Most annoying NPCs?

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I got the idea for this thread while playing Oblivion (thanks to Oldblivion, otherwise I doubt I'd be able to run it), virtually every frickin enemy NPC in that game pissed me off, be it those annoying little Scamps with their stupid fireballs, some asshole cult members with overpowered spells, or dumbass orc warriors with armor I have to waste 100 arrows on to kill the ****er (Even though some things in the game really piss me off, I've kinda gotten used to it now, and being a fan of TES I still think the game is worth playing). Anyhow, post your "most annoying NPCs" and why you want them to ****ing burn alive. :devil:
 
Any NPC you have to escort in WoW. They walk so damn slow.
 
There was one character in Baldur's Gate that just follows you around asking questions every second or so I seem to recall and it was SO ANNOYING!! Can't remember his name though....

Also, it is a close tie for second-place between the lepers in Assassin's Creed and the beggar women. I beat them senseless if they get in my way at all.
 
Adoring Fan in Oblivion. Thank god he is killable.
 
VictimOfScience said:
Also, it is a close tie for second-place between the lepers in Assassin's Creed and the beggar women. I beat them senseless if they get in my way at all.
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I shit you not I've chased them down at times and ****ing stabbed them. Just out of sheer rage.
 
Vigilante said:
Any NPC you have to escort in WoW. They walk so damn slow.
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NPC: "Synthul! You need to escort me out of here alive!"

Furbolg NPC ambles leisurely towards the middle of the enemy camp. Spotting a group of four elite mobs at the end of the hallway, he charges forward while yelling that he's under attack, with no regard for the three pats he picks up along the way.

NPC: "I am slain!"

Synthul: "**** this, I'm going ganking in Duskwood."
 
Emowen from Baldur's Gate, Alyx in Half-Life 2 (feel free to hate me for that one) and that bastard who you can't kill in Black and White "YOU CAAAAN'T KILLL MEEEEE" :x
 
Ciaus Cosades from Morrowind. All he does is smoke drugs all day and tell you what to do, he gets you infected with corpus disease by sending you to a place, and when things start getting rough, y'know what he says?! I'm leaving, report to another person now. What an asshole!
 
The little sister from the little sister escort mission in Bioschock, HURRY THE **** UP!!!

Your squad in the Hidden & Dangerous series.

Your squad in Mass Effect being retarded at times.
 
VictimOfScience said:
There was one character in Baldur's Gate that just follows you around asking questions every second or so I seem to recall and it was SO ANNOYING!! Can't remember his name though....

Also, it is a close tie for second-place between the lepers in Assassin's Creed and the beggar women. I beat them senseless if they get in my way at all.
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are you sure that npc isnt from Gothic instead of baldur's gate?
cause there is one like that in the first camp
 
There is one NPC that always stood out to me.
That is the brother of the protagonist in GTA:SA. I hated pretty much every
character in that game, but every time that **** talked I wished Tommy
Vercetti would popup and chainsaw his ass.

The most annoying part was before that last mission when you decide that you
had enough of it, then he begins to preach about how you should be loyal to
your roots and do something. Off course his fat ass is going to stay at home
and eat some chicken wings.
 
EvilInside said:
are you sure that npc isnt from Gothic instead of baldur's gate?
cause there is one like that in the first camp
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He means Noober. Who also appears in Trademeet in Baldur's Gate 2.

My most annoying NPC? No, not Myron. My personal most hated NPC is general Raveshaw in Renegade. A potentially interesting character is reduced to a ****ing fanatical midget.
 
redruM said:
I got the idea for this thread while playing Oblivion
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Started playing this again recently but with a whole array of mods, it's a different, better experience. But the NPC's are still all as wooden as planks and as dumb as rocks, the biggest let-down of the game. They all suck equally, whether they be scamps, orcs, enemy, friend. Even Frankenstein managed to find a brain for his zombie, why can't a bunch of over paid programmers in the 21st century do it?

Somebody mod the AI. Please.

Other than that, I agree on Alyx - damn pain in the ass, getting in the way all the time.
 
Sydney from Command & Conquer: Renegade.
Definitely NOT Alyx.
 
Pssh, are you mad? The NPCs in the older RPG games, like Final Fantasy....bastards blocking the one place you NEED to go, and they refuse to go the direction out...
 
Most old-school NPCs in RPGs aren't bad... while in Fallout they can be annoying, all is forgiven by their battlefield performance, especially in Fallout 2.

Proof? Give Sulik an SMG, Cassidy and Vic good rifles and grab some popcorn.
 
The little imp in Baldur's Gate II Throne of Bhaal expansion that does the weapon upgrades... his voice... OOOOH SHINIES! And then you have to keep clicking through the same dialogue for stuff that you still don't have all the pieces for yet whenever you have to go back to him so you end up hearing the first second or so of all his little ramblings about a million times.
 
Mikael Grizzly said:
Proof? Give Sulik an SMG, Cassidy and Vic good rifles and grab some popcorn.
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Ahh...

****, now I have to install it once more. And I just finished it again a month ago.

Thanks, Mikael. I hope you rot.
 
redruM said:
I got the idea for this thread while playing Oblivion (thanks to Oldblivion, otherwise I doubt I'd be able to run it), virtually every frickin enemy NPC in that game pissed me off, be it those annoying little Scamps with their stupid fireballs, some asshole cult members with overpowered spells, or dumbass orc warriors with armor I have to waste 100 arrows on to kill the ****er (Even though some things in the game really piss me off, I've kinda gotten used to it now, and being a fan of TES I still think the game is worth playing). Anyhow, post your "most annoying NPCs" and why you want them to ****ing burn alive. :devil:
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In the fighters guild mission 'the masters son' theres that utterly useless bloke you have to escort, he blindly runs into 4 ogres, and dies from two hits. One time, he awoke from his unconsiousness, and ran in front of me while i was killing an ogre, i hit him, and he kept going and fell in a heap.
But he is funny.
 
retard bitch from far cry...

every damn party npc in fallout and arcanum...who the **** thought it was a good idea to let the AI control party members in old games like that???
 
That fat ginger twat in the Hawaiian shirt from F.E.A.R. Most annoying character ever :/
 
Navi if she counts as an NPC. I still have nightmares...

Hey! Listen! HELLOOO!? LISTEN! HEY! LISTEN! HELLO!!?!?

/shiver in corner
 
The Marines of Halo and the Snow Pirates of Lost Planet, just because they can't do a damn thing.

Halo Marine-Drive vehicle in circle relentlessly for 2 hours.

Snow Pirate-Take giant rocket launcher, blow self up.
 
Dog-- said:
Ciaus Cosades from Morrowind. All he does is smoke drugs all day and tell you what to do, he gets you infected with corpus disease by sending you to a place, and when things start getting rough, y'know what he says?! I'm leaving, report to another person now. What an asshole!
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And he "lets" you sleep in his bed. He probably touches you.
 
I ****ing hated every single damn npc in Oblivion. ****ing Radiant AI + lack of skilled voice-actors + WORST ****ING WRITING EVER = crappy NPCs by the bowlful.

Fallout and Fallout2 NPCs were almost universally awesome. I even liked Myron, because of how much of a jerk he was. Arcanum npcs tried but weren't on the same level of awesome.
 
Navi in Ocarina of Time.

Barret, Wakka, and Paine in their respective FF games.
 
Absinthe said:
Ahh...

****, now I have to install it once more. And I just finished it again a month ago.

Thanks, Mikael. I hope you rot.
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My pleasure. Don't forget Killap's excellent Restoration Project which, unlike KOTOR 2's, is readily available. ;)

Arcanum npcs tried but weren't on the same level of awesome.
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Agreed. Baldur's Gate NPCs (especially BG2) were quite awesome too, almost on par with Jagged Alliance 2 in terms of in-team relations. As for Arcanum... c'mon, Virgil was fun too. :D
 
  • "Reload Dr. Freeman!"
  • "Hey, listen!"
  • Every NPC in Oblivion
  • Tingle
 
Navi.
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ha. . . ya, i think that sums it up.
 
After the funny caricatures in GTA:Vice City, the cap poppin' gangstas in SA were soul crushing disappointments.
 
Ah, yes.

But then you get to kill them all.

ALL OF THEM. FALL FALL FALL
 
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