Top 5 Useless Video Game Characters

[Nick]

So tell us what you think should have been on this weeks top 5. Once again, the topic was Useless Video Game Characters. I know we may have forgotten a lot of good ones so let us know!

[ca36gtp]

1. Princess Toadstool - Seriously. What a silly bint.

2. Vincent - The most disposable character in FF7, who goes on to star in arguably the biggest black mark on the entire FF7 compilation.

3. Rebecca Chambers - I dare anyone to argue this one.

4. Sherry Birkin - Sorry to pick on Resident Evil, but it had a SYMPHONY of useless characters.

5. Zelda - Clearly Princess Toadstool in disguise, if the cow would stop getting in trouble all the time, Link could retire to a tropical island somewhere and babe-watch with Mario.

[Raiden]

Not in order...
Tails
Natalya(Goldeneye)
Baby Mario(Yoshi's Island)
Slippy Toad
8-Ball(GTA3) That damn tanker mission

[icyevilchief]

Yuffie
The Judge from Ace attorney
Cait sith
Aries
Gillmen

[shruikan]

5. kongol-legend of dragoon
4. selphi-ff8
3. Gaspard-.hack G.U.
2. Piros the 3'rd- .hack G.U.
1. Yuffie -FF7...all she really did in the game was cause trouble nothing more....

[Risha]

I feel bad because I have always thought that Zidane from FF9 was a totally useless character (no I am not just saying this because Brad thinks so too, I have always hated Zidane, he was even the inspiration for my idea of top 5 useless characters).

I also think that Wakka in FFX was pretty useless. He's such a fun character, and I think he's awesome, but his attacks were never that great. I hardly ever used him because of that.

Mayu in Fatal Frame 2 is friggin useless. She just follows you around and gets attacked by ghosts.

As well, Kei Amakura from Fatal Frame 3 (the guy). His only "special skill" in the game is being able to push large objects, and hide behind stuff. Rei and Miku are both great because Miku has a higher "spirit sense" or something (so her pictures do more damage pretty much) and Rei is balanced in both aspects...but Kei has like no spirit sense (I dunno if that's what you call it, but whatever), so his pictures suck. And they didn't even make him able to run faster than the girls, wtf?

Navi from Zelda. I loathe this friggin fairy with all of my being.

Mr. Resetti from Animal Crossing. Another one I loathe. I wish to shoot him in the face with a shotgun, grr. All he does is b*tch and b*tch and b*tch, nothing useful comes from him!

Oh, one more...the dog from Duck Hunt. Did anyone else mention him? He's pretty friggin useless, all he does is mock you when you fail. He never tries to help you by gnawing on the ducks when they're close to the ground. No, of course not, that would be too easy.

[geminidragon]

Whoa, what's with all this Navi hate? I cried when Navi left at the end of Ocarina. Yes, I cried, because I am an everyman, and an everyman is allowed to cry. So suck it!

As for my useless character suggestion, I am tempted to say Toad. I freaking hated that useless shroom headed freakazoid.

[ca36gtp]

I think Zidane got a raw deal in FF9, despite the fact that he wasn't that great a character to begin with.

Final Fantasy games, at least since FFV or so, has always been a single-character driven game. Sure, everyone had their storylines, but each game picked one character (usually the main player character) to focus events around.

FFIX definitely took an ensemble approach, even introducing a "Meanwhile.." system specifically intended to draw the limelight AWAY from you the player. And when it comes to emotional investment and sympathy, Vivi and to a lesser extent Steiner COMPLETELY stole FFIX.

Zidane never stood a chance to make the kind of impact a Cloud or Squall did.

[Risha]

ca36gtp said:

I think Zidane got a raw deal in FF9, despite the fact that he wasn't that great a character to begin with.

Final Fantasy games, at least since FFV or so, has always been a single-character driven game. Sure, everyone had their storylines, but each game picked one character (usually the main player character) to focus events around.

FFIX definitely took an ensemble approach, even introducing a "Meanwhile.." system specifically intended to draw the limelight AWAY from you the player. And when it comes to emotional investment and sympathy, Vivi and to a lesser extent Steiner COMPLETELY stole FFIX.

Zidane never stood a chance to make the kind of impact a Cloud or Squall did.

It's all personal preference. I hate Zidane and think he's useless. You don't. Neither is right or wrong.

[ca36gtp]

Don't misunderstand, I thought Zidane was a poor character as well. I was just pointing out that he also had the deck stacked against him, because FF9 had several characters that were WAY better than Zidane and deserved more screentime than him, which Square somehow seemed to recognize ahead of time.

Also, I didn't mean to give the impression that I was arguing with you. Apologies

[dafishies]

here are my top 5's

5. I've always felt that the person from animal crossing who has no face at all. if you travel to somebody else's town u might encounter this little dude or lady or literally has NO face at all and u have to draw it in. its just soo annoying because wtf is the point??? in real life do u DRAW someones face for them? no u don't. its just retarted and annoying that i have to draw this face and go into this complete 5 minute dialogue when its ridiculous and i shouldn't have too.

4. From mario kart double dash, baby luigi and baby mario. wtf is up with that?? their "car"sucks, they suck idk wats so important about them that makes them in the game. if u wanna choose mario or luigi choose ACTUAL mario or luigi not "baby" mario and luigi. its stoopid and idk why anybody would pick them. its just remaking characters just to make more playable ppl.

3. my number three is actually going to be panther from starfox assault. I know that he's not a bad character but he is just so frikin useless. They don't explain why he is in the star wolf team or why he has a rose on his ship. I feel like i missed a whole game cause of this new character who is just there so that star wolf has another little pal. its so ridiculous it blinds me.

2. number two would have to definately be Tingle from Legend of zelda for exactly the same reasons that......david? has. he has no point to him. he doesn't give u maps he sells them. he's a poser. he has no real reason to be in the game and is just ridiculous.

1. MY NUMBAH ONE IS GOING TO BE from the original mario bros. and hopefully u know who i'm talking about........TOAD THE A-WHOLE. i mean everytime i beat a castle ****ing toads. YES I BEAT THE 5TH CASTLE..................F***ING TOAD U FUICJASLKFJN:LKSFJSD:F. so ridiculous not even worth saying. It would be nice if they changed it to like a different character or something but its just the same F***ing toads every single time. and its so annoying that it made me want to never play the game again. but i did anyways

anyways that was my top five so hope u enjoyed

[theotherbarber]

i just have one for all the top 5:

Goofy from Kingdom Hearts 1, he never did me a damn bit of good.

[dafishies]

kinda funny since I think david or travis said that donald would spam magic and goofy was actually good

[notoriousv]

Shit. In no particular order

Boris - Goldeneye
Natalya - Goldeneye
Duriel - Diablo 2
Hadriel - Diablo 2
Adoring Fan - Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion

There are probably others, but my mind isn't working well at the moment.

[exocel]

quina - final fantasy 9, did he affect the plot in ANY way?
faceless protagonist - Doom 3, so what if you died, so mars is hell now, if you can at least hold your own as a one man army, maybe earth will send the ACTUAL army of the time to do the job if you fail?
princess peach - mario games in general, dumb bint gets kidnapped every week and never tries to escape, she always waits for mario.
the mole from animal crossing all he does is bitch about you not saving before you turned off and effects NOTHING.
The pyschic vampire at the beach in vampire the masquerade: bloodlines, all she does is give away the plot, nothing more.