Personally, it’s Faith from Farcry 5 for me. Uninteresting dialog that can be summed up to “I was bullied once” and that’s it. Literally every other character is so much more interesting. Jacob gives you a sequence where you run through a gulag which he then uses against you, John tries to kill you and is openly hateful towards you plus is a character you get to interact with, and Joseph is a lunatic who was right.
Hrm, tricky.
If I had to pick one, Zenos from FFXIV. Incredibly overdone - even in a japanese-game context - hero foil, always used at moments where his presence doesn’t fit the tone and interrupts an otherwise consistent tonal progression.
He among other things wastes much of the catarsis of the story’s ultimate ending in Endwalker by adding a 6-10 minute incredibly boring battle with a ton of exposition for no reason right in the middle of it.
Zenos. Zenos. Zenos.
I cannot update this enough. Just completed the Endbringer MSQ, and holy hell. His entire character, premise, every stupid monologue, every cutscene, his entire arc. Banal and awful. Felt like some 6yo on DBZ crack wrote his entire plotline.
I just searched for any reference of Zenos and I’m glad you posted this. His existence serves zero purpose in the story. Zero.
That is all, thank you!
Handler. Everyone’s shovelling coal into the furnace to keep from freezing to death, she’s making roasted yams, and then eats them in front of everyone who is collapsed from exhaustion.
Everytime I kill the monster, she’s like, “Yay! We did it!”
Do you go to the cloud district often? Oh what am I talking about, of course you don’t!
I’ll have you know there’s no …
Fucking Claptrap…
I agree, but I do think that is kind of the point with him.
I do not get every other character’s willingness to overlook it and treat him like just another quirky member of the gang. I mean, Tanisha has no social skills but she’s at least clever and has some clear utility to the Raiders.
Naaaaw, I love him! He’s just a misunderstood ADHD robot without friends. Cut him some slack!
Did you play his sidequest with getting people to come to his birthday party in Borderlands 2?
I actually named my home server claptrap. My desktop is chappie (from the movie of the same name, with another anthro robot).
I did, I played all the borderlands until the third (which I just couldn’t put up with) multiple times and he just annoyed the piss out of me constantly xD
Wdym “another”? Claptrap isn’t an anthro robot lol. He’s a trash can with feet for hands (and I love him)
Mr clippy. Word was so much more fun without him, word isn’t very fun, without Mr clippy it might’ve been goty
Borderlands 3 whatever that new siren girl’s name is
There were 2 characters in BL3 that were annoying, and no not the twins. Ava and Lorelei. Both extremely annoying.
Natalya in Goldeneye.
My friends and I called all annoying companion/escort characters “Buttfuck”. Natalia was the buttfuckiest Buttfuck.
Navi from one of the Zelda games. “Hey!”
The Owl from OOT as well
Oh man, “did you want to hear this again?” Every single fucking time I would be mashing a to get through his dialog and press yes by accident. Every time…
Ahaha! Yes. So annoying!
I seem to recall navi being mostly skippable. But the owl having to say everything. But you would still button mash to try and skip, then end up having to see it all again
That’s a tricky one, but if I had to pick, maybe Ashley from Mass Effect. She’s very insubordinate and disrespectful towards you, I hate her speciesism and (fittingly enough) she’s a Bible thumping Christian, whenever she opens her mouth I wish I could eject her through the airlock. It doesn’t help that you can’t deny her joining the team or even kick her out, safe to say that whenever I get to Virmire I always kill her without even thinking twice.
I named my son Kaidan… enough said.
I’m replaying the Arkham series and I’d forgotten that Ashley’s VA plays Oracle. I couldn’t figure out why I was getting annoyed every time she called Batman until I made that connection.
Old man checking in here. Yuffie from ff7 was the most aggravating character ever
I was on Team Yuffie until
ffvii spoiler
she stole my fucking materia
Bloody Paimon. (Genshin Impact)
And this is coming from someone who still logs on frequently. All I want is to mute her.
there’s a character from Trials of Mana who talks like that & drives me wild. some people switch to the japanese voice cuz of how bad the VA is
Yeah I tried this with Genshin but she’s still as grating ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Paimon was a main reason I stopped playing.
Paimon has that obnoxious Elmo complex. Sing-songy PLUS can’t speak in the first person.
I see none of you guys has played Resident Evil 4, otherwise we would be shouting “ASHLEY!” all together as one being.
I forgot about Ashley. Literally lost just about all my ammo in one section trying to save her.
I haven’t played that in like 15 years and it was still the first game that came to mind. Mainly that one area. You know the one.
SHAUUUUUN
SHAAAUUUUUUN
Tatsu from Xenoblade Chronicles X is a really annoying little dude. I watched my buddy play through and every time he said anything he’d tell the tv “shut up Tatsu.” It’s arguably more aggravating because the game seems aware of his annoyance since one of the main characters is constantly suggesting she cook him into a dish to eat. I’d say that would be the best outcome.
Tatsu from Xenoblade Chronicles X is a really annoying little dude. I watched my buddy play through and every time he said anything he’d tell the tv “shut up Tatsu.” It’s arguably more aggravating because the game seems aware of his annoyance since one of the main characters is constantly suggesting she cook him into a dish to eat. I’d say that would be the best outcome.
What?? Faith might be the only interesting character in the whole FC series. I don’t think you understand the character’s backstory at all, TBH. The original Faith was the Seeds’ sister who died young, so the brothers kidnap young women, drug them (I forget what the name of the drug is in the game), and convince them that they’re Faith Seed. Eventually that woman dies so they replace her with another. It’s horribly tragic and, in my opinion, is leagues above the standard character writing of the Far Cry games
Yeah, I was puzzled when OP listed Faith as most annoying; I don’t think they paid attention to the story.
I found her more interesting than many other Far Cry antagonists, let alone other video games characters.
