Characters you hate.

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Edward/Gilbert, the cowardly fuck whose skill is abandoning the team in battle

 

[Abortedj]

And no, that's not really a valid reason for hating a character, it's only a valid reason for hating using that character.

Games are at their most basic level are about the gameplay. Everything else in a game comes secondary to gameplay. So if a character is in someway "ruining" gameplay, that is a very valid reason for hating them. Edge is a good example, as he is literally forced on you.

What you bring up here is a point of semantics. You are making a distinction between the character, and the use of the character. In video games, these to think are inseparable as long at the character in question is playable.

 

[Junko Enoshima]

Tifa(she's nothing literally but boobs)

Woah wait excuse me? Tifa is not nothing but boobs I have a feeling you didn't play the game as she is a very in depth character and I have a lot of respect for her character because she's really selfless and loving. She's really motherly but at the same time she can kick total ass. Way better than Lightning the way I see it. Tifa is Probably one of the best female badasses in games to exist!

 

[Splintered]

Games are at their most basic level are about the gameplay. Everything else in a game comes secondary to gameplay. So if a character is in someway "ruining" gameplay, that is a very valid reason for hating them. Edge is a good example, as he is literally forced on you.

What you bring up here is a point of semantics. You are making a distinction between the character, and the use of the character. In video games, these to think are inseparable as long at the character in question is playable.

I think they are separable, especially if you're involved in discussions on just characterization/development.

But I do think that it's interesting how mechanics and characters often get mixed up with each other. If a character literally gets in your way from enjoying a game, even if that character isn't bad, it will simply frustrate you. And that general attitude will shape how you view a character. Fair or unfair, it just happens.

Like Tellah from IV, his freaking mp level drove me insane and in the end he started to really annoy me. I was incredibly happy when he got killed off. Or how the hate of Navi came around, she wasn't THAT annoying but the constant HEY LISTEN, which was more a game mechanic than anything else, made her a joke of an entire generation.

It also helps in the opposite way, just look at the way gamers fight over things that aren't even characters, they'll defend weapons or favor certain objects (companion cube) simply because they grow attached it through game mechanics.

EhhHhhh where was I going with this. Probably no where.

 

[Kuja9001]

If I can't search for a character on google(w/safe search off) without some disturbing crap popping up then to me that's a terrible character.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Because that totally has to do with the writing and presentation of the character in the games themselves and nothing to do with asshole fans.

 

[Octo]

Also, that would make about 90% of game characters terrible

 

[Soakette]

I forgot to add Yuffie and Cloud. I agree with whoever said Tifa is nothing but boobs I dont know what it is about her, and no its not because Rude has a crush on her I think I just dont like the "goody" people. It seems I dont like the women, besides Elena and fang. Tifa, Aerith,Serah and Yuffie, are just soo annoying.

I might not get a chance to answer anyone who disagrees with me or quotes me or whatever, Im going away for a week and leaving in about an hour. Ill try to get back to this thread and all the others when I get back!

 

[Vivi]

If I can't search for a character on google(w/safe search off) without some disturbing crap popping up then to me that's a terrible character.

Have you ever searched for any Pokemon ever?

 

[Octo]

Have you ever searched for any Pokemon ever?

Chikorita was young and stupid and needed the money

 

[Kuja9001]

Have you ever searched for any Pokemon ever?

Nope, but I've seen some stuff that is plain disturbing.

 

[Junko Enoshima]

If I can't search for a character on google(w/safe search off) without some disturbing crap popping up then to me that's a terrible character.

You should change your avatar then unless you don't mind having a 'terrible' character in it by your definition.

 

[Abortedj]

Gogo. Because they really had no character. Didn't even have a definitive gender. Yeah there is/was fan speculation, but none of that means a god damn thing.

 

[Kuroto]

Some of you know this from another thread but I haven't changed my mind. I still hate Cid from VII and his assistant Shera.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Do you mean you hate them as characters (the way I hate Genesis) or you would have them as people in the real world? (I think I might actually like Genesis in the real world, as long as he didn't try to kill me, and as long as we were just casual aquaintances or maybe study buddies. I enjoy discussing poetry.)

 

[Kuroto]

I hate them as characters but I'd probably hate them in real world as well. I know that I would definitely hate Cid as a person, but I could probably get along with Shera. I find Cid just too aggressive so I couldn't really stand to be around him, but Shera's only problem is that she let's people (or at least Cid) push her around, so in real life I'd probably try to get some sense to her head.

 

[Abortedj]

Squall. It is easier to just say "everything".

 

[JayM]

My hatred of Wakka is so intense I tend to block out all memories of his actual appearances in the game. So every time I restart FFX, remembering what a great game it was, how much I loved it...that asshole shows up and out come the four-letter words. 'Cause I never fucking remember how early he comes in. My roommates think it's hilarious and will occasionally bring him up in conversation just to watch me fly off the handle. I'm not even sure what it is about him, either, though his voice and his hair have both been targets of my ire.

I also hate Noel, because he's the Standard FF Protagonist that was missing in FFXIII, and I did not miss him at all.

Everyone else is mostly okay by me.

...Well. Except Genesis, of course.

 

[Abortedj]

Aeris. Mostly for her fanboys. She is so bland and uninteresting, she isn't worth hating on her own. However, when you factor in the ever fapping fanboys...

 

[Farron]

Aeris. Mostly for her fanboys. She is so bland and uninteresting, she isn't worth hating on her own. However, when you factor in the ever fapping fanboys...

She saved the world

She gave up her own life

She was happy and cheerful even though she lost her true Mother at a young age and The Turks were on her every move, not really giving her much freedom.

She lost Zack who disappeared for five years, sending him letters that she hoped that one day he'll reply too, only to one day know that he was dead.

She could've mopped and let life get down, but she didn't.

She was a strong character maybe not in physical strength but in heart.

Sorry just got to defend Aerith here.

 

[Danseru-kun]

^

I just gotta say Aerith didn't gave up her own life, she was murdered. She went on her mission expecting to return to Cloud after. I wouldn't say she would not be willing to sacrifice her life, but it wasn't in her plan at all during that time.

 

[Clement Rage]

Nobody really. Characters can irritate, but for reasons. Vanille's chirpy because she knows depression will result in eidolons trying to kill her, Snow's leadership style is to project confidence no matter what, etc.

Used to dislike Rinoa for needing rescues 6 times in one game, but I'm over it now.

 

[Abortedj]

She saved the world

She gave up her own life

She was happy and cheerful even though she lost her true Mother at a young age and The Turks were on her every move, not really giving her much freedom.

She lost Zack who disappeared for five years, sending him letters that she hoped that one day he'll reply too, only to one day know that he was dead.

She could've mopped and let life get down, but she didn't.

She was a strong character maybe not in physical strength but in heart.

Sorry just got to defend Aerith here.

See, this is exactly what I was talking about.

 

[Farron]

See, this is exactly what I was talking about.

I'm not a fapping fanboy. I'm a girl who likes Aerith because I just find her positive spirit admirable. I just had to defend Aerith because not all of her fans are fapping fanboys.

 

[Abortedj]

All the Knights form FF9. They were the first real dick move on the part of Square. They started the trend of really obscure and obtuse side content that seems to get worse and worse with every game.