HAY GUYS

Xellos · Nov 4, 2007, 11:29 AM

Alright a good example for me would probably be Junpei from Persona 3. I mean, he's a fire/physical attacker. So he easily gets replaced by Koromaru and Aigis because they will probably have higher stats and besides, Aigis gets -kaja spells as well as the best physical attacks in the game. Not to mention I never really liked his personality until near the end of the game. That's why he's level 17 right now.

I personally used Junpei all the time, constantly switching him with Akihiko, and noticed that too. His magic is weak, doesn't have AOE magic either, so all he really has is slash moves, but I wouldn't call him useless, far from it. I forgot at what level he got it, but at some point he got deathbound, which was pretty damn good. Blade of Fury was nice as well.

I personally was never a big fan of Nina characters from Breath of Fire games. I'll use Breath of Fire 3 as a example. Now in essence she's not useless, since she has really strong magics, but at a severe price, she has really low health, really fucking low, next to no defense, and her normal attacks are laughable. Now if these games had savespheres like, lets say FFX where your MP was instantly restored, right as you reach the part where you fight a boss, fine, that will fix that, but the only way to restore MP is to rest in a inn/tent, so it's pretty useless. You'll always fight tons of monsters along the way, so she'll be completely empty by that point.

Wasn't a fan of Kimahri from FFX either. All the other characters had a purpose in the main game, he's the only one that didn't really have one. If you go level like crazy it won't matter, since in the end everyone is the same, but during the actual game you'll notice. Auron was good against armored mobs, Wakka against flying, etc about the only thing Kimahri was good for was Mighty Guard, and even that comes pretty late.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Xellos · 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by SouthJag

MOMO was kinda worthless in Xenosaga. Super-weak attacks, fairly weak Ether attacks compared to Shion, and in the first game even her AGWS was weak compared to the other ones, the one saving grace being that she could use Ether attacks while the rest couldn't.

AGWS were horrible anyway. In no situation were they useful. Even the best AGWS that you get at the end of the game was still not worth it. I've tried, and tried again to make one that you would think was useful, in the end I just gave up.

Originally Posted by Generic Badass

As for the topic itself, I could be lame and just pick one of the many, many useless characters in the Suikoden or Pokemon series, but that's copping out. I want to say Grey from Valkyrie Profile (his attacks stink and his Purify Weird Soul has the lowest damage output out of any character), but I still feel like it's such an obscure choice.

Not really. I actually considered using him as a example as well, but didn't in the end, because I'd figured most people don't even know who he is. Grey is bad, I actually used him in one of my plays because I figured, because he's a heavy knight he's probably as good as Arngrim, turns out he wasn't, his damage output really is pathetic.

There's nowhere I can't reach.