Most hated character?

[MTV]

Otis by miles. I hate him and his spam calls so damn much. Especially if you hang up at the end of his dialogue and he calls you back to tell you the same damn thing..

Runner up would probably be Kent because he's just a douche.

[DreamSphinx]

The old lady who let all the zombies into the mall, Lindsay Harris, despite the zombies not even noticing the dog lol.

[MTV]

Originally posted by Afamad 2.1:

The old lady who let all the zombies into the mall, Lindsay Harris, despite the zombies not even noticing the dog lol.

No idea what happened to that dog. I guess it was eaten off camera.. would have been cool if the dog was a secret survivor you could rescue.

[Luff]

"How dare you put down your communication device for 5sec as you protect yourself against against thousands of zombies!?"
Yeah Otis is a real ass!
And as for my most hated character...yeah it's Otis.

[PsypherWolf]

It's gotta be that jackhole that wants you to pay him to save him, I kill him every time after he's already in the registry so I can free up more space for other survivors.

[MTV]

After getting Saint for the second time, I have to give Gordon an honorable mention.

[jborrowdale]

Otis

[sWX]

Hey, don't hang up! That's rude!

[DrNewcenstein]

Otis can see you in the monitors everywhere, but can't see the zombies.
And you can't run.
And you have to hold it up to your ear the entire time.

Best thing about Infinite Mode: if you go out on the rooftop, Otis is the first one you encounter, and you can kill him in multiple ways.

[NomNom]

Otis. Especially when you are trying to get the Transmissionary achievement.

[DrNewcenstein]

There are certain transmissions you will miss if you're in a safe spot where zombies can't get you, as well, such as entering Food Court from Al Fresca; if you immediately run and jump to the restaurant railing to avoid the looming horde, the call stops ringing.
If you simply run around avoiding the horde, the radio will ring for a couple of minutes.

[Salander]

I was going to say Kent because yeah, he's an assh*le with all the letters. I could say the fanatics that gas you or try to explode near Frank...

But Otis. Otis is the main psycho of the game with all his calls in bad moments.
I think I didn't get the transmissionary achievement due to one single call when I was surrounded as heck with zombies D': damn Otis.

[mrfl4ttop]

What about Aaron ? He's by far one of the worst survivor to escort. There was never a game which he wasn't the one you constantly had to watch over.

[DrNewcenstein]

None of the other survivors are as bad as Otis, because of the radio calls. Everyone else you can deal with at the moment, like the ones you have to carry or otherwise drag by the arm.

The ones who can't seem to move with purpose like their lives depended on it are frustrating, and to some extent they're understandably weak. It's zombies. Assuming they're from a world where zombies are just fictional movie monsters, it's difficult to believe this is all real for them.
Assuming they're from a world where zombies don't even exist in movies, then the sheer confusion and terror of the situation - what they've seen - is crippling.

The vast majority of these people are not survival nuts with even 12% of a plan for such a scenario. Those 3 in the gun shop are the only ones capable of dealing with it, and if you can carry them with you to rescue people, it's much easier. However, they have a narrow appearance window. They're also likely to kill other survivors by accident.

But Otis has no viable excuse for his sh!t. He can see you on the monitors everywhere you go, even in the tunnels, but can't see the zombies surrounding you? There can't be any plausible explanations for his behavior towards you.

From a development standpoint, I can see the desire to make it frustrating and difficult. It's CAPCOM after all. However, this game pushes the limit. It's not as bad as Overblood, though.

[Salander]

For what I gathered through playing the story: the zombies existed in this universe as fiction. That's why they used the term freely like they did.

I think that's worse than not knowing anything about it. I mean, imagine if something like that happened in our world: we would be in a constant state of hysteria due to the image of a BOW or other kind of monster possibly lurking around lol

Although the AI in Dead Rising is just plain bad. It goes along well with certain characters due to their personality, but when in several ocassions they get stuck with the plant near the exit of Paradise Plaza... That breaks it.

The very bad thing about the calls, (beside Otis knowing when you are occupied) is that they get "interrupted" while doing anything. It's not like Frank couldn't get the audio going while he's doing something else.
Other than that, even the AI of the characters are excusable because it makes the game harder. The calls just make it cheaper.

[DrNewcenstein]

Agreed. You don't have to hold the button on a radio to listen, just to talk, and since Frank is only listening, there's no way Otis can be interrupted when Frank is getting attacked, unless Otis is watching on the monitor and just giving Frank hell.