Evilest Game Villain EVAR!
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Seymour FFX was pretty mean and I'm sure Sephiroth has been said a hundred but still he's a mean dude 
Plz sephrioth isn't that evil. Anyone would turn into a mad man if he found out he was born in a terrible experiment. And you can't say Liquid sure he has a british acent andd all but he wants to destroy the Patriots and thats a good ing
I'm going to have to go with gamingfreak48 on this one. Though I have never actually played through the game, Earthbound has what is possibly the most wicked character I have ever witnessed in a video game. One of my friends showed me the final battle with Giygas years ago, and it's the stuff of nightmares.
Psychologically, Giygas is truly terrifying. Formerly a malevolent alien who literally disintegrated into madness, Giygas isn't just an evil being; Giygas IS evil incarnate. The frightening aspect of all this is that the evil has so corrupted him that it's eaten his mind away. He is literally a babbling idiot who doesn't even know what he's doing anymore. He's not even alive in the technical sense. Perhaps the worst part of it all is his insane ramblings:
"it hurts..."
"I'm...happy..."
This is made all the more disturbing when I found out the inspiration behind Giygas' speech. Shigesato Itoi, the creator, was traumatized during his childhood when he accidentally walked into an adult movie and witnessed a rape scene. You can almost feel his trauma when you play the game (or witness someone else play it).
Psychologically, Giygas is truly terrifying. Formerly a malevolent alien who literally disintegrated into madness, Giygas isn't just an evil being; Giygas IS evil incarnate. The frightening aspect of all this is that the evil has so corrupted him that it's eaten his mind away. He is literally a babbling idiot who doesn't even know what he's doing anymore. He's not even alive in the technical sense. Perhaps the worst part of it all is his insane ramblings:
"it hurts..."
"I'm...happy..."
This is made all the more disturbing when I found out the inspiration behind Giygas' speech. Shigesato Itoi, the creator, was traumatized during his childhood when he accidentally walked into an adult movie and witnessed a rape scene. You can almost feel his trauma when you play the game (or witness someone else play it).
Well, I'd have to say Moebius The Timestreamer from the Legacy of Kain series, even though the Elder God was manipulating him, he was still a bastard right up until the end. He repeatedly played cryptic mind games with Raziel and Kain, his ultimate goals to keep Raziel from discovering his own destiny. He also prophecised that both Kain AND William the Just were to have the Soul Reaver, causing a paradox and a long and bloody war between Humans and Vampires. The Elder God twisted him into malevolence, cunningly disguised as just and noble actions until the end of the series. Although he believed his actions were good, he still destroyed many innocent Vampires for no good reasons, he my friends is the game version of the jaded chestnut of "God told me to do it!"
The Combine advisors are evil because they perform actions of incredibly cruelty with mere disinterest and dispassion - their blank faces move with a terrifying purpose and their sterile, sterile unemotional approaches to tearing out the brains of a human being in front of you is so disturbing.
Wallace Breen is sinister because he is so congenial and rational - were he not overseeing a regime which lobotomizes and dismembers its citizens to maximize utility, I'd expect to see him writing research papers and teaching post-doc students.
Bob Paige takes the cake for most convincing plot for world leadership, though. Essentially becoming a technological manifestation of god, his plan smacks of the Antichrist in the biblical of Revelations - usurping power by winning the world over with his marvels, then establishing a dominion of his own. With stuff like a universal constructor, limitless net bandwidth and nanite augmentations, his scheme comes off as semi-plausible.
Bowser takes the cake, though. Repeatedly kidnapping a japanese schoolgirl, destroying mushrooms and screwing over real estate agents with SEVEN FRIGGEN CASTLES which he doesn't pay taxes for!? Evil to the core, baby.
Wallace Breen is sinister because he is so congenial and rational - were he not overseeing a regime which lobotomizes and dismembers its citizens to maximize utility, I'd expect to see him writing research papers and teaching post-doc students.
Bob Paige takes the cake for most convincing plot for world leadership, though. Essentially becoming a technological manifestation of god, his plan smacks of the Antichrist in the biblical of Revelations - usurping power by winning the world over with his marvels, then establishing a dominion of his own. With stuff like a universal constructor, limitless net bandwidth and nanite augmentations, his scheme comes off as semi-plausible.
Bowser takes the cake, though. Repeatedly kidnapping a japanese schoolgirl, destroying mushrooms and screwing over real estate agents with SEVEN FRIGGEN CASTLES which he doesn't pay taxes for!? Evil to the core, baby.
Hmm... I'm sure SOME of you might know who I'm talking about but it would have to be Lloyd from Legend of Dragoon... ESPECIALLY after what he does at the end of disk one... I have NEVER hated a character that much until he came along.
qbert4ever said:
First of all Final Fantasy VII being overlooked, is extremely laughable. It is one of the most overplayed games ever invented....Unless you live in Ethiopa, which on that note, how the hell did you get internet?
The most evil villain ever would have to be the devil, he
s been in more games than anyone else and even has a religious debate after him.
Hmmm... Bioshock... I loved the graphics, the sound, the atmosphere. At times it had a genuine atmosphere of horror about it - I can still recall the lady with praying-mantis arms at the beginning of the first level, nursing her dead child... Unfortunately, in gameplay terms, it's nowhere close to System Shock 2, which is in turn nowhere close to the original System Shock. The difference is that the System Shock games had me hooked enough to keep going back to them again and again. Bioshock? Not a chance. The enemies, when they're not in their "horror" states, are quite boring. Who remembers the individual splicers anyway? I think Bioshock is a superb game engine and a good experiment in user-environment interaction. Now someone should make a great game out of it.
I would have to agree with everyone who's said SHODAN for best villain. In System Shock, SHODAN is the ultimate control freak, someone with the vision and power to play God on a grand scale. But in the sequel they develop this further and go with the theme of Shodan as a "mother" - awbeit one who is at war with her children. Nonetheless, when you destroy the last life-raft with the alien eggs in it on the Command deck, her gleeful scream of "You've murdered their children!" sends chills up my spine.
But there's a big objection: why in hell's name did they make the SS2 final boss a bloody cyberguard - one of the easiest cyberspace opponents from SS1? THIS is supposed to be the face of SHODAN? What a colossal let-down...
I would have to agree with everyone who's said SHODAN for best villain. In System Shock, SHODAN is the ultimate control freak, someone with the vision and power to play God on a grand scale. But in the sequel they develop this further and go with the theme of Shodan as a "mother" - awbeit one who is at war with her children. Nonetheless, when you destroy the last life-raft with the alien eggs in it on the Command deck, her gleeful scream of "You've murdered their children!" sends chills up my spine.
But there's a big objection: why in hell's name did they make the SS2 final boss a bloody cyberguard - one of the easiest cyberspace opponents from SS1? THIS is supposed to be the face of SHODAN? What a colossal let-down...
I dunno about Dr. Breen. From his dialog, I get the feeling that he thinks he's making the best deal for humanity he can out of humanity's very bad situation after the gate opened and let the Combine in. He definitely made the wrong choice, as with or without him the human race is screwed unless it ditches the Combine, but I don't think he made that choice out of malice.UncleAsriel said:
If I can step out of video games for a moment, my evilest villain EVAR would be Abbadon the Destroyer from Warhammer 40,000. He's prosecuted a war against the Imperium for 10,000 years, slaughtered billions, destroyed worlds and even stars, and attempted to erase reality itself... because his patron and master, Horus, was killed by the Emperor in a civil war and he wants revenge. No glory, no idealistic vision of a better future, just a spiteful desire to "let the galaxy burn".
-- Steve