I am just going to leave the two companions from DA2 I liked here, because the rest of the cast qualifies for "worst". Aveline wasn't totally bad, between her role as party tank and her personal storyline of learning to balance work and personal life she was pretty alright. Varric, possibly the only good companion out of DA2. While I never cared much for archers I did like his snarkiness and care free attitude, it is no wonder it is Varric who does the narration for the entire game.
No complaints about BG1, even though Garrick was useless
Anomen, Cernd & Haer D'alis from BG2. Pain in the ass, useless & useless pain in the ass in that order.
Bishop from NWN2 - Total jackass
Sten in DA - Deadly dull
Fenris, Carver & Anders from DA2 - just shut up
No complaints about ME1
Jack & Zaeed - ME2 - Cut scene badasses with annoying attitude issues
No complaints about ME3
Sten from Dragon Age Origins. Early in the game, I decided to take him along on a trip to Denerim, and get ambushed on the way. The first fight he's in, and Sten goes down pretty much immediately. When I finally get to Denerim, he starts going on about how I'm a rubbish Grey Warden. I wish I'd left him in the cage for the Darkspawn.
Carth from Knights of the Old Republic. For everyone who found Kaiden to be a bit whiny, I give you Carth - moaning his way across the galaxy and dragging everyone down by complaining about all of his problems. Nobody cares, Carth.
Although I disliked Fenris intensely, it was always for who he was, not because of bad writing or acting. In fact, I could completely understand his motivations, and in his position, I would probably feel the same way too. Good acting, good writing. I liked all the DA2 companions, although I never saw Carver (after the opening scene), but found Sebastian a bit tacked-on and inconsequential. (He was DLC).
A few that I didn't like much were:
T3-M4 in KOTOR, he got better in KOTOR 2 and seemed to develop more of a personality, but in the first game he was just boring and felt like dead weight whenever I had to include him in my party for hacking or something.
Ashley, she was always so darn bland, Kaiden was pretty guilty of this as well, even if you romanced him, and there was nothing that either of them could do that couldn't be done better by Tali, Wrex or Liara (in ME:1)
Although I've not used him I get the feeling that I'd absolutely hate Sebastian partly because of what he does during the last straw (I won't spoils)
Also I feel like I'm the only person who liked Anders in DA:2, I actually quite liked him in that, and really like his romance plot, but I can understand people being angry about the change in his character, but it's kind of understandable that he'd be traumatised after some of the stuff that Justice has made him do.
Couple of honorable mentions:
<spoiler=Dog, Dragon Age: Origins>
The problem with the Dog isn't really that he is annoying or anything, it is just that the way that they implemented him was just dreadful. To include the dog in your party, he takes up a character slot, yet he is nowhere near fleshed out enough as a fighter to be worth the character slot. Thankfully via mods you can have him as an extra character, and in Dragon Age 2 he is a summon, but damn that was a terrible design choice.
<spoiler=Aveline, Dragon Age 2>
The problem that I have with Aveline mostly stems from being the only tank in the game (excluding mods or a tank Hawke), as a result, if you want to survive most of your fights, you are pretty much forced to bring her along. For the first few missions this is okay, but it gets to a point where you start to realise that she really has nothing to say and just isn't that interesting of a character, but you have very little choice in the matter if you want to survive.
Roofstone said:
I feel old, everyone else is going for Dragon Age and Mass Effect. ;_;
I do remember Jade Empire, I had it on my old Xbox, but I think the game broke and I never got to finish it. I think there is a version on Steam, but last I checked, it didn't work on something that I had so I never picked it up.
Part of what made me dislike Dragon Age 2 was how there was only one companion I really enjoyed having around (Varric I think...the narrating Dwarf). While most other people have pointed out Avaline and, Fenris my absolutely most hated companion in DA2 was Isabela. Her personality was grating to the point of being painful and she was such a poorly constructed poc*-character it took me until JUST NOW to realize she was meant to be a poc and not just have that thing Megan Fox has where it looks like she's covered in a constant layer of dirt and, grime.
* = person of color. I have nothing against PoC companions, it just seemed like Isabela was an incredibly lazy attempt at trying to make one.
It has to be that half elf whatever in BG2. I think her name was Aarie or something. All dwarves in Dragon Age. I dislike my European styled fantasy settings with dude sounding like he came from a biker bar in the American Southwest. Yes, I want my dwarves to sound like drunken Scotts. But since we are on worst, how about best? The robot in KOTOR, HK somethingorother. Exclamation: Die, meatbag!
I like that people don't agree with eachother, and that some people's picks are my favourites, AND other people's favourites!.
I was going to go for Anomen, because he's pretty annoying, but he does that so well I just can't. Instead, I'll pick the NWN1 OC henchmen. Not annoying exactly, just useless and uninteresting. SoU expansion partners are only a slight improvement (with the exception of Deekin, but he doesn't really get good til HotU).
I honestly found the cast of Knights of the Old Republic to be boring as hell. They all had wooden dialogue and worse voice-acting. Even the ones that everyone raves about like Canderous or HK-47 just sounded bored. I didn't play long enough to unlock Jolee Bindo, who I've heard is another favourite, so I'm not sure if he bucks the trend. Even if he did, it probably wouldn't matter to me.
Jade Empire was slightly better; Dawn Star, Silk Fox and Sky were dull (the love interests, natch), but the rest of them were pretty decent. I found myself growing quite fond of Sagacious Zu and Wild Flower, and Black Whirlwind was always a pleasure. I wish the guy from the Celestial Bureaucracy had played a larger role, he cracked me up.
As for Mass Effect, I reckon Samara was pretty boring, but that's about it. I seem to be rare among Mass Effect fans in that I don't have the energy to hate characters that makes me want to kill them off over minor personality flaws. I find that attitude childish, and hearing people talk about it just makes me groan.
Now, I want to be upfront about this: I don't hate Felicia Day, I thought she worked in Fallout: New Vegas. I don't hate celebrity inserts, Mass Effect proved that Keith David, Seth Green and even Freddie Prince Jr. can still be effective in their roles. I don't even mind the constant glibbing, because lord knows Alistair or Varric or Isabela can't go 5 steps without being snarky.
No, Tallis simply doesn't fit into the Dragon Age universe. She's made up of all of these traits that are supposed to make her 'endearing' but instead end up making insufferable. She literally spends 50 seconds showing how awesome she is by killing everyone while Hawke and friends just stare an watch. Every companion has to mention how pretty she is.
That she's a Qunari agent still doesn't work. She's supposedly Ben Hassarath, a part of the diplomatic corps, but she kills people like it's nothing. The Qunari are supposedly stern and strict, she keeps glibbing constantly. She's supposedly a loyal agent, she doesn't seem to have any problem breaking the rules when she feels like it.
Even her humor is all over the place. Again, Dragon Age is known for its humor, but at least they help define a character. Alistair hides his insecurities through his humor. Morrigan doesn't know how to interact with people without her acid wit, even Sten does the deadpan so well, it might be he doesn't even realize the jokes he's making.
Tallis is too in the know. This isn't using humor to hide a character flaw or add weight, this is literally winking to the camera, 'I'm being too smart for my own good'.
I hate throwing this term around, but she really does feel like a self-insert character, and what's worse is that the Bioware writing staff apparently didn't even bother correcting some of the lore hiccups in Day's script. (Day apparently wrote MotA).
Henpecked Hou. That henpecked bastard promised me drunken boxing. I was gonna be Jackie Chan! But sadly, it does not level along with other styles, I need Henpecked Lou to use it..
Just..
Grr..
Damn you Henpecked scam artist Lou!
Edit: I feel old, everyone else is going for Dragon Age and Mass Effect. ;_;
It's especially bad because Jade Empire basically REQUIRES that you master magic, and a weapon, and a hand-to-hand style (of course you can go shifting and skip all that junk too). Taking Hou not only gives you a middling to crummy fighting style, it robs you of the focus or mana regen provided by other allies, making golem battles all but impossible.
Of course that system was terrible anyway. It's the main reason I haven't played the game again.
I generally like Garrus but it seems like most of his conversations seem to lead to "I know we're SUPPOSED to arrest people, but can't we just kill them".
It's getting annoying explaining to him how executing people is not cool.
Though it does nicely set up what happened to him in ME2
It seems that I'm one of the rare few that actually liked the companions (and the game itself) from Dragon Age 2...except one. ANDERS. I never liked him in Awakening and in 2, while a decent mage, he just pisses me off. I always killed him after he blew up the chantry just to be rid of him.
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