Unlikeable Lead characters

[Teh Jammah]

The guy from saints row.

Damn! He is the most despicable character I've ever played. Its like taking the most insensitive parts of san andreas and make them even more horrific.

yea I agree that stilwater is a cess pot but I would like to have some sense of purpose other than being a total dick.

I kinda assumed that was the whole point though. I mean being a total psychopathic, mass-murdering dick is something that the vast majority of people who play a sandbox game will do anyway - this just removes the gameplay and story discontinuity that makes it harder to sympathize with say, CJ or Nikolai from the more recent GTA games whose cut scene portrayal is vastly at odds with the anarchy you've been wreaking with them in between missions.

On topic: Rush from the Last Remnant (admittedly never finished it so he may get better but i kinda doubt it), Polka & Alegretto from Eternal Sonata (Chopin was a damn badass though) and Tidus. But he goes without saying.

 

[Slash Dementia]

Final Fantasy 7's Squall. He's just so annoying that just having him in the game makes me not want to really play it. I guess the other characters in the game aren't any better either.

 

[MightyRabbit]

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I'm not a huge fan of Vaan. Or XII at all. It's my least favourite Final Fantasy, including all the spinoffs and films and such.

 

[Squilookle]

I hate Altair in Assassins Creed. Biggest douchebag ever.
Ezio's a legend though.

Man you can say that again. And again and again... until everyone who thought Altair was cool gets the message already. Ezio was LOADS better.

I'm going to have to say that I pretty much hate any main character that is a blatant blank slate. Yes, that includes *gasp* Gordon Freeman. I'm sick of games wanting me to project my personality on to characters- why can't the main character have a personality of their own, and the game just lets me have my own thoughts on the situation operate on another layer at the same time? Sure made more compelling characters like Tommy Angelo and Sean Devlin more interesting to play as.

 

[go-10]

Vaan from FFXII and every Disgaea lead character

 

[Scarecrow1001]

I know he isnt really the lead, but i cant stand Jack Marston! He just sucks, i loved John Marston, but Jacks a tool

 

[Bribase]

Adam Jensen.

Stupid gruff voice.

Cold, distant and impersonal, even to his own ex-girlfriend.

 

[Jakub324]

Prototype. At the end, he desperately tries to excuse the murder of 1000 random people and makes it sounds like the whole "situation" wasn't his fault. What a douche.

 

[TheTim]

Brucie Kibbuts > Niko Bellic

even though Niko is awesome, Brucie takes the cake

 

[scorptatious]

Raiden from MGS2. Prissy teen and nowhere near as as cool as Snake. Snake fights an army of Metal Gear Rays and Raiden fights one man in a rooftop. At least in later games he becomes a cyborg ninja though.

I'm pretty sure Raiden was the one who fought that army of Metal Gear Rays. Snake had to stay behind and fight Fortune.

OT: I know people have mentioned this already but

Auron from FFX.

Now I don't necessarily hate Tidus, far from it, but he's certainly no Zidane either. I guess I've always liked the mentor type of character in these kinds of games, and Auron fits the bill nicely.

 

[Drake666]

Well, his only motivation is stealing the priceless artifact before the villain does it first. Oh, and his wisecracking is really annoying, especially since he does while ending the lives of those around him. But if you really want to know...There's a swimming pool at the top of the Hotel in the city level. Jump into it, and then out of it. Once you do, TRY to make it through the next 10 seconds or so without flinching. It's impossible.

You can't really take points away from a wisecracking protagonist if they crack wise after murdering someone... because that's part of what you do in a game, or read about in comics, or see in movies. Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & clank, Spider-Man, John McClane, and even Batman (sometimes) all crack wise after, or shortly before, murdering someone. And those are just off the top of my head.

And it's been a while since I played Uncharted 1 or 2, but I'm pretty sure he had other motivations. It might've been his initial motivation (you know, because he's a treasure hunter), but if someone saves the world, can ya really call them a douchebag just because their initial intentions were to steal something? People change, and that makes Drake all the more believable.

Seems to me like you're grasping at straws for reasons to hate him, but to each their own.

Oh, and sorry for going off topic...

Batman never crack wise
And Batman and Spider-man don't kill anybody (in the recent comics anyway, for Batman).
Sorry about the nitpicking...

 

[trollnystan]

Tidus of FFX and Vaan of FFXII stand out in my memory, together with Capell from Infinite Undiscovery. Then there's Desmond and Altaïr from AC - or as I call them, the Bland McBland twins. I can't remember if I disliked Galen "Starkiller" Marek or if my dislike for the entire Force Unleashed game has coloured my memory.

Probably more that I disliked, but those are the ones that stand out to me.

 

[Kadoodle]

Every goddamn FF.

 

[scorptatious]

Final Fantasy 7's Squall. He's just so annoying that just having him in the game makes me not want to really play it. I guess the other characters in the game aren't any better either.

You do realize Squall is from Final Fantasy 8 right? Cloud is Final Fantasy 7's protagonist.

 

[Maeta]

Sonic... forever Sonic... and Mario...
Then going with how I played them, my first Oblivion character simply cos I was weak and consoled stuff in... I feel bad for that... then one time Cole from Gun because I killed 4 times as many innocents as bad guys...
Vince from Vice City Stories as well... I played this after LCS, with very little gap, and overall I found LCS the better game despite all the new stuff added to VCS like the helis and swimming and blah because there were more issues, but also because I couldn't stand anyone in VCS. Vince compared to Toni should have worked for the former, but I liked the sort of power hungry edge to Toni as it made for a cooler story than Vinces... And I've rambled too much for disliking a character slightly more than another, when I didn't really hate him...
So for the one I'd say I truly despise it would be Harry Potter in any of the Harry Potter games. Don't judge me for playing them: we bought 3 and 4 as a joke when they were dead cheap and we'd basically completed, got bored of or broken all the games in our house... only to realise that the games had got worse since the first one (which I completed while I was off school seriously ill for about a month when I was like 13 (so 8 or so years ago)). Playing 3 and 4 more recently just out of curiosity, Harry (and the other 2) control so badly, and jumping or just falling over depend on the camera angle, which is call enough to hate them, but then the v/os are badly done and annoying, they spout the same crap every 4 seconds, and the 'customisation' was basically irrelevant and irritating... Plus I didn't like Harry in the books, so it made it worse... And then to rag on the game a bit more, on top of the character that I so detest, I can't stand Stephen Fry and his patronising voice, especially since this nature programme on at 9pm where he narrated it as if he was doing the show for 3 year olds.... gah I've gone insane because I needed to deviate away from the 2 lines of dialogue Hermione, Ron and Harry drone at you in Prisoner of Azkaban...
then again, Sonic's taunt of 'you're too slow' grated when my housemate always used him on SSBB and always spammed the taunt... so Sonic and Harry Potter can both burn...

 

[Dorian6]

Final Fantasy X. So much. I don't think there are any characters in the game I like less than him. An arrogant whiny idiot with a nasal voice. Bwuh!

And he looks like Meg Ryan

 

[Slash Dementia]

Final Fantasy 7's Squall. He's just so annoying that just having him in the game makes me not want to really play it. I guess the other characters in the game aren't any better either.

You do realize Squall is from Final Fantasy 8 right? Cloud is Final Fantasy 7's protagonist.

Now I do--thank you. I always get confused because I hardly pay attention to what number it is.