geralt, his outfit and any of the customization options for him are just awful to me. He himself his fine though.

The handler in Monster Hunter World... She's apparently supposed to be something like a scholar, and backup for the hunter. But all that I can remember is how annoying and useless she was most of the time, not to mention how unmemorable she is visually..... And I swear to the elder dragons, if I hear her shout "AIBOU/PARTNER" one more time..............

Oh, so many characters whose design I dislike or even hate. Kane & Lynch were a bunch of ugly old weirdos. Agent 47 (Hitman) is just some bland looking skinhead. Don't get me started about the whole zoo of ridiculous side-characters in the Sonic games.

I think I'm gonna go with Bayonetta. I know she's received a lot of hate (and love) for being 'sexy', but that's absolutely not the argument here for me.

I don't mind sexy. At all. And I feel sexy characters should exist in gaming, in movies, in comics, wherever. They have a place in our creative media.

No, I think the face, hair and body all just looks ridiculous. That head is extremely tiny, I hate the glasses and the overall 'librarian' look. The hairdo is obviously OTT but that's because it serves as a weapon. Doesn't make it attractive though. And the extremely long legs and tiny wasp waist just look a bit silly.

And again, I don't mind exaggerating the female form for some sexual effects, but with Bayonetta, it all just looks unattractive, to me at least.

Not to mention her outfits.

Tingle from Zelda. Just ugly.

I don’t think I really disliked any other video game character designs though. At least from what I played.

Jessica from Resident Evil Revelations. Her swimsuit is the worst outfit I have ever seen in my life.

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Final fantasy 15: i hated all 4 of these ungrateful boring teenagers

I'll be pelted with tomatoes for this answer but here it is:

Mario. And all the other characters in those games. Don't get me wrong, most of the games are still fun to play, but the characters are horrible IMO

being a fan of the original trilogy its sad but i dont like the design of gears character as well.. specially the whole arc of marcus pheonix who started as a generic dude bro soldier and then they tried to humanize him later which just didnt work. And the dialogue? first lines of marcus: ah shit... 2nd line of marcus: (looks at a hanging corpse) NIceeee

Nooj from Final Fantasy X-2. Just a god awful design. He looks like a Christmas disaster.

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Birdo. Ridiculous.

Dante from the DmC reboot. I really hated the westernized design and short hair not to mention his attitude and personality as well. I wish they had the same clothes too cause the new one had just a normal jacket which was really uninspiring. Really didn't like him at all.

I came to say Bayonetta because of her Bizzare reputation of sex appeal and intentional disproportion but it's been said so I'll go next in line.

Nico Bellick of GTA IV fame. Looks like someone melted Jason Statham and put on a bad foreign accent. My dislike of both himself and Roman made that game a chore to play.

Bubsy, because he's just a boring cat wearing a white shirt with an exclamation point on it, nuff said.

The skier from the windows 95 Ski Jump game, he didn't ever really change dimensions.

Emo Kid Dante in DmC

Have to go with the pokemon designs for the latest gens

Sonic in Sonic boom. Dont like that scarf.

Raiden from MGS 2 and why ??? BECAUSE HE WAS NOT SNAKE, I WANTED SNAKE, SNAKEEEEEEEE

The sprites from Secret of Mana remake, plain ulgy, lazy remake.

While I love the game. Jet Force Gemini characters. My god what an abomination. Bulging eyes. Expressionless faces. So you remember the late 90s and early 2000s when western games tried to look more anime but came across as something weird? Think Sudeki on Xbox. This will be oddly specific and weird on top of that but the main character looks like Beck from Mighty No 9 when the former community manager drew her own version of beck as a female. That same kind of style. Creepy plastic doll face with giant weird green eyes that have a more realistic shape than anime. These kinda designs favor green eyes for whatever reason. It just looks horrible.

Cole from original infamous..so generic and forgettable

This will get a bunch of hate, but my choice is Cayde-6 from the Destiny games. He is one of the most annoying characters I have ever encountered. It probably doesn't help that I can't stand his voice actor, but I don't think I would like the character much more if someone else had voiced him. I know he is supposed to be some sort of comic relief, but in the end he is just annoying and pointless.

Mario. The whole plumber thing looks awful.

Lara Croft in early Tomb Raider games coz of unusual and straight forward boobs.

This one is war harder than the “who wore it best” one.
Nope just realized my answer as I was typing. Tingle. Tingle makes me question my sexuality, my sanity. Tingle makes me question everything.

That damn dot from Pong. Just horrible.

Hmmm there are a few characters I would think of but I would have to say Bayonetta... She looks weird and disproportionate never mind over the top (I could say that about lots of characters but this one strikes me more for some reason).

i choose the lemmings, they're so ugly and minimalistic

Pepsiman.

His design was offensively generic.

Tingle from The Legend of Zelda series. Ugh I just hate him. He looks like a weird ugly elf ompa lompa thing.

I played it again last night, and comfirmed my feelings. Crash has some of the worst mechanics, and the whole concept is just kinda throwed off. My kiddos like him kinda. But as a whole hes at the bottom of the cool list with my kids. Way behind sonic and kirby.

Faith from Mirrors Edge 2. EA/Dice changed her design from the first Mirrors Edge to suit the modern American feminist design. More violent, less attractive and always snarling. The entire game changed from running (its parkour rooftop running) and skillfull defence to MMA style beating down of all the police(men) singehandedly. The franchise is now on ice and the EA boycott goes on.

This isnt even a fair question. Big the Cat, destroyer of all.

Noctis from FF15. Nothing like a hipster prince.

I'd have to say that halo's master chief wore it worst. I think that the giant green armor is uninspired and takes little imagination to create as far as an artists choice of what he would look like. You also see that he isn't even really proportionate to a humans regular dimensions he's basically a giant.

Ima go with the guys from Infamous as a whole entity. Cole from 1/2 were like different people until they changed it and Deslin just isn't good. I don't really think people are clamoring to play as hipsters and don't think they ever were. Really fun games, but these guys just didn't do it for me.

Voldo from Soul Calibur. Total weirdo creepshow.

I'm thinking about these uninspired mascots from the mid 90s that were desperately trying to look like Sonic or Mario, often an animal or a hybrid of some sort. Even brands got in with pepsiman, that guy from sprite (tall lean awkward lookin' fella) , (cool spot from 7up was actually awesome) and the Noid from Domino's.
Rocky Rodent, Awesome Possum, Bubsy, Titus the fox, Zero the Kamikaze , all fondly loved and remembered, am I right? Oh and that electric duck.

Can't really think of one I really hate from a game that released but from a game that never was, it would have to be the new look concepts of Jak for the never made Jak 4 game. Those designs looked awful.

Oh good God Nooj wins that hands down. His costume looks hideous and I'm sorry but it just doesn't fit into any of the FF series lore.

Agent 47 is pretty dull imo. Overall I never really liked the hitman games, seem kind of shallow and without charecter progression. If they had had better cutscenes with Agent 47 and more variety in mission layout, perhaps:)

dmc Dante...hispter shit

Dante from DmC: Devil May Cry.....seriously, that's Danter?

And then of course, it's the Sonic Boom character designs. Horrible, just horrible. Some of them are passable, but Knuckles, Amy and Robotnik are terrible.

Can I say the entire cast of the Skylight Freerange games? The character models aren't the only atrocious thing in this series, which looks like an alpha of a PS1 title. In fact, no one should play these games. Ever.

Alot of JrPG characters like the FF and Persona ones, they are just so dumb and Cringey

The dude of Devil May Cry, not the old one, that one is fine. im talking about the one who looked like an emo. That was some retarded design for a monster killing machine lol. Now another one that comes to my mind is the Mad Max from the game of 2015. That man face didnt fit the worn aspect of a warrior in a post apocaliptic future. Way too generic handsome.. Sorry for any typo English its not my native...

The protagonist of the last Gears of War game. The one with a beard in the next one I saw a trailer for. He looks like a chode

Thomas from Thomas was Alone. He's a square, that's it. No thought put into that.

Loved the game though...

Dmc Dante was just terrible imo. He just looked douchebaggy

Navi from Ocarina of time because shut up, already.

How about that PUBG Joker skin lmao. So bad, picked the worst Joker, and they still could'nt get it right.

Dante DMC DMC ...what happened?

The dude of Devil May Cry, not the old one, that one is fine. im talking about the one who looked like an emo. That was some retarded design for a monster killing machine lol. Now another one that comes to my mind is the Mad Max from the game of 2015. That man face didnt fit the worn aspect of a warrior in a post apocaliptic future. Way too generic handsome.. Sorry for any typo English its not my native

Hainly Abrams in Mass Effect: Andromeda

She informs you that she's transgender during your first conversation, and she explains that the future galaxy of the original Mass Effect trilogy didn't solve the problem of transgender discrimination. She explains that she was routinely referred to by her pre-transition name (dead name), and that she came on the Andromeda mission to escape the baggage of that life.

This introduction is terrible for a number of reasons, all of which would have been easier to fix if the development team included more trans individuals before trying to address what we go through.

Reignhardt Schneider from Castlevania 64. He looked ridiculous and controlled for shit!

I have to agree with the sentiment that Gears of War characters don't look so great, but at least they stand out and have their own unique style. I did like the way they all looked in the upcoming game, but I'm not sure why they stand out when the older characters in the series didn't do it for me.

As for worst designed characters of all time? I dunno, that's a really had one to say. Most poorly designed characters are going to be forgotten pretty easily. I was never a fan of Bayonetta's design, as many people are mentioning, but I think she's supposed to be super over-the-top and I really don't think it's anywhere near as bad as many Japanese characters are.

I'll just name two recent ones. I don't necessarily think they're the worst of all time, but they're the two that come to mind in recent years. First is Pyra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Her design and some of the blades are literally the sole reason I can't bring myself to buy the game and play through it. The other character in recent memory is, as of now, Deacon St. John from Days Gone. Obviously the game isn't out yet, so that could totally change, but in everything I've seen so far he just seems so devoid of personality or originality. I really hope that that's not the case when we get our hands on the full version of the game.

I hate the lego this and lego that. It is beyond me why everything hss to look like characters.

That annoying, sweary, cockney chimp from the Beyond Good and Evil 2 trailers.

I have never encountered such an annoying character in my gaming history.

A very hard question to give a definite answer to... Thinking we should pick a character with a story, perhaps someone like Squall from Final Fantasy VIII is the worst. Or rather, the emo protagonist. I'm sure there are others like him. That said, there are tons of bad characters to go around in video games.

Lara Croft is a fantastic character. But in Rise of the Tomb Raider, her hair design was absolutely ridiculous.
The programming behind the physics made it as if her hair was alive and slithering around her head and neck. It was so unrealistic and annoying! Glad they fixed that derp concept for Shadow.

Kirby, his design always came across as lazy to me.

Vaan and penelo from ffxii, they are bland looking and bland characters. The look like they are wearing hume starting gear from ffxi

Dr. eggman is it for me, just the large stomach and long skinny legs, it's like it's not possible for his legs to gain weight. It looks like his shirt is too short, and he pulled his pants up to his chest to cover what the shirt can't. Also he looks like a weird wario.

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Before I give my answer, allow me to regale you with the 'pure' thoughts I had about the mascot platformer during the 90's...

"An era of creators looking to find their niche to emulate Ninty's Mario. Whether from internal houses or upstart devs, these artists wanted to imbue their mascot with some kind of character that'd stand out. And it could be anything: a magical glove, a gecko inspired by James Bond and endless 90's references, a bandicoot in slacks, a dragon, or...even a cat with a stupid t-shirt. Sony is responsible for headlining some of those wonderful characters. Fast forward ~20 years and what's headlining Sony's 4th Playstation console during its official reveal? A bunch of floating metal named Knack.

I don't understand how they could go so wrong on a character, from both his body and facial design. It looks so ugly, artistically speaking. It runs so antithetical from what mascot platformers are meant to be. Sure, businessmen jumped on the bandwagon pretty hard with mascots back then too, but there'd often be some detail with their photocopies that was interesting. Knack will always feel like a means to push "dem particle physics" first and foremost to me. It's near-impossible to find another platforming mascot that feels so design-by-committee. It's easy to point towards the plethora of military shooters and such too, but those often are married with the game's intent anyways. Even Knack's premise of shrinking/expanding could be implemented in different ways that evoke the kind of childhood fantasy being emulated. Running around as a bunch of rocks simply doesn't do that. Knack feels sooo much like the rumored behind-the-scenes story of Monster Trucks: some corporate exec grabs an idea conjured up by his 6yo grandchild and makes a feature film out of it.

Tingle. I don't know who came up with the design, but were they trying to make the worst video game character ever?

Lambert Lambert what a prick

Dante from DmC: Devil May Cry. Just can't come to not hate it. Looks like they designed him for Twilight movie. Really loved Dante with white hair and cool look.

DmC Dante. I get that they wanted a new design for the reboot but damn that was bad.

Seymour Guado from FF10. I hated his outfit, his hair, his face, and even his voice.

Moira from resident evil revelations 2. didn't like her unnecessarily profane not niceness.

Princess Peach. I mean how many times you got to save her. I guess it gave us something to do other than plumbing in the Mario games.

I know that the game will never release but the main character in Scalebound looked like straight trash. Cheesy!

I have to say the character portrayed by Kevin Spacey in Advanced Warfare because it was Kevin Spacey.

Star Wars Battlefront 2's Kashyyyk Multiplayer Map. The gameplay was solid, the maps were fun when you got to play ANYTHING OTHER THAN KASHYYYK. That map left a bad taste in my mouth, I wasn't happy about the microtransactions like everyone, but I stuck with it as they made changes. Yet joining the conquest mode, and constantly being put on Kashyyyk ruined SWBF2 for me.

Vaan from ffxii. He just doesnt look MC material and he even isnt MC material. Wish either his brother or balthier was the protag instead.