Top Five Gaming Characters I Want To Punch Right In The Tooth

Pezh wants a fight

- Pezh J.

We’ve all been there: you’re enjoying a fantastic game, you’re loving the story, the beautiful soundtrack, the exhilarating gameplay, but there’s just that one character that seems to only exist to make your life hell, and to taint an otherwise phenomenal experience.

There are general annoying features that NPCs can have in games, such as when they walk faster than your walk speed, but slower than your run speed — seriously developers, that can get right in the bin — but I’m talking about specific characters that make you quiver with rage whenever they happen across your screen. Without further ado, let’s dive headfirst into a list of some characters that I’m sure we’ve all wanted to thump right in the pie hole.

Nazeem-TheElderScrollsV: Skyrim

"Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't."

You love to hate him, it’s Nazeem: the condescending, pompous fellow that seems to perpetually linger around the Warmaiden’s blacksmith in Whiterun. This was an obvious pick. His persistent interactions with the player character made my attempts at early-game level boosting via the Whiterun forge a nightmare. Despite being adorned with the trappings of wealth and possessing an ego the size of Blackreach, Nazeem sleeps upstairs in The Drunken Huntsman tavern, a confusingly modest accommodation for such a big spender. Whether it’s his self-righteous attitude in regards to his station in Whiterun, or the casual flaunting of his “successful business”, everything Nazeem says can ultimately be translated to “Please punch me in the face with the force of a thousand suns.”