[General Discussion] Most Retarded Character Moments

Oh hell, too many to count.

Star Ocean 3:

Spoiler:

Remember the Matrix movies and that bit with the Architect? Well, near the end of the game you come to find out the entire series, not just this entry, is the creation of God-Entity-X to entertain people in the in-game 'real world'. The aim then becomes to kill said creator and liberate your more-fictional-than-fictional characters from their fate.

Like the man says, it takes special writing to screw up an entire series in one mortally stupid scene.

Xenosaga:

Spoiler:

Shion may just be the stupidest videogame character ever written. What's the first thing everyone knows about robots? They have no emotion. In an early scene KOS-MOS shots a guy in the line of fire rather than bother correcting her trajectory to miss him, and Shion, allegedly the one who designed her and therefore should know some basic truths about robots, becomes infuriated and can't believe she doesn't feel anything from her lethal act. Later on, KOS-MOS helps them escape from danger using a killtastic weapon that Shion, her creator, engineer, and technician, who only hours earlier was performing a full diagnostic test of her combat capabilities, has no clue was even there. You have to be a special kind of stupid to run a full diagnostic test and not notice that someone put in a BELLY CANNON when you weren't looking.

Metal Gear Solid 2:

Spoiler:

I can take the simulation thing. I can take a fat terrorist on rollerblades. I can even take 'living on through this arm!' But why on Earth does Solidus' battle suit have freaking robo-tentacles? That's just a bridge too far.

I'll probably think of more later.

Jam it back in, in the dark.