10 Most Hated NPCs In Video Games

7. Roman, Lester, Everyone Who Won’t Stop Calling - GTA

Gta 4 Roman
Rockstar Games

Open world games are wonderful. You have the freedom to do what you want, when you want. Shoot up the town, go shopping, chase down some side missions, totally up to you. It’s a great vibe. Unless you have a cousin calling you asking if you wanna go bowling every second of the damn day.

Now, I don’t have anything against Roman, though he has his low points, but Niko is a busy guy and by extension so are we so it’d be awesome if we weren’t at the top of his speed dial.

Same goes for Lester who I guess has some kind of codependence issue going off how much time he seems to need to spend on the phone to you in GTA Online. Actually, anyone who ever gets your phone number seems to call every minute of the goddamn day in GTA Online.

Things are a little insidious there too, because the only way to get them to stop calling is to do what they say. Which usually costs a lot of money. Which, unless you want to grind for it, you can only get by spending real world money. No wonder GTA Online is making bank.

Feeling like everyone’s only friend and errand boy really digs into the fun of joyriding and doing crimes around town. Especially when they’re just calling to have the same chat you had ten minutes ago. We just bowled Roman, we were just there, please, go find someone else to bother.

Honestly, if someone could just take Roman’s phone away he wouldn’t be on this list but here we are.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.