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.

    • Quicky@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      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!

  • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Been replaying Sekiro recently: Owl is a pretty big piece of shit, even by FROM villain standards.

  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Whoreson Jr. in Witcher 3, Hermaeus Mora in Skyrim, Attila in Civ V, Great Britain in Victoria 3, the L in Tetris.

  • justdaveisfine@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

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    Any self-exploding enemies immediately get on the BS list but these dudes in particular.

    Edit: Game is Dark Souls 2

    • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      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.

  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    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 black from 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.
  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    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 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 characters, 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.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Kaden from the mass effect trilogy.

    He is just to bland as a romanceable character. Ashley isn’t much better but at least she has some growth throughout the series.

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Bioware writers: “What if we took Carth Onasi, removed all of his personality, and replaced his tragic backstory with ‘sometimes I get headaches’?”

  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Hau and Hop from Pokémon Gen 7 and Gen 8 irrationally piss me off every time I have to deal with them. Hop is better by a lot, but the bar is on the floor.

    I miss when rivals were complete assholes to you. Not morons.

    Also just the general conversation between JD and Del in Gears of War 4. The characters are fine. It’s just that every single step forward is met with some snarky little quip or joke. Every time. It takes so much of the seriousness away that made the first three games, and Judgment, feel so much more immense.

  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    I tend not to hate characters that the writers want me to hate. The qualities that they try to use to do that generally just kind of make me hate the writing.

    My dislike generally tends to go to characters who I’m expected to have positive attachments to without any events transpiring that would prompt that.

    But Morrigan from Dragon Age got to me. Maybe there’s just something unique about how one autistic nihilist can inspire rage in another nihilistic autist.