Characters that are a disgrace to gaming

[CM156_v1legacy]

I'm sorry I've only read the Dark Elf trilogy and I admit, I loved those books, so what is it about Drizz't Do'Urden you dislike so much?

He just seems like a Mary-Sue to me. Drow that forsook the evil ways of his kin? That doesnt come off as much to me. I also LOATHE the Chaotic Good alignment. No one can live in the underdark that long without going insane. I also DM a group and one of the NPCs is a bit of a parody of Drizzt. Drizzt is intended to be liked and appears to be a self-insert.

Also if you can tell me without spoilers (I've just fought Barthandelus for the second time) why do you (and well practically anyone) dislike Hope so much? I thought he was a brilliant character and could pretty much understand why he was feeling the way he was at each point in the story. Does no one have compassion for this poor kid?

He just came off as whiney. He was not deep, or smart. I gave up on the game, so I cannot really say if he develops more. What I will say is that I wanted him flayed alive at specific points of the game. Sorry.

 

[Custard_Angel]

Most of the characters from Gears of War.

Bunch of faux macho man children... Hate em.

 

[mikev7.0]

A character that's a disgrace to gaming? Wouldn't that mean...a disgraceful gamer character? I mean, since when have badly-written characters reflected badly on their medium?

Since jar-jar.

I laughed so hard! sigh* forgot about him

*sigh* Here I go loving things others hate again.... I don't understand why everyone hates this character concept either except that maybe they don't understand that Jar Jar is a "living" metaphor for the Taoist ideology. Maybe Taoism is a huge turn off when it comes to entertainment? That would make sense for video game fans since so much of what we do is all about making decisions and Taoists.... Well, y'know....

 

[Azurian]

F**king Squall Lionheart seriously why do people cosplay as one of the worst final fantasy character who was in one of the worst final fantasy games?

 

[mikev7.0]

I'm sorry I've only read the Dark Elf trilogy and I admit, I loved those books, so what is it about Drizz't Do'Urden you dislike so much?

He just seems like a Mary-Sue to me. Drow that forsook the evil ways of his kin? That doesnt come off as much to me. I also LOATHE the Chaotic Good alignment. No one can live in the underdark that long without going insane. I also DM a group and one of the NPCs is a bit of a parody of Drizzt. Drizzt is intended to be liked and appears to be a self-insert.

Also if you can tell me without spoilers (I've just fought Barthandelus for the second time) why do you (and well practically anyone) dislike Hope so much? I thought he was a brilliant character and could pretty much understand why he was feeling the way he was at each point in the story. Does no one have compassion for this poor kid?

He just came off as whiney. He was not deep, or smart. I gave up on the game, so I cannot really say if he develops more. What I will say is that I wanted him flayed alive at specific points of the game. Sorry.

I'm sorry but what's a "Mary-Sue?" Is it anything like an "Anna Mae" they seem equally unliked.... Um, Drizz't did more than just "forsook the evil ways of his kin?" This isn't the story of some hick who stops binge drinking he took on an entire city, no, an entire culture! A culture that was as messed up as a football bat so yes, in my book at least, that makes him extremely likeable as was the story of how he survived in the underdark. I also don't know what a self-insert is.

I'm sorry you gave up on Final Fantasy XIII, part of the great story is, yes, the way he does grow and develop. Yes he was whiny in the beginning, then again, I love the story because it makes it easy to see through the perspectives of the characters and if I had lived through what Hope had to in the beginning, whiny hell, you would have been lucky to get me to even move. No need to appologize we all have different opinions, I just get curious why sometimes.

 

[Nickompoop]

Tingle. He is the Jar Jar Binks of Zelda, if Jar Jar had been a cross-dressing, borderlined pedophile that raped your wallet in the ass if you made so much as eye contact with him. He's even worse than Navi, because while Navi is annoying and stupid, Tingle is annoying, stupid, but you are forced to interact with him.

 

[Nickompoop]

A character that's a disgrace to gaming? Wouldn't that mean...a disgraceful gamer character? I mean, since when have badly-written characters reflected badly on their medium?

Since jar-jar.

I laughed so hard! sigh* forgot about him

*sigh* Here I go loving things others hate again.... I don't understand why everyone hates this character concept either except that maybe they don't understand that Jar Jar is a "living" metaphor for the Taoist ideology. Maybe Taoism is a huge turn off when it comes to entertainment? That would make sense for video game fans since so much of what we do is all about making decisions and Taoists.... Well, y'know....

Actually, Jar Jar is just a comic relief character. Nothing more. You're reading way too deep into his (extremely shallow) character. I'd say the Jedis are much closer to Taoists than Jar Jar ever was.

 

[Denariax]

A mary-sue is the equivalent of someone who is so powerful that it defies the laws of giving any sort of crap about the character. See: Kratos (God of War.)

There's quite a lot of them, I say. Kratos is pretty high, as well as Duke "Twelve More Years" Nukem. Hope (FFXIII), Lightning in her Dissidia counterpart, (Screw her. Seriously, Dissidia '012' was Dissidia XIII.) Master Chief's over-hype. King Arthas from Warcraft.

But you wanna know who I hate the most?

Player-created characters in World of Warcraft that reach level 60 or whatever it's on now.

 

[Ogargd]

Duke Nukem, only after DNF. Screw what he used to be if anything but a fad that was seen in a better light than it deserved.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

I'm sorry but what's a "Mary-Sue?" Is it anything like an "Anna Mae" they seem equally unliked....

A Mary-Sue is a character that is just perfect. They have mad skills for no real reason, and are liked by people despite being bland. Bela, from Twilight, is an example

Um, Drizz't did more than just "forsook the evil ways of his kin?" This isn't the story of some hick who stops binge drinking he took on an entire city, no, an entire culture! A culture that was as messed up as a football bat so yes, in my book at least, that makes him extremely likeable as was the story of how he survived in the underdark.

I don't mind the whole "surived the underdark" thing. That doesn't seem to shocking. However, need I go over some of the stuff that goes on in Menzoberranzan? He would have been more interisting to me were he to suffer from insanity of some kind. But that is just my take on the character. Also, I really hate Chaotic Good characters. But then again, I follow a more LG-LN path.

I also don't know what a self-insert is.

Writing a character as a avatar of you, minus any flaws.

I'm sorry you gave up on Final Fantasy XIII,

Dont be, I'm happy to have that thing out of my life.

part of the great story is, yes, the way he does grow and develop. Yes he was whiny in the beginning, then again, I love the story because it makes it easy to see through the perspectives of the characters and if I had lived through what Hope had to in the beginning, whiny hell, you would have been lucky to get me to even move. No need to appologize we all have different opinions, I just get curious why sometimes.

He wasn't the only problem for me, but he was the main one.
Still, I may watch a LP if they cut out all of the combat minus boss fights.

 

[Gmano]

Well, the Master chief has less personality and emotion than a cement block. he is the least interesting character i have ever come across, that of itself does not make for a bad character, but the way the fanboys treat him as bad-ass in hyper-condensed form. really puts me off the character.

To be fair the expanded universe does give him much more of a back-story and personality.

 

[sdfgsdfgdfsg]

That shithead from Gears of War voiced by Bender, and that smug prick from Uncharted.I guess it is needless to say why i hate them.Also, almost every black character.Especially, when the main protagonist is black.Oh, and i almost forgot, Ezio and Desmond.Ezio has the most fucking irritating accent for me.I just want to deliberately fall from the syncronization points every time he opens his god-damned mouth.Desmond is so bland and dull, and that "quick-wittedness" attributed to him in "Brotherhood" is just not working for him in any way.

 

[MechanicalMusic]

Hi... the new version Samus Aran... Bye

 

[Your Nightmare]

Gordon Freeman


Yeah, I went there..

 

[Flailing Escapist]

ALL of the characters from FFX-2!
Seriously!
I couldn't play that game for more than 5 minutes.
It felt like a game that a feminine elitist would play... Or a 2 year old... that had no sense of gaming... at all!

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

In terms of how the media will perceive the character? Duke Nukem, without a doubt. Yeah, I realize he's satire, but the Fox News viewership probably doesn't, and after watching Fox News, never will. They'll just listen to Fox and assume that Duke is completely representative not just of video game characters, but also those who play video games.

Hail to the king, baby.

 

[Snotnarok]

Samus STRICTLY from Other M. Seriously that god damn 'version' of her made me want to kill her.

 

[Kingpopadopalus]

All this hate on the king, man that's kinda upsetting to think that this many people can't find Duke awesome for what he is. A giant parody, he's never meant to be taken seriously and seems like a lot of people are. Just cause you say you understand him as a satire doesn't mean you do, the developers said themselves he's a giant parody of all 90's action heros.

Also, I watch fox news, my whole family watches fox news and we still love video games (wow that's an oxymoron according to you guys) Just because someone's a conservative doesn't make them ignorant. Assuming that anyone who watches fox news is ignorant is the truly ignorant thought.

Most hated? Otis from Deadrising. *in the middle of a boss fight* *RING RING! RING RING!* NO!

 

[Throwitawaynow]

Mario, he doesn't even need to be there and the game would play exactly the same.

 

[Kielgasten]

Gaming is art, therefore "disgraceful" cannot exist?

OT: I intensely dislike Hope from FFXIII. I did play it through, but not even his character progression could mitigate those first horrible hours of whinging.