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.
Hey listen!
Watch out!
Navi from Ocarina of Time.
Literally the Clippy of Zelda.
“Hey! Listen!”
How about shut the fuck up you stupid firefly from hell?
Nice Hook reference
Whenever I replay OOT I never have a problem with Navi. She rarely hard interrupts, usually just a short tone and flashing C button that goes away after a few seconds. The voice lines only trigger if you press the button to call her, in most cases the hints she gives are genuinely helpful, and stays out of your way for the vast majority of the game.
Fi from skyward sword though… Far worse because she does interrupt gameplay, often repeats what the last dialogue box just fucking told you, and takes several dialogue boxes to tell you what Navi would have taken one to do. I’m glad they significantly overhauled her interactions in the HD release but I’m still going to be hesitant to play that game again
Fi is SO ANNOYING! Skyward Sword has some really excellent bits but Fi is just way too heavy handed.
Watch me dance while I sing in my annoying voice while my mouth opens and closes at inappropriate times!
Yeah Navi is much less intrusive than people remember, she was really well done. And yeah Navi is concise and has a little personality whereas Fi is rambling and repetitive and just completely emotionless (yeah I know lacking emotion was intentional but that doesn’t make it enjoyable)
People probably remember the memes more and it replaced their real memories.
The Memedela Effect?
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.
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.
I realise that is the point, doesn’t make it any less annoying though!
Mr clippy. Word was so much more fun without him, word isn’t very fun, without Mr clippy it might’ve been goty
Do you go to the cloud district often? Oh what am I talking about, of course you don’t!
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!
Navi from one of the Zelda games. “Hey!”
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!”
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 in the cult, 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.
For me it’s Jessica Chobot replacing the journalist in Mass Effect 2.
Screwball in Spider-man for ps4/ps5. Everything about the character and challenges was just… not fun, and felt like such a waste of time
The challenges in the DLC was straight bullshit most of the time.
And I always hated what Spidey said whenever he didn’t get gold on any of them. Like why do you actually give a shit? She’s an actual insane person.
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.
The stupid talking book in It Takes Two. Practically destroyed any plot momentum the game had and that’s if it wasn’t beating you over the head with painfully obvious relationship advice.
I think the girl was even more annoying and creepy as fuck to boot.
That game should be called Children Ruin Everything.
I don’t think I’ve ever finished watching a playthrough. I saw the scene with the stuffed elephant and noped out. Who is this game for? All these characters are terrible people.
It’s for gamer couples who want a really well designed co-op game.
There’s not really much else like it. Most other so called co-op games are just the single player game with a extra player and more bullet spongy enemies.
I’m not sure anyone can play it without rolling their eyes at the cutscenes and plot though.
