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Five Annoying Video Game Characters

Zero1gaming writes:

Gaming is a personal experience. What one person sees as a vast world waiting to be explored, another sees as a lifeless plain with things way too far apart, but there is one thing that all gamers can agree on, stupid annoying characters.

Almost every game and every franchise has at least one character that makes you want to gouge out your own eyes or rip out the HDD of your console and burn it, below you will find a selection of these characters that really grind our gears!

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user54670075048d ago (Edited 5048d ago )

Wow...picking Rinoa over so many other annoying FF characters. Especialy the ones we see in FF13

I found Rinoas personality pretty realistic in FF8, she neve really was clingy over main character Squall for the entire game she was either too busy annoying him over how closed he was emotionaly, focused on her Timber Owl group or torn over Seifer to see if he was the man she actually loved or just lusted after.

Basicaly he character was the reason for Squalls great character development. From a lonely selfish jerk to a brave heoric leader. She's the one who pushed him and kept trying to get through to him. It was great to see the build up and transformation of his character over the course of the discs. The hug you see in Disc 3 when he saves Rinoa from the sorceress memorial place is much more rewarding because of the build up leading to it. Even the final kiss at the end of the game.

I really didn't think there was anything wrong with Rinoa I just wish they had given her more scenes where she appeared stronger instead of breaking down like most typical FF girls.

Godmars2905048d ago (Edited 5048d ago )

What? Vanille literally ties with Rinoa for #3, though after your defense its clear she should have been the only FF character listed. Even Hope was better than her.

Edit:
Ties with her on the guy's list. And while Hope was a lousy character, at least his convoluted revenge sub-plot with Snow kind of made him more relevant to the milk-water story. Rinoa was better than both of them by several degrees, though the general scale doesn't put her high on my fav FF character list.

I mean Waka's higher and that only because John DiMaggo did his voice.

user54670075048d ago (Edited 5048d ago )

Hope was better then Rinoa as a character and Vanille ties to her :O

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HarryMasonHerpderp5048d ago (Edited 5048d ago )

Rinoa was a great character, I actually cared about her and all the crap she went through when..

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

she got possessed and Squall had to save her, oh man it was a brilliant and touching scene when they are both lost in space with the oxygen running out.

Also how can you compare her with Vanille?
Final Fantasy XIII was full of dull boring characters not once did I ever get the same feeling in that game as I did with the space scene in FFVIII.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Ares84HU5048d ago

I don't know what this argument is about but when it comes to FF all characters are a tie.

THE most annoying characters ever created can be found in FF. All of them annoy the hell out of me. I couldn't play more than two hours with FF13 because of the annoying and cheese characters. Everything in that game was so damn gay.

gaffyh5048d ago

There were two twins in Infinite Undiscovery that were REALLY annoying. It was actually one of the reasons I stopped playing the game. There were also some annoying kids in Lost Odyssey, but they weren't as bad.

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maddfoxx5048d ago (Edited 5048d ago )

"she neve really was clingy over main character Squall for the entire game she was either too busy *annoying* him. . ."

Like how you tried to redeem her and then ended up calling her annoying. Hell, clinginess is annoying in its own right. Admit it, there is no other way to describe Rinoa.

user54670075048d ago

I didn't call her annoying...I said she annoyed Squall, making fun of him, for being so emotionaly closed. It was a bit of fun on Rinoas part and it was funny how uncomfortable she made Squall

maddfoxx5048d ago

To be fair, you did list some annoying qualities. A lot of people find Rinoa annoying. You even said she was clingy and makes the other characters feel annoying. Those are annoying qualities

I find her annoying because she is very pushy, immature, always throwing fits, always needing to be saved, etc. She has some of the qualities that men hate in women.

crxss5048d ago

i personally loved Rinoa, she was hot and motivates Squall to actually do something, as in the entire FF8 story.

Pozzle5048d ago (Edited 5048d ago )

I agree. One of the things I've always liked about FFVIII is that the main characters are teenagers who (for the most part) act like real teenagers. They make mistakes, they have flaws, they sometimes act immature or annoying, and they often say and do things that teenagers (no, regular PEOPLE) would do. And that's not a bad thing imo. I've played too many RPGs where the teenage characters either act far too old for their age, or speak in bizarre Shakespearean esque dialogue, or just act in ways that no normal person would act.

But FFVIII's characters usually made sense to me. Even when I didn't agree with them, I could usually see where they were coming from, or why they were doing what they were doing. Even when I was yelling at the screen things like "No, Rinoa! The sorceress will kill you if you try to put that bracelet on her!!" I could still understand why she chose to put herself in such a situation. Her motives made sense...even though you could usually see that they would end in failure.

Does Rinoa have her annoying moments? Yes...what person doesn't? Does that make her an annoying character? Not in my opinion. Sure, she does need a lot of saving in FFVIII. But it never seemed pointless to me. I never got the impression she was a damsel in distress just for the sake of being a damsel in distress. She usually got into such situations by either trying to help the team out (and in doing so, biting off more than she can chew) or because more powerful forces put her in that situation (which would then advance the plot). And even though she did need a lot of saving from Squall and the gang, I never really thought she was weak because of it. She kept on fighting and staying strong. Even after all the times she screwed up and/or saw herself as useless. And that made her a pretty cool character imo.

/sorry for the essay

310dodo5048d ago

I found rinoas to be realistic too

oh man how can they pick rinoa!!!?

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specialguest5048d ago (Edited 5048d ago )

The character development in FF8 in my opinion was strong. Rinoas' personality from the high points of her character to her petty flaws and the way she interacts with Squall made her realistic.

There are many games where female characters are often portrayed in a cliche-ish way. A sort of flawed way that a typical male would imagine a female character should act like, influenced by pop culture. With Rinoa in FF8, you could easily imagine or even know real girls who have similar personalities as she does.

MRMagoo1235047d ago

I wasnt annoyed by rinoa at all in ff8 i even called my daugher rinoa she is 5 months old now

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leogets5048d ago

Wow no dumb halo aliens or rico from killzone2? Strange

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Knightofelemia5048d ago

I would rather pick Slippy the rod from Star Fox then Rinoa from FF8 she was not as annoying as that damn frog. I actually liked Rinoa I thought she was a better character the Vanille.

DivineAssault 5048d ago

FF13 characters SUCKED! i never felt the emotional ties with them as i did with all of the previous FF games.. Who the F*#^ decided to make the espers turn into motor vehicles?!?!?
Vanille was the most annoying FF character of all time to me.. It wasnt just her voice either.. Rinoa wasnt that bad.. @ least you didnt have to hear the squeaky voice

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Neonridr130d ago

I mean 0, 1 and Code Veronica should be way before we get into 5 or 6.

Darkseeker130d ago

5 and 6 are so bad that even Capcom want to pretend they don't exist.

Levii_92130d ago

Dude Code Veronica is bad too but RE5 and 6 were mega successful and to me it makes much more sense for Capcom to do them instead. Nobody cares about Code Veronica except niche fixed camera era RE fans, i bet most modern RE fans probably don't know Code Veronica even exists. Based on all that i don't believe CV remake is coming but we will see i guess.

MehmetAlperTR130d ago (Edited 130d ago )

Actually RE5-6 was not Classic RE game.. They are not even Survival Horror game.. They are just an action game with coop and named by RE... And for me RE Code Veronica was masterpiece.. I remembered the first time i played it in Dreamcast.. It was absouletly excellent game. And specially for RE6.. I was quit from game after the camera shakes when Leon's kick to zombies.. There's a video about RE6 and they are telling the truth about that shitty game https://www.youtube.com/wat... here it is.. Enjoy it..

Neonridr130d ago

people are DYING for a Code Veronica Remake. Not sure who you are talking to, but the die-hard RE fans of the series are very familiar with every entry. That's what it means to be called a die-hard fan.

neutralgamer1992130d ago

Levii

I am sure If they were to remake CV that it 2ont have fixed camera angle. I hope whatever they do they take their time like RE2/4 remakes and not rushed with cut content like RE3 remake

Before they should do RE5 they should go back and remake earlier games. In a perfect scenario we would get CV and RE/Zero before RE5/6

Tapani129d ago

Code Veronica on Dreamcast was absolutely AWESOME.

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LucasRuinedChildhood130d ago (Edited 130d ago )

It makes more sense for them to remake earlier games like Code Veronica. RE5 is a good game though - it's not THAT different from RE4.

RE5 just doesn't really need to remade in general. The co-op element makes it tricky - you'd probably add more moments where Chris is by himself enhance the horror but some would want co-op to stay.

thesoftware730130d ago

RE:5 Was and still is a great game, with hands down the best Merc mode, that I still play from time to time with my brother.

RE:6 blah, I agree, it was awful.

Redgrave130d ago

Other than Code Veronica, 6 is the one ai want to see remade the most only because pretty much everything has to be redone; can't streamline that hot mess.

DarXyde130d ago

6 was pretty bad. 5 just tried too hard in being an action-oriented RE4.

In some fairness to Capcom, 5 was the first Resident Evil on then-new hardware for them (X360 and PS3). And it was pretty damn hard to follow up RE4.

Imagine everyone's surprise when EA of all companies dropped Dead Space.

Alos88129d ago

The first half of 5 wouldn't be too hard to do in the more grounded style the remakes have gone for, but the second half gets pretty silly and uncomfortable at parts.
6 is a wash. You'd have to basically make a whole new game to salvage that one at this point.

__y2jb129d ago

6 is garbage. 5 is excellent.

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_Decadent_Descent130d ago

Hopefully if and when they do a RE5 remake, they give it the RE3 remake treatment, because this is certainly one title that I don't want a faithful remake of.

gerbintosh130d ago

I need a Parasite Eve remake

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