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    Which villain impressed you the most??

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Ulags, Aug 11, 2010.

  1. Ulags

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    Hi guys.. Everyone talks about the main character in the game, but there is an unsung hero, the one who challenges us and drive our minds crazy.. So which villain impressed you the most?
    For me its undoubtedly the GLaDOS from portal for its cunning thinking and of course the final song.. :)
     
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    Bowser. : )

    lol sorry I had to go there.
     
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    Team Rocket =]
     
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    Bullet Bill. The first time I encountered this guy it suprised the crap outta me.

    But as far as REAL villans go... I'd have to say... Metroid Prime... Epic battles are epic.
     
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    Ganon, with Ocarina of Time, because it was an epic battle at the time. I remember ducking and rolling so many times and when you thought you killed him he comes back...
     
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    Me in Black and White.
     
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    Krelian, Ramsus, Deus, Graff...............even Fei was his own enemy.
     
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    Joker from Arkham Asylum!
     
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    My vote also goes to Joker from Arkham Asylum :)
     
  10. Tristan

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    The Sage stone from Golden Sun
     
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    Queen of Blades from SC1/BroodWar (not SC2)
     
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    Arthas Menethil... until Blizzard made him a pssy for the sake of milking more money from WoW.
     
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    Sephiroth from FF7, also The "Boss" from MGS3
     
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    Joker from Batman: Arhkam Asylum was probably the most clever, while Scarecrow from the same game always freaked me out.
     
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    lol epic :D ... but my vote goes to joker...
     
  16. rschauby

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    Definitely this

    Also, meeting Sovereign in ME1 was pretty awesome.
     
  17. mobius1aic

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    But the boss was really a protagonist in the end depending on whose view you're looking at it from. As a character, she is one of the best in the series. MGS3's story was just so powerful.
     
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    My KOTOR 2 character :)
     
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    +1

    +2, I even named mine Revan, lawl.
     
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    Shodan from System Shock 2, a game way ahead of it's time !

    "Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"

    SHODAN - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
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    Vlad in Max Payne 2
     
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    Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. Dude actually moves your Dual Shock controller, messes with the TV, and then challenges you by 'knowing' what other games you have on your Playstation memory card!

    Not a thrilling fight, but setting it up like this? Epic and first of it's kind, no?
     
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    **SPOILER ALERT FOR BORDERLANDS**

    The Vault Boss in "Borderlands".....how much lead did I have to pump into that thing??

    Joker in Batman Arkham Asylum was good too. *agrees with the above posters*

    Mr. Mysterious
     
  25. IWantMyMTV

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    Baldur's Gate: Sarevok
    Far Cry: Dr. Moreau, I mean Dr. Krieger
    Diablo/Diablo 2: The Butcher/Andariel
    Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Wilhelm Strasse

    But of all time?
    Ultima III: Exodus (great-great-great-great-you get the idea-father of Shodan)
     
  26. cleverpseudonym

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    that Russian kid from Alpha protocol
     
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    LOL, rep'd.
     
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    my vote goes to Albert Vesker in resident evil 5.An amazing character none the less.
     
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    the computer from portal.
     
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    The Boss in MGS3!
     
  31. KimoT

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    Me in Morrowind/Oblivion (I love playing the Dark Brotherhood characters).

    Joker of course.

    And Ganon/Ganondorf/Whatever He Is Calling Himself This Game in the Zelda series.

    Dysentery in Oregon Trail.
     
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    Haha! Nice one.
     
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    Definitely Kreia / Darth Traya from KoTOR 2. :D
     
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    They blue pages from Myst...
     
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    Sephiroth!!
     
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    I don't know man, I was playing co op with 3 people and he died pretty easy. Also, yea beside joker, scared crow too, always messing with your mind.

    One more thing, Blue Screen of Death!
     
  37. Histidine

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    Never played Ultima, but I 100% agree with your other choices! All were memorable, recognizable characters who oozed evil out of their pores.

    I also like how you pick Butcher and Andariel over the Lords themselves - especially the Butcher. By the time you hit Diablo (or Baal or Mephisto) you've waded through hundreds of boss monsters surrounded by thousands of minions, and you're a big beefy hack'n'slash behemoth. But when you encounter the Butcher, you've only just started to get the hang of fighting monsters.

    The dungeon is dark, the music quietly spooky, and the monsters you've seen have been slow, cowardly, weak. Then you open a door to find a room filled with blood and corpses, some fresh, some days old, all maimed and dismembered and mutilated. And a tall, fat man-creature, wearing an apron and drenched in fresh blood, comes charging straight at you wielding an oversized meat cleaver, growling:

    "MMMMMmmhh, fresh meat!"



    Oh, and as for my vote? (Bioshock spoiler)

    Frank Fontaine from Bioshock

    Maybe not the most evil villain, but memorable, sinister, devious, and the most immediately threatening to the protagonist. It's not often that a villain literally screws with your head... and your heart.

    Ha! Points for being clever. And yes, you could indeed be very evil in that game!
     
  38. H.A.L. 9000

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    Whoa, I can remember the first time I played through BioShock, he genuinely freaked me the *ell out. He has my vote.
     
  39. gdansk

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    Toughest villain: The French in unpatched Europa Univeralis III. Crazy overpowered.

    Funnest villain:
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    Culex from Super Mario RPG, mainly because he was so tough for not being an end boss.
     
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    Floating Eye from Rogue :)

    Alas, we, the Roguelike-likers, are a dying breed.
     
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    Scarecrow from arkham asylum, broodmother from dragon age: origins, and "the things" from The Thing :D. I remember that as my all time scariest game i've ever played.
     
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    Sovereign from Mass Effect =)
     
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    IMO , the scariest and most impressive villan ever has to be joker... nothing beats him when he's serious and mad :D
     
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    Would Arkham Asylum's Joker be as scary if we hadn't seen Heath Ledger's fiendish version of him? I have to wonder, since the character portrayed in the game is more along the lines of Jack Nicholson's version, and most likely, most people who played AA barely remembered Jack's Joker, if they knew him at all.

    I think as movie villains go, both Jokers would make my top 10 list easily, probably right up there behind Darth Vader. But I didn't get the same feeling from the game version. I thought the other villains were a lot more terrifying.

    ------
    Update:

    It looks like someone is watching our thread!

    Gamespot is starting a poll in elimination-style.

    (Or maybe one of you guys secretly works for Gamespot? ;))
     
  45. classic77

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    Sephiroth, Mengsk, Arthas...thats all that come to mind...
     
  46. Histidine

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    Arthas made for a weak villain, but whatever.

    Mengsk, on the other hand, was never even a villain. He was a power-hungry sociopath, but he was never anything more than a Fidel Castro or, at worst, a Saddam Hussein. By comparison, Kerrigan was more along the lines of a Kim Jong Il, a Josef Stalin, a Pol Pot, or, at risk of violating Godwin's Law, a Hitler.

    When the UED "reclaimed" the Terran worlds, they made Mengsk look like a small-timer, a situation to be resolved quickly so that bigger issues can be taken care of. Just a few short missions and Mengsk's entire military command was relieved, his planet taken away from him. Even Jim Raynor was willing to reinstate Mengsk as Emperor, and the UED weren't exactly ruthless tyrants themselves.
     
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    Wesker

    He can ham it up better than anyone else in the video game world.
     
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    Villainy != Power. Mengsk is a villan because he has viscious ambitions, betrays his friends, and sold an ENTIRE PLANET TO THE ZERG TO REACH POWER. I think Kerrigan is far LESS evil, since some of her behavior is probably the result of her mutation...How is Mengsk not a villain?
     
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    Death's Head in Wolfenstein and his taunts during the ubersoldat level.
     
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    Because the game doesn't make him into a villain. It makes him into a despot. And a very run-of-the-mill despot at that. That's what he's supposed to be.

    By comparison, Kerrigan killed Duke and Fenix for pretty much no reason but nefarious bloodlust. (And she made YOU do it as a cerebrate - I always hated that mission!).

    And Mengsk replaced the confederacy, which was certainly no better, and may have done nearly as bad as feeding a planet to the zerg (remember, they developed the psi emitter in the first place). By comparison, Mengsk isn't that heinous.
     
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