# Worst game character ever **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 1, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012 "2011-08-01T05:33:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/21 "2011-08-03T15:56:36Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > 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. But you end up with a pretty long and cool sidequest in your chase for her! Plus a couple of decent materia, if I remember correctly. And she’s hilarious, with her strange “butt wiping” animation she does to you ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/22 "2011-08-03T16:14:46Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > 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. _ **speak no ill of the Dogmeat for he is a symbol of great power among my people** _ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/23 "2011-08-03T18:10:07Z")
On my first playthough of Baldur’s Gate, I found Minsc dickish, because I didn’t go right away to rescue the also dickish witch of his. Of course, he was better than Xan, and the Evil Twins. And the bard is kind of a jerk about it when you ask him to leave the party, so to spare his feelings, I arranged to have him tragically killed in a lightning trap. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/24 "2011-08-03T18:58:51Z")
Jack, on Mass Effect 2. Look at me, I’m sooooo brooding and cool. But don’t look too long, 'cause I’ll brood even deeper and get pissed off. It’s a recursively-infinite brood powered by my self-referential broodish shaved head and tattoos. I don’t need you, your ship, or your crew. A cold structural bulkhead in the hold with no clothes is how we brooders like it. Why, in my day we were forced to brood even while walking to school, uphill both ways! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/25 "2011-08-03T19:43:10Z")
Also, the problem with Jack was that she was supposed to be a super-bad-ass reality-bending psionicist, until you get her in your party at which point she’s not that much more useful than some schmuck who had practiced with a rifle. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/26 "2011-08-03T20:17:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Also, the problem with Jack was that she was supposed to be a super-bad-ass reality-bending psionicist, until you get her in your party at which point she’s not that much more useful than some schmuck who had practiced with a rifle. Yeah, I was thinking exactly this when I first tried using her in combat. It’s a common trope but in this instance it was even more jarring than usual, given how badass she is shown during her recruit mission. My Jack died in the last mission though, so that’s that brooding bitch taken care of. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/27 "2011-08-03T21:53:22Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > On my first playthough of Baldur’s Gate, I found Minsc dickish, because I didn’t go right away to rescue the also dickish witch of his. Of course, he was better than Xan, and the Evil Twins. And the bard is kind of a jerk about it when you ask him to leave the party, so to spare his feelings, I arranged to have him tragically killed in a lightning trap. I ended up having to kill Minsc when he lost it about Dynaheir. (Not that I’d have traveled with her anyway, 2E mages sucking like they do at levels 1-6). Too bad, as he is one of the funniest characters in the game, especially in BG2. I always blew away Edwin too when I met him. Something about the attitude and condescension. Though you’ve got to admire the balls of any low level wizard who mouths off to an adventuring party. Great game. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/28 "2011-08-04T05:37:30Z")
> [@DragonAsh](#): > > 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. Heh. She didn’t bother me that much. I guess I’ve just known too many girls like that. I only played the original Japanese… I’ve heard she’s worse in English. But I didn’t mind Rikku in FF-X either, so… ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/29 "2011-08-04T05:42:06Z")
I actually LIKED Vanille, for reasons I can’t describe. I maybe could attribute it to knowing people like that. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/30 "2011-08-04T06:05:55Z")
Am I the only Baldur’s Gate player who didn’t mind Dynaheir at all? I mean, sure, she was no Minsc, but who is? Meanwhile, though, she’s a perfectly competent mage who’s good-aligned and didn’t do anything particularly annoying. It’s not like there are any better choices of mage available, and she does come with the best character in the game. The Baldur’s Gate party member who annoyed me the most was Jaheira. The problem was that she was _written_ as a good character, but _statted_ as a neutral character (since 2nd edition druids were required to be neutral). So if your reputation started drifting too evil _or_ too good, she’d complain about it. Which meant that if you got too good (which was pretty inevitable, if you weren’t deliberately trying to be a jerk), she would start complaining constantly about you not being good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/31 "2011-08-04T06:46:36Z")
Rikku from FFX: Didn’t actually look cute to me, just odd. Selphie from FFVIII: Irritated me. Wasn’t she the one that gone your party locked in before the parade scene? Yuffie from FFVII: Didn’t bother me. Partly because most of the characters are such a mass of oddballs that her stealing everything and being forgiven later didn’t stand out as especially odd. I mean you’ve got a terrorist leader, a psychological morass who spends a significant part of the game hallucinating and twitching in a chair, a rather air headed flower girl, a mad science experiment, and some loony corporate suit who remote controls a giant doll. ---
**Author:** ![JesseP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JesseP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JesseP)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/32 "2011-08-04T10:05:35Z")
Another vote for derbin he was not that good as he should or supposed to be. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/33 "2011-08-04T18:17:53Z")
Superfly Johnson from Daikatana. Mostly because of the game’s absolute ineptitude at having an AI partner was at odds with his stereotyped overconfidence. It made his comments all the more annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/34 "2011-08-04T19:03:54Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > 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. Yeah, I accidentally killed Dogmeat in VATS with a combat shotgun. He jumps between us and took the hit. Stupid dog. ---
**Author:** ![by-tor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/by-tor/32/266_2.png) [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/35 "2011-08-04T20:42:09Z")
I vote for Aerie from Baldur’s Gate II. [Aerie | Forgotten Realms Wiki | Fandom](http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Aerie) Shut up you annoying, whiny bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/36 "2011-08-05T01:31:38Z")
Hell, in Fallout 1 there was a guy named Ian who you absolutely could not hand a submachine gun to, because he’d fire it through friendly spaces. Now, Dogmeat in the old games was extremely useful because he’d trip, which cost the enemies action points, rendering them unable to attack. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/37 "2011-08-05T05:26:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Hell, in Fallout 1 there was a guy named Ian who you absolutely could not hand a submachine gun to, because he’d fire it through friendly spaces. Now, Dogmeat in the old games was extremely useful because he’d trip, which cost the enemies action points, rendering them unable to attack. This was pretty much Marcus’s _raison d’ etre_ in Fallout 2. Only he did it with a Minigun… And you couldn’t stick his unarmored, lumbering ass on point and keep him alive. Ended up giving him a rocket launcher, during the times I even bothered to recruit him. Too bad, as he seemed one of the more interesting party members. Was the .223 Pistol available in Fallout 1? I forget. Would’ve been nice to give to Ian. Because it used the SMG animation, it was Sulik’s weapon of choice in Fallout 2. Damned if he didn’t mow down all kinds of opponents with penetrating criticals with it too. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/38 "2011-08-05T05:37:13Z")
[Indrick Boreale](http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Indrick_Boreale) - such a terrible character that despite the ending of the game he was in being nebulous about whether he survived or not, _in canon_, he is established in the next game as having died. For reals. For sure. Never coming back. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/39 "2011-08-05T06:04:45Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > [Indrick Boreale](http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Indrick_Boreale) - such a terrible character that despite the ending of the game he was in being nebulous about whether he survived or not, _in canon_, he is established in the next game as having died. For reals. For sure. Never coming back. I love how even the devs have written off that expansion altogether. In the main DoW2 campaign one character makes an offhand mention of the Blood Ravens involvement in that piece of shit, only to be cut off by another who says something along the lines of “Kaurava was a disgrace. Let us not speak of it ever again”. Fourth wall, much ? ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012/40 "2011-08-05T06:29:16Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I love how even the devs have written off that expansion altogether. In the main DoW2 campaign one character makes an offhand mention of the Blood Ravens involvement in that piece of shit, only to be cut off by another who says something along the lines of “Kaurava was a disgrace. Let us not speak of it ever again”. Fourth wall, much ? Yarp. It’s about that time that it’s also mentioned that Boreale died like a little bitch. But we remember the SPESS MEHREENS. Yes we do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-game-character-ever/591012.md?page=3)