Raiden, I thought he was cool sometimes, but I never really hated him.

creepy_rabbit:
The adoring fan from oblivion...

Yeah, I don't get that. He is low priority (No bounty for killing) and a nice torch holder. If you just don't talk to him he wont annoy you.

Woe Is You:

poleboy:

Eiseman:
I'll be the first to defend Raiden as being "misunderstood."

I completely agree. The people who actually bothered to play the game, as opposed to simply looking at a picture of a bishonen in a weird bodysuit and scream "Lol, fag!" will know that

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That still didn't stop the bugger from shouting completely silly lines like "COLONEL, I HAVE MANAGED TO AVOID DROWNING". And most of his lines are like that. Some of us hate him for that.

Eh, I suppose... I think Snake is just as bad though, and then it becomes kind of a moot point. He didn't "ruin" the MGS games in the way that a lot of people seem to believe.

Agreed with Raiden. You can see what Kojima was trying to do though. Snake is the grizzled, All-American super-badass and they needed someone with a Japanese anime feel to them to balance the game out, a kind of Light v Dark, Ying and Yang thing.

Also, not a very well known character, but;

Imran Zakhayev from Call of Duty 4.

Brucie and Manny from GTA IV.

Terrible characters. I hope they bring back Brucie in the inevitable GTA V just so he can fall down a well.

I liked Little Jacob, even though I had absolutely no idea what he was saying 95% of the time.

I understood Little Jacob completely, it was his friend that I couldn't understand, the name escapes me.

I LOVE Luigi. I don't know why.

Luigi is cool. Waluigi is an absolute waste of space though.

The Sorrow:
I LOVE Luigi. I don't know why.

I think Nintendo has some kind of personal vendetta against Weegee. Any game where he's a main character either sucks (Mario is Missing) or tries to make him look like a pussy (Luigi's Mansion, Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga).

I blame the old Super Mario Brothers cartoon for this. He was a spineless worrywart then, and for some reason he's stuck that way.

people seem to hate raphael with a passion cuz hes a dick in the soul caliber games. i personally love him, cuz hes such a prick. i think it makes him a interesting char, and hes a lot of fun to play as too.

Arbiter and sonic

Slippy...

Sorry, I lied everyone hates Slippy.

A_Red_Sky_Morning:
Going back in time to N64-days again, I despised that effing owl in TLoZ:OoT, whatever his stupid name was. In his few appearances, he managed to annoy me to no end. And now, in retrospect, I don't know why.

Just letting it out there.

Caepora Gaebora was the owls name

Luigi is cool. Waluigi is an absolute waste of space though.

Couldn't agree more, Luigi is at times hilarious, and he's a good counterweight to Mario :D

As for character that most people hate I'm gonna go with JarJar, if you watched the movie when you were 9 he was actually not that bad, and and I have kept that impression.

Manny from grim fandango, im thinking about the next puzzle and he's shouting vrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom non-stop. Shut.up.already

Imoen from BG II, i never liked her

Sigint in MGS3 is supposed to be the comic relief, too bad he's the technology expert with extremely unfunny stereotypical black guy jokes

but of course the most universally hated character of all time is

.........Rose............

A_Red_Sky_Morning:
Going back in time to N64-days again, I despised that effing owl in TLoZ:OoT, whatever his stupid name was. In his few appearances, he managed to annoy me to no end. And now, in retrospect, I don't know why.

Just letting it out there.

I hated him because he always talked alot, he never said anything I found interesting, because I couldn't fast skip it, and because sometimes when he asked 'would you like to hear that again' you'd press 'yes' because the cursor had that option as a default marking and you were mashing the continue button so fast that you didn't even notice it.

Rose from MGS2, "Jack, i know you're saving the president and all that but i need to talk to you about when, where and what we did after we first met."

Wasn't this supposed to be a thread about characters that you like, despite the fact that everyone else seems to hate them?

Meh, I guess hatin's what people do best on the internet.

Eldritch Warlord:
Does Jar Jar count?

I didn't think he was anything special but I don't see why everyone hates him.

i don't see why everyone hates jar jar ether...he was my favorite character :D

chickenlord:

Eldritch Warlord:
Does Jar Jar count?

I didn't think he was anything special but I don't see why everyone hates him.

i don't see why everyone hates jar jar ether...he was my favorite character :D

Well, putting a badly acted CGI character in place just for the kids who is a basis of a racist archetype might be one reason.

Retomoto from Kane & Lynch, WELL I HATED HIM! Even though lynch fucked up kanes family, you gotta love the guy for saying "I was aiming for her legs".

I think the characters from final fantasy are unfairly hated, lets be fair for a moment..

Their all the same character so how can you hate one and not hate all them?

To answer the question however Farnam the Drunk from Diablo 1, great character, lots of depth. He gave great advice if you could sift through the drunkenness.

The Sonic the Hedgehog after the jump to 3D and the addition of voice actors.

weirdaljedifan2:
The Sonic the Hedgehog after the jump to 3D and the addition of voice actors.

Explain yourself.

Raiden from MGS2.
I think he's a pretty good character, I think if people just looked beyond the hair, and accepted that he's not Snake then we would be problem free.

On a further note about FF protagonists, I don't understand what's with the whole "they're all emo" thing. I can't really think of any of them as being whiny or anything.
If you look at Cloud (the main offender), he's actually a super soldier gone wrong who's trying to deal with that without really knowing what's happening to him, as well as dealing with a load of terrible events in his past. If anyone has a right to whine it's him, and he doesn't.
Then the next in line, Tidus. He is the most whiny of the lot but again he's got some good reasons. His mother died when he was young, he was neglected by his father, he's trapped 1000 years into the future, everyone seems to think he's either crazy or a heretic, or both. And then he discovers soom pretty shocking revelations later. Despite all the this he hardly ever gets upset about his whole situation, quite rarely whines and is actually pretty happy most of the time.
Finally the new target of hate, Vaan. This one I really don't understand. He's poor, as far as I can tell homeless, living in an oppressed country and gets caught up in a political situation which he doesn't understand at all. And yet he's the most upbeat protagonist in a FF game?!?!

So I fail to see how you can call them emo?

Sonic, but somehow I loved the first ones...

No one that played Suikoden 3 seemed to have liked Hugo, calling him a stereotypical inexperienced young hero that was unrelateable, but I thought he was a strong protagonist. He went through a lot and had a right to his angst and sure he was a stubborn/reckless character, but he was thrown from one kind of society into another.

Light Yagami from Death Note

Death Magnetic:
I understood Little Jacob completely, it was his friend that I couldn't understand, the name escapes me.

Badman

Shiuz91:
Light Yagami from Death Note

Second. Although the first L, Ryuzaki, was better.

As for Raiden, I liked him, especially when he got the HF blade. It was rose I couldn't stand.

I've heard people disrespecting Olga from MGS2, and I thought she was effing great, the only character who seemed human. especially her last words: "Live. You have to " shot in the head.

Tails from Sonic adventure. As soon as they gave him an voice, I considered giving him a beating!

Sounded like you'd taken a small child out with you for the day and they're calling you back every 5 minutes to make sure you don't have fun.

I don't hate tails in the other games, just this one because of how whiny he is. I haven't played any of the sonic games POST Dreamcast (tbh).

Zelda in some the games is just plain artarded. She's not so useless and annoying in OOT and TP but the other few she's in, she's pretty useless. She just gets kidnapped whilst carrying out the most simplest of tasks, like showering, or going into the market and buying tampons.

Brucie. i didnt even know he was hated. i loved the character
"What are we about, boy" he has so many memorable quotes!
"Do you think my balls are funny"
"Fucking ALPHA"
"Were winners, man. FUCKING WINNERS"
"We should bomb this city. But a sexy bomb, that only affects blondes, with tan and D.cups"
"Bitches, the Boss..."
I could go on, you know.

I thought Raiden from mgs was pretty cool, but everyone seem hate konami for not making mgs 2 entirely about snake. And I always thought rayman was a cool character, but many of my friends find him annoying for some reason.

meatloaf231:
Brucie.

I find him hilarious.

Brucie is definitely a master of comic relief, it's FUCKING INTENSE!

shatnershaman:
The Arbiter and Elites in General.

Going by the games alone the Arbiter is definitely the best character (although I've stated before with the books it becomes Truth). Elites are among the most awesome aliens ever. I don't get why killing something makes people hate it.

shatnershaman:

silentsentinel:
Lots of people hate the Master Chief. I don't know why. Well, I do, but I think it's a stupid reason. "Not enough character" or "Steryotypical super-soldier". Well, I like being a steryotypical super soldier, and will continue to play the Halo series.

Oh, and I know it sounds like a stupid and nerdy argument, but if you read the Halo novels, you'll discover that the Chief is actually quite interesting. Just so you know...

Master Chief is hated???

Weird isn't it? I don't see why he gets more flak than Goron Freeman, at least the Chief talks.

Do they think that just because Gordon has a face, last name, and degree from MIT he is a better developed character?

I love Half-Life 2 by the way, don't misinterpret me.

Eiseman:
I'll be the first to defend Raiden as being "misunderstood."

Dude, the Jack and Rose stuff (though justified--if I am not mistaken in the game--) did not help the player like those two characters. As a matter of fact...I spent the next 20 minutes of game time killing Raiden until I could get the cuteness meter down.

Rusman:
All the guys from GTA San Andreas particularly the stoner one... and your brother... Bloody glorified chav's is all they were.

Oh and Luigi... Pr*ck...

the Stoner one...you mean The Truth?but,i hated Sweet too.

characters everyone seems to hate...how 'bout...every character in Saint's row?