The Big Question: Who's The Most Annoying Video Game Character Of All Time?
From an annoying comedy robot who simply will not shut up, to the Cloud District's smuggest resident, these are the video game characters who make our collective blood boil. We're getting mad just writing about them.
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The other day I saw someone on Twitter describe Borderlands as 'more enthusiastic than funny', which isn't just a perfect description of the series as a whole, but its mascot too. Claptrap is every irritating comic relief character from every bad Hollywood buddy movie squeezed into one tiny, talkative robot. He's gaming's very own Jar Jar Binks, and his constant beatboxing and dancing is grating to the extreme. Some people might find his quirky, overexcitable schtick endearing, but I'd love to hurl him into a car crusher then launch the resulting yellow cube directly into a black hole.
Skyrim is a massive open world that, by virtue of that fact, is filled with lots of NPCs. Many of them are annoying. There’s the guy who preaches about Talos in Whiterun. There’s any follower who gets stuck in a doorway and blocks your otherwise smooth escape. There’s the city guards with their repeating voice lines about arrows in their knees and Sweet Rolls. Despite all these excellent options for annoying NPCs in Skyrim, I hate Nazeem most of all. He’s a Whiterun local who asks you, unprompted, every time you run into him: “Do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying- of course you don’t.” Listen, buddy, I’m the Dragonborn. Your societally contrived barriers for the parts of this city will not halt my quest to pick up every Cheese Wheel. I’ll be joining the Thieves Guild just to steal your crap, financially ruin you, and ensure you’re kicked out of the
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