10 Terrible Video Game Party Members Always Left Warming The Bench

10. Kaidan Alenko - Mass Effect

Though there's a ton of potential squad members to choose from throughout the Mass Effect franchise, Kaidan Alenko is by some measure the lamest of the lot.

A prototypical "generic white guy" party member, Kaidan is also a painfully nothing teammate on the battlefield, incapable of doing much with anything more than a passing adequacy.

Really the only solace is that players are able to dispose of him in the first game, letting him sacrifice himself in order to save Ashley Williams, rather than just benching him for the rest of the game.

In an ironic twist, though, those who let Kaidan live in the first game finally get rewarded for their mercy in Mass Effect 3, where Kaidan returns with a more useful, beefed-up set of biotic abilities. Whether it's worth the wait, though, is debatable.