S3E8 – Unlikeable Protagonists

It’s Sunday, and while most major religions has that day down as a “sit around and twiddle your thumbs”-sort of affair, that means that we are hocking another golden loogie of bullshit wisdom into the ether for you to gag on. This week’s subject is unlikeable protagonists in adventure games. Many of us are familiar with the antics of

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It’s Sunday, and while most major religions has that day down as a “sit around and twiddle your thumbs”-sort of affair, that means that we are hocking another golden loogie of bullshit wisdom into the ether for you to gag on.

This week’s subject is unlikeable protagonists in adventure games. Many of us are familiar with the antics of unlikeable protagonists and anti-heroes in other media. But which adventure games featured protagonists with an unethical streak, if not more (no, we aren’t blind to the irony here), and what did that do to the adventure game experience? Furthermore, how do you define an unlikeable protagonist? That’s what we’re here to find out.

The episode sees us discussing this subject in our usual sober, academic manner, despite Franzizco Gonzalez putting on his slowest Virginia Capers in a brave attempt to derail us. I may actually be lying about the “sober” and “academic” stuff. And the episode was already off the rails to begin with, but I sure do hope I got Grundislav’s name right this time. The episode is available in audio form at the bottom of this post, or on YouTube:

Once we had recorded that, we gathered our stashes of drugs and broken dreams, and headed into the green room for an After Dark special, wherein we discussed one specific adventure game protagonist who usually gets a bad rep, namely Leisure Suit Larry:

We’ll see you all next week for another round of the podcast you hate to love.