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The Top 7... Annoying nags that need to STFU

The champion ear-benders that should stop talking

Words: Matt Cundy, GamesRadar UK

As we've come to expect from any Suda 51 game, this shit is both weird and good in equal measure. The entire game is full of nags ready to bend the ear of main man, Sumio Mundo. Every character Mundo meets is a thinly disguised objective dispenser, happy to dish out pointless tasks that involve lots and lots of walking about. But the king nag is Edo Macalister, the manager of the Flower, Sun and Rain hotel. He redefines 'customer service' as 'bugging your ass'.

At the start of every day - which is actually replaying over and over Groundhog style - things begin with Mundo being woken with a phone call from Edo Macalister. He says something like "Get to the front desk," or "Head to the airport." It all sounds achievable enough. Unfortunately, the hotel's other staff and guests do everything they can to hijack and derail every objective with their own demands for your time. Then the day ends and it all begins again with another call from Edo Macalister. He never relents.

Edo Macalister is by far the most likeable nag on this list, simply because he's deliberately designed to be a fun-poking piss-take of all those characters that have hounded us with asinine objectives in countless other games. So it's only right that we should want him to STFU. Only this time it's with a cherry on the top.

No sooner has Niko been introduced to Michelle and she starts behaving like a sociopathic stalker. She's on the phone all the bloody time. Do we want to go on a date? No not really, but we will until Niko gets to have pretend sex with you. And if she's not calling to request a cheeky little liaison, she's phoning to pry in Niko's affairs.

And Michelle doesn't restrict her nagging to the phone. Pick her up for a date and she's straight on Niko's case. She's either giving it the big one about his poor taste in clothes, or she's endlessly ragging him trying to - not-so - discretely extract information regarding his cousin's criminal activities. Basically, a date with Michelle is like a date with the Spanish Inquisition.

After entertaining Michelle for a couple of dates (until Niko had done the sexy with her), we did the honourable thing and put the kibosh on the 'relationship' by ignoring her calls. It came as no surprise when she was eventually revealed as a snake in the grass. What a bitch.


 
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ShinyMcShine  - 7 months 30 days ago 
First...totally agree with rose in MGS2 i spent that whole game thinking STFU
Jacob816  - 7 months 30 days ago 
What about Navi? She wasn't calling us on a phone or anything, but that bitch was soooo annoying. I hope Chris spams the Navi sounds when TalkRadar talks about the article this week.
clever123  - 7 months 30 days ago 
i agree with michelle on gta shes so annoying!!!!
noobeater  - 7 months 30 days ago 
oh navi will u always be at the centre of insults

rightly so

anyway great articles

reCAPTURE: salted sugarload....say it aint so
BadLadJon  - 7 months 30 days ago 
lol at stuntman one "wipe my ass"
noobeater  - 7 months 30 days ago 
oh and just to say theme park world...i believe is the game with the video camera as shown in the article...is an awesome game

but yes he was a pain in the ass with his cruel words of wisdom i dint care for
iluvmyDS  - 7 months 30 days ago 
Lulz have been successfully produced.
Cybermaster  - 7 months 30 days ago 
FSR! I loved that game! Glad you've mentinoed it!

Although I thought that the two maids where more nagg-y.
Z-man427  - 7 months 30 days ago 
oh my god dead rising... ugh. Otis was the reason that i ditched out on that game. i wish i could have taken a weapon into the security room and beat the shit out of him
Yar  - 7 months 30 days ago 
For the last time people... Navi isn't actually that annoying!

"But she keeps on constantly screaming 'HEY HELLO LISTEN!"

No she effing doesn't!!! She bugs you about once every ten minutes if you're doing a sidequest or something. That's it!!! If you get annoyed by one second of noise every ten minutes, how the heck do you ever play more annoying games without killing yourselves?
Corsair89  - 7 months 30 days ago 
In GTAIV, Michelle pissed me off so much that I intentionally crashed the car at 100mph to send us flying out the windsheild into on-coming traffic.
Corsair89  - 7 months 30 days ago 
@Yar - I agree, I never found Navi that annoying. Most of the time I didn't even notice her. Even when I did, she wasn't annoying to the extent everyone else thinks.
Necron  - 7 months 30 days ago 
The announcer from Stuntman forgot to say 'simon says'.
SuperGoomba64  - 7 months 30 days ago 
Niko in the 2nd picture looks like Super Mario Jumping to bop a coin block. lol
lawless77  - 7 months 30 days ago 
That Microsoft Office paperclip-guy should be made an honorary member of this club.
sixboxes  - 7 months 30 days ago 
This is possibly the most profane article I've ever read on this site. Lovin it!
Conman93  - 7 months 30 days ago 
I agree with kendra from dead space
shes the biggest pain evvvvveeeeeeeerrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Juriasu  - 7 months 30 days ago 
Still think Navi is worse. HEY!!! HEY LISTEN!!! HEY!!!
Unoriginal  - 7 months 30 days ago 
"Give me your wife"
Hillarious article.

But out of the whole MGS franchise the one I thought needed to STFU the most was Mei Ling in the original.
You just want to save but need to listen to her inform you about japanese and chinese culture, ancient sayings and her oh so boring philosophy in life.
Every. Single. Time.
shockolate  - 7 months 30 days ago 
@ Corsair: and we all know the internet never exaggerates anything ever
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