samus4ever
Banned
Barry is awesome
I didn't like him at first, but he won me over by putting all the christmas lights on him lol
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The Worst Characters of 2010
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iconoclast
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:lol Pater
I'd throw him on this list solely for his design. I don't mind his role in the game, but he just looks inhuman.
I'd throw him on this list solely for his design. I don't mind his role in the game, but he just looks inhuman.
akachan ningen
Member
You know so many people here are sad, self-loathing nerds when a happy and positive character like Vanille is so hated.
I can understand hating her voice but as a character?
I can understand hating her voice but as a character?
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Jigsaw said:pater,resonance of fate
i couldn't find a better pic :| but he is even uglier in the game
samus4ever said:
This. I know Barry looks like the most annoying character ever, and before I played the game, I agreed. But other than a few parts, he really is played well for comic relief and even a few sprinklings of dramatic moments here and there. As for most annoying...
Alot of GAF's love for this joke on character design doesn't help either.
Instro said:
I don't even think her story was that bad, it was just the writing of her internal thoughts that was excruciating. If you ignore the FMVs she is the same as she was in previous games, she hardly says a thing and just gets on with it.
Sakamoto took the 'show don't tell' rule and shattered it into a thousand pieces, there was no need to vocalise all her feelings when the excellent character models and animation (during the in-engine cutscenes) did it beautifully already. If they had tried to tell the whole story using the style of cinematic where Samus first encounters 'Little Birdie', it would have been so much stronger.
Anyway, my least favourite character of 2010 is Jack in Red Dead Redemption.
BlazingDarkness
Member
How anyone could choose Hope over Snow is beyond me.
Snow is the worst thing about FFXIII
Snow is the worst thing about FFXIII
Trent Strong
Banned
enzo_gt said:
True. Vanille was actually terrified the entire time.
Jex
Member
Oh. You dastard, I'd totally erased Jack from all my Mass Effect 2 memories.neojubei said:
I remember the trailer came out and Idle Thumbs ripped it to shreds. And then I believe it may have been Ryan on Rebel FM who defender her character (before I played the game) and so I was re-assured that perhaps Bioware weren't totally crazy.
Then I actually played the game and she was just as bad as I had feared. Therefore, I have to change my vote to Jack. Sure I had problems with the FXIII cast, but that wasn't a universe I especially cared about. But considering that Jack infected the Mass Effect universe, which I like, the vote must be passed to her.
Screw her for existing, and leading to that awful Mass Effect 2 trailer that made me not want the game.
I suppose Darksiders deserves a mention for blandest characters of the year.
Trent Strong
Banned
Jexhius said:
:lol I remember that episode. They kept replaying the "who's the badass biotic bitch now?" line again and again. It was hilarious.
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom was supposed to make this big brute endearing.
Instead, they made this Muppet faced goon sound like the demonic lovechild of Jabba the Hutt, Barney the Dinosaur and Jar Jar Binks. What a dopey cunt.
Barry Wheeler was also a twat, as was his fucking Empire City doppleganger Zeke from inFamous. Pigsy was a detestable nonce in Enslaved.
And Julius Ceaser totally fucked up my shit. Accept my peace treaty, asshole.
The little guy on the left made me want to punch myself in the face in order to feel something that wasn't disgust. Really the whole cast of NPC characters you are forced to listen to or interact with in Final Fantasy XIV's story instances are vomit inducing.
Not only is the voice acting the worst of this year without a doubt, but what they say is possibly worse because it is spoken in mentally deranged pirate jibberish talk. Of course none of these characters had any soul or an ounce of give a crap behind them since it's a MMORPG, but in FFXI I won't be forgetting Prishe anytime soon and that was a MMO by the same company and dev team.
Windom Earle
Banned
Vanille from FFXIII takes the cake.
Yes, what an annoying little bugger.
SalsaShark said:Just to post an example of one in one of the best games of the year:
i dont like this guy
Yes, what an annoying little bugger.
D ) in Undead Nightmare for me.Hope - Because he was a bitch all the way through.
Snow - Because he kept going on about being a hero and he was a bitch all the way through.
Vanille - Not ONCE have I met an upbeat character with a grave secret that I've actually liked, but she redeems herself somewhat as a white mage/Saboteur of the party.
White knight Chronicles - Every goddamn cutscene nearly made me to chop my balls off.
Snow - Because he kept going on about being a hero and he was a bitch all the way through.
Vanille - Not ONCE have I met an upbeat character with a grave secret that I've actually liked, but she redeems herself somewhat as a white mage/Saboteur of the party.
White knight Chronicles - Every goddamn cutscene nearly made me to chop my balls off.
boyshine
Member
I don't know.. I've demoed the game for a lot of people, and kids love the pig. 5-6 year olds often stop playing to just look and laugh.. same thing with the shake-attack. It seems like a lot of effort have been put into adding small things here and there that will make the younger kids have fun with the game even if progressing through the later levels might be too difficult.Creamium said:
I should be doing hw
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I'd vote her and the entire cast from 999 on DS. Horrible, horrible writing.Rahxephon91 said:And if you want worst voice acting there's Arc Rise Fantasia and this chick
Seriously, every time shes talks about darkness and light(which is all the time) I want her to die. It didn't help that she sounded pretty terrible, as if she was high.
BrokenSymmetry
Member
FieryBalrog said:Garrosh.
Yes. Almost makes me regret siding with The Horde all these years. Luckily my main is Undead, and Sylvie is more awesome than ever.
AzureNightmare
Banned
I'm voting for Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye Wii. She is a pale shadow of the Xenia Onatopp of the original movie. So pathetic.
I should be doing hw said:
...Really? In all seriousness, I'm now curious as to why you say this (probably because you're the only one I've ever seen say that here or anywhere else).
To stay on topic, I would say Hope from FFXIII. I can be counted toward the people who actually didn't hate Vanille or even Snow.
I think he fit what they were going for perfectly. You were supposed to find him despicable. He worked =\Snuggler said:MOST DESPICABLE:
Seth - Red Dead Redemption
Disgusting. A fithy, hideous Gollum-esque motherfucker who digs up graves. He's also a necrophiliac.
My precious...
I don't understand his situation. Had he just talked to someone for 40 seconds his ENTIRE problem would have vanished. I ***HATE*** this shit in anime story-telling. Why is it that most situations could be resolved with just 5 more seconds of talking? FUCKBay Maximus said:
I understand his situation, but I'm no good with pansies.
I hated her battle sounds. I hated her character design. I hated her character personality. I hated her animations. I hated her storyline. I hated her voice acting. Just SO. FUCKING. ANNOYING.Papercuts said:Vanille - Final Fantasy XIII
An amazing feat to be the worst out of a steaming pile of fail cast, but you win! Hope and Snow gave you a run for your money, though. Annoying voice, unending upbeat annoying bullshit, just ughhhhfajshf.
Truly the worst character of 2010, for me.
I've only played this game for a while and liked what I played. But this chick always demands lower prices. She will be the first person I put on the "never haggle with" list.Instro said:
Clearly the worst btw, fuck you little girl I will not lower my price anymore!
I felt she had the worst character design I've ever seen in a game OR movie. At least she is responsible for the second funniest game trailers ever (her character profile trailer is just behind that new shit)Col. John Matrix said:
Loved the game, but this one-dimensional dose of super angst I could've done without.
What the fuck were they thinking? I guess the good thing is that all the people that bought GT5 for NASCAR got slighted, right?DonMigs85 said:
Can't say I disagree. First game I sold right after beating since the Dreamcast days.JoeBoy101 said:
Alot of GAF's love for this joke on character design doesn't help either.
The differences between FF14 and FF11 are pretty staggering. The Tarutaru, however, have always been annoying used condoms of character design. Is it shocking that they stuck bad voice acting on one?zlatko said:
The little guy on the left made me want to punch myself in the face in order to feel something that wasn't disgust. Really the whole cast of NPC characters you are forced to listen to or interact with in Final Fantasy XIV's story instances are vomit inducing.
Not only is the voice acting the worst of this year without a doubt, but what they say is possibly worse because it is spoken in mentally deranged pirate jibberish talk. Of course none of these characters had any soul or an ounce of give a crap behind them since it's a MMORPG, but in FFXI I won't be forgetting Prishe anytime soon and that was a MMO by the same company and dev team.
Exactly. What did she serve? There were a few characters that didn't need to exist in that game.B.K. said:
She served no purpose at all in the game's story.The game would have been exactly the same if she didn't even exist.
I thought I was hearing things wrong when she first spoke. The voice acting really is something to be experienced in that game. In fact, only the Sora-looking character (out of the main three) had anything close to competent voice acting.Rahxephon91 said:And if you want worst voice acting there's Arc Rise Fantasia and this chick
Seriously, every time shes talks about darkness and light(which is all the time) I want her to die. It didn't help that she sounded pretty terrible, as if she was high.
I always got the impression that all of those attributes were intentional. I can't see that as a valid reason to hate him.Combichristoffersen said:
In fact, that's what I liked about his character. He was a dudebro idiot who was way too confident in his own abilities that
only managed to get peopled killed when he tried to play the hero.
British Monsoon
Member
Just Cause 2;
"My name is Bolo Santosi, leader of the revolutionary army known as the Reapers...you are the Scorpio, no?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeM37xe-4Jw
Goddamn, her outrageous accent was soooooo annoying - compounded by the fact that the games shitty development and unfixable bugs forced me to restart 4 times, so now Ms. Santosi's introduction speech is ingrained upon my memory.
Also, while Barry was obviously SUPER annoying, he's got nothing on Alan Wake - by the end of the game, I hated that guy. I was just ploughing through the last few levels because I wanted it to be over, was sick of the ridiculous story and the hammy, over-wrought writer narration. Fuck you, Alan Wake.
Finally, Claudia Auditore da Firenze - not that Claudia was particularly annoying, I just hated Ezio's pronunciation of her name. Cloud-ia.
"My name is Bolo Santosi, leader of the revolutionary army known as the Reapers...you are the Scorpio, no?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeM37xe-4Jw
Goddamn, her outrageous accent was soooooo annoying - compounded by the fact that the games shitty development and unfixable bugs forced me to restart 4 times, so now Ms. Santosi's introduction speech is ingrained upon my memory.
Also, while Barry was obviously SUPER annoying, he's got nothing on Alan Wake - by the end of the game, I hated that guy. I was just ploughing through the last few levels because I wanted it to be over, was sick of the ridiculous story and the hammy, over-wrought writer narration. Fuck you, Alan Wake.
Finally, Claudia Auditore da Firenze - not that Claudia was particularly annoying, I just hated Ezio's pronunciation of her name. Cloud-ia.
StealthGoblin
Banned
The entire cast of FFXIII, with the exception of Fang. She was actually okay.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Vanille form XIII by a LANDSLIDE.
Barry from Alan Wake wasn't too bad actually, it was Alan Wake that was as dull as ditchwater.
Barry from Alan Wake wasn't too bad actually, it was Alan Wake that was as dull as ditchwater.
Windom Earle
Banned
Bootaaay said:
:lol @ Bolo Santosi. It really stood out as extremely shitty in the demo.
Also god forbid pronouncing Claudia the Italian way
revolverjgw
Member
Jack from ME2 was hilariously awful.
Night_Trekker
Member
aaaaaa said:
I agree with this post. I even dedicated an original puzzle to my hatred of that... thing.
Snuggler said:OVERALL WORST:
EyePet - EyePet
A rodent type creature with a human baby face? Kill it with fire. It's nauseating in it's desperate attempt to be cute and the thing is just downright creepy. Something about it's face just pisses me off.
Eyepet drives a penis car
Wasn't EyePet released last year?
revolverjgw
Member
Kaine was annoying. Hell just turning that game on annoys me with her rambling on the title screen.
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
Definitely my worst. Most annoying character ever.Bootaaay said:
Windom Earle
Banned
So FFXIII takes FOTY and worst characters award. Good shit!
Granger Danger
Member
Correct.notworksafe said:
Incorrect.Papercuts said:Vanille - Final Fantasy XIII
An amazing feat to be the worst out of a steaming pile of fail cast, but you win! Hope and Snow gave you a run for your money, though. Annoying voice, unending upbeat annoying bullshit, just ughhhhfajshf.
Vanille had the deepest, most profound character arc in any FF game ever. She's the Wesley Wyndam-Pryce of video games.
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
another vote for Bolo Santosi from the awesome JC 2
But then again, the fact she's the worst adds to the overall awesomeness of the game
But then again, the fact she's the worst adds to the overall awesomeness of the game
semiconscious
Gold Member
along with the repetitive combat, it was the lead character that most turned me off to this game: the silly, over-the-top roly poly design, combined with a lack of personality that makes kratos seem 3-dimensional, reduced the whole experience into an amazingly empty exercise. played for 6-8 hours until admitting i just didn't care...