Why do so many people hate Johnny Silverhand?

[a sentient mcnugget]

I thought he was cool, flawed (aren't we all?), selfish yet considerate too.
A well-written and well-acted character imho.

I equally liked Jacky too and wish he had a bigger part to play in the story.

[YourFreeUseHairbrush]

u hate johhny if you didn't finish the game (<5% actually finished the game) or lack empathy like a karen.

giving it more thought. he comes off as an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ but means well, which is what MOST armed service people do. ie your air force, army, navy etc.

[Humble]

It's not Johnny fault as he had no control over that in your head and take over, you can blame on company, Arasaka who design chip like that.

I guess people are easy short sighted and not look at bigger pictures, it's not like real johnny want to mess with head, he just forced into by Arasaka.

Johnny was lost and confused, beat you up in the game, then aware he just stuck just like you.

[TheBetterAshleyBaby]

I didn't know anyone did hate him? like is it all the corporate sympathisers? He's a huge anti-capitalist anarchist who makes great music and wants to blow ♥♥♥♥ up what's not to love

[Silverbane7]

Originally posted by TheBetterAshleyBaby:

I didn't know anyone did hate him? like is it all the corporate sympathisers? He's a huge anti-capitalist anarchist who makes great music and wants to blow ♥♥♥♥ up what's not to love

thats exactly why *some* people hate him.

other's hate him because he was voiced/acted by a famous person/Keanu specifficaly.
(some hate the character, others hate because 'if they chose a nobody, we woulda had -insert multiplayer/co-op/pvp/other things they wanted- because money spent/famous person means we lost something)

others hate the fact to them, he's killing their V, and consider it deliberate
(it wouldn't be, if they took the time to treat him like a person, not a parasite. it's a self fulfilling prophecy)

and for others it's because of his personality.

my input didn't like him the first time he played.
said 'he's had his time, lived his life. V should get the body'
but he knew zero about cyberpunk lore at the time.
i told him more about what happened before, how the Johnny we *see* differs from the Johnny we used to know.
second time he played, he took a little time to get to know Silverhand.
and Johnny grew on him a bit more.

[Vela Darney]

Because they don't get the character. He's honestly one of the most interesting, complex characters I've ever encountered in a computer game. That is - if you bother to actually listen to/read the things he's got to say and don't just keep being an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ back at him all the time, and actually bother to scratch the surface even just a bit ...

[/dev/random]

Because he is a one-dimensional character with annoying dialogues. "Screw the corps" all the way.

[Myyrä]

Originally posted by /dev/random:

Because he is a one-dimensional character with annoying dialogues. "Screw the corps" all the way.

+200 hours and that's the take you're going with?

[/dev/random]

Originally posted by Myyrä:

Originally posted by /dev/random:

Because he is a one-dimensional character with annoying dialogues. "Screw the corps" all the way.

+200 hours and that's the take you're going with?

Yes

[Myyrä]

Originally posted by /dev/random:

Originally posted by Myyrä:

+200 hours and that's the take you're going with?

Yes

So his character arc should've been "♥♥♥♥ arasaka" to "yeah we might as well suck the corpo ♥♥♥♥ because they've pretty much won already"?
His character arc was never supposed to be "mellow out the anti-corpo terrorist" in him, his character arc is that he realises that he's been pretty much an manipulative ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ throughout his life and his "second life" is more of a redemption arc to that.

[/dev/random]

Originally posted by Myyrä:

Originally posted by /dev/random:

Yes

So his character arc should've been "♥♥♥♥ arasaka" to "yeah we might as well suck the corpo ♥♥♥♥ because they've pretty much won already"?
His character arc was never supposed to be "mellow out the anti-corpo terrorist" in him, his character arc is that he realises that he's been pretty much an manipulative ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ throughout his life and his "second life" is more of a redemption arc to that.

ok

[SolidPayne]

I love that Johnny Silverhand is an a$$hole. We need more characters like him and Kreia from KOTOR 2 who don't kiss the player's a$$ and have no problems telling you what they really think of the situation