Villains/antagonists or otherwise.
I’ve been watching some Fable 3 lets plays and was reminded of how much I absolutely hated Reaver. You can tell Lionhead was really going for someone that you would “love to hate,” but every scene with him in it is miserable. Absolutely ridiculous that you can’t kill him.
For a character from an actually well written video game, Eric in Tony Hawk’s Underground. Hitting the last line in the game and watching your character punch him out in a cutscene afterwards is extremely cathartic.
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Handsome Jack. Most people find him funny-hateable, but I just found him gratingly annoying. I got two hours into BL2 and quit, then never came back. Which was a pity, because I was playing it with my wife and we had a blast with BL1.
Most complex: Jimmy, from Mouthwashing
Simplest: Curly, from MouthwashingThe Monster, and the man that tacitly okayed him because he was scared of confrontation
Fucking Navi. If I ever hear “Hey, Listen” again in my life it will cause me to go postal. Its was probably part of a CIA mind control experiment that will issue a kill order to all millenials. Fuck that stupid fairy.
Delphine from Skyrim. Mostly because I wanted to like her. I get why she is a paranoid mess, and if I held a grudge for every NPC that sent me on a stupid pointless quest this list would be miles long. It hurts because she was supposed to be on my side. One of the few people that was with me from the beginning, who actually wanted to find out what the heck was going on with the dragons.
Her ultimatum made me FUS RO DAH her off the top of Sky Haven Temple.
The ultimatum was so stupid fr, like the only reason y’all exist at all is because he turned against his own kind. Just blatant blind racism.
Parthuunax was a mass murderer and loyal soldier of alduin before he had his “come to Jesus” moment. If you knew about a former concentration camp commandant living in Argentina, and he was dedicating his life to feeding orphans the last few years, would it be racist to turn him in to the authorities?
If its clear they’re making amends and have completely changed their worldview and it had been thousands of years and the punishment is death… No I don’t think I would.
If they haven’t taken responsibility for their actions they haven’t made amends. Also, I suspect paarthunax is biding his time until the LDB dies and there’s nobody who can stop him. Thousands of years is nothing to an immortal, what’s a few decades more?
What do you call the way of the voice and leading the greybeards?
His actions and words clearly indicate to me he has changed, literally the only reason Alduin was defeated both times, this argument is silly. Why didnt he take over the entire time after Alduins banishment if he was just biding his time.
Edit: to use your comparison, if said Nazi turned on the Regime, literally taught the allies everything they needed to know to defeat Hitler, was instrumental in their defeat, and then proceeded to spend the rest of their life dedicated to undoing the damage… Yeah I’d say that’s clearly a change of heart and at the very least they shouldn’t be put to death lmao.
Gideon Olfnir.
Dude’s a huge prick the moment you meet him, with his irritated, condescending tone. Then he sends his goon after you and lies about it. “Oh, Ensha? He just got a little ahead of himself. It’s all good, you killed him didn’t you? No harm, no foul.”
Then he tries to stop you from claiming the Elden Throne because… He’s jealous? He’s lost his fucking mind over the fact you, a lowly Tarnished, managed to get that far? I really don’t know. It’s a bit confusing, well beyond other weird shit in a Fromsoft game, and part of it could just be how this game in particular was a collaberative effort with GRRM and there is likely a huge difference in what Martin wrote for the backstory, and how Miyazaki “corrupted” it.
I really don’t understand the dude. Maybe there’s an item description that would give some context… 🤔
(in the 'written to be hated on purpose" category) Ted Faro from Horizon Zero Dawn, every time you hear his name, it goes “and then he did something worse” . Fuck Ted Faro. Also he’s literally Elon Musk, and that was years before he went full Nazi.
Reaver gets my vote as well. He’s actually worse in Fable 2.
Spoilers
He will kill-steal the final boss, the man who murdered your sister (a young child) and who you’ve been hunting for the entire game spanning decades, if you don’t interrupt his monologue first. He does this because he finds him annoying, not because he has any real beef with him.
There’s also a quest when you first try to get his help where he “tricks” you (it’s very obvious, but writer fiat strikes again) into sacrificing your youth to uphold his deal for immortality with some evil fae-like beings (beings who seem to be connected to Jack of Blades, the first game’s villain). He then betrays you to the final boss, apparently just because he’s an asshole.
Oh, and he also kills a fan-favorite side character, one of the few people to show you and your sister kindness when you were destitute orphans living on the streets, because Reaver was annoyed that a photograph taken of himself needed to be developed before he could see it.
It’s beyond enraging that you can never get back at him for any of these things. He’s still around generations later in Fable 3, where he’s a wealthy industrialist exploiting orphans. Of course.
Whoreson Jr. in Witcher 3, Hermaeus Mora in Skyrim, Attila in Civ V, Great Britain in Victoria 3, the L in Tetris.
Ballas from Warframe (at least they gave him the ol’ snip)
I suspect Wally is pumping him up for a crossover.
I’m not gonna lie the old peace kinda threw me off in terms of what the lore is, feels like I’ve missed something between the hex quest and the old peace
Higgs.
He had every chance to not be a jackass, and he chose the jackass option every time.
Adrian Ripburger, hands down.
Bad guys are supposed to be bad, but c’mon - MINIVANS??!?!!
A couple from the olden days of yore:
Gratha heavy fighters from Wing Commander.
The beggars from Assassin’s Creed.
Kaden from the mass effect trilogy.
He is just to bland as a romanceable character. Ashley isn’t much better but at least she has some growth throughout the series.
Bioware writers: “What if we took Carth Onasi, removed all of his personality, and replaced his tragic backstory with ‘sometimes I get headaches’?”
So she’s no longer a space racist?
Never said that.
Ohhhhhhhhhh…whelp:
Palutena from Kid Icarus Uprising, especially because the internet loves her and Pit’s antics, when I remember most of it was mocking him and gaslighting. I dunno, I like a lot of other bickering duos in games, but she just reminded me too much of grating people in my life. Pit is fine with it, but I somehow doubt asking her to be nicer would help if I was in his position.
In a similiar vein, in Coffin of Andy and Leyley (after overwhelmingly positive reviews baited me into thinking it’s deeper than edgy jokes) I wanted Leyley to just die after an hour or few, but the difference is, she’s flat out evil, and comically so. Palutena is just the realistic, toxic family member, with the excuse being that gods are assholes I guess.
(I didn’t mind Pit and Viridi bickering though, probably because she was an antagonist and Pit/the game doesn’t praise her as much)
Ava from Borderlands 3.
I remember hating any character from the telltale games so much, then I found out it was the bl3 writer’s fault because they didn’t know how to write anyone from Telltale’s borderlands games.
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