Who is your favorite video game villain?

Meatballsub · Post by **Meatballsub** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:54 pm

Who or what is your favorite gaming villain? It may not be the a main character, or even the most intimidating, but it certainly is cruel, careless, and dangerous.

My vote would likely go to Gaff Gafgarion from Final Fantasy Tactics. Although he only plays a minor role in the game, early on you learn that he is quite the character for being a geezer. He never cares about anything but himself and his pay, and wouldn't think twice about backstabbing his allies if the price is right.

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:33 pm

Same game, different villain.

Algus Sadalfus is sinister as slime.

Machu · Post by **Machu** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:11 am

GlaDOS.

Also, all of my characters in City of Villains.

Fenrir-Lunaris · Post by **Fenrir-Lunaris** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:58 am

OHRRPGCE:
Broaste, Sorcerer Kezef, and Chaos Nyte - in his OHR House incarnations.

Elsewhere:
Dr. Weil, Dr. Wily, Kuja.

Newbie Newtype · Post by **Newbie Newtype** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:11 am

EDIT: See new post below.

The Wobbler · Post by **The Wobbler** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:05 pm

Fenrir-Lunaris wrote:Dr. Wily

This.

RMZ · Post by **RMZ** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:11 pm

Pretty much, Dr.Robotnik for me. Considering, I grew up playing Sonic and wasn't able to beat all of the originals in one sitting until last year.

I mean, at the last boss in Sonic and Knuckles, you don't get any rings when you fight Robotnik. That slime is evil. You have to use 100% pure skill to beat that dude.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:55 am

Zombie Pirate LeChuck
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Shizuma · Post by **Shizuma** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:58 am

It must be Liquid Snake.

Leonhart · Post by **Leonhart** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:37 pm

Hmm.. hard question.

If we're talking about RPGs, I would go for Suikoden II's Luca Blight, the only RPG villain I got emotionally attached to, and probably the only videogame villain I despised.

And just read his last words:
"It took hundreds to kill me, but I killed humans by the thousands! Look at me! I am sublime! I am the true face of evil!"

Newbie Newtype · Post by **Newbie Newtype** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:42 pm

I finally remembered who my favorite villain was: Vamp from Metal Gear Solid 2.

I haven't played MGS4, so I can't say whether he is just as cool in that game, but in MGS2, I was very impressed by Vamp as both a character and a boss.

The first scene which you encounter him, he kills several US Seals, and has Solid Snake himself in a choke guard. To be able to catch Solid Snake himself off guard is one of the easiest ways to show me how much of a threat Vamp actually was, as well as how fast he could move. How could Raiden deal with such a powerful foe?

You can listen to his sinister backstory about how he sucked the blood of his own family just to survive, and of course that's not even why he's called 'Vamp', which I found hilarious.

When you finally get to fight him, his character and backstory is justified by an awesome boss fight that demands a learning of his movement patterns and attacks, as well as what to do when he jumps into the water (which is designed to be instant kill for Raiden, thanks to a clever physics device to explain why the water is so dangerous). It was such a great boss fight that accompanied such a great character and villain...

And that's not even all he had going for him. Even after defeating him, he's not dead! When you're sniping the mines so Emma can get through, he eventually comes back up and grabs Emma, which you have to snipe him to 'save' her. Of course, she doesn't survive what he does, marking her death as one of the legitimate reasons to hate Vamp.

And... HE STILL DOESN'T DIE. He's made of too much awesome to simply die like that, even though he constantly appears to die. In the ending, you can find a 2D sprite of Vamp in the background if you maneuver the camera properly to spot him. A nice touch, and a premonition of things to come, because obviously we know that Vamp is in MGS4. Awesome.

The Wobbler · Post by **The Wobbler** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:39 pm

Newbie Newtype wrote:I haven't played MGS4, so I can't say whether he is just as cool in that game, but in MGS2, I was very impressed by Vamp as both a character and a boss.

He's not, because MGS4 ruins pretty much all of the supernatural elements of the previous games by giving them all the same (stupid) scientific explanation. General MGS4 spoiler:
Nearly every mystery in the series is explained by either THEY'RE ROBOTS or THEY'RE FULL OF NANOMACHINES. I preferred Vamp when I thought he had actual powers and not just machines in his body that heal wounds quickly.
He's also totally inconsequential to MGS4's story and has no reason to be there aside from the fact that he didn't die in 2.

Newbie Newtype · Post by **Newbie Newtype** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:47 pm

MGS4 ruined Vamp and pretty much every other awesome thing? Gosh dangit, Kojima.

misterj · Post by **misterj** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:16 pm

i dunno, i preferred vamp to just be a garbage villain as they made him out to be. i didn't like him at all in mgs2 and nothing about mgs4 really helped either.

it still made big boss better, and thank god they got rid of the hurr liquid possesses ocelot thing. instead it was just everyone thinking ocelot was totally possessed.

edit: one more thing... has anyone besides me and phc played + beat mgs4?

The Wobbler · Post by **The Wobbler** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:52 pm

Monochrome's Last Stand wrote:it still made big boss better, and thank god they got rid of the hurr liquid possesses ocelot thing. instead it was just everyone thinking ocelot was totally possessed.

According to the Metal Gear Database:
Ocelot really was possessed. For a while. After it got too annoying he cut it off and got a robo arm and then he faked it again later to fool the AIs. It's a terrible explanation either way, and Ocelot is a way better character without any of the MGS2 stuff that screwed him up.