General Discussion

Ok, so I finished the game today, and was hoping that things might get better, but no, I still fucking hate Rico.  Can anyone tell me why they decided to make his voice that way? Was he like this in any of the other games?  What was the part the made you hate him the most?
Well for me, I hated when he would die and say, someone get me the fuck up! or when i would be hurt and he would always, and I mean always scream, Sev get to cover!
But the scene that did it for me was when they encounter the marine with the metal gear prototype after Templar dies, and he says shit about Templar, and Rico goes crazy, it just made me think, man I hope he dies, cuz he just goes crazy on the guy but i felt like saying, yes it sucks Templar is dead but no one gives a monkeys anus that you are offended, asshole.

Yeah, sort of weird how they give you a couple of reasons to hate him then don't follow through by having him die valiantly in battle or break down and turn on you or anything like that. Kind of hard to care about any of those characters considering nothing happens over most of the game. By the time those other three people got captured I had already sort of given up on the cast, so I didn't really feel any incentive to rescue them or anyhting, either.

True, by the time I got to the portion of the game where I had to rescue the three folks, it kinda felt like a chore but I remember it being one of the most engaging portions of the game in terms of gameplay.  I found it interesting how they handled the physics with grenades and loved that electricity gun.
I was also confused as to why Sev got upset when Garza died, I mean, it didn't seem like they were super friends, why didn't the other guys get upset? I also found it funny how they try to make them out to be bad ass ala Gears when near the end they decide to go after Radec and Visari.  They are missing someone like Cole Train, then the story would mean something!

Rico has been like this in every game so far. In fact in his first appearance in the first Killzone he makes his entrance firing a giant machine gun wildly and cussing up a storm. While I think they were trying to make him into the hard ass Sergeant they only succeeded in creating a cliched military tough guy. He isn't likable, his voice is grating, and in the end I found myself scratching my head as to why he survived when more interesting characters died.