Video Game Protagonists you hate

[Midnight Crossroads]

Main character from Vanquish, but that was probably intended as the developers were taking the piss on Western space marines.

Any main character from a choose your own adventure RPG from the likes of Bethesda or Bioware.

"Oh boy, what's the brick going to do today? ...He shot that guy... And he's just staring at the corpse now. Still no reaction. Well, damn."

 

[DomBlue234]

I'm going to get some shit for this but...the guys from Gears of Wars, I can't think of any other protagonist I hate as much as these guys. I just don't like how they look like Gorillas instead of people and I just don't like how shallow these guys are, I'll take Raiden over these guys.

Also Samus from Metroid Other M.

 

[NickKuroshi0]

I have felt some sort of psychological attachment to many protaganists I have played as however their are some who are just stupid allow me to list them:
Sonic the Hedgehog- A totally meaningless character who is bland and a Total Prick
BJ Blastkawitz- Someone who possesses nothing you can actually care about
Kratos- Murderous fuck who has no self control or likable qualitity
Nathan Drake- Not a very appealing character who just stole from Indiana Jones

I get the feeling I'm forgetting someone but, that is that.

 

[Romidude]

Isaac Clarke, I just bought Dead Space, and the whole missing wife thing is pretty damn uninteresting when Isaac is a robot with advanced motor skills.

He gets better in DS2, apparently. And I don't know, maybe it just depends on the person, cos I ended up identifying with him by the end. (Though to make motivation matters worse, it's not even his wife he's after. It's just his girlfriend... Yeah...)

You identified with a mute who cuts up aliens with mining tools?

while its a little harder to get attached to a silent protagonist I found issac to be quite likable, hes not some jerk-ass trigger happy "hero" hes an engineer, I found him to be quite human through is body language and other subtle things, at the start if you swing the camera around before he puts on his mask you can see his face....its not a an action hero face but sort of a kind-normal guy face which you also see at the end it really makes you feel for him , he dose give comentry in the task objectives/manuel thing

Wow, you just completely changed my view on him entirely.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Isaac Clarke, I just bought Dead Space, and the whole missing wife thing is pretty damn uninteresting when Isaac is a robot with advanced motor skills.

He gets better in DS2, apparently. And I don't know, maybe it just depends on the person, cos I ended up identifying with him by the end. (Though to make motivation matters worse, it's not even his wife he's after. It's just his girlfriend... Yeah...)

You identified with a mute who cuts up aliens with mining tools?

while its a little harder to get attached to a silent protagonist I found issac to be quite likable, hes not some jerk-ass trigger happy "hero" hes an engineer, I found him to be quite human through is body language and other subtle things, at the start if you swing the camera around before he puts on his mask you can see his face....its not a an action hero face but sort of a kind-normal guy face which you also see at the end it really makes you feel for him , he dose give comentry in the task objectives/manuel thing

Wow, you just completely changed my view on him entirely.

Plus, if you read his journal entries about his missions, he is actually quite interesting. He's sarcastic (I think he calls the crazy doctor a "psycho" once) and bit depressed at times. I really liked Isaac, even though he couldn't talk. I think it was a great idea to give him a voice however.

 

[Romidude]

Isaac Clarke, I just bought Dead Space, and the whole missing wife thing is pretty damn uninteresting when Isaac is a robot with advanced motor skills.

He gets better in DS2, apparently. And I don't know, maybe it just depends on the person, cos I ended up identifying with him by the end. (Though to make motivation matters worse, it's not even his wife he's after. It's just his girlfriend... Yeah...)

You identified with a mute who cuts up aliens with mining tools?

while its a little harder to get attached to a silent protagonist I found issac to be quite likable, hes not some jerk-ass trigger happy "hero" hes an engineer, I found him to be quite human through is body language and other subtle things, at the start if you swing the camera around before he puts on his mask you can see his face....its not a an action hero face but sort of a kind-normal guy face which you also see at the end it really makes you feel for him , he dose give comentry in the task objectives/manuel thing

Wow, you just completely changed my view on him entirely.

Plus, if you read his journal entries about his missions, he is actually quite interesting. He's sarcastic (I think he calls the crazy doctor a "psycho" once) and bit depressed at times. I really liked Isaac, even though he couldn't talk. I think it was a great idea to give him a voice however.

I'm the only person ever who misses that one tutorial thing that tells you how to open something that will make the character have depth and meaning. Other than Yahtzee (If you watch his review, you'll get what I mean).

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Isaac Clarke, I just bought Dead Space, and the whole missing wife thing is pretty damn uninteresting when Isaac is a robot with advanced motor skills.

Trust me, that's a lot better than hearing him speak.

 

[Romidude]

Isaac Clarke, I just bought Dead Space, and the whole missing wife thing is pretty damn uninteresting when Isaac is a robot with advanced motor skills.

Trust me, that's a lot better than hearing him speak.

That's like, what? The Tenth reply to that post?

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Isaac Clarke, I just bought Dead Space, and the whole missing wife thing is pretty damn uninteresting when Isaac is a robot with advanced motor skills.

Trust me, that's a lot better than hearing him speak.

That's like, what? The Tenth reply to that post?

Shit, didn't realise there was 4 pages. Sorry!

 

[MusicMaker113]

Shanoa from Order of Ecclesia. It's one thing to rob a protagonist of memory, but to rob it of emotion is to create a grade-A, 100% unrelatable character.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Isaac Clarke, I just bought Dead Space, and the whole missing wife thing is pretty damn uninteresting when Isaac is a robot with advanced motor skills.

He gets better in DS2, apparently. And I don't know, maybe it just depends on the person, cos I ended up identifying with him by the end. (Though to make motivation matters worse, it's not even his wife he's after. It's just his girlfriend... Yeah...)

You identified with a mute who cuts up aliens with mining tools?

while its a little harder to get attached to a silent protagonist I found issac to be quite likable, hes not some jerk-ass trigger happy "hero" hes an engineer, I found him to be quite human through is body language and other subtle things, at the start if you swing the camera around before he puts on his mask you can see his face....its not a an action hero face but sort of a kind-normal guy face which you also see at the end it really makes you feel for him , he dose give comentry in the task objectives/manuel thing

Wow, you just completely changed my view on him entirely.

Plus, if you read his journal entries about his missions, he is actually quite interesting. He's sarcastic (I think he calls the crazy doctor a "psycho" once) and bit depressed at times. I really liked Isaac, even though he couldn't talk. I think it was a great idea to give him a voice however.

I'm the only person ever who misses that one tutorial thing that tells you how to open something that will make the character have depth and meaning. Other than Yahtzee (If you watch his review, you'll get what I mean).

To be honest, I think less than half the people who played Dead Space actually read those notes. I didn't even notice them until my second time through.

 

[Romidude]

Isaac Clarke, I just bought Dead Space, and the whole missing wife thing is pretty damn uninteresting when Isaac is a robot with advanced motor skills.

Trust me, that's a lot better than hearing him speak.

That's like, what? The Tenth reply to that post?

Shit, didn't realise there was 4 pages. Sorry!

80% of it being me and people debating my opinion.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Isaac Clarke, I just bought Dead Space, and the whole missing wife thing is pretty damn uninteresting when Isaac is a robot with advanced motor skills.

Trust me, that's a lot better than hearing him speak.

That's like, what? The Tenth reply to that post?

Shit, didn't realise there was 4 pages. Sorry!

80% of it being me and people debating my opinion.

I guess you're just a controversial guy!

 

[Romidude]

Isaac Clarke, I just bought Dead Space, and the whole missing wife thing is pretty damn uninteresting when Isaac is a robot with advanced motor skills.

Trust me, that's a lot better than hearing him speak.

That's like, what? The Tenth reply to that post?

Shit, didn't realise there was 4 pages. Sorry!

80% of it being me and people debating my opinion.

I guess you're just a controversial guy!

That's quite an understatement.

 

[Solo-Wing]

Vann and Tidus and go be gay together. Oh and throw Sonic in with them.

 

[Biosophilogical]

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Believe it or not I actually played some FFX, I don't mean this as an insult but I really don't understand why people like you play things like this and like it.

1st Disconnection, he's dressed like a male stripper, 2nd He's annoying, and it just goes down from there. I really don't connect to his story because it's silly, that's why I don't really care about his emotional trauma or anything.

I think a lot of the difference is just how we view things. For example, we both agree that some of the costumes are a little bit more than ridiculous, but for me, weird isn't a bad thing (i.e. Tidus doesn't make me think 'male stripper'), it's just different, and whereas you find him annoying I just find him to be ... him, if that makes sense. As in, to me his qualities don't make him annoying, his qualities make him a character (so you find him annoying and I don't basically). And then there is the battle system(I'm not sure how you liked, or didn't, the battle system. I liked the battle system, it was like Golden Sun, except instead of speed determinging when you act within a turn, it determined how frequently you acted, so it felt like a turn-based representation of a real-time battle (again, this is just how I view it).

I also liked the story, it had the basic "Go here, then here, then here, getting stronger at each plot point (i.e. Temples, where you get new summons), it also had the plot twists (Yuna is going to die, Jecht is Sin, Yu Yevon's a prick, the final summon doesn't work, etc) and the conflicts (marked as traitors, the Grand Maesters are undead arseholes out to destroy humanity, the Al-Bhed vs the Yevon-people, etc).

TL;DR:It is just a matter of taste, kind of like how I don't understand people playing hours upon hours of COD or Halo, or watching wrestling, sports and reality T.V.

 

[Zakarath]

The Space marines you control in Dawn of War II. They're so over-the-top macho that they just come off as assholes.

(looking forward to the next expansion that has an Eldar campaign)

 

[PatchlingZoon]

Kimahri from FFX. His character was so flat and underdeveloped. The game really didn't need him because he contributed so little to the plot line.

 

[theguitarhero6]

Mason from Black Ops, if for no other reason than his voice acting felt atrocious.

 

[Kendell Cambridge]

Easily my most hated protagonist was Hope from FFXIII. Possibly the most annoying thing ever to be conceived in any FF games, especially an already sub par game.
And even tho he wasn't exactly the main character per se, I also hated my "facking cahzin" Roman Bellic in GTA IV