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| 29 MAR 2011 at 2:52am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | Mona -
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 3:13am |
karlaAdministrator
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Joined: 27 JUL 2003
Location: US, Close to the Edge
Status : Offline | Just off the top of my head...
Nina in Secret Files: Tunguska. That voice!!!!!!!! Make it stop!!!!!!!!
Jo in Belief & Betrayal. A real wise a$$. Just about every time he opened his mouth I wanted to jam a sock in it.
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 3:23am |
GreyFussPrivate Detective
Posts : 767
Joined: 4 DEC 2006
Status : Offline | Al Emmo
The Secretary in Carte Blanche
"Don't Hate Me Because I Am Beautiful...There Are Many Other Reasons"
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 4:54am |
MarkGuild Master
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Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
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Let's see... well, Caroline has been annoying in every Adventure Game I've ever played. But then again, she's not a character in a game, is she.[img]http://www.mindspring.com/~markparrish/runaway.gif[/img]
In the game The Longest Journey, the foul dude-creep that lived across the hall from our female protaganist was someone I couldn't wait to disappear. What a potty-mouth he was.
I guess it would be any Adventure Game where some well-meaning little miscreant pops up and says, "Are you SURE you're making the right decision?"
"Oh, bugger off! If I choose to make the wrong decision, then I'll just blow up! At least I won't have to listen to your incessant holier-than-thou nagging any longer!"
Off-hand, though, I can't think of too many insufferable "nyah-nyahs" in Adventure Games. Maybe more later after some thought. And nags.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 6:46am |
walshSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 384
Joined: 15 DEC 2010
Status : Offline | Glottis from Grim Fandango. Cute, but annoying.
Ozzie Mandrill from Escape from Monkey Island. Made to be an annoying aussie i know but there wasn't anything more to his character than that.
Murray! I enjoy his jokes but the whole taking over the world theme gets old. Strangely, I really liked him in Tales.
Brian and Gina from Runaway (Do they need to talk so much? :)
Sam and Max: Sybil, Stinky, Bosco and very rarely but gratingly, Max. I think that's the point, though.
George Stobbart from Broken Sword - I just can't relate to his character at all or the things he says, but maybe that's because he's a lawyer
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 8:44am |
markornikovJourneyman
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Joined: 28 OCT 2011
Location: BE, Antwerp
Status : Offline | Cedric in King's Quest V. Annoying voice and character, and why did he have to be my companion during the entire game.
Second worst is Zack (Keepsake), his constant being scared of everything wore out quickly :-/
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 10:30am |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Joined: 2 JUN 2007
Location: UK
Status : Offline | I vote for the whiny idiot in Black Mirror 2. He was so awful I blanked out his first name.
The shopkeeper guy in Keepsake was also cringe worthy.
And I totally agree about the B & B character. He was soulless and callous at the same time.
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Darkness Within 2, The Witcher, Fallout 3
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 1:07pm |
tincup2Journeyman
Posts : 820
Joined: 8 MAR 2011
Location: US, NYC
Status : Offline | Cevidro: Myst 3
Smart Alec sidekick/hint-giver: Zork Grand Inquisitor
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 1:29pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Nina. -Not her voice, just her personality; especially the Nina of SF 2 , she was still bearable in SF Tunguska.
The guy you play in Black Mirror 2 - in fact almost all the characters in BM2 qualify for this list.
Timothy Moor in Alter Ego.
PS - Apart from her voice - what's so bad about Mona?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 2:04pm |
tincup2Journeyman
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Location: US, NYC
Status : Offline | This is an interesting question - an annoying protagonist makes it v difficult to play a game and the reason I often can't finish. Consequently I can't remember the names of the the one's that bugged me the most lol..
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 2:08pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Joined: 19 MAR 2005
Status : Offline | [size=24]Jemima
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 2:40pm |
portiafimbriataIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 12 FEB 2009
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Donna (29 MAR 2011 2:08pm)
[size=24]Jemima
Oh, you mean Mr. Gruel's wife? All I can say is that I am grateful we didn't have to talk to him much.
Cthulu loves me, this I know&&The Necronomicon tells me so
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 2:44pm |
portiafimbriataIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 76
Joined: 12 FEB 2009
Status : Offline | Did anyone else find Joe's wife Ivy in Downfall to be extremely irksome with her psychotic babbling? And that was without voice acting!
Cthulu loves me, this I know&&The Necronomicon tells me so
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 7:46pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Easy for me... Hands down, Oscar from Syberia. I hate him, hate him, HATE HIM.
When he was agonizing and uttered the final words "Keep walking... Kate Walker", I was hoping he would recover so that I could kill him with my own hands.
Awfully trite character.
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 9:14pm |
loobilooPrivate Detective
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Joined: 3 APR 2008
Location: UK
Status : Offline | One of the things I love about AGs is that not all of the protagonists are perfect people that appeal to everyone. I also love most of the larger than life characters & the more quirky ones even though many of them have annoying personalities. I don't judge a book by it's cover & embrace the fact that AGs do include such a variety of 'recognisable' personalities, in many cases stereotypical but at the same time reflective of people that you can & do come across in the real world who have a specific place in it perhaps because of the way they are - & many of them are good people with qualities to be admired!
I'm reluctant to name annoying characters because I'm aware that a sequel to Keepsake was never made because of criticism there but I have to say I really disliked the 'sleezy' owner of the photography shop in BM2 but I can say that because I loved the game!
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| 29 MAR 2011 at 10:59pm |
markornikovJourneyman
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Location: BE, Antwerp
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Rael (29 MAR 2011 7:46pm)
Easy for me... Hands down, Oscar from Syberia. I hate him, hate him, HATE HIM.
When he was agonizing and uttered the final words "Keep walking... Kate Walker", I was hoping he would recover so that I could kill him with my own hands.
Awfully trite character.
oh yes!!! i totally forgot him >
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 1:15am |
chronotigger65Journeyman
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Status : Offline | Finally thought of some.....The mouse from Kings Quest 5 and the Minotaur from Kings Quest 6. Their voices are really lowsy.
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 5:33am |
walshSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | I found Oscar to be charming, guess I'm the odd one out here?
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 8:08am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By walsh (30 MAR 2011 5:33am)
I found Oscar to be charming, guess I'm the odd one out here?
I also really enjoyed Oscar. ifferent strokes....
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 10:15am |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I'm with Markornikov: Cedric sucked. So did the narrator in Gabriel Knight.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 10:44am |
Igor HardyIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 27 SEP 2010
Status : Online | The narrator in GK was really charming, though the voice directors should have known that sloooow speech doesn't cut it in adventure games.
The annoying characters that come to my mind now are the nerd and the hippie caricatures in Episode 3 of Tales of Monkey Island. They felt completely out of place in the Monkey Island universe and what's worse they were really annoying in general.
Covering independent adventure games in [URL=http://hardydev.com/][B]A Hardy Developer's Journal[/B][/URL]
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 4:29pm |
MystiBobSpace Cadet
Posts : 172
Joined: 13 DEC 2008
Status : Offline | Nigel Danvers .
Wizard Trembyle in Return to Zork.
The mailman in The Hand of Fate.
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 5:48pm |
Igor HardyIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By MystiBob (30 MAR 2011 4:29pm)
The mailman in The Hand of Fate.
I just realized I don't remember any characters from Hand of Fate except Zanthia, the Hand and the peacock wizard that the Hand was supposed to be the sidekick of. And it wasn't that long since I played it.
The fish queen in Malcolm's Revenge was quite irritating though.
Covering independent adventure games in [URL=http://hardydev.com/][B]A Hardy Developer's Journal[/B][/URL]
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| 30 MAR 2011 at 8:26pm |
BrianSpace Cadet
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Joined: 28 SEP 2010
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By MystiBob (30 MAR 2011 4:29pm)
Nigel Danvers.
Yes, absolutely. Having to listen to myself -- make the same slow comment every time I did some comment action -- just about killed my ability to enjoy the game.
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