Anime Your most hated video game protagonists

[NecroLord]

The bald dickhead in Hitman.

Agent 47?
Why?

"Budapest, at the Thermal Bath Hotel.
What a classy looking place."

 

[jackofshadows]

Deacon St John from (G)ays (D)one sony slop. "Yes, my dear, i'm alright, i was surviving for years looking for you even abandoned my friends, but it's ok that you hate seeing me alive. You probably fucked half of the military base by now and i'm sure you have your reasons." Biggest simp in vidya and he can't stfu even in combat.

Yeah it's so weird and cringe. Like if some soy-sipping zoomers were (honestly) trying to portray based and masculine badass man. But the end result is ridiculous to anyone who is familiar with you know, actual masculinity. The sad part is that compared to many other modern protags Deacon isn't that bad I'd say. Just some simp guy who look alright and knows how to shoot.

For the topic, I'm struggling with any games I've played. So I guess let's say any and every annoying girlboss from recent releases.

 

[Skinwalker]

Yennefer and Triss in Witcher 3
Sile in Witcher 2 and her "USE THE YRDEN" - dumb fucking bitch help me instead of yelling.
Triss in Witcher 1.
Nadia and Imoem in BG2
Lara croft in Tomb Raider 2013.

PROTAGONIST

? All of them are main characters of the mentioned game.

Google the word "protagonist", you mongoloid.

Are companions also allowed?

No!

 

[Lokhir]

Not to make this a cultural war thread but I hate being forced to play as a woman, makes an extra disconnect from the game since I'm the opposite sex. I like how games have the option to play as a woman or a man.

Any game with a female protagonist is not a real game, it's a political interactive movie. Very fitting however for those lacking any real image of masculinity which sums up for most men in these times, who then feel the need to identify to a woman (i.e female anime pfps).

 

[Ryzer]

Yennefer and Triss in Witcher 3
Sile in Witcher 2 and her "USE THE YRDEN" - dumb fucking bitch help me instead of yelling.
Triss in Witcher 1.
Nadia and Imoem in BG2
Lara croft in Tomb Raider 2013.

PROTAGONIST

? All of them are main characters of the mentioned game.

Google the word "protagonist", you mongoloid.

Indeed, what do you not understand about it?

A protagonist (from the Greek word πρωταγωνιστής / prōtagōnistḗs, "main actor" in ancient Greek theater) refers first to an actor playing the main character, then, by extension of meaning, to one who holds a leading role or the role of a key character in literature, theater, film or storytelling.

 

[Skinwalker]

Yennefer and Triss in Witcher 3
Sile in Witcher 2 and her "USE THE YRDEN" - dumb fucking bitch help me instead of yelling.
Triss in Witcher 1.
Nadia and Imoem in BG2
Lara croft in Tomb Raider 2013.

PROTAGONIST

? All of them are main characters of the mentioned game.

Google the word "protagonist", you mongoloid.

Indeed, what do you not understand about it?

A protagonist (from the Greek word πρωταγωνιστής / prōtagōnistḗs, "main actor" in ancient Greek theater) refers first to an actor playing the main character, then, by extension of meaning, to one who holds a leading role or the role of a key character in literature, theater, film or storytelling.

It means the player character, fucking retard, not a major supporting character. Do you play as Triss or Yennefer in the Witcher? Fuck off.

 

[Ezekiel]

Yeah, Batman should just kill. The game talking to the player about unnecessary killing and scoring the player like in old Metal Gear Solid is one thing, but Arkham has baddies bouncing against invisible walls on rooftops to preserve Batman's ridiculous code. I'm not asking for a butcher, but there's a better balance to be had than this bullshit. Someone here told me that the no kill rule only started after Batman became way darker, with more bone-crunching violence. Would know better than I, who hasn't read any of the classic Batman comics that were supposedly lighter in tone.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Indeed, what do you not understand about it?

A protagonist (from the Greek word πρωταγωνιστής / prōtagōnistḗs, "main actor" in ancient Greek theater) refers first to an actor playing the main character, then, by extension of meaning, to one who holds a leading role or the role of a key character in literature, theater, film or storytelling.

In a book or movie, sure. In a single player game, I have a hard time seeing how you can reasonably think anyone not controlled by the player for the majority/all of the game is the main character.

 

[NecroLord]

Yeah, Batman should just kill. The game talking to the player about unnecessary killing and scoring the player like in old Metal Gear Solid is one thing, but Arkham has baddies bouncing against invisible walls on rooftops to preserve Batman's ridiculous code. I'm not asking for a butcher, but there's a better balance to be had than this bullshit. Someone here told me that the no kill rule only started after Batman became way darker, with more bone-crunching violence. Would know better than I, who hasn't read any of the classic Batman comics that were supposedly lighter in tone.

Batman is an idiot and can fuck right off with his "no kill rule".

 

[Humanophage]

I guess B. J. Blazkowicz because it is unpleasant to kill national socialists as some kind of a Jewish Tarantino spy. The fact that he looks like a normal "badass" makes it more subversive than if he were a black lesbian or some such because it has normie appeal.

Also any protagonists related to dragons are mildly unexciting because it is so overdone.

Otherwise, I frankly don't really play a lot of games with a defined protagonist. RPGs usually have highly customisable or blank protagonists, tactics have a set of companions, and strategies don't really have a protagonist. Usually the sort of game to have a protagonist are those boring console action cinematic games, JRPGs, and adventures. The ones in adventures are usually tolerable while the console action and JRPGs are so cringe I don't even try them.

 

[Ezekiel]

I don't care for silent protagonists. At all. It's so meek and ridiculous. Even Link should say a few words, more than the responses the games give you. A boy of few words, ideally. His voice might be bad? Zelda games shouldn't have voice acting anyway. They tried to do it and failed badly. Ganon sounds nothing like we imagined.

 

[Ryzer]

Indeed, what do you not understand about it?

A protagonist (from the Greek word πρωταγωνιστής / prōtagōnistḗs, "main actor" in ancient Greek theater) refers first to an actor playing the main character, then, by extension of meaning, to one who holds a leading role or the role of a key character in literature, theater, film or storytelling.

In a book or movie, sure. In a single player game, I have a hard time seeing how you can reasonably think anyone not controlled by the player for the majority/all of the game is the main character.

Triss and Yennefer are major character plots of the books and the games, you play as Triss in Witcher 2 in dialogues and you see whole scenes with Yennefer. Besides those games are basically movies.

You play Imoem and Nadia in Baldur Gate 2 when they are part of your party, they are protagonist.

You play as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider.

 

[Skinwalker]

You play Imoem and Nadia in Baldur Gate 2, they are protagonist.

No, retard, they are companions. The PC is the protagonist.

Triss and Yennefer are major character plots of the books and the games

That doesn't make them protagonists.

Really wasn't expecting that people are so stupid they don't understand what "protagonist" means, but I guess this is the Codex for you.

 

[Ryzer]

You play Imoem and Nadia in Baldur Gate 2, they are protagonist.

No, retard, they are companions. The PC is the protagonist.

You control their moves, you decide what they do and they respond to it with lines. You equip them, you even have the possibility to trigger dialogues with the character and they are central to the plot i.e protagonist. You control them but they are not you, just like Bhaalspawn isn't you. A game can have multiple protagonists just like any book or movie.

 

[normie]

Wei Shen from Sleeping Dogs
Kiryu from Yakuza

 

[Skinwalker]

You play Imoem and Nadia in Baldur Gate 2, they are protagonist.

No, retard, they are companions. The PC is the protagonist.

You control their moves, you decide what they do and they respond to it with lines. You equip them, you even have the possibility to trigger dialogues with the character i.e protagonist. You control them but they are not you, just like Bhaalspawn isn't you.

This is just poor game design bullshit. All the dialogues are clearly written from the bhaalspawn's perspective, even if the UI makes it look like a companion is speaking.

Only the PC counts as the protagonist of Baldur's Gate. This isn't something like Octopath Traveler where there's genuinely eight co-equal protagonist characters.

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

Yeah, Batman should just kill. The game talking to the player about unnecessary killing and scoring the player like in old Metal Gear Solid is one thing, but Arkham has baddies bouncing against invisible walls on rooftops to preserve Batman's ridiculous code. I'm not asking for a butcher, but there's a better balance to be had than this bullshit. Someone here told me that the no kill rule only started after Batman became way darker, with more bone-crunching violence. Would know better than I, who hasn't read any of the classic Batman comics that were supposedly lighter in tone.

Batman is an idiot and can fuck right off with his "no kill rule".

You can blame the absolute retardation that was the Comics Code Authority for the sorry state of capeshit.

 

[Ezekiel]

Yeah, Batman should just kill. The game talking to the player about unnecessary killing and scoring the player like in old Metal Gear Solid is one thing, but Arkham has baddies bouncing against invisible walls on rooftops to preserve Batman's ridiculous code. I'm not asking for a butcher, but there's a better balance to be had than this bullshit. Someone here told me that the no kill rule only started after Batman became way darker, with more bone-crunching violence. Would know better than I, who hasn't read any of the classic Batman comics that were supposedly lighter in tone.

Batman is an idiot and can fuck right off with his "no kill rule".

You can blame the absolute retardation that was the Comics Code Authority for the sorry state of capeshit.

That's pretty heavy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority#1954_Code_criteria

• Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals.
• Scenes of excessive violence shall be prohibited. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gunplay, physical agony, the gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated.
• Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation.
• Policemen, judges, government officials, and respected institutions shall never be presented in such a way as to create disrespect for established authority.
• All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted.
• No comic magazine shall use the words "horror" or "terror" in its title.
• All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated.
• Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly, nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader.
• In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
• If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity.
• Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
• Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden.
• Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.
• Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable.
• Nudity with meretricious purpose and salacious postures shall not be permitted in the advertising of any product; clothed figures shall never be presented in such a way as to be offensive or contrary to good taste or morals.
• Nudity in any form is prohibited, as is indecent or undue exposure.
• Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Rape scenes, as well as sexual abnormalities, are unacceptable.
• Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden.
• Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested.

Oh, and Batman in the Arkham games also blows people up with his explosive spooge and their own mines and they just bounce around. How funny that every enemy Batman beats just happens to fall unconscious. No one writhing around and moaning after or, indeed, dying from a concussion.

 

[what am i doing]

I think from games that I've played personally, V from Cyberpunk 2077 is the only one that really irritated me. "Young, dumb hothead" characters don't really work for immersive sims, in my opinion.

 

[Elttharion]

Yeah, Batman should just kill. The game talking to the player about unnecessary killing and scoring the player like in old Metal Gear Solid is one thing, but Arkham has baddies bouncing against invisible walls on rooftops to preserve Batman's ridiculous code. I'm not asking for a butcher, but there's a better balance to be had than this bullshit. Someone here told me that the no kill rule only started after Batman became way darker, with more bone-crunching violence. Would know better than I, who hasn't read any of the classic Batman comics that were supposedly lighter in tone.

Batman is an idiot and can fuck right off with his "no kill rule".

You can blame the absolute retardation that was the Comics Code Authority for the sorry state of capeshit.

That's pretty heavy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority#1954_Code_criteria

• Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals.
• Scenes of excessive violence shall be prohibited. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gunplay, physical agony, the gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated.
• Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation.
• Policemen, judges, government officials, and respected institutions shall never be presented in such a way as to create disrespect for established authority.
• All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted.
• No comic magazine shall use the words "horror" or "terror" in its title.
• All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated.
• Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly, nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader.
• In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
• If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity.
• Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
• Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings are forbidden.
• Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.
• Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable.
• Nudity with meretricious purpose and salacious postures shall not be permitted in the advertising of any product; clothed figures shall never be presented in such a way as to be offensive or contrary to good taste or morals.
• Nudity in any form is prohibited, as is indecent or undue exposure.
• Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Rape scenes, as well as sexual abnormalities, are unacceptable.
• Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden.
• Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested.

Oh, and Batman in the Arkham games also blows people up with his explosive spooge and their own mines and they just bounce around. How funny that every enemy Batman beats just happens to fall unconscious. No one writhing around and moaning after or, indeed, dying from a concussion.

I cant take the Bat seriously, I always remember this

 

[otsego]

Garrett from Thi4f - Reason should be obvious. Picked this up a few weeks ago because it was $2.50 and Christ is it bad.

Jason (PC) from Far Cry 3 - whiny dudebro who casually becomes a serial killer whilst still remaining feeble and insufferable as hell

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

Garrett from Thi4f - Reason should be obvious. Picked this up a few weeks ago because it was $2.50 and Christ is it bad.

Jason (PC) from Far Cry 3 - whiny dudebro who casually becomes a serial killer whilst still remaining feeble and insufferable as hell

The most insulting part about the Thief reboot is that if you want to get the classic games for cheap, you have to buy the bundle that has the reboot in it.

 

[Valestein]

-Booker DeWitt from Bioshock Infinite
Extremely stupid, charisma vacuum, commits several facepalming actions like not covering his goddamn hand or declaring war on an entire nation just to not be seen as racist, allows himself to be drowned because he's also a simp, talks too much while not saying a single thing of worth.
-All characters in Borderlands 3
There are no words to describe the headache that creates listening to them talk for even 1 minute. Kill them all.
-Every single gacha protagonist
It doesn't matter which one, they're all identical: a young man, with short hair, very thin, who never says anything, but is very ''determined'', and is a lady magnet but also an asexual creature, and they're eternally short in money while swimming in millions, and their only interest is food.
-Dante, from the DMC reboot
Just a very boring and unfunny asshole who swears every other sentence because that makes him extra mature, an edgelord's version of the actual Dante.
-Squall, from FF8
A voiceless mega-introvert who repeatedly tells everybody else to fuck off and reluctantly follows along because the plot demands it. His only memorable phrase is ''Whatever...''. Squall could've been an interesting side character but when you put him as the protagonist it becomes tiresome. Impossible to care about anything that's going on when your protagonist is like this.
-Lara Croft past 2010
''I can do this... I can do this...'' *slaughters 50000 dudes* ''I'm not a little girl anymore...''

I hate Squall for not going after Quistis instead of Rinoa.

 

[Fargus]

Garrett from Thi4f - Reason should be obvious. Picked this up a few weeks ago because it was $2.50 and Christ is it bad.

Jason (PC) from Far Cry 3 - whiny dudebro who casually becomes a serial killer whilst still remaining feeble and insufferable as hell

Both of them are scumsuckers. I dislike FC3 protag because he is a rich fuck on a thrill adventure with friends just as annoying. His progression is dumb and he never shuts the fuck up too.

But reboot Garett takes the cake. Completely forgot about that abomination of a game, though i played it for a few hours or so. Not only they made Garett look like bdsm gimp with whore eyeliner, he also sounds and acts like he is retarded or drugged half the time. Fuck Square Enix.

 

[Erebus]

Yog from HoMM 3 Shadows of Death. Fuck that retard.

Even the most knuckle-dragging hero in the game can at least cast a spell or two per battle, once you've bought him a spellbook. And even with a pathetic 1 in both Power and Knowledge, a single spell can sometimes make a huge difference in a fight, if only by dispelling an enemy spell.

But not when it comes to Yog, because Yog refuses to use magic. This man, born with blue skin, red blood and not much grey matter, wants to play Heroes of Might and Might. After being raised in the highly civilized and magical country of Bracada, Yog not only decided that studying the workings of reality was pretty boring, but also that civilization in general was a mistake. What he truly wanted in life was to dress in animal pelts, to speak in guttural grunts, to wipe his ass with his own hand and to give a stench strong enough to knock out a goat at twenty paces. In short, he wanted to become a barbarian of Krewlod.

It should be noted that the barbarians of Krewlod, simple-minded as they may be, do use magic. It's not even limited to the heroes, there's also a creature - the ogre mage - that can use spellcasting in combat. But Yog was so eager to convert to a way of life he had never actually experienced that he convinced himself that said way of life was even more primitive than it truly is (and it is pretty fucking primitive).

And as a result, his campaign is a nauseating chore. I mean, it wouldn't be entertaining anyway because Stronghold is the least creative faction other than Inferno. But it's made a lot worst by the fact that you can't cast a single spell, meaning that enemy heroes can easily fuck you over with spells such as Blindness.

All because Yog wanted to lead an army of stunted greenskins rather than naga queens and titans.

I hate him so much.