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.
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.
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.
A couple from the olden days of yore:
Gratha heavy fighters from Wing Commander.
The beggars from Assassin’s Creed.
Both husband and wife in It Takes Two.
I just read this to my daughter and she pissed herself laughing. We beat the game together and said the same thing at the time. Terrible parents, and annoying as shit. They literally tore apart their daughter’s favourite teddy!
So this was the point where i was really perplexed. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the game, it was fun and i liked parts of it, but for me it was just not really challenging enough as a platformer or whatever. So playing it, i at least hoped that the story would be good. But they were just complete dickheads. I thought they learned something from the teddy, but they were just hiding it? They are either horrible parents or the writers are.
I think the writers may have read the feedback afterwards. There’s a nod to it in Split Fiction (much better game), where the same elephant can be found on one of the early levels. If you destroy it, you get an achievement called Rose’s Best Friend with the caption “You made her cry”.
The elephant scene
Hey! Listen!
I am beyond triggered.
Any self-exploding enemies immediately get on the BS list but these dudes in particular.
Edit: Game is Dark Souls 2
There’s a hateable mob in every souls game
DeS: anything that flies
DS: Dragon legs and crawling giant skeletons
DS2: Those guys. Also pony plow town.
BB: Winter lanterns and shark giants
DS3: prison guards and DLC crow Knights.
Sekiro: Anything that causes terror status
ER: Furnace golems, bleed dogs, omens
Forget what I said, there’s multiple hateable mobs in every souls game.
Don’t forget bonewheels!
Kai Leng - ME3
@andros_rex Kai Leng is evidence that you shouldn’t let your 13 year old kid design a character in your very popular videogame franchise.
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.
Tidus in Final Fantasy X always annoyed the hell out of me.
Loved 10 but damn he got on my nerves
Whoreson Jr. in Witcher 3, Hermaeus Mora in Skyrim, Attila in Civ V, Great Britain in Victoria 3, the L in Tetris.
Been replaying Sekiro recently: Owl is a pretty big piece of shit, even by FROM villain standards.
Saying “Kai Leng from Mass Effect 3” would be cheating, so I’m going to nominate Elro from Iconoclasts:
spoilers for the entire game
- One of his superiors is nice to him and gives him condolences about his father, and offers him some time off of his job - so obviously he fucking murders her in front of everyone, potentially getting his coworkers’ in trouble.
- He gets his wife and daughter killed, right after an argument with the former about how his sister (= Robin = the protagonist) is doing something that might get them killed - AFTER murdering his boss, who was an extremely high profile individual, so he should be running away rather than being exactely in the most obvious place he could have fled to.
- He antagonizes Robin’s only ally (known to him), Mina, just because she’s
blackfrom another settlement with another religion.
No, he does not follow his own society’s religion - remember the murder? (kind of excusable, Mina also antagonizes him in the same way) - Seeking revenge, he goes after one of the responsible agents.
… with a sword.
And she has a gun. And she is effectively immortal (save for unconventional weapons (and he FUCKING knows this (again, he murdered one himself))).
But hey, Robin and Mina do have the means to kill agents!
Which is why he… locks them away from the fight, gets captured, gets his arm literally yanked off of him, and becomes a liability. - At some point, he insists on being the one to help Robin with a very important task on a risky quest. She has to fight off two agents, ONE OF WHICH IS THE ONE HE ANGERED, and when he has to push a button in order to let Robin go he decides “Nah it’s dangerous, she should just stay here. In a warzone, waiting forever for me to push the button.”
Thankfully he gets shot by Mina and his former coworker pushes the button for him. - Only after Robin fucking bodies God himself he decides that maybe she should be able to make decisions on her own.
