Failed attempts at being bad ass...

[s0denone]

Metal Gear Solid.

It's just so poorly written.

Ok, now I really better run.

Agreed. I enjoyed the games, but most of the dialogue was risible. So often it felt like some teenage writer trying to be deep and philosophical, but really just being pretentious. The ending to Metal Gear Solid 2 was so ridiculously over-long considering how feeble the overall message was.

Excuse my question, but what was the ending of MGS 2? What console what it for? Just so that I can be sure I'm not thinking of MGS 1. Remember playing that on the good ol' Playstation 1.

 

[Gapperjack]

Well it's been a while since I've played it, but something to do with genetic memory and censorship and blah blah blah... There was a long conversation with Rose (one of the most annoying characters I've ever encountered) after you kill Solidus Snake... yawn. Something about living your life to the fullest might have been in there too. By that point I was close to turning the thing off, but waited to see if there was more gameplay - there wasn't.

 

[Acaroid]

any anime character in existance who trys to be bad ass...

 

[Slashe]

Just because a game is M-rated it feels it needs to have the f-word 200 times or it isn't cool enough. Swearing in video games is usually a step in the wrong direction. I can't recall a time where swearing actually made a game better.
Nothing other than that though.

Oh... comeon... remember bioshock? "You don't fuck Fontaine, Fontaine fucks you!"

Illdidian (forgot how to spell) was quite fail as well IMO because a thousand year old epic semi-elf semi demon got killed by a lousy demonic knight.

 

[Wolfwind]

I like Dante just cause he's so over the top that it's entertaining to watch him, even if he doesn't really pull off "genuine badass". But in DMC2, god, he was such a loser.

Boss: *says a bunch of boss-type shit*

Dante: Don't talk... just die.

Me: LAME! LAAAAAME!!! *turns the game off* No more. No. Fuckin. More!

 

[flamedance58]

Squall from FF8.

I can understand the need for the moody, silent-type, hero that hardly ever or never talks but c'mon! This guy has the word "EMO" carved into his face with a nuclear powered chisel. It's just sad! And the ending of the game dear lord someone kill me now!

I'll second Master Chief, that guys has some ego issues I tell yaz.

Soul Calibur all together, to me personally, was a failure to be "bad ass" all the cool characters are nice and all but in the end the game is just a button-mashing softcore porn game

 

[s0denone]

Squall from FF8.

I can understand the need for the moody, silent-type, hero that hardly ever or never talks but c'mon! This guy has the word "EMO" carved into his face with a nuclear powered chisel. It's just sad! And the ending of the game dear lord someone kill me now!

I'll have to agree with you wholeheartedly there, sometimes he was really able to grind my gears with his crappy dialogue.

 

[MaybeTroll]

For total failure - it was intentional, but that didn't make it any less grating, Brucie. There was no mission where I didn't want to kill the fucker.

Brucie from GTA 4? Yeah I had really hoped that I would've got to kill him after all that crap he put me through, but alas, maybe I'll invite him out for a game of darts then wail on him with my baseball bat *sadistic smile*.

I took him drinking once (Brucie) and since I parked my car across the street we had to cross over to get it; I managed to stumble my way across (It took some timing, I didn't want to get hit by a car) but Mr. Brucie wasn't so lucky, cause the first thing I heard when I finished crossing the street was a big fat THUMP!! and a message on red fonts on the screen that read "you're friend has been injured", I just thought "thanks, you saved me the trouble". I actually ended up liking Brucie after that (maybe I felt sorry for him or something).

I HATED Brucie at the beginning, and didn't want to do his missions, but I ended up liking the guy, probably because, for all his idiocy, he was a pretty friendly guy.

 

[SteinFaust]

Any line ever said in Army of Two. Seriously... "fuck-o's"?

the clyde boss fight did have some funny attempts in it though. "i'm gonna take out all your bones, put em in a chair with some elves and reindeer, sit on your lap and tell you all the cool shit i want for christmas!" that one had me rolling! but that was laughing at how bad that one was.

 

[SteinFaust]

Actually the best example of sub badassery isn't a game at all. It's Vin Diesel in the chronicles of riddick.

The line "I'm not afraid of the dark. The dark is afraid of me" made me laugh out loud.

Oh... comeon... remember bioshock? "You don't fuck Fontaine, Fontaine fucks you!"

lol and in soviet russia...

 

[RetiarySword]

Cortez from The Leet World, amazing! I know it isnt a game but F**K YOU! Cortez is badass and so am I!

 

[arcstone]

Personally, I find Duke Nukem to be completely obnoxious and stupid beyond belief. Don't even say "But that's why it's funny!" It's not. It's just dumb.

Just putting in my two cents.

Ok yeah I better start running, shouldn't I?

*loads shotgun*

 

[JaguarWong]

Well, Ryu Hayabusa is quite clearly a homosexual - so there's that...

 

[TheKbob]

Well, Ryu Hayabusa is quite clearly a homosexual - so there's that...

The fact he turns into a bird after saving the world next to a buxom hottie who would be more than willing to jump him at that very moment?

Yah, probably.