Game Characters you were meant to hate but are actually rather fond of

[Blubberburg]

Mor

I can't totally see where all the hate comes from, shes basically like Miranda (personality wise) in some ways incredibly isolated from the concept of a normal person. But yes alot of people seem to hate her :|

Morrigan was great cause she was the only character who didnt care in fact enjoyed when you took the cooler options, like threaten old woman or sacrifice a ton of elvish slaves for some more healthbar.

Also Scooter from boarderlands was cool, 'comon man dont be shy take ka Riiiiiiiide!' just loved how he always said ride really streched out

 

[Sleekgiant]

I will say Andrew Ryan and for a completely off the wall answer Ripper Roo( google him)

 

[One Seven One]

i liked sander cohan, even if he was a psychopath

 

[maninahat]

Andrew Ryan. At least, I think your supposed to hate him. I did until the very end.

I hated him for his hypocrisy.

Please explain

Specifically in BioShock 2 (freshest experience on the mind) Andrew Ryan's whole thing was that he would make a town where people would be able to carry themselves without the interference of church or state, without censorship or guidelines, moral or otherwise. He then proceeded to censor and repress all those who publicly disagreed with him in his civilization and demand that everyone obey his credo as faithfully as someone would follow a religion.

Spoiler

Topside Johnny (or whatever he was called) showed every aspect of Andrew Ryan's utopian views. He did what he wanted with his own power that he himself had earned. When he found Rapture, he was reported to Ryan by a certain individual Ryan proceeded to repress this man and torture him. Ultimately he was turned into a slave for Ryan in the form of a Big Daddy, oddly enough becoming a perfect representation of Lamb's views.

I didn't hate him so much in the first game. He seemed more like a dick than a hypocrite, and that was ok. His city had fallen apart. He deserved to act a little dickish.

He was a hypocrite more than ever in Bioshock 1.

Spoiler: in one audio diary, he reveals

He controls the splicers through mind controlling pheromones, even though he knew perfectly well that it flew in the face of his dream for "free will".

 

[The Madman]

Helmet guy from Gears of War 2. The instant he showed up wearing a standard-issue helmet, you knew he was doomed, it was just a matter of when. But I'll be damned if I wasn't cheering for him, he even got a few good one liners in like when everyone is complaining about the smell and he point out that if only they also wore their helmet, they wouldn't have to deal with it!

Poor guy! I wish his inevitable clone in the third game the best of luck.

 

[maninahat]

Every last one of the Skullmonkeys.

Way hay! You've played that game also!

 

[Theron Julius]

Self-explanatory title. Ranges from writing to game mechanics to whatever you fancy talking about.

In my case, it's the Citadel Council from Mass Effect 1 and 2. Everyone seems frustrated by these guys, and in-game everyone is of the opinion that they're cowards who do nothing while the world's set to collapse around them and just rip you off incessantly. But given the circumstances of each meeting, I...can't help but understand them. That their supposed fear is an example of "Show, Don't Tell" rather than some extreme political insight. Not only that, but I end up agreeing with them nearly all the time.

Maybe it's because I'm more aware than most that these guys happen to be councillors, and as a result don't get the same liberty as you do, Mr. I-punch-reporters-in-the-face. These guys have the unfortunate job of having to please everyone, so all of their decisions need to be just as/way more thought out than Shepard's.

Spoiler

For instance, Anderson and the others stir up a huge whiff about the council not convicting Saren, even though all they did was barge in there without any evidence whatsoever. Saren's a proven veteran to the council who has most certainly stuck his own ass out for galactic civilisation than the humans have.

The next point of tension, trying to get their permission to go to Ilos, is another decision that makes sense to me. Send an entire fleet out into the Terminus Systems and trigger an entire war with unreasonable, corrupt factions and as a result kill millions of people? They're the councillors, it's their job to look out for everyone: starting wars to get things done quickly isn't the way to do that. The right thing to do would have been, as you can suggest, to send you out there, and it's in their opposition here that their only really flawed judgement appears IMO - they don't have blind faith in you, which is something you have to work on as a Paragon, and a wise opinion on their part if you're Renegade.

Ignoring your warnings of the Reapers this far into ME2 is a mistake, of course, but not one I can readily blame them for. We've no proof they're coming (how are they coming, again?) after all; what do we want them to do, waste billions of credits into forming an armada for a nonexistant threat? I'm surprised we don't have proof either, and that it's somehow not a priority to get any so we can work on saving the galaxy as one big force, but they need to get their priorities straight - like looking out for the rest of the galaxy, which they know exists.

Justice is blind, as they say, but for them to act otherwise themselves would be wrong. To be honest, I can't think of many other people I'd want trying to govern the galaxy - even/especially that turian councillor for being such a hardass. Heck, they're even nice enough to give you back your spectre status; which is pretty big, given this is only two years after one of their most trusted spectres rebelled against them, and there's word you're working with a human supremacist group.

I'm not bothered by the whole council, just the Turian. Everything you do, he's against you. You kill the Rachni, he complains about sentencing a species to genocide. You let the Rachni live, he complains that they're going to cause trouble. I hate him most for how he treats you in ME2. Basically in a nut shell he says "Thanks for saving all of us. And about the whole Reaper issue... Fuck you!". If I get the choice I'm going to kill him!

 

[Hurray Forums]

Count Waltz in Eternal Sonata. He wants to kill all the protagonists and that's something I can completely sympathize with.

 

[JMan]

Dan from Street Fighter because he was built to not be liked, and to win with him is not just a win, it's an EPIC win.

 

[jkvoller]

eddie from first uncharted and harry from the second. yes i'm an uncharted fanboy.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Claptrap and Scooter in Borderlands. Everyone goes on about how they're ear-drillingly annoying, but i just find Claptrap's silly dance moves and Scooter's idiotic accent amusing.

See, I LIKED Claptrap, and was very surprised to see how many people hated him. Then again, I started seeing this after Yahtzee posted his review, so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised.

Claptrap was very Gir to me, and thus I found him amusing. He gets old, sure, but thats because they gave him too few animations.

also, everyone hates Tidus in FFX, but I love the character, and not just because I'm a James Arnold Taylr fan. He seems like a very real character to me, as opposed to most FF characters who are impossibly grandiose. Tidus is just a young guy who has father issues and finds himself in an impossible situation

I also enjoyed Claptrap....and I still do.

 

[kampori]

Saren, from Mass Effect.
He started out doing all he could to save the entire galaxy from extinction against the Reapers, but instead got brainwashed. He was delusional, and still thought until the time he shoots himself, that what he was doing was right.

I felt bad for him.. really bad.