Worst Main Character to a Videogame

[nathan-dts]

Starkiller from Force Unleashed even tho I love star wars to death

This, This, a thousand times this. Starkiller was bullshit, this entire game was bullshit.

 

[Syphonz]

Probably the guy in Manhunt 2. Sry, but from the 1st friggin level I knew this game would end up in a Fight Club senario.

Spoiler

Your friend isn't real, he's your alter ego. end of the game, you have to kill him...BIG SHOCK! /sarcasm

 

[El Taco the Rogue]

Yugi from the yugioh games
Oh, and Tidus.

 

[Septicor]

Otacon - I megaloathe him.

 

[AdmiralWolverineLightningbolt]

well the main reason i didnt buy tales of symphonia: dawn of the new world was because the guy goes around in a freakin dress the entire time and is a massive pussy

and playing as amy rose in sonic adventure made me want to commit in game suicide

 

[PrimaVita]

The sprite spot.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

The main character from FFXII (Vaan) contributed nothing and was useless.

I agree with you. He was the worst of the characters. I'd be rather playing as Basch, he's cool. Or Ashe, at least she's cool in some way (and really hot!). Or they could have kept Reks alive, so I could play as him. He's at least better than that girl Vaan.

 

[Uncle Colin]

Cloud, why is his sword so big?!?

 

[garo]

The Prince from the latest Prince of Persia game. He just seemed so arrogant and unintresting.

 

[ManiacalZManiac]

Gordon Freeman. Yes I said it. Now quote me and tell me how wrong I am.

I quoted you and now I'm telling you that you're wrong.

 

[The Seltsam One]

ignoring the fact that tingle isn't a main character he still isn't the most annoying. If you went to the tingle island in Wind Waker, his "brothers" *cough* gay joke intended *cough* are waaaayy more annoying as I remember.

 

[megalomania]

Freeman and Master Chief are utterly bland, but within the genre it doesn't matter! Its all about whacking headcrabs with a crowbar or sticking elites with plasma grenades. Their complete lack of growth as a character (or indeed character at all) doesn't make any difference.

The big fails are Link and Cloud; the game IS the story, not the action, so giving the characters a bit more life would of added lots; love plots with lifeless characters are just like the scripts from pornos!)

 

[LeonLethality]

The main character from FFXII (Vaan) contributed nothing and was useless.

i always saw balthier as the main character and vaan as his ***** I MEAN STEED,

worst character i can think of is,ethan waber from phantasy star universe, other than him i loved the game

 

[kogane]

The whole cast of FF XII. They could all have died and I wouldn't have felt a thing. Except maybe a bit of schadenfreude.

I think Baltheir is the only character in that entire game that I liked. Vann wins the unlikable main character award. Coming in close second is the MGS2 version of Raiden.

I liked Balthier until the daddy issues started. Surprisingly, Vaan gets redeemed in Final Fantasy Revenant Wings (which nobody played wich is sad).

I didn't have a DS around the time Revenant Wings came out and now that I do it is impossible to freaking find! It angers me so. I still liked Balthier during his daddy issues, mainly because he was still a badass who operated the ship and had fomalhaut(I know other characters could have it, he just looked the coolest when he did).

Maybe it's still somewhere on amazon, it's deiniftely worth it! I enjoyed it a lot more than the original, because the characters actually develop and react to each other. The fighting system is pretty fun, too.

I think when Batlhier's backstory started I had already given up on the game, heh.

If this game could make Vaan at all likable then I will buy it just so I can watch it warp reality.

I know what you mean! I had problems believing they it's the same character as well.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Marcus Fenix from Gears of War 1. (I haven't played 2 yet).

AS far as I can tell the plot of gears of war 1 is that humanity invaded a foreign planet and stole all their natural resources. When we learned it was inhabited we killed all the locust. (Notice the really bad parallels here.)Marcus seems way to happy to kill anything that isn't human including civilians. None of the characters call him on it.

I get what you're saying but if an emergence hole suddenly opened up in the middle of your house, would you want to kill the locusts or just let them kill you. The locusts started the war as far as I can tell and made no effort to make peace with humans but just started attacking them. Also the locusts don't actually seem to have any civilians, they're all out to destroy humanity. Bearing that in mind, I can totally see where Marcus is coming from.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

I have to admit, I don't really see the point in most silent protagonists. How can you project yourself onto a character who's face, name and role in life has already been decided? I personally find it more of a barrier to my empathy for the character, since I have no real idea why the character is saving the world, except that he must be a mindless drone who does whatever he is told to do. So I don't get why people would empathise with the mute Freeman, yet scorn the faceless Master Chief, when the latter demonstrates a dry humour and a sense of purpose.

Whenever I played half-life 2 and the following episodes, I felt like
I was being pulled around without my consent, I never wanted to go save
any of these people.

Yeah, a mystery of this gaming generation. I have no idea what Mr. Freeman's appeal is either, at least Masterchief as you said has a dry sense of humour and at least an understanding of his role in the story. That I feel is a 'proper' game character. Because at least with him I know what his goals are, what he does and how other people respond to him. Gordon Freeman might as well be a floating pair of eyes with a hand attached holding a crowbar because that's about as much about him as you ever get to know.
I agree with you. People praising Gordon I just don't get.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Marcus Fenix from Gears of War 1. (I haven't played 2 yet).

AS far as I can tell the plot of gears of war 1 is that humanity invaded a foreign planet and stole all their natural resources. When we learned it was inhabited we killed all the locust. (Notice the really bad parallels here.)Marcus seems way to happy to kill anything that isn't human including civilians. None of the characters call him on it.

I get what you're saying but if an emergence hole suddenly opened up in the middle of your house, would you want to kill the locusts or just let them kill you. The locusts started the war as far as I can tell and made no effort to make peace with humans but just started attacking them. Also the locusts don't actually seem to have any civilians, they're all out to destroy humanity. Bearing that in mind, I can totally see where Marcus is coming from.

I take gears as an analogy for the entire U.S. foreign policy,

U.S: Oo, there's some oil over here.
Generic foreign country: Um, excuse me that's mine...
U.S: FUCK YOU TERRORIST!! *drops bombs initiates war steals resources plants flag declares evil to be defeated*

 

[sheppard419]

I don't think you guys are trying hard enough.

LOOK at that alien again and tell me you've seen a more off-putting videogame character evar?

no 50 cent in a video game is way more off putting

 

[JohnSmith]

BALDUR

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[vamp rocks]

i know that saying this will most likely get me destroyed... but Master Cheif, simply because he got so much unnescessary fanboysih praise that he severely pisses me off