Worst Main Character to a Videogame
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I'll join in. Almost every game in which you play 1st person and the character is mute sucks. Yes, I know, developers want you to feel as if it's you yourself running around, but...Vlane said:
And creating a character from scratch can work. Just look at the Black Isle RPGs where you could even choose the voice.
Off the hope I'd say Cloud because he can't straighten himself out and come to terms with aeris getting pwned and that tifa would give hime the eath and the heavens. There are more like... umm... OH! Alyx from halflife now I'm only in the prison after we find her pops. But for all the time up to this she just fucks off and opens doors for you. Damn it get some hacker dude back at home base to do that and get that wench to help me.
Cloud, just get over Aerith/Aeries' death and go out with Tifa. Seriously, she's tough, cute, and look at her.
Also, Marcus Fenix is not compelling at all. He's just some absurdly muscular guy with very little personality.
Also, Marcus Fenix is not compelling at all. He's just some absurdly muscular guy with very little personality.
The blonde chick from X-blades seemed like she would've caused some serious moral dissonance for me. She's a medieval Lara Croft with an attitude problem and criminal tendencies!... and unlike in games where you're supposed to be a pain, she's supposed to be a heroine!
if i could flip you off i would, but i digressZP---Fanatic said:
I think its zits from BattleToads: Battlemaniacs, cuz as far as I know you cant play him, AND HES SOOO COOOL
Balder of Too human was a mix of Torgo of "Manos" the Hands of Fate and a wax figure with all the emotional capacity of a pet rock. That's okay because the rest of the game isn't any better.
That would work if they didnt give him an image or a name but they did, so no it isnt you. He is minus dialogue and personality for no real reason, maybe lazyness... I could accept that as a reason.super bunny said:
EDIT: If that was truly their purpose they would have let you create your character and name...
EDIT2: You know what I was thinking when I was playing through it? "Why isnt he saying anything or reacting at all with all this going on? Emotionless freak... maybe he will develop... or maybe they will give a reason why he never reacts to anything..." *an hour later* "Oh... my... god... I am so bored of playing as this guy! Screw this, Spyro has more likability than this bag of ass!"
You havent played FF7... if you had you would be saying "This guy just got stabbed by a big-ass sword! Oh WOAH! He just picked up Sephiroth with the sword still in him and threw him down the reactor... this guy is hardcore!"... people seem to forget what Cloud was like not what he was made like for Advent Children... In Dirge of Cerberus he actually looks quite happy for the breif periods you see him.Monkeyman8 said:
Gonna have to beat the dead horse with the baseball bat and say that most of the main characters in the FF series (and some of their respective party members x.x) have made me lol with their cookie-cutter thoughts and actions ever since FF6.
Cloud gets a lil bit of slack from me because I was only around 7-8 years old when I first played 7, but with the privilege of hindsight... yeah, think its safe to say he wasn't terribly unique as far as heroes go.
Squall...ugh, from the very first few cutscenes I couldn't stand him. Think Squaresoft had some kind of formula in their character development that made the heroes' likability go down in direct proportion to how badass their final special move looks.
I actually liked Zidane a lot. Sure he was placed in the overused "underdog gets leg over royalty" bracket, but he made me laugh often with his dialogue during the game. Also didn't hurt that: A) he actually smiled, laughed, and had a sense of humor for more or less the whole game, a nice contrast from the depressing heroes of 7 and 8 and B) he was a special person (as were the rest of the party members I guess for being able to use Trance) that was "born" with special powers so that it made sense when he and 7 others beat up some villain with the power to end all life with a thought using store-bought weapons.
Tidus and Vaan thoughts have already been well explained and elaborated on by other posters
But yeah Square Soft/Enix has/had a terrible habit of designing bad main characters =/
edit: changed a typo made in the first paragraph (FF - FF6)
Cloud gets a lil bit of slack from me because I was only around 7-8 years old when I first played 7, but with the privilege of hindsight... yeah, think its safe to say he wasn't terribly unique as far as heroes go.
Squall...ugh, from the very first few cutscenes I couldn't stand him. Think Squaresoft had some kind of formula in their character development that made the heroes' likability go down in direct proportion to how badass their final special move looks.
I actually liked Zidane a lot. Sure he was placed in the overused "underdog gets leg over royalty" bracket, but he made me laugh often with his dialogue during the game. Also didn't hurt that: A) he actually smiled, laughed, and had a sense of humor for more or less the whole game, a nice contrast from the depressing heroes of 7 and 8 and B) he was a special person (as were the rest of the party members I guess for being able to use Trance) that was "born" with special powers so that it made sense when he and 7 others beat up some villain with the power to end all life with a thought using store-bought weapons.
Tidus and Vaan thoughts have already been well explained and elaborated on by other posters
But yeah Square Soft/Enix has/had a terrible habit of designing bad main characters =/
edit: changed a typo made in the first paragraph (FF - FF6)