Worst team-mate ever

[JWRosser]

So I've done most of Resident Evil 5 on professional mode, save one boss. However, I have always done it with a mate of mine. I decided today to see what it was like with the AI.

Now, the uselessness of RE5's Sheva as an AI player is one that is heavily criticised. And rightly so. I could deal with it when I played through on normal mode, as she is not really needed. She is more of an irritation than completely useless, like Ashley in RE4.
But playing on professional mode, when it is literally one hit you're dying, you need someone there to heal you. She's standing right next to me, and I get hit.
"HELP MEEE!" Chris cries.
"Take this," says Sheva, handing me some machine gun ammo that I just gave to her because I have infinite ammo on all my weapons. She then proceeds to take out a pistol and very slowly shoot at one target as Chris screams to a horrible bloody death.

This is the worst example I can think of a bad team-mate. I mean, even playing the bonus stages on Sonic 2 and having Tales run constantly into mines is better than this.
Anyone else think of an example of awful AI controlled team-mate in a game?

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

You've never given the AI an infinite ammo sniper, have you?

The AI just DOMINATES with it.

Worst AI, though?

Easily my horse in Red Dead.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Almost every single one of them...

Like your AI partner from Army of Two, they were so stupid...

 

[polarizebeta]

Boomer in Socom. Broke cover, fired when ordered not to, couldn't track a tango to save his life. literally. The only way to get 100% was to keep him alive despite the fact that you wanted to kick him in the balls. Geez, I hated that guy

 

[ShadowDude112]

I can think of a human controlled one. This guy in L4D had a health pack and he was the only one. I was black and white and I ask him to heal me. What does he give me? Pain pills. Fuck that guy. But for AI I would have to say L4D2 has some bad AI.

 

[Sir Kemper]

The TF2 bots were originally, and still are, somewhat bad. They have been improved a bit, but they still are, for all intent and purpose, fairly dumb.


The other's I would have to think of is the Survivor's from Dead Rising, although that didn't bother me as much, mainly because of how much I love the game overall.

(And Otis' calls were much more annoying.)

 

[JWRosser]

Actually I remember in Fallout 3 paying money so Jericho would follow me, and then he walks in front of a Super Mutant's Tri-laser thingy...
That sucked.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

The foot soldiers in most of the CoD games are absolutely useless, and rely very heavily on you. In fact (apart from the scripted sequences, and excluding the more important characters) I have difficulty recalling a time in which an NPC actually managed to kill an enemy. They're not the most useless team-mates ever, but the whole thing still stinks somewhat.

 

[Sir Kemper]

You've never given the AI an infinite ammo sniper, have you?

The AI just DOMINATES with it.

Worst AI, though?

Easily my horse in Red Dead.

It's like Mr.Ed took a bottle of niquel, then a bong hit.

 

[Blazing Steel]

For professional I gave her my maxed out infinite ammo L. Hawk and watched her kill everything that got anywhere near us.

As for the worst AI team mate would have to be any member of the team in Jericho. They seemed to either run into enemy fire or stand in the open getting screwed.

 

[Jaranja]

I would have to say L4D2 has some bad AI.

Fix'd for ya!

FFXIII had some terrible AI in the battles. One buff at a time my arse. *takes control of synergist character*

 

[Captain Pancake]

Easily my horse in Red Dead.

Okay, I hogtied my bounty, now to put him on the back of my-

Stay! Horse, stay! Come here horse! *whistles* Whistle does not mean go further away, Horse! Quick, back to me, here come some of his goons to-

Oh dear. They shot you, horse.

 

[JWRosser]

Easily my horse in Red Dead.

Okay, I hogtied my bounty, now to put him on the back of my-

Stay! Horse, stay! Come here horse! *whistles* Whistle does not mean go further away, Horse! Quick, back to me, here come some of his goons to-

Oh dear. They shot you, horse.

Or walk of a cliff, one of the two

 

[Sir Kemper]

The foot soldiers in most of the CoD games are absolutely useless, and rely very heavily on you. In fact (apart from the scripted sequences, and excluding the more important characters) I have difficulty recalling a time in which an NPC actually managed to kill an enemy. They're not the most useless team-mates ever, but the whole thing still stinks somewhat.

I recall in one instances, I ducked down into a trench to reload while playing on veteran, and was greeted by the site of about 20 dead ally's, in a pile.


I swear all the AI seem's able to do is hip fire, which makes it almost impossible for them to get a kill considering all they use is machine guns.

 

[squid5580]

You've never given the AI an infinite ammo sniper, have you?

The AI just DOMINATES with it.

Worst AI, though?

Easily my horse in Red Dead.

I lost one of mine to alcoholism. He went into the Saloon and that was the last time I saw him.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

Your partner in Skate 3, he always gets in my way, and he gets no points anyway. My score on its own usually beats the opposing AI team, I'd prefer it if he just sat in the corner and cried whilst I got my multiplier up and a decent amount of speed, instead of him fucking me up when I'm just about to... I have got some funny videos though, like me doing a Christ Air on a mega ramp and twatting him in the face with the board at its peak, causing us both to fall 15 feet. Ahh, I forgive him, the dumb bastard.. but fuck all the other AI in that game, just random skaters who get in my way, and I always fall over, never them. BASTARDS.

I agree with the horse on RDR too, although shooting him in the head at max speed with a shotgun is always a good, gratifying resolution.

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

Spoiler: This guy!

I played a bit of Halo 3 on Legendary today because I'm getting pumped for Reach.

Jesus fucking Christ. I've never seen someone so badass do so little.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

That one lady in Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 who wants you to rescue her family.

I know she's not technically a teammate, but all she did was run in front of me or get blown up by grenades.

After running in front of me.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

"You're in my way, sir."

First thing that popped in my head.

But yeah, my vote goes to Sheva. I never had a problem with Ashley, oddly enough. She always stayed out of my way and rarely got caught by any enemies.

Sheva, however, was an incompetent sack of ass drippings.

 

[Hurray Forums]

Lymle is the worst, 'kay? She stands in melee range/AoEs despite having about as much HP as a level one rat, 'kay. Whenever I need a heal she just stands there using her fucking awful normal attack that usually does single digit damage as I get my face smashed in, 'kay. Her combat speech is also annoying due to her incredibly bland voice and adding "'kay" to the end of every sentence, 'kay. Even generic blatant fan service girl was less annoying than she was, 'kay.