Characters that are so bad they manage to ruin the game?

@Black_Knight_00: Shakespeare reference -and- made fun of Tidus for looking like a girl. Two hit pun combo!

I've used that joke like five times before on the forums and I think you're the first person who got it.

-Byshop

Luke from Tales of the Abyss.

Also Kratos in GOW3. After beating the first two games I got sick of him in the 3rd.

This guy.

@huggy_bear01 said:

This guy.

Oh yeah. I forgot how awful he was because I also hated that game so much.

-Byshop

I wouldn't say that any character is ever really bad enough to ruin an entire game. There are some terrible characters out in the game world, but I never really felt like I hated a game because of one poorly written or annoying character

Only two that I can think of are Kratos from the God of War games and Marumaro from Blue Dragon. They weren't enough to ruin the games for me though.

Why exactly?

Pretty much every single character in dragon age inquisition.

If you ignore the fact that the game was ruined from the get-go anyway.

This douchebag

Well, next time I feel the need to make a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern joke, I know who my target audience is.

Fi is an annoying bitch but even that and the item pickups didn't fully ruin the game, just made it a lot worse..

It's infuriating because otherwise that game is pretty great overall, and they went out of their way to add that annoying crap

Still hoping Nintendo re releases that game on Wii U and fixes it. It's begging for the HD treatment as well

I was going to say "almost ruin the entire game" in the title but thanks to Gamespot's idiotic character restrictions I had to cut it down.

Don't like them. Hated Cloud from the get go and Aertih is just meh with an overrated death scene.

Everyone always comes at with with "it's empowerment, not over sexualization/objectification" line, but I just can't see this. Everything about these games screams to me to appeal to prepubescent adolescent in the portrayal of the main character. Nearly everything. I find myself shaking my head when I play them. The camera angles, the moves, everything screams sex and nothing but sex. That does not define female empowerment to me, and if that is what the definition depends on, then I wish to be no part of it anyhow.

So you have no real criticisms beyond "meh, don't like them".

Gotcha.

I expected this thread to be filled with Final Fantasy characters.

Oh yeah now I get it judging from your sig. What more criticisms do you want? Cloud was a very boring character. No personality, no emotion etc etc. I would've loved if Zack was the main character. As for Aerith I mean I don't even know why people like her.