I'm well aware that Dead Rising didn't come out in 2013 but I'm counting it in this list thanks to it being part of the Xbox Games For Gold programme this year. This means that a whole new audience got a chance to play it and undergo the frustration that the majority of the game is. I replayed the game when it came out on Games for Gold, having given up on my first time playing it due to sheer annoyance. When I had to come up with a list of bad characters, Dead Rising 2 was the first game that popped into my head. When I really thought about it though, I couldn't narrow it down to just one character so I've included the entire cast. Everyone is an idiot. From the main character Chuck Greene and his daughter to the remaining survivors and psychos you face along the way. Similar to Dead Island, the other survivors are incapable of fending for themselves so Chuck is sent out to carry out EVERY mission that comes up. Even using the excuse that the main character is somehow immune to the disease or something, that doesn't mean he can't just DIE from other causes out there so the "survivors" in these games have a lot to answer for. Chuck's daughter is a typically annoying video game child. For a girl taking part in a zombie apocalypse, she's remarkably calm and unaware of the gravity of the situation. She even refuses certain toys that her zombie killing hero of a father brings him in the free time he does find between saving everyone in the game. She's also incapable of looking after her own medicine, meaning you can't even leave it with her. You HAVE to return every day at the same time to force feed it to her in case she forgets, even though she has literally nothing else to do but sit on the sofa and look stupid. The rest of the survivors are just as useless. You'll meet most of them half naked on top of a burger van or something with some outlandish excuse as to how they ended up there. Then you need to shepherd them the whole way to the safe house, constantly pressing a button to shout, "OVER HERE!" and "KEEP UP!" so they don't wander off and get themselves eaten. Later in the game you even end up playing strip poker with them in a remarkably huge waste of time for people supposedly desperate for urgent action. I realise the game is somewhat of a send up of B Movies, but that excuse doesn't make the characters any less annoying. What it actually is, is hours upon hours of fetch questing and leading around a group of zilches who deserved to die the minute the infection hit.
