Why Do People Hate Oddjob In Goldeneye 007?

There's a reason Goldeneye players can't stand this guy.

[TheEnigma313]

If you've even played Golden Eye multiplayer, this wouldn't be a question. He is short naturally, and when you crouch with him, you can run up to people and chop them and it's hard to stop it if he sneaks up on you.

[TeamIcoFan]

What's puzzling is that in the film, Goldfinger, Oddjob's not short. So why they made him short in the game is a mystery.

[TheSenorCheese]

That's what we were wondering!

[LordStig]

I'm guessing they mixed up oddjob with the little guy from "the man with the golden gun"

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Really it's no surprise, it's the opposite reason for people avoid Jaws though, no one wanted to be a massive target.

[purple101]

He was over powered in n64 because of height. And placement of yellow direction buttons on the gamepad/ controller,. It took more clicks to aim on him .

Just too short. Haha. And slightly ugly prehaps. At least on n64 version.

Alex travellion face was also something to behold if memory serves correct.

[CrimsonWing69]

He’s short and even with auto aim it takes a moment for your gun to aim down. Meanwhile he’s blasting away your crotch and we played on License to Kill so yea, no Oddjob allowed.

[fleshzombie]

Come on bro, everyone knows picking Oddjob is considered cheating.

[NotoriousWhiz]

Even the developers knew that. Oddjob was for your little cousin who needed a handicap.

[Dandizzle]

Because he is short and with the n64 controller it is not easy to aim downward on the fly, so he ends up dodging most shots.

[jznrpg]

It’s obvious in the game. His target area is half of any other player and looking down and shooting at the same time was slower to accomplish and if they were of equal skills and using him you would die first most of the time . We banned him from our matches unless they were new to the game .
I played a ton of this back in the day but have zero desire to ever go back. Multiplayer games have come a long way since but those are boring to me also.

[Monkeycan8]

He's short

[masterfox]

who?

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Oddjob is was hated for being extremely short and hard to shot in the game. Oddly, in the films Oddjob is like 5’10 and not a dwarf. The timesplitters series solved the character height issues of Goldeneye by giving smaller characters low health and faster than average speed.