OK, the Vanille character in FF13 makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon, stick a drum stick into both ears, and then slam my head repeatedly on the table in the hopes of dying before she shows up on the screen for yet another second.
Actually, this guy pretty much sums it up.
Just had to get this off my chest. I’ve never wanted to quit an entire game just because of one character…
The one I want to punch most, and have least ability to avoid is Joshua, your partner in the second week of The World Ends With You.
He’s a smug little twit in the plot sections, but that’s not why I hate him. It’s combat. The second and third week partners, Josh and Beat, are both horrible for the first few days of their week…most battles, you’ll end up in mortal peril by the second or third round, and it’ll be their fault. It’s not so bad with Beat, he complains a bit, but…hey, I’m swearing at this point, most of the time, too.
Josh, though…Josh constantly lays it on your hands, despite all the lost HP coming from his side of the metre. ‘Neku, do you need a break?’ ‘Are you OK, Neku?’ ARGH…die you arrogant little fucker!
Drebin from Metal Gear Solid 4.
Was one of the several factors that wrecked the game for me. This is the ONLY game in the Metal Gear Solid series that I have not replayed even once. Atrocious characters and idiotic dialog…Hideo Kojima was totally out to lunch on this one.
ETA: Also Johnny or “Akiba” from the same game. Wow. If there is a more idiotic character, in the history of gaming, I’m not aware of it.
I am by no means a Final Fantasy player, but that video you linked to was awesome. That guy’s narration of his hatred for that character and depiction of the character made me laugh.
I had the good fortune of missing out on Navi from Ocarina of Time.
garygnu, I envy you.
“Hey, listen!” Makes you wish for a chest with a fly swatter in it.
Claptrap in Borderlands.
Baldur’s Gate had an NPC in one of the towns who would come up to you and say “Hey, everyone says I’m annoying.”.
“They all throw stones at me to make me go away.”
“Am I annoying you yet?”
“Are you going to throw stones at me?”
“How about now?”
“How about now?”
“How about now?”
“How about now?”
“How about now?”
“How about now?”
“How about now?”
“How about now?”
“How about now?”
“How about now?”
“How about now?”
And every time, it takes you into dialog mode, and interrupts you trying to walk across town. If you wait through his “how about now?” about a couple hundred times, he finally does actually give up, and you get a trivial amount of XP for your troubles. Most folks, though, just take the alignment hit and kill him.
OMG I loved Claptrap and I want one.
Vanille started with the irritating meter pegged for me too, but once the story goes a bit deeper and you realize her perky persona is just that, a mask and overcompensation for her fucked-up ness, she grew on me. So, about 40 hours of straight corridor-ing wanting to strangle her into the game, then.
Hope however I still want to shake until the nasal whining ceases or blood spurts out, whichever comes first.
As for me, I nominate Imoen from Baldur’s Gate. The original voicework for her was annoying enough, the French dub pushed it to 12. Shrill, high pitched and badly-acted “C’EST MOiiiI IIIIMOEEEEEN” every. time. you. select. her. Bitch, I don’t care if I have 3 hit points, half a magic missile and it’s dire wolves all the way from here to the Friendly Arm Inn, you’re out the party.
Then she comes back for take 2. OK, we’ve killed half of Amn, lost a very decent and lovable thief for your sake and spent 10.000 gp just to get to your magical prison. We FINALLY found you after all that effort. We’re now in the very dangerous gauntlet set for us by a psycho wizard and his psycho vampire sister and will need every last ounce of power we’ve got to make it out alive. Then there will be the even more deadly Underdark to slog through.
Get the fuck out of my party. NOW.
froths at the mouth Noober. He makes a repeat appearance in BG2. At least in both games, his stay was short.
Yes, this ‘perky, plucky, cheerful personality with exaggerated attempts at cute-ness by swinging my arms and giggling’ type of character is very Japanese. All that’s missing is the ‘duck mouth’. But as a favor to my friends over there, I should point out that even my Japanese guy friends thought she was annoying as all fuck (although she’s marginally less annoying in the original Japanese).
My mom taught me to never hit a woman, but even she makes an exception for girls that make the duck face. POW right in the kisser. Every time.
Every single last character in Chrono Cross. There is a stand-out though there is a pink dog thing that talks in baby talk…its one of the first characters you get.
The game starts with a flash forward of your character shanking one of your party members. I fully supported this after playing the game awhile and realizing they were all teeth gratingly annoying.
Lester from Lester the Unlikely. This video sums him up. The stupidest video game character ever (Lester The Unlikely, SNES, 1993) - YouTube
**Worst game character ever **
The thimble from Monopoly.
Just wondering, are you this annoyed by all of the other “cute” characters in RPGs? What are your feelings towards Penelo from FFXII, Rikku from FFX, Eiko from FFIX, Selphie from FFVIII, or Yuffie from FFVII? They all fill the stereotypical Japanese RPG archetype of the “cute” character. All are female, younger than most of the other human members of the party, and tend to have some kind of clumsiness that’s supposed to make them endearing
The only one of those I’ve played is FFVII, and yeah, Yuffie is annoying! She steals all your stuff and makes you chase her all over the place, but then you’re just supposed to forgive her and take her along? I’d have left her on the side of that mountain! Da-chou? It’s been a loooong time since I’ve played. And she seems pretty useless most of the game, I don’t remember actually needing to play her at any point.
You have a funny way of spelling “Scooter.”
-Git yew some!
Fargoth - TES:Morrowind. Maybe that paranoid elf in Oblivion (Glarthir), although he was fun to mess with. In fact, Wood Elves make the most annoying race.
Well, technically she is an optional character, you don’t have to recruit her if you don’t want to. Stay out of forests and you’ll never see her.
That said, from a gameplay point of view she’s pretty decent, she’s got a ranged weapon and the mechanics of her ultimate weapon(easy to get, too) makes her more reliable at the end of the game than some of the other characters.
Dogmeat in all of the Fallout games. Yes, it’s cool that you have a dog, because it completes the Mad Max post-apocalyptic wanderer look. But you can’t change his combat orders, and he’s fucking stupid.
Yes, Dogmeat, I want you to attack the raider. No, Dogmeat, I do not want you to attack the super mutant which will kill you instantly.