Dragon\u2019s Dogma 2 & FF7 Rebirth fighting for \u201cMost Annoying Characters\u201d of 2024 Capcom\/Square EnixFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth and Dragon\u2019s Dogma 2 are strong candidates for GOTY 2024, but they\u2019re also battling in a much more unpleasant category. Some of the best video games of all time can be let down by annoying characters. Baby Mario in Yoshi\u2019s Island, Navi from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Natalya from GoldenEye 007, for example, will live forever in the minds of fans due to how unpleasant they are. Many of the most annoying video game characters come from a time when developers weren\u2019t as clued into what the audience wanted. It\u2019s much rarer to see annoying characters like that in modern games, especially in an era where the fanbase can communicate with developers directly on social media. Who\u2019d make a character like Navi in 2024? Someone who badly wants millions of Tweets calling them the scum on the Earth. Unfortunately, it seems that Capcom and Square Enix have forgotten the lessons of older titles, as two of the best games of the year are also saddled with the most annoying characters of 2024(so far). Dragon\u2019s Dogma 2\u2019s pawns will make you want to jump into a monster\u2019s maw In Dragon\u2019s Dogma 2, you get to make a pawn (a computer-controlled character who is with you throughout the game) and can hire two additional pawns designed by other players, giving you a party of four. The problem with hiring so many pawns as they NEVER SHUT UP! They constantly comment on everything that\u2019s going on, be it things happening in the battle, what their previous master was like, how they feel about recent quests, and even whenever they spot useful items on the overworld. It\u2019s not even that the pawns have bad things to say \u2014 sometimes, they can lead you to something you haven\u2019t seen before. It\u2019s that they pester you constantly with their observations at every juncture. You can try playing the game without pawns, but that ups the difficulty considerably. Having pawns that the enemy can target instead of your protagonist will help your survivability in the long run, as will having pawn spellcasters casting healing spells. Now, there are options for muting the pawns, but that doesn\u2019t stop their subtitles from appearing, and the only way to get rid of them is to shut off subtitles entirety, which means players who require text to play the game are out of luck. Capcom has promised QoL updates for Dragon\u2019s Dogma 2, including the ability to start a new save file, but there\u2019s no mention of adjusting the pawn\u2019s dialogue. Hopefully, players will make their voices heard, and options to reduce or remove pawn text will be included in a patch. Chadley & MAI from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth ruin most of the battle with inane chatter Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is a highly acclaimed game that is said to do justice to the classic story of the original. The game has done something even more impressive than update the story of Final Fantasy VII, however. You see, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth introduced characters more annoying than Cait Sith. Cait Sith is actually endearing in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. He\u2019s tied into the story better than he is in Final Fantasy VII; his awful dialogue from Advent Children is gone, and the terrible stealth mission from Dirge of Cerberus is nowhere to be seen. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth also helped Cait Sith\u2019s case by inflicting Chadely and MAI on the party. These two characters will never shut up during most of the game\u2019s sidequests, as they will squawk at you constantly through the DualSense\u2019s speaker. Chadley debuted in Final Fantasy VII Remake as a loveable young scientist who helped the members of Avalanche with his discoveries. In Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, he becomes a primary quest giver, as well as a primary quest \u2018talker over.\u2019 MAI is a new character in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. She\u2019s an AI created by Chadley, who also feels the need to comment on all of your quests. See, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has many missions where you fight monsters, learn the history of the summon monsters, and explore the game\u2019s world in ways you couldn\u2019t in the original. Unfortunately, these missions have a running commentary, as Chadley and MAI will talk over most of them, adding additional context where none was needed. Even worse, they\u2019ll talk over gameplay segments, distracting the player while they\u2019re completing tasks. There is a way to mute Chadley & MAI\u2019s audio, but it involves turning off the speaker in your DualSense, which means switching it off and on whenever you want to play another game. Like Dragon\u2019s Dogma 2, there\u2019s no word regarding an update for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth that will let you quieten the scientific duo, though we hope that the developers prioritize it. Who is worse: the pawns or Chadley & MAI? In my opinion, the pawns are the more annoying characters, as they talk all the time. You can at least pause the gameplay and wait for Chadley & MAI to shut up before attempting quests, and turning off the DualSense speaker isn\u2019t the worst option in the world. I can see where the developers were going for with these characters. The pawns make the world of Dragon\u2019s Dogma 2 feel more alive, while Chadley & MAI offer lore dumps about aspects of Final Fantasy VII\u2019s world that fans from twenty years ago could only dream of. It\u2019s just the execution that was flawed, which means that people who enjoyed these games at launch had to endure frustrating characters whose speech could easily have been a QoL option that players could use\/disable at their leisure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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