5 Of the Most Unlikeable Video Game Protagonists

There are good video game protagonists, and there are bad video game protagonists.

[GhostScholar]

I disagree that max is unlikable. Chloe is infinitely more unlikable in my opinion.

[gold_drake]

omg chloe was awful. i really hated her at the end haha

[Cacabunga]

Abby was absolute trash protagonist in every way..
Tidus was so meh to me..
On villain side, the one i didn’t like wa Micah, because they wanted him to be that way and it was brilliant👍🏽

[Rancegamerx]

I agree, I liked Max, Chloe was a horrible friend and a bad influence.

[Cacabunga]

Everyone agrees on chloe, I’m sure even ND do.

[H9]

Both are horrible, granted Chloe is infinitely worse, it feels like Chloe is just fanservice for people who too over the edge and wasn't written to be a character that makes sense

[GooGobbler]

What about that Forspoken Tw*t

[MrChow666]

exactly I was expecting it to be a the top of the list

[ravens52]

Ye I was expecting her too. Guess they actually played the game. Unlike you and whoever agrees.

[gpimlott]

I played through the whole game and think she is one of the worst character Ive ever played as

[ravens52]

gpimlott. How?

[Stanjara]

Why would I payed and played the game if the whole internet is making fun of a character?

-Im here to kill Chaos...are you Chaos?

Yeah, I didn't play that game either.

[Christopher]

She's actually not bad. It's the writing itself that is bad overall, but she's fine overall. She's no worse than Miles Morales IMHO. Both thrust into a spotlight and receiving both praise and blame and dealing with it.

Forspoken is a bland game because it's 75% bland, boring, repetitive going through the motions and diversions that add nothing of the value with purposefully gated memory moments that don't feel organic or like you're discovering things but waiting for others to reveal things.

[ravens52]

Exactly Chris. Even though I liked the game. I kno u played it. People who actually played it and went thru her dream saw she was a good likeable person who really just acted out due to being alone and unloved. I think your problem is it was open world, I think if it was more linear you may have liked it better.

[savedsynner]

Oh no she's bad. Very unlikable even before you add on the bad dialogue. The game could have been quite good with a good protagonist

[ravens52]

For all the people like synner. Shes actually half white lol. Inferior complexity is a hell of a thing. You'll be ok.

[gpimlott]

was thinking about her right away aswell!

[Nerdmaster]

Most of these aren't even that bad. Especially comparing to others like Squall "Whatever" Leonhart, Forspoken's Frey, and the guy from Atomic Heart.

[-Foxtrot]

Squall is one of the best developed main FF characters so...

People talk about his "whatever" thing thats at the start of the game, not the character he eventually becomes in the end.

[Nerdmaster]

No amount of "character development", (especially the ones that for me feels sudden and undeserved like Squall's), will justify him being a d**k to my girl Quistis. Even if he found the cure for cancer, from that moment on, I would never like him.
The article is about being unlikeable, and he was indeed unlikeable for at least half of the game.

[BrainSyphoned]

Squall is the best protagonists in FF so you can go whatever yourself.

[H9]

My good sir, I need to steal that "you can go whatever yourself" because it's gold

[BlaqMagiq1]

Except Squall has actual character development.

[gold_drake]

the "watever" is only present in the english localisation.
so your argument doesnt rly ... stand imo.

[Nerdmaster]

Good for you that you could enjoy the japanese version. That's not the case for me and the majority of people here, though.

[gold_drake]

i had to stop reading after the "blatant misogyny" in the Dantes inferno section.

i actually liked Max haha.

the forspoken chick is missing tho

[badz149]

Lara Croft in the new trilogy is quite unlikeable too IMO

[gamerz]

Mopey Aloy

[Barlos]

Yes! By the end of Forbidden West I couldn't stand Aloy. It was just never ending sighing and sarcasm from her, and she seemed to have a problem with pretty much everyone she came across. Great game let down by a thoroughly unlikeable character.

[Fonsecap]

What about the chick from Forspoken?

[-Foxtrot]

The thing about Abby is Mel within the game said it the best

"You're a piece of Shit Abby"

[anast]

Abby is cool.

[Popsicle]

Unpopular opinion, but Aloy in HFW. Dry, condescending, arrogant, etc.

[Shane Kim]

Love the games but she can be too much.

[Espangerish]

The guy from atomic heart.

[MrChow666]

I couldnt stand bossy Freya in Raganarok, just stfu, good old Kratos would have decapitated her long ago

[H9]

Good to know that I am not the only one on this, like she is supposed to be angry and want to revenge, but holy crap her character feels like it written by multiple people who don't know what the other wrote

[-Foxtrot]

Freya is fantastic, she's a great character and when Kratos was with Freya after her long arc she was better with him than Atreus.

[ChasterMies]

I’m sure gameluster.com has no incel issues.

[ravens52]

Everyone who says Frey obviously didn't play the game. Its weird truthfully. Trying to downplay something so hard, that you've never played. Wonder what about Frey triggers yall 🤔.

[DrDoomer]

Kratos in the early games and Agent 47. I like the games but I never liked those bald douchebags. But the protag from saints row 2 definitely takes the cake as the biggest c@nt in gaming history.

[phoenixwing]

only angry teenagers will disagree with you about early kratos. he was just a bad person the whole time until the soft reboot.

[H9]

Yes Max is horrendous, she is what every Tumblr user wants to be and that should tell you how horrible that is!

About Dante, I don't understand the complain, this is not a direct adaptation of Divine Comedy i don't know who told the writer of this article that this game is supposed to be a educational game!

[babadivad]

What's wrong with Max?

[Barlos]

I'm going to suggest Aloy. I thought Horizon Forbidden West was a great game but by the end of it I really disliked Aloy. Her constant sighing and snarky attitude really grated on me by the end.

I hope, if there is ever a third game, they get rid of Aloy and introduce a new, more likeable character without the constant attitude.

[0hMyGandhi]

Atomic Heart's protagonist. I actually really liked the game as whole, just because of how weird it was, but he was utterly obnoxious to listen to, and just overly rude/cruel to literally everyone around him for no apparent reason.

[ManMarmalade]

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[Shinkus]

I don't think this game was underrated at all. I was beyond excited for it back in the day, to the point I went to my local GameStop's midnight release with my friend and was letdown with what the game turned out to be. The game was pitifully short and had completely erratic difficulty. I think the setting based on the book was the only thing that helped the game out at all from standing out.