These Video Game NPCs SUCK!

Don't you absolutely hate it when someone comments "oh be careful" after you've just slipped up or slid down the stairs face first? It's like cheers mate I'm sure my fractured collarbone needed the obvious pointed out, tell you what, just for you I'll make sure to never make a mistake again because hoo boy it's not worked out for me. What a plum duff I feel.

Therefore you can imagine the face I made when I realized that Cedric the Owl from Kings Quest V was basically the embodiment of this. It kind of looked as if a lemon could taste itself.

Cedric here is the winner of "dumbest s**t with wings" of the year, every year, as not only will he constantly stop the action to tell you of things so painfully obvious they could break your bones, but he will always, without fail, tell you to "look out" after you've committed to your actions and have likely found yourself dead at the hands of whatever it was that you were curious enough to poke, prod or attack.

You're lucky the deaths in this game are so funny that you'd want to see them Cedric, but even then, your nanny-state hand-holding and "oooh watch out love" attitude is such a killjoy that it threatens the fun this game has to offer at every level. Making matters worse is the fact that you have to rescue this birdbrain several times throughout the game and in return, he offers, well precisely nothing of use.

Cedric, in short, is the equivalent of putting training wheels on a burning car that's just crashed.