what manliness is. It just gets tiresome, and building franchises around these worthless characters is just idiotic.

This doesn't apply to Cloud. Cloud's just a prick.

oh, and thank you for the username compliment