which game and character do you hate the most?

[Saltyk]

I hate any "tie in" games. If they are based on a movie, show, book, children's toy, or whatever, they are always bad. Also, Superman games tend to suck.

What about Star Wars: Battlefront II?

That game was great fun.

Touche, bag, you got me there.

Though I'd say that the SW: Battlefront games aren't directly tie-in games. Or, at least, they avoid the pitfall of other tie-in games. Having to be developed with a bare minimum of information on the story or anything, in a time frame that's half of what other games need, and forced to avoid any big spoilers. At least, that's the case for movie tie-ins. I'd say that others fail largely due to being blatant attempts to make money based on something popular, but with a minimum of effort or talent behind the work.

The Battlefront games were developed decades/years after the films. Thus, they avoided all of that rush to tie-in with the movies. If you can't accept that explanation, hopefully you can accept that you have proven me wrong.

 

[RagnarokHybrid]

Cameos are usually pretty bad. But to answer the original question, I'd have to say Vaan from FFXII because he seemed to have no real correlation to the plot and he was forced on us by Square-Enix for some reason.

PS: You shouldn't need a character map or a number pad to fill out a Captcha. 'Nuff said.

 

[ChupathingyX]

The Battlefront games were developed decades/years after the films. Thus, they avoided all of that rush to tie-in with the movies. If you can't accept that explanation, hopefully you can accept that you have proven me wrong.

Don't worry I understand what you mean, but you should be more specific next time when you explain things.

In your OP you said that any game "based", and SW:BF II is "based" on the Star Wars films directly (it even uses footage from the films).

 

[uttaku]

Tingle...

Tingle!

TI-I-I-I-I-I-INGLE!!!

DAMNIT ninja'd still got to be tingle, he's creepy when you think about the idea behind him, annoying in terms of voice etc and his maps are always a bloody ripoff!

 

[Azaradel]

Game: Baten Kaitos because... everything.

Seriously. I hate everything about that fucking game. The characters are all unlikable twats, the story is beyond retarded and the combat... oh fuck... the combat...

It's like they looked at the standard turn-based JRPG combat and asked themselves "how can we make this more annoying and stupid?"

Also there's a flashback cutscene toward the end of the game where a female character collapses and the most legendarily awful exchange of dialogue follows. It goes something like this:
"Oh, you're bleeding."
"Congratulations!"
There is no water hot enough to wash away that unclean feeling.

Character: Kalas, the main character of said game. Why? Because, quite frankly, he's a ****. And he acts accordingly throughout the entire game.

At one point, he betrays you and it is revealed that he's been working with the bad guys the entire time because he wanted power to kill some douchebag for his epic quest of revenge or some shit like that. After you fight him in a boss fight some time later, he suddenly decides that being evil isn't fun anymore and re-joins your party, going "durr, I'm sorry you guys." AND THEY ALL JUST FUCKING FORGIVE HIM WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT. NO. FUCK THAT FUCKING SHIT, I DON'T WANT THAT ANNOYING **** BACK IN MY PARTY. HE TRIED TO FUCKING MURDER YOU, WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE IT'S NO BIG DEAL!?

 

[Saltyk]

The Battlefront games were developed decades/years after the films. Thus, they avoided all of that rush to tie-in with the movies. If you can't accept that explanation, hopefully you can accept that you have proven me wrong.

Don't worry I understand what you mean, but you should be more specific next time when you explain things.

In your OP you said that any game "based", and SW:BF II is "based" on the Star Wars films directly (it even uses footage from the films).

Well, I wasn't really thinking of the SW: Battlefront games. I was thinking more about games based on recent movies like Iron Man or Transformers. You don't see too many games based on other media, except on very rare occurrences. Though there are a few examples. There was a Xbox game called Barbie Horse Adventures. Never played it, but how could that be good? Or interesting?

 

[Tohuvabohu]

Gears of War/Cole - What the fuck happened here? It's been forever since I played Gears1, but I really don't remember Cole being such an embarrassment to be around. It seems his existance became that of an overwhelmingly black stereotype. A good example was the cutscene when you found Baird. I thought that was an interesting moment, sure it's cliche that aliens capture humans for some kind of exploitive purpose, but I was really interested to see why they were doing this. The dialogue went like this...

"Baird! What the hell happened? The locust are capturing people?"
"They're taking all of us! I think I'm the only one left, but I'm telling you Marcus, they're trying to capture us. They're trying to process us maaaan!"
"I TOL U DEYS TRYNA PROCES SOME BITCHES!!!!!"

....WHAT???? I couldn't believe my ears. My friend and I were both in silence as the scene was going on, but when we heard that we absolutely lost it and laughed our asses off. The entire seriousness of the scene was completely destroyed and we both stopped giving a shit about the entire story once this happened. Thanks a lot, Cole. Is this a fucking joke? What dumbass wrote this crap? Carlos Mencia?

I honestly found his behavior and dialogue to be a complete embarrassment and offensive. And I'm not even black. I'm by no means an uptight person, and I love a good laugh. But this was
just, awful.

 

[Rawne1980]

Duke Nukem Forever.

That game made me wait 14 years for that crap.

When it takes 14 years to make something it wants to be damn amazing NOT what this turned out to be. It was a 90's shooter that looked like it had taken 14 months to make not years.

Duke was funny .... 14 years ago.

But I can't hate Duke when I have Tidus from FFX. Whining little arsehole that he was.

 

[APLovecraft]

most hated game would be sonic and the secret rings (or any 3d sonic game :/)

most hated character would be the entr cast of ff13, each one either a douche, desperate to be a character in ff7, or both

 

[Terminate421]

I hate this game the most:

But I hate this character the most:

Why?

Because Sonic the Hedghog on the 360 was the biggest let down and kcik in the nuts ever. While Nathan Drake is the biggest douche I've ever seen.

 

[StorytellingIsAMust]

Most hated game: Pokemon Channel. How that even qualifies as a game is beyond me.

Most hated character: Navi. Do I even need a reason?

 

[hazabaza1]

Really hate Yukari from Persona 3: FES, but only in The Answer. In The Journey she's okay, if not a little whiny at first.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

All of the Halo's.

And Master Chief.

Terrible games, generic character.

I'm sure if you read the books, you'd think otherwise.

It's easily the most depth fulled video game frachnise, but it's hidden in easter eggs and in the extended universe.

 

[Twilight_guy]

The person I most hate in games is whoever I'm currently fighting in the game.
Die, zombie, I hate you! Die knight, I hate you! Die crow, I hate you! Die giant robot crab, I hate you!

 

[Pjotr84]

Moira from Fallout 3. She's probably the only game character ever to really get on my nerves.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I'm not sure I really hate any game in particular. There are definitely games I don't like, and certainly some I don't understand why others like as much as they do, but if I'm not enjoying something I generally stop way before I get to the point of hatred.

As far as characters, however, there's one definite answer for me: Gordon Freeman. I hate the evangelistic cult that surrounds him. I hate that he's considered a strong or quality character when his actual in game existence is nothing more than a floating camera. I hate that people try to champion him as a total blank slate that they can inhabit as their own when he's clearly been tightly designed from physical appearance to how others interact with him (particularly given that, as noted above, all of the obvious character design is reduced to floating camera once you get in the actual game).

 

[Rex Fallout]

All of the Halo's.

And Master Chief.

Terrible games, generic character.

I'm sure if you read the books, you'd think otherwise.

It's easily the most depth fulled video game frachnise, but it's hidden in easter eggs and in the extended universe.

Easily the most depth filled video game franchise? What about Legend of the Dragoon? (take any character you want, Dart, Rose, Lavitz, Shana, etc) Fallout? Bioshock? Assassins Creed? And those are just the main stream ones I've pulled out, let's not even get into others.
(LoD isn't mainstream, but the others were.)

No amount of money grabbing works of fiction payed for by microsoft is going to make Halo the "easily the most depth fulled video game frachnise" Tell me, oh please just tell me the amazing story behind the spartans. Because I can match it with about ten better. You could have argued your series had some merit before Microsoft had to ruin bungie's hard work and announce that the series is making a 4,5 and 6. You have fun with that.

 

[Owen Robertson]

Vaan from FF12. What a miserable ***** he is. He doesn't know what the fuck's going on, and he's just going along for the ride. He's got no real stake in the revolution. Fuck that butt pirate. Fuck him up his butt.

I don't really hate any game, but some frustrate the fuck outta me. The Ninja Gaiden series (the proper ones) are fucking IMPOSSIBLE. No one has ever beaten any of them, and you won't convince me otherwise. You know what rescind "I don't really hate any game". Fuck Red Steel for not being an amazing game and therefore selling point as a release game, and fuck that (not so new) Prince of Persia. Not the one with water and djiin, the gay one. 4th console one. The one without a subtitle.

Edit -- Reading that back it sounded a little homophobic. My bad. I kinda grew up in the 90's and it's hard for me to switch out to lame, shitty, and weak. I try though.

 

[-Seraph-]

Final Fantasy 8 and its entire fucking cast of one dimensional, unlikeable dumb-asses. The hate I have for this game knows no bounds as it did everything in it's power to make me not like it despite toughing the whole thing out and finishing it. Such awful gameplay....oh god did it suck.

Terrible plot that made no sense, full of holes you could fly the space shuttle through. And the villains plot and motivation were unclear messes of pure paradoxical stupidity. Not to mention all the damn characters were annoying, stupid, shallow little shits that had very little redeeming qualities. Just archetypical rejects that had little purpose to the plot and save for Squall, had no development at all. And don't fucking get me started on that "love story" or I may just have to go punch a kitten....or twelve.

As far as characters, however, there's one definite answer for me: Gordon Freeman. I hate the evangelistic cult that surrounds him. I hate that he's considered a strong or quality character when his actual in game existence is nothing more than a floating camera. I hate that people try to champion him as a total blank slate that they can inhabit as their own when he's clearly been tightly designed from physical appearance to how others interact with him (particularly given that, as noted above, all of the obvious character design is reduced to floating camera once you get in the actual game).

Also this, my god this to the Nth degree.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

All of the Halo's.

And Master Chief.

Terrible games, generic character.

I'm sure if you read the books, you'd think otherwise.

It's easily the most depth fulled video game frachnise, but it's hidden in easter eggs and in the extended universe.

Easily the most depth filled video game franchise? What about Legend of the Dragoon? (take any character you want, Dart, Rose, Lavitz, Shana, etc) Fallout? Bioshock? Assassins Creed? And those are just the main stream ones I've pulled out, let's not even get into others.
(LoD isn't mainstream, but the others were.)

No amount of money grabbing works of fiction payed for by microsoft is going to make Halo the "easily the most depth fulled video game frachnise" Tell me, oh please just tell me the amazing story behind the spartans. Because I can match it with about ten better. You could have argued your series had some merit before Microsoft had to ruin bungie's hard work and announce that the series is making a 4,5 and 6. You have fun with that.

Okay, match this:

http://www.forwarduntodawn.com/divinus-ruina/

That's around 10 pages worth of text, anaylizing just the history of one race of the universe.

Also, all the Halo books's creative control was owned by Bungie, later by 343, who care just as much as bungie did for the series. In fact, the only time Bungie even told the authors what they want them to do was for The Flood, which they stopped doing because that book was so much worse off for it.

The newer ones are good as standalone sci fi books, let alone as video game ones. Cryptum is even amazing as a stand alone hard sci fi tale.

The higher ups at MS thankfully have not tainted a single part of the canon yet.

Also, I think theres a breakdown between what you and I see as depth:

Bioshock manages to be a EMOTIONALLY and INTELLIGENTLY deep story in a single game. Halo as a whole is DEEP in COMPLEXITY in the SCOPE of the story, as well as intellgently deep accross the entire canon, you can't just read or play one of the books/games and get it.

Playing Halo CE for example would be like reading chapter 16 out of a 20 chapter book. Your only getting the beggining of the end of a very, very long story.

All of the Halo's.

And Master Chief.

Terrible games, generic character.

I'm sure if you read the books, you'd think otherwise.

It's easily the most depth fulled video game frachnise, but it's hidden in easter eggs and in the extended universe.

This argument kinda sucks. Anakin isn't going to be any more tolerable just because Lucas liked a fan-fiction about him. If the books are so great, good for the books. The games, however, are panderous ego-stroking.

Meh, I understand this arugement, but that's not really the case either. It's just that the complexity is REALLY well hidden and not told told you, a la half life or portal. The terminals/audio logs are a easy to explain if a bad example, here's a better one:

http://www.forwarduntodawn.com/nine-levels-underground/