Surprisingly Useless Characters
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You can use that argument for any character, through a long enough line every person becomes useful. I can only think of two times, after getting Anima, that you can't use her. (fight to get the Magus sisters and when Yu Yevon takes her over).LordNue said:
(Remember Anima is Seymour's mum)
Most of the characters in Dark Cloud 1 were useless except for their gimmick ability, and you NEVER use Jack or Jacob in ME2 except when you have to. Grunt also has squad incindiary with a defensive ability, but he stays alive much more often. Jack's just horrible; a biotic without warp/reave is pretty damn useless.
Dragon Age.
Sten.
Oh hes a warrior- oh wait, Alistair is my tank, you just sit in the camp doing nothing for the rest of the game...
Also Karol from Tales of Vesperia.
Hes slow, his attacks are shit and only hit once, dont connect and arnt worth it, and he uses up all his TP and trys to use orange gels, losing me grade, I have to keep telling him to fuck off.
He has high health but if you have a healer you can do with anyone else and Yuri can stun lock almost anything.
Also Estelle as an annoying habit of charging into combat, YOUR A HEALER spam Healing circle damn it...
Sten.
Oh hes a warrior- oh wait, Alistair is my tank, you just sit in the camp doing nothing for the rest of the game...
Also Karol from Tales of Vesperia.
Hes slow, his attacks are shit and only hit once, dont connect and arnt worth it, and he uses up all his TP and trys to use orange gels, losing me grade, I have to keep telling him to fuck off.
He has high health but if you have a healer you can do with anyone else and Yuri can stun lock almost anything.
Also Estelle as an annoying habit of charging into combat, YOUR A HEALER spam Healing circle damn it...
That one really effeminate kid in the cybernetic Bondage Bottom gear, the one who may or may not have had one of the following:danpascooch said:
- weird furry ears
- a tail
- a constant pouty scowl
- a constant scowly pout
- ridiculous unresolved father issues that he claims he does not want to discuss, immediately before and after whinging on about them for six separate 45-minute cutscenes.
Well, if you're playing a Mage, he's excellent melee DPS.The DSM said:
Right until you find Shale.
Then he goes back to the camp to do nothing for the rest of the game.
Well, that's not entirely fair, he does make cryptic remarks about his warrior culture and hold staring contests with your dog while in camp, so there is that.
Also, he isn't Ohgren. He does have that going for him.
Red Mage in all its incarnations. It's really sad too because the concept of a class that can freely support the party with both midlevel black and white spells is really good. Too bad the devs allocate more stat points into strength than magic... >_>
Also, the spoony bard from ffIV is totally useless. FFIV has the 3 deepest main characters of any final fantasy game and a decent supporting cast... except for edward.
Also, the spoony bard from ffIV is totally useless. FFIV has the 3 deepest main characters of any final fantasy game and a decent supporting cast... except for edward.
As someone said in another thread, 95% of all the escort characters. Also, aside from BioWare, a vast majority of companion characters.
Particularly, Far Cry 2 companion characters. Spoilers within, some major ones related to endgame, ignore if you haven't played the game and intend to. It's also a one sentence massive rage tantrum so click at your own peril!
Particularly, Far Cry 2 companion characters. Spoilers within, some major ones related to endgame, ignore if you haven't played the game and intend to. It's also a one sentence massive rage tantrum so click at your own peril!
Anyway, the game suggests they're useful and that they help you with your missions, help, for me, being the word for "make it easier", "provide useful support" and such, but no, these mofos are just out of the way to your original quest, they give you an additional quest that has no gratification or reward, even when they sometimes mention they will reward you, and during the actual missions, only thing they can do is die and waste either one of your health "pots" and get up, you having saved their life, or waste 5 of them and still die for no reason without there being anything you can do about it, also, while they constantly thank you in the first round of endgame, they all just "die"/disappear only to come back during the second round with all the other assholes you helped, loved, healed, saved and played Pokemon-like BFF for and they try to kill you in an effort completely nonsensical and unrelated to the story, fighting ridiculously well to the point of you thinking "where the hell was that when I was standing next to you against a horde of enemy NPCs and all you could do is die on me 13 times in a row forcing me to reload to save your ungrateful stupid ass?!"
*hyperventilates for a few minutes*
*hyperventilates for a few minutes*
Just my opinion, as you can build him up however you like, but I found Khimari quite useless in FFX, and since I almost never used him, I got my ass handed to me by Biran and Yenke.
I agree with this statement fully. That quest where you have to save Red from the mutants and take her to big town annoyed me so much because I let her go, and then once we got outside she kept running at nothing and would not stop until a super mutant I was trying to run away from (because I was out of Stimpaks) killed her. GRRR.TheGoldenMan said:
The problem (in this sense at least) is that every character in FFX can activate every node on the sphere grid. Obviously this is irrelevant early in the game, but by the end the distinction between the characters is miniscule. Celestial weapons and overdrives are basically the only distinction (and the weapons aren't even that dissimilar).Trivun said:
I'll admit, I am a massive FFX geek (I will readily admit is my fav ever game) - I spent a lot of time on the GameFAQS boards learning every nuance of the game. Rikku is indeed arguably the best character. The mix ability outclasses every other overdrive provided you have the correct items, and if you are doing a challenge she is most likely essential.
And yes, in many ways Kimahri is useless, he offers almost nothing the other characters don't already have: the problem with being a jack of all trades and master of none. He can however be made useful. The freedom of picking any path you choose on the sphere grid is great - I found him to be especially useful if put on Tidus' path (you cannot over estimate the value of haste in FFX) but he will fit into any role you choose.
As weird as it sounds, I would have to say Shinjiro Aragaki of Persona 3 and Persona 3 Fes. He's the only character in the game (besides the un named protagonist) who wields a battle axe style weapon, he doesnt join you till way after its necessary, uses physical style attacks that drain his health while really offering little to the plot, and then half way through (possibly less or more) he DIES!
That leaves the player to fill his weapon style void and his role on the team, and all the way everyone feels sad and upset while he came off as if he couldnt give to shakes as to whether the world was saved or destroyed, because he himself was DYING of his powers anyway.
That leaves the player to fill his weapon style void and his role on the team, and all the way everyone feels sad and upset while he came off as if he couldnt give to shakes as to whether the world was saved or destroyed, because he himself was DYING of his powers anyway.