Evilest Game Villain EVAR!

[GyroCaptain]

I'd personally go with Saren from Mass Effect, since he (a) thought he was doing something good for the universe, and (b) killed a whole mess of people. He wasn't pure evil, but that made it more of a complicated question when it came to fighting against him.

Sorry to be an arse but, Saren's a good guy that got his mind washed by the Reaper.

Actually, the Mass Effect prequel book (written by the game's storyline writer) does a pretty good job of extablishing that yes, Saren is evil. He quite literally has two "rules" regarding torture: (1)Never do it without a reason and (2)You can always find a reason.
His main outlines are sadism and masked xenophobic hatred toward several other races, humanity in particular. Humanity is chosen because his brother died in the First Contact war, but mostly only because he can justify it to other people that way. Basically, he's a psychopath working levers secretly for his own twisted vision of Turian supremacy that gets a free pass only because he ALWAYS brings results and manages consistently to sweep things under the rug. The artifact encountered by a human expedition and tied into the reapers merely manipulates him and leads him to Sovereign by reenforcing existing behavior patterns.

Basically, Saren's bastardy isn't terribly well justified other than getting off on killing people and belief in ethnic supremacy leading to dehumanization of others (deTurianization?).
(Yes, I read the Mass Effect prequel book. No, I didn't buy it. *creeps away wearing "nerd" hat*)

 

[goodpoltergeist]

The Skedar from Perfect Dark. Totally unconcerned with anything except destroying the Maians.

Destroying an entire planet to get a weapon that could then destroy any planet inhabited by the Maians? A-Ok!

Someone or something failed in it's purpose? Destroyed.

Can't get the president to cooperate with your underhanded schemes? Kill him and clone him!

They represent the ultimate "End justifies the means," plus, they invented the Slayer, and the Reaper (and who doesn't love grinding into a pulp with a handheld blender?)

 

[Thaliur]

I'd definitely vote for Clarence (Penumbra: BLack Plague) as the most evil villain I've ever seen in a game.
Anyone who knows the game will understand why.

 

[gamingfreak48]

Xd Dude its Giygas from earthbound hands down, I mean the guy can control anyone at anytime throughout history if they have any evil in his heart and also the guy was so evil he destroyed his own form becoming nothing but pure malevolence, I mean the final boss against him is nothing but a slow descent into despair.

 

[propertyofcobra]

Front Mission (the original, for the SNES), Driscoll.

Let's count it. He kills your wife. Three times (twice you think he does it, and the last time he goes and does it). Pins the start of a long and very bloody war solely on your innocent shoulders. And then he extracts and uses your wife's BRAIN to power a mechanical killing construction, which he first uses in his wanzer (mech) for a while, and then gives to you just to piss you off. And then have to use it to stop him.
You are forced, because of this man's actions. To use your DEAD WIFE'S BRAIN AS A WEAPON.

Also, he blows up a hospital. For no good reason.

He never wanted to destroy the entire world, that's what made him so evil. Anyone can be a nihilist or mamma's boy and destroy the world (Looking at you, most JRPG villains ever and Sephiroth, respectively). But it takes a real villain to constantly fuck with the main character in such sick ways just for the sheer fun of it.

 

[Lukeje]

Seems I'm the only one here who plays World War 2 games, the biggest game villan obviously has to be Hitler.

Doesn't Godwin's Law now apply? Anyway, the only game containing Hitler as an actual enemy (that I know of...) was Wolfenstein 3d... and that wasn't exactly an accurate protrayal of the 2nd world war.

Edit: and with regard to 'evilest villain'... surely King Dedede (from Kirby's Dream Land) gets a mention? [/Sarcasm]

 

[SpiritMacardi]

The evilest villain award has to go to Dio Brando from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. The man can stop time and hurl freakin' steamrollers! Not to mention he has the best battle cry ever: "Wryyyyyyyyyyyyy!"

 

[Logan Westbrook]

For me, evil is too nebulous a concept to really be used as a yardstick. An 'evil' villain to me, is one that doesn't have a decent motivation. Suchong, for example, wanted to advance humanity. Irenicus acted out of love, at least in part. A villain that performed unspeakable acts for no good reason would be 'evil', but would also be boring.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

Seems I'm the only one here who plays World War 2 games, the biggest game villan obviously has to be Hitler.

Doesn't Godwin's Law now apply? Anyway, the only game containing Hitler as an actual enemy (that I know of...) was Wolfenstein 3d... and that wasn't exactly an accurate protrayal of the 2nd world war.

Bionic Commando. Hitler shows you the horror of the albatross.

- J

 

[NATO.Caliber]

The other racket from Pong.

 

[gamingfreak48]

Xd Dude its Giygas from earthbound hands down, I mean the guy can control anyone at anytime throughout history if they have any evil in his heart and also the guy was so evil he destroyed his own form becoming nothing but pure malevolence, I mean the final boss against him is nothing but a slow descent into despair.

Its still Giygas to me no contest, all he wanted was everything and everyone dead, a galactic destroyer XD gotta play earthbound to understand though but good luck finding a copy, maybe if it comes out on virtual console on the Wii.

 

[Surggical_Scar]

Just to be different (and genuinely because I hated her), Tanya from Saint's Row was the classic manipulating whore from hell. She leads everyone she can by their man-parts, and hose she can't she turns her minions against. By the end of the Vice Kings storyline, she's screwed or shot her way to the top, and no-one saw it coming.

Thus, it was wonderful to see her get her comeuppance.

 

[Lampaslocus]

me in fable =D

 

[Lampaslocus]

me in fable =D

 

[Lampaslocus]

me in fable =D

 

[Lampaslocus]

ahhh sorry it lagged out didnt mean to post 3 times...

 

[Bodo_Fraggins]

him in Fable

 

[Mr Wednesday]

Suchong isn't evil, he just isn't constrained by the same moralistic thinking that is taken as "normal" in this Judeo-Christian society. Genetic experimentation is all fine and dandy, and who better to do it on than the homeless?

So the stripping of a human being's most basic natural right:- the right to life and self ownership, simply to further the purposes of a commercial busines(the one in question being the plasmid business) is not evil.

Rightttttttt.