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The most useless RPG party member.
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Hypereides
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Vorador said:This.
Horrible character, horrible voice, horrible in battle.
Most worthless character ever.
Oh yeah, she was pretty useless too. I dont think I ever used her unless she was necessary for some story arc lol.
Chauncy Talon
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Linkzg said:Eugene from Infinite Undiscovery
If you played the game, you might remember him as the guy who wouldn't heal you and randomly died when he felt like it.
Hell yea. At least the Spoony Bard was controllable.
TurboLibre
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The Flaming Amarant from FF IX was pretty terrible.
SolsticeZero
Banned
I found all of the women pretty useless in FFVIII. My party consisted of Squall, Zell, and Irvine 100% of the time.
He was useless until you did his special quest (finding Imperial seals or something) and got his final weapon. After that he was out of control.
Shogun PaiN said:
King Tolten from Lost Odyssey. Not only was his voice annoying but for me at least he was always far weaker than everyone else.
He was useless until you did his special quest (finding Imperial seals or something) and got his final weapon. After that he was out of control.
Hypereides
Member
Tkawsome said:
His coin toss ability is pretty good if youre loaded.
revolverjgw
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greenjerk said:Spark, Ultima VII
Man, I forgot how weird that old-school Ultimate view is. I feel unbalanced and tilty when I look at it
Spider from Mars
tap that thorax
Cait Sith
FUCK THAT DUDE
FUCK THAT DUDE
ExtraKr1spy
Banned
Shogun PaiN said:
King Tolten from Lost Odyssey. Not only was his voice annoying but for me at least he was always far weaker than everyone else.
his accuracy/hit rate is/was also garbage. seemed like he would 8 out 10 times with attacks.
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
The healing character in an RPG was generally the most useless aside from healing.
There are notable exceptions though, like Tear Grants from Tales of the Abyss and Estelle from Tales of Vesperia.
There are notable exceptions though, like Tear Grants from Tales of the Abyss and Estelle from Tales of Vesperia.
Flachmatuch
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Hcoregamer00 said:
I have the same problem with fighting characters. They're usually very useless, aside from fighting.
BuckRobotron
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BlazingDarkness said:
Seconded (or thirded or fourthed at this point). I liked the character enough that I was more enthused about Steiner's ending than the primary (ending sp:
as in, gets Beatrix
I also very obviously disagree with Tali being listed here.
I agree with the choice of Eugene from Infinite Discovery, however.
As for a new offering, in the rpg-ish FFXII Revenant Wings some characters like Llyud didn't do much for me compared to the likes of Kytes, who with those wide area black magic spells was of imbalanced importance.
gottalovetheglove
Member
JCX said:
KARP KARP.
SolsticeZero
Banned
This. I never used Kimahri at all. He was utterly useless compared to everyone else.sonicmj1 said:
BlazingDarkness
Member
Hcoregamer00 said:
I find the offensive magic user is largely redundant later on in a game, their magic generally isn't as strong as your physical damage from other attacks and they don't have the best defense either
Whereas you'll always use a healing character
Hypereides
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Flachmatuch said:
Kinda true, but it depends on how their skills develope though. Sabin was pretty good in FFVI, Yang in FFIV was terrible.
I have a weakness for gun wielding characters. Vincent with a 8xhit materia is glorious. Billy from Xenogears is awesome with gun combos. Irvine was the shit too.
Diablohead
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48th reply, gaf is slipping.Freshmaker said:
cartman414
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Orellio said:
By simple virtue of having steal (not to mention being one of the most awesome characters in one of the most awesome games ever), not a chance.
MikeE21286
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Spider from Mars said:
yeah, I found him to be pretty much shit from my memories of FFVII
webrunner said:
Rafa and Malak Galthana, Final Fantasy Tactics.
1. Both siblings have an ability which hits 4 squares out of 9 randomly and indiscriminately. It means any given target has less than a 50% chance to hit, and you can hit allies.
2. Said attack does ridiculously low damage even if it does hit.
3. The first times you see them they're under computer control. Once one of them managed to double-hit-and-crit one of my own characters.
4. Rafa wins points for Roof of Riovannes Castle where the first move in the fight is often her dying and losing the fight. If she does manage to get a move, she'll attack the strongest enemies, getting killed in the process.
5. Although he doesn't infuriate like Rafa, Malak doesn't even have a cursory use: Rafa's stats make her an ok White Mage with move: find item, but Malak has no redeeming qualities.
And while we're on shitty FFT characters...
That's right kids, you too can go through a ridiculous song and dance to get a character that not only starts at level 1, but requires a weak sword and the time mage's half cast time skill just to make his class skills (which aren't that great to begin with) usable. Aren't you stoked?
A2: Hurdy and Montblanc are redundant (moogle black mages aren't that great and that's pretty much all their stats allow them to be, plus bard isn't a great class), and Penelo wishes she could be a FFT dancer. Oh, and Moogle Knights are garbage outside of the quest line that requires them, for the most part.
Mirimar said:I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Chrono Cross..now that had its share of useless characters.
Poshul (worse than chu-chu on all levels...:lol )
Mojo
Turnip
I mentioned Chrono Cross. Pierre is worse than all of those. :lol
I didn't find Turnip that useless, but then again I liked his design and had him with a Prism Sword.
Actually yeah, he was useless, compared to the awesome Fargo.
Captain Tuttle
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Myron, although he was supposed to be useless and annoying.
highluxury said:
I'm fairly certain he was being sarcastic.
Never played Xenogears, but agreed on Vincent and Irvine. Both were awesome characters.
I'm certain there were quite a few fairly useless characters in Baldur's Gate, but there were so many and it's such a long time ago since I last played that game, that I really can't remember their names. Baldur's Gate II did a much better job in this regard. Can't think of anyone in that game that was completely useless.
JakOfTheShadows
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Shouta would like to have a word with you.corkscrewblow said:
Hypereides
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Shig said:
hay guys I'm a sniper who sucks at sniping
The most awesome part is that practically all his purchasable weapons are shotgun variations :lol.
Any NPC that could join you in all 3 Fallout games, they just die too easily to bother with. In Fallout 3 I was all happy to find the dog only to have him die in my first encounter afterwards. I didn't even bother reloading, didn't feel like babysitting the dog after seeing his AI. In Fallout 2 you could use them as mules at least.