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[Frwrd]

Haha, the voice acting was so annoying i had to turn off subtitles and voices. Never did that before or since, not even when playing miles morales.

I can’t say it enough! That shit would give me headaches brother!

Ps: fuck el vocho

 

[Brigandier]

All characters from Final Fantasy XII.

Especially Balthier and Vaan.

Quit playing the game cause he wouldn’t stop talking.

 

[Diddy X]

The girl from TLOU, I haven't played the game but I hate the face.

 

[Stitch]

MJ in Spider-Man

- almost gets killed (again)
- spidey once again saves her
- "OMG Peter leave me alone, I can do this on my own!!"

Also no one wants to play as MJ in a Spidey game

 

[Happosai]

Hot take but Raiden MGS2: Sons of Liberty. First time playing I was excited with the scene of Snake fighting Ocelot in (the Hudson?) and then to have this whiny anime-like character replaced Snake for nearly the remainder of the entire game...

I'm older now and probably wouldn't mind it as much as I did then.

 

[Comandr]

Replaying P5R rn. Ryuji is at the top of the list. He’s so fuckin loud and annoying. Not to mention running his fucking mouth about the phantom thieves in public every chance he gets.

 

[darth.shrimp]

Luke fon Fabre, from Tales of the Abyss.
Dude starts off as a sheltered asshole, and I could barely stand him already. I still continued playing, because people were saying he had great character development and got way better later... well guess what, everytime he "develops" he gets worse! He gets some redemption near the end, but too little, too late. As the protagonist, he literally killed the game for me.

 

[Salmon]

Also, kill this with fire!!

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

This indecisive cunt:

...whatever.

 

[Beer Baelly]

Aloy is my most hated.

 

[-Zelda-]

Edelgard from Fire Emblem Three Houses. I have never run into a more insufferable fanbase for this character in anything else online. Hers are the absolute worse I have ever had to deal with.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

- Nimbus in Destiny, pretty much singlehandedly tanked the entire Lightfall DLC
- Kai Leng in Mass Effect 3, retarded character that never should've existed
- Abby in TLOU2, that's a man baby
- Warden Eternal in Halo 5, a complete and total pussy and a terrible villain
- Pretty much everyone in Borderlands 3, especially the two God awful villains

 

[Hunter 99]

Recent memory, ULTIMA FF16.dont hate him but hes stupid monotone voice chatting SHIT at every opportunity. Even getting his arse whopped at the end he's still got something to say like he doesn't care. Nothing matters.
Dude, you do care,your about to die.
He's a bitch.

 

[WitchHunter]

The classic pandering black character. Put late into the game for muh representation. Perfect and "so smart" constantly quoting intellectuals/philosophers without a personality of her own. At least she dies early.

Oh boy do I even need to say anything about her? Even the lunatics hate Claire because they actually made her a piece of shit lmao.

Cyberpunk has a lot of good characters but these two are terrible. Obviously just put into the game for pandering.

edit: Honorable mentions go to Cohhcarnage and Alanah Pearce. Why are they in the game???

Well, only one sentence tells the player, that Claire was a he. That's your problem? In a cyberpunk world where you can be a pig one day and a frog in another?

oh god yes. so true.
people say forspoken characters are annoying but then I played Atomic Heart and they REALLY NEVER SHUT UP and all they say is grand bs nonsense all the time

Yeah, and Forspoken stole all the bad things from that game : D. Now, everyone just copies all the game ideas of others. Nice little cesspit AAA games have become. Modern AAA games landscape is like porn and tiktok. If someone finds out that shitting on your own head while singing the anthem brings in 15m views, then everyone will do that.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Navi informing link was annoying, certain things like “Hey’!!! Listen!”

That said 90% of the NPCs and characters in Zelda games are good.

 

[NanaMiku]

Most useless Nopon in all Xenoblades

 

[Jinzo Prime]

ALL of them

Eh, Sazh and Fang were alright.

 

[ShirAhava]

ALL of them

FF13 was not my fav FF cast but they were decent..... FF12 cast was 100x shittier

 

[March Climber]

ALL of them

I don't know how it happened, but Sazh was the only, literally only, character who ended up sounding like an actual, relatable human being for most of this game. It's almost like he had a completely different vocal coach and vocal direction than everyone else. Everyone else hammed up performances x100, to such a degree that I wouldn't be surprised if certain VO careers ended because of this game.

For my pick, this character needs a re-recording of lines, or needs to be taken out of the game completely:

Paimon from Genshin Impact. You know it's bad when even the core Chinese audience of this game has mixed opinions about a character.

 

[The Stig]

Atreus on God of War Ragnarok was one of the more recent examples. I understand where they were going with his character, but the way his teenage angst phase was executed was exactly as annoying as it sounds

100% this. also a part of me thinks sony santa monica realized this and thats why he and kratos went their separate ways.

 

[Gojiira]

Djura in Bloodborne. Kait from Gears 5. Fat Geralt in Part II.

Djura? The fuck you talking about? Djura was interesting as fuck, try the alternate path through the game so he isn’t hostile…

 

[Tarnished]

Ashley with her constant heavy breathing in RE4R, it was nonstop.

 

[Lambhalf]

When I played the original FFVII, I was really annoyed by Aeris. She just had some dialogue I didn't like. But over time, I've grown fond of her, especially of her recent iteration.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Are you going to post pics of your Tiny Tina body pillow collection or what?

Torque is where it’s at.

 

[Dazraell]

100% this. also a part of me thinks sony santa monica realized this and thats why he and kratos went their separate ways.

Exactly so. I was so positively surprised that Valhalla DLC was about Kratos and not about Atreus. They made such a good call with this. It turned out to be one of the highlights of the entire game for me

 

[Melchiah]

Djura? The fuck you talking about? Djura was interesting as fuck, try the alternate path through the game so he isn’t hostile…

Yeah, the dialogue you get is interesting.

When friendly:
"What brings you to Old Yharnam? I've no interest in matters further up, but you must not disturb this place."
"The beasts do not venture above, and mean no harm to anyone."
"If you still insist on hunting them, then I will hunt you first. You understand me?"

When the player chooses to spare the beasts:
"Yes, very good. I no longer dream, but I was once a hunter, too."
"There's nothing more horrific than a hunt. In case you've failed to realize..."
"The things you hunt, they're not beasts. They're people."
"One day, you will see... Hmm, it's time you got going..."

 

[Griffon]

I was enjoying Dragon Quest 11 until I got to that character.

And pretty quickly I was like "nah bro I'm good", and never came back to it.

 

[Toots]

Wait, what? Pandering? There are a tons black characters in this game lmao. Coach Fred, Dex, Reed, Alex, Brigitte, Placide, Denny, and a bunch of others. Why would they add one specifically late to pander? Were the others also pandering? WTF.

To play the devils advocate, out of the 7 you named two arrived with Phantom Liberty, two (Maman Brigitte et Placide) are quite unfriendly to say the least and one (dex) is a total asshole. Other than that I don't remember Denny and i did not know coach Fred was black ?? Doesn't he have straight hair ? But yeah Cyberpunk is a lot of things but pandering it isn't.

Anyway i think for op T-Bug is pandering because she's black and sometimes tells you or Jackie off. She's not particularly friendly and never goes out of her way to tell you how great you are, as "normal" npcs tend to do. I think it is a biased view and for me T Bug coldness is just a way for the devs to sublety tells you that, contrary to Jackie, she's not your friend. Anyway T-Bug is the best, she's smarter and cuter than anyone i know irl (i mean it more as a testament on her beauty than on my social life, i know beautiful girls : P ) and

Spoiler

i wish she invited me on her cretian retreat (or wherever she was supposed to go after Konpeki palza

 

[Brigandier]

I was enjoying Dragon Quest 11 until I got to that character.

And pretty quickly I was like "nah bro I'm good", and never came back to it.

Absolutely shocking character... I hated they/them

 

[PSbigfan]

Kratos son Atreus, this fucker destroyed the franchise for me.

 

[phaedrus]

FF12 cast was 100x shittier

 

[PanzerCute]

Frey from Forspoken might be the worst hero in any jrpg released.

I really loved combat, traversal, the complex and deep gameplay, the pverall aesthetic and OST and I really do think people are way too harsh with this game..

... but damn the storytelling and the main characters are complete garbage.

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

 

[Gaiff]

To play the devils advocate, out of the 7 you named two arrived with Phantom Liberty, two (Maman Brigitte et Placide) are quite unfriendly to say the least and one (dex) is a total asshole. Other than that I don't remember Denny and i did not know coach Fred was black ?? Doesn't he have straight hair ? But yeah Cyberpunk is a lot of things but pandering it isn't.

Are you thinking of another character? This is Coach Fred.

If he isn't black, then I've been assuming incorrectly that a lot of people I know are black lol.

Denny is that thick-as-hell black woman who was the bassist for Samurai. Panam is famous for her cakes, but compared to Denny, she might as well be a soda cracker.

But this guy's post makes no sense. Cyberpunk is essentially Los Angeles. It'd be a lot weirder if there weren't important black characters.

 

[ShirAhava]

 

[Toots]

Are you thinking of another character? This is Coach Fred.

If he isn't black, then I've been assuming incorrectly that a lot of people I know are black lol.

Denny is that thick-as-hell black woman who was the bassist for Samurai. Panam is famous for her cakes, but compared to Denny, she might as well be a soda cracker.

But this guy's post makes no sense. Cyberpunk is essentially Los Angeles. It'd be a lot weirder if there weren't important black characters.

well I was thinking of him but I truly was certain he looked totally different… i don’t know what made me think he was white with straight hair. I’ll launch the game as soon as im back from work to check if im playing with the white supremacist edition of the game
Anyway thanks for giving me another bad gal to simp upon. I’ve done two complete playthrough and I don’t recall this magnificent butt, must have missed her (even in the flashbacks)

 

[MiguelItUp]

Honestly, any side character in Ragnarok that barks at you while in combat. Especially when it's like, "OH YOU SHOULD XYZ", or "MAYBE YOU SHOUD XYZ." I feel like majority of the time your reaction is something like, "I KNOW, I WAS TRYING" or "I KNOW, I WAS DOING THAT!" I don't get irritated or annoyed easily, and that got old pretty damn fast.

Only other thing I can really think of is Navi in Ocarina of Time.

 

[Zombie9ers]

Slippy from Star Fox - god I hated him LOL - let him die EVERY time!

 

[Tell’em Keb]

Aloy as a main character coupled with the ridiculous costumes has kept me from playing Horizon 2. Every face is punchable in that game. I’ll get over it at some point.

 

[Jimmy_liv]

Yeah, the last Lara talked too much. I ended up leaving the campsite each time she started a new monologue just to have her shut up.

I'm really looking forward to playing the remasters and just focusing on (tomb) exploration.

I don't understand why they had her give you the solution to the puzzles as soon as you arrived. She then preceeded to tell you the solution every 10 seconds.

You could switch her off but then this effected it in other ways. Just stfu!

 

[Edgelord79]

I find most Ubisoft characters obnoxious.

Honourable mentions from other games:
- Aloy in Horizon
- Atreus in God of War
- Everyone in FFXVI
- Dandelion in Witcher 3
- Everyone in the Saints Row 2022
- Ava in Borderlands 3
- Tiny Tina from Tina Tina’s Wonderlands
- Usually 1 or 2 characters from the Dark Pictures series I hope die painfully and quickly.
- Alastair DAO
- Anders in DA2

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

This.

Ashe is beautiful

 

[Malio]

The Handler, your “pard” from MHW, horrific.

Also that stupid ass annoying cat from Monster hunter stories 2

 

[xrnzaaas]

I don't understand why they had her give you the solution to the puzzles as soon as you arrived. She then preceeded to tell you the solution every 10 seconds.

You could switch her off but then this effected it in other ways. Just stfu!

This as well. I don't think you can have survival instincts turned on (which are useful for collectibles) and puzzle hints turned off at the same time.

 

[Aces High]

Atreus
Aloy
Abby

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Most useless Nopon in all Xenoblades

Nopons are the best

Hope for the next Xenoblade, that the whole playable cast is just Nopons and every scene of dialogue is them just saying Meh Meh to each other for 5 minutes straight on repeat

 

[EDMIX]

 

[kikii]

A Plague Tale : Hugo
A Plague Tale: Innocence: both Hugo and Amicia

 

[phant0m]

Abby
Aerith in FF7R

#sorrynotsorry

 

[POKEYCLYDE]

Deaf girl in Spiderman 2. The woke podcast as well.