raikoh from otogi. sure, as a warrior he is godlike. but as a personality hes just plain weak, i mean his reason for fighting is voices in his head! not helped by the fact that he's one of those mute protagonists that seem to plague rpg's. which was funny coming from an action rpg...
Weakest protagonist EVAR!
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Come on, no one has said Dan Hibiki?
Edit: Actually, don't think he counts as a protagonist. Therefore, I shift my vote to the spoony bard.
Edit: Actually, don't think he counts as a protagonist. Therefore, I shift my vote to the spoony bard.
Not sure it'd count as a protaganist due to it's alarmingly fast death rate... but has anyone here played LEMMINGS? "Uh Oh!" - Boom!
It ought to be mentioned that Keen beat an entire race of aliens at the tender age of 8. And that's NOT badass?Vigormortis said:
Anyhoo...
My pick would be the Marble from Marble Madness. As fun as that game was to play on the NES, no matter how you break it down, you're still playing a video game as a MARBLE.
Yeah, but Pixy was one of those "I'll kill everyone so they can't have any more wars" logic defying nihilist tosspots, and they really hack me off, so he was ripe for a whooping as well. And, at least there's one of PJ, not like in Ace 5, where there are no less than four sycophantic hangers on who, at least, live up to their professed pacifism (they're supposed to be professional soldiers, remember) by never doing anything useful and watching Blaze do all the work.Darth Mobius said:
At least Shamrock actually fights, even up to using ADMMs if you give him them.
im tempted to say DK but well no-one can beat a giant monkey even if you do have a magical hand that shoots bees *glares at yhatze*. But im going to say Marcus Fenix what is so great about hiding behind a wall (i meen if you cant take a sniper rifle to the head like a real man dont go to war) pop up and shoot nor seeing anything all too special about him
I'm not sure I'll ever agree with this thread's principles.
I mean, weak protagonists are part of what makes my gaming experience fun. It's fun being a fairly weak martial artist with only a stick, a camera and a watch with a crossbow with all the strength of a pea shooter to bring down a galactic conspiracy. It's fun being a nerd, a thick biker and a slightly insane science student as they stop lab experiments messing with the space time continuum. And yes, its fun playing a Janitor in space.
This is all because THOSE protagonists grow on you and turn into thier own unique brand of badass throughout the course of the game. Its the kind of badass you'd like to see paired up with Stalone and Schwarzenegger in the same movie and have them praised by the critics for being a convincing, larger than life character who brings thier own unique brand of badass to the movie.
Now there are a lot of times I feel like I could have done the job better myself than the protagonists when they mess up, but this just adds to thier character - no ones perfect, everyoen makes mistakes, and yet after all that they end up saving the world anyway. No one character I have ever seen in a video game that I've had to control has been so out of control of thier situation that I personally feel I could have done a better job of thier game if I was airlifted into thier place. They're either so pumped full of steroids they could arm wrestle God to a standstill after eating a machine gun bullet sandwich, or have too many redeeming qualities to replace thier macho that I simply couldn't match.
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Okay there's the entire cast of Resident Evil... but otherwise my point stands.
I mean, weak protagonists are part of what makes my gaming experience fun. It's fun being a fairly weak martial artist with only a stick, a camera and a watch with a crossbow with all the strength of a pea shooter to bring down a galactic conspiracy. It's fun being a nerd, a thick biker and a slightly insane science student as they stop lab experiments messing with the space time continuum. And yes, its fun playing a Janitor in space.
This is all because THOSE protagonists grow on you and turn into thier own unique brand of badass throughout the course of the game. Its the kind of badass you'd like to see paired up with Stalone and Schwarzenegger in the same movie and have them praised by the critics for being a convincing, larger than life character who brings thier own unique brand of badass to the movie.
Now there are a lot of times I feel like I could have done the job better myself than the protagonists when they mess up, but this just adds to thier character - no ones perfect, everyoen makes mistakes, and yet after all that they end up saving the world anyway. No one character I have ever seen in a video game that I've had to control has been so out of control of thier situation that I personally feel I could have done a better job of thier game if I was airlifted into thier place. They're either so pumped full of steroids they could arm wrestle God to a standstill after eating a machine gun bullet sandwich, or have too many redeeming qualities to replace thier macho that I simply couldn't match.
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Okay there's the entire cast of Resident Evil... but otherwise my point stands.
The Chick from Portal, without that portal gun, she is a tiny girl who was easily kidnapped to take place in this exparament. Think about it...
Yes. I am thinking about it.gameking218 said:
But then again, I'm also thinking "Sam Fischer, with no equipment". Or "Mario, with no Mushrooms". Or "Solid Snake, on a desert island with no weapons, blindfolded, hogtied, with his arms surgically removed"
You can't remove protagonists from their game settings and from thier equipment. It's part of them. And likewise, part of Chell is her ability to jump from great heights and land on silly feet springs and navigate using portal guns, just as much as Snakes is the ability to scavenge for weapons and infiltrate bases.
This has really got to be about where the protagonists were so weak at what they did they could have been played by Blocker Lemmings and still be presented as doing a better job...
Kreia KOTOR2, disabled old woman with an attitude problem, get a prosthetic hand love i know it was a long time ago but in your galaxy they do pretty good ones so they tell me. At least if you could hold a rifle you'd be of some use
Er what, the L shaped block is a life saver, it's a brilliant substitute for the 4 in a column block when you really need to clear some rows. Worst block has to be the square one, it always pops up when you've got a higgly-piggly top row with no-where to put it.GregorV said:
Jango Fett from Star Wars: Bounty Hunter has to be up there. Then again, his controllability makes me think that he has little to no control over his body, so maybe it isn't his fault.
And whatever that guy from Magna Carta: Tears of Blood's name was. That game just...ugh.
And whatever that guy from Magna Carta: Tears of Blood's name was. That game just...ugh.
speaking of Samus, isnt Link the same case every game? You have to collect the same FUCking master sword and bomb and other items everytime.
I'm thinking Jesper the Swede from Rockstar's Table Tennis. He hit harder than anyone else and lost all the time because you just drop shotted him and he'd miss or hit long. He lacks the ability to 'lean forward' - nuff said. Of course the same applied if you played as him. You just hit hard and hope the ai doesn't beat you.
But if you would like a more serious one how about your sim in the sims? Can't do anything on it's own. Or your city in sim city? again needs hand holding all the way. that is the point of the game but it does make them weak. And don't say a city isn't a protagonist. Without the city all you have is sim um...game packaging? So the city is essential and the main protaganist.
Or how about Max Payne? He needs to slow down time in every fight to come out on top. Cheater! It's easy to win in an unfair fight. Very weak.
I did this to make people think outside the box a bit - there are more types of games out there besides shooters, rpg's and platformers. Though i still think they are all weak protaganists.
But if you would like a more serious one how about your sim in the sims? Can't do anything on it's own. Or your city in sim city? again needs hand holding all the way. that is the point of the game but it does make them weak. And don't say a city isn't a protagonist. Without the city all you have is sim um...game packaging? So the city is essential and the main protaganist.
Or how about Max Payne? He needs to slow down time in every fight to come out on top. Cheater! It's easy to win in an unfair fight. Very weak.
I did this to make people think outside the box a bit - there are more types of games out there besides shooters, rpg's and platformers. Though i still think they are all weak protaganists.