Charachters you didnt like at first..but warmed up to

[Vault101]

title explains it really

for me its Jack from Mass effect

I didnt "dislike" her at any point..she just annoyed me for some reason, like she was "evil" and miserable the whole time and there wasnt much you could do about it

the real turning point was in ME3

[spoiler/] where you find she is now an insctructor at grissham academy, helping her students [/spoiler]

this actually made me really, really happy she had found her place in the universe, and was doing well

and this charachter development made me like her alot more..hell even looking back at ME2

 

[AngleWyrm]

The most impressive character to me was the red-headed alchemist you meet in the beginning of The Witcher. She starts out as a likable woman, but the events of the game change her personality. I was really impressed that she was not a static personae.

 

[krazykidd]

Emiya shirou from fate stay night . I couldn't stand him at the beginig of the anime , around episode 20 i didn't mind him . But he should have died from like episode 2 . Seriously want a panzy.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Gaius Baltar. My opinion on him shifted so much throughout that series, but I generally remain positive on him.

 

[Vault101]

for me the mass effect series had the biggest ammount of character that i had that sort of experience with from jack, and thane through to vega and javik, bless his hatefill fascist heart/s

I really like the fact that the "protheins" the seemingly benevolent past race were really a bunch of imperialistic assholes

the Quarians I kind of had the reverse effect

I never disliked them and remained sympathic...but how they seems to handle everything left me saying "god...you guys are IDIOTS!"

 

[Captain Epic]

Wow I was actually gonna say Jack... for those exact reasons. I'll say Lars' sister in brutal legend. She acted like a judjmental ***** for the first half of the game, but later on I started to sympathize with her.

 

[Zhukov]

(Wrong forum?)

- Liara from the Mass Effect games. In the first one she was pretty 'meh'. Basically likeable, but not much else. Also the romance business was really forced, especially when she starts expressing an interest right after you kill her mum. Lastly, her voice acting was a bit awkward. In ME2 she rather jarringly shifted gears. Not bad, but still kinda meh. Then LotSB came along and holy shit, she really came into her own. The whole pragmatist-by-necessity angle was great. Then she followed it up by being awesome throughout ME3.

- Samara from ME2. The visual design put me off from the get-go ("Excuse me ma'am, why are you fighting in an unzipped wetsuit?") and I felt that her dialogue was lacking in personality. That all changed after her loyalty mission. I loved that part where she acknowledges how unfair her daughter's position was and says she was proud of her for fighting, despite the fact that she just killed said daughter and would do so again. Regret and sympathy side by side with iron self-control. Good stuff.

Okay, trying hard to think of a non-Bioware example here...

...

Nope, it isn't coming.

EDIT: Ohh ooh, got one!

- John Marston from Red Dead Redemption. Really didn't like him at first. He kept acting unnecessarily aggressive. But over time the game manages to hammer home the fact that he really does just want to be done with the ugly shit and be left alone to run his little farm. It managed to evoke some measure of emotion when the powers that be decide to most definitely not to leave him alone.

 

[darron13]

People may hate me for this, but Hope from Final Fantasy XIII.
He started off as a whiny weakling who was too scared to just confront Snow on but after he finally faced it and his father he started becoming alot more likeable.

 

[Vault101]

(Wrong forum?)

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I agree about Liara, by ME3 she certainly shines on her own

I acutally left her untill last in ME1 because I didnt know how to find her (new to the whole thing)

ME1 I never disliked her..but felt "I am designed for you to roamnce me" that kind of put me off, shes barley in ME2 I cant really comment there

shadow broker showed how far she had come (or fallen) since ME2,

Samara I think her cold exterior is part of being a justicar...she "gives up" her identity and follows nothing but the code...cold, hard rules/logic not much room for emotion, and you'd kind of want to distance yourself from it all with a life like that

 

[BeastofShadow]

As much as it seems to confuse most people Garrius from Mass Effect. It was ME3 before I actually started liking the magnificent bastard.

 

[Questalace]

Jaime Lannister(Song of Ice and Fire) - He starts off as such a dick to begin with then as you learn more about him and see from his point of view he becomes more likable.

 

[n00dle37]

-Jaime Lannister from A Song Of Ice And Fire (not a game but this is in Off Topic Discussion).

Spoiler: spoiler for book 3

After his hand got cut off and turned into a reasonable human being (though you could argue that he was always good, just misunderstood). Once he becomes a POV character and you can look into his thoughts he actually became one of my favourite characters, something I never expected whilst watching the show or reading the first two books.

Also I have to agree with Zhukov on Liara. She was never bad, but like a lot mass effect characters she was rather meh in the first game before having a rather huge character. By the third game she was definitely my favourite character and the only person I wanted to romance, but this could just be because, playing as Femshep, my choice was rather limited.

Edit: It almost looks like I double posted.

 

[OutcastBOS]

I think it'd be the character Jonesy from the cartoon 6teen I used to watch after school. I don't know how it happened, maybe it was seeing him do a "Good the Bad and the Ugly" thing with a TV remote...but he raised up for me.

 

[Gnoekeos]

I really dislike Gamelin at the start of Macross Seven but in the end I really like him

 

[Fuhrlock]

My first instinct would be Loghain from dragon age, but I'm not sure if that counts because I'm pretty sure that was the point of the character.

On a more conventional note through ME1 I really hated Ashley to the point where I only let her live on virmire for the innevitable survivors guilt (ok and while I didn't hate kaidan thought he was kinda boring). Then in ME2 (and continued in ME3) when she showed up and started calling out Shep on working with cerberus, or basically saying what I had been thinking through that half of the game, I was so happy to see her direct her aggression to something I could support. I then grew to like her more in ME3 with the arc she went through in ME3 where she eventually forgave Shep, was past the whole racism thing and was finally a well rounded character.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Mao from Disgaea 3.

When I was first introduced to Mao, I wasn't all that impressed with him and I felt that he was the weakest of the four main male protagonists of series. After completing most of the story, Mao seemed to just grow on me and I came to respect his personality and inner turmoil.

 

[Vault101]

My first instinct would be Loghain from dragon age, but I'm not sure if that counts because I'm pretty sure that was the point of the character.

On a more conventional note through ME1 I really hated Ashley to the point where I only let her live on virmire for the innevitable survivors guilt (ok and while I didn't hate kaidan thought he was kinda boring). Then in ME2 (and continued in ME3) when she showed up and started calling out Shep on working with cerberus, or basically saying what I had been thinking through that half of the game, I was so happy to see her direct her aggression to something I could support. I then grew to like her more in ME3 with the arc she went through in ME3 where she eventually forgave Shep, was past the whole racism thing and was finally a well rounded character.

yeah, Loghain does have his reasons

but in the end unfortunatly its "companion whos a bit of an ass but has stuck by me all this time" OR "asshole whos almost fucked everything up"

gotta go with alistair

never got thr ahsly hate..I always liked her more than Kaiden..but killed her everytime (because of romance) that'll change though I think