Worst RPG members ever

Jazz never died! said:
Saw that Kaiden is on this list for op while not a bad character spec wise having the most power heavy class in original Mass Effect. He is just boring and has no arc unlike every other party member in the franchise.
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I saved him once because I was curious to see what would happen in Mass Effect 3. I got the distinct feeling BioWare didn't expect anyone to have him survive unless they were romancing him for whatever reason, because he had absolutely nothing to do in 3 once he joins your squad. He mentions finding his old friends but that never amounts to anything. At least Ashley got a few decent scenes involving her family. It's hilarious because the game almost completely forgets about him too.
 
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Czargon the Red said:
Lowe gets a semi-pass because at least he's useful until you run out of MP, or get the other healer options and etc.

Now. . .Jogurt. There's a joke character.

yeah at 10/1 he's got some bullshit strength. Shame most of his class options are middling.

still, i'd think that he's useful on the virtue of just being someone you promote at level 10 and be done with it.
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I remember how much effort to get yogurt since I had no idea how to find them made him a massive disapointment not in the least because the jokes where shit. But shining force is full of dead weight party members and redundancies. I mean their are 6 knights with two psuado knights in shining force 1. Compared to two warriors .
 
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Emperor Julian said:
I never really liked ff8 even as a kid. Pretty much everything I could wheel out has been said but It does seem a marmite game.
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A lot of people hate and a lot of people love it. I think the soundtrack is the best in the entire franchise and the graphics pushed the ps1 to its limits. The story and characters are just fine in my eyes however the biggest ripe is gameplay with it trying to have you do timed hidden button prompts during combat that once you learn them amount to nothing in return and is just bad that none of the sequels ever did it again.
 
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It think part of the problem with ff8 is the party members are all really generic teenagers from any dull as dirt anime show. They're even visually very simular and the combat system does them no favours. I probably hate Zell the most but they're all either dull or unlikable. Quisis is probably the most likable and in most games she'd be the equivelant of a middling pc.
also voting squall should have gone with Quisis over riona. The only real redeeming trait of riona is naming the dog something rude which makes the limit breaks funny.

Not to mention the development of Square/japans increasingly creepy fetish for teens.
 
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Emperor Julian said:
It think part of the problem with ff8 is the party members are all really generic teenagers from any dull as dirt anime show. They're even visually very simular and the combat system does them no favours. I probably hate Zell the most but they're all either dull or unlikable. Quisis is probably the most likable and in most games she'd be the equivelant of a middling pc.
also voting squall should have gone with Quisis over riona. The only real redeeming trait of riona is naming the dog something rude which makes the limit breaks funny.

Not to mention the development of Square/japans increasingly creepy fetish for teens.
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A problem that earlier FF solved by making characters different ages. But muh orphanage subplot, which no one asked for and wasn't even necessary for most characters because muh amnesia. In fact, it's really that one extended cutscene that retcons every character besides Squall for no reason.

FFVIII my favorite, but it definitely has tons of flaws in it.
 
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Might be controversial but I dislike silly non-human characters that don't have anything to do with the plot. Like the ball of fur in Xenoblade or the alien in Mana Khemia. Kinda breaks my immersion in the story (though in the case of Xenoblade, the armours don't help much).
Besides that, any slow character, especially in tactic games where you'll need to either slow down to accommodate them or fight with one less character.
 
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Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
A problem that earlier FF solved by making characters different ages. But muh orphanage subplot, which no one asked for and wasn't even necessary for most characters because muh amnesia. In fact, it's really that one extended cutscene that retcons every character besides Squall for no reason.
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It gets worse when you consider how distinctive the differant party members in it's predessor and succesor look. I honestly don't really know what they were going for with the orphanage plot twist because it did nothing for the story at all. Plus the fucking band shit.
 
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Emperor Julian said:
It gets worse when you consider how distinctive the differant party members in it's predessor and succesor look. I honestly don't really know what they were going for with the orphanage plot twist because it did nothing for the story at all. Plus the fucking band shit.
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You don't even have to compare to the other entries. Laguna's party is more endearing than Squall's, and the goofball from the army is more competent than the teenage PMC.
 
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Berrakh said:
Was Rinoa necessary to the plot? Or was she necessary to the plot eventually?
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Wasn't she Seifer's sloppy seconds? I always figured it was about Squall endlessly shitting on him by taking everything he loves. Even Selphie's a better choice for Squall than Rinoa, and I'm pretty sure she's a train autist. Christ above, I think Quistis was the only smart person in FF8's party.
 
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Berrakh said:
Was Rinoa necessary to the plot? Or was she necessary to the plot eventually?
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She was effectively the second protagonist so here relavence was irrelivent, the games plot is secondary to the romance story anyway. as I recall in she's initially a freedom fighter whose dad is a general
 
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Alistair in Dragon Age Origins. I don't remember the game well enough at this point to recall his stats but I do remember him being a whiny bitch. Just have the doggo in your party like a true chad.

Garrick in Baldur's Gate. Maybe I'm stupid and don't know how to use a bard properly but he was a liability the whole game. I still kept him in the party because it was funny seeing him get bonked on the head and star singing about running away.

Shinjiro in Persona 3 for obvious reasons.

Any Paladin/promoted character you get at the start of a Fire Emblem game. Except for Seth in Sacred Stones, hes alright, I'll give him a pass.
 
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