For the last few weeks, it was Kellogg in Fallout 4. Nuked him from across the room, ran up and beat him to death with a baseball bat wrapped in chains. Stole his clothes and emptied a revolver cylinder into his head, bursting it like a ripe melon. A fitting end to a weak and shallow character.
how was he a weak and shallow character? He had two scenes. The first lasting 5 seconds, the second lasting maybe a minute and then he was done. Nearly everyone in the Fallout series is a remorseless asshole, but here we have a mercenary who is not only a antagonist, but actually regrets what he did and respects the protagonist (even though s/he is there to kill him, which by his own admission is his fault).
I actually quite liked Kellogg. Good dialogue, good voice acting, can relate to other people, and even though the protagonist tenacity irritates him to no end, he also respects it. Sorely underdeveloped character.
Who did i enjoy killing the most? Handsome Jack.....or maybe Sephiroth.
EDIT: oh god, how could i forget? Buck from Farcry 3.
He's supposed to be this hard-boiled, deadly mercenary, but he acts like a chump. I thought he was just set up like a bowling pin to be knocked down so you could discover the next plot point was in another place. He taunts you throughout his lair and then goes "Oh, you're really not going to go away, are you? Well, all right then, I'll unlock the final unbreakable door for you so you can come in and sort of talk to me for about a minute before shooting me in the face, but just this once!"
He also, as far as I can see, had no reason to go overboard in the manner that caused you to hunt him down in the first place. Why not bring more synths and take them both?
He's supposed to be this hard-boiled, deadly mercenary, but he acts like a chump. I thought he was just set up like a bowling pin to be knocked down so you could discover the next plot point was in another place. He taunts you throughout his lair and then goes "Oh, you're really not going to go away, are you? Well, all right then, I'll unlock the final unbreakable door for you so you can come in and sort of talk to me for about a minute before shooting me in the face, but just this once!"
He also, as far as I can see, had no reason to go overboard in the manner that caused you to hunt him down in the first place. Why not bring more synths and take them both?
He's supposed to be this hard-boiled, deadly mercenary, but he acts like a chump. I thought he was just set up like a bowling pin to be knocked down so you could discover the next plot point was in another place. He taunts you throughout his lair and then goes "Oh, you're really not going to go away, are you? Well, all right then, I'll unlock the final unbreakable door for you so you can come in and sort of talk to me for about a minute before shooting me in the face, but just this once!"
He also, as far as I can see, had no reason to go overboard in the manner that caused you to hunt him down in the first place. Why not bring more synths and take them both?
well, he IS a deadly mercenary. He lays a trap for you when you are out searching with dogmeat, and his fight is one of the hardest ive done so far. He hits like a truck, toss grenades like candy (which are one hit KO), can turn invis, and has quite a bit of HP. He was much harder to kill than a behemoth, thats for sure.
He didnt have any reason to go overboard, sure. A thawed human holding a baby cant be in great shape. But that is a plot hole, without shooting your spouse it turns the whole game on its head. I suppose both of them could have been captured by the institute and then they escape, but this would immediately align a player's sympathies with the railroad and synths rather than coming to the conclusion to help them on your own after you had a few interactions with both hostile terminators and regular ole synths. I think it would make the game poorer. I will be honest, i still havent met the Railroad and im 200 hours in. So far every synth i met is either a terminator or someone trying to subvert the general population (with the exception of Nick), but i think its great that synths are introduced as this great threat to you FIRST and then having your preconceptions challenged. Its easy to go from thinking someone is good to thinking they are bad, the opposite is usually much more difficult.
I dont remember him taunting you. He makes some snide comments, but he mostly tells you to go away ("sorry your house is a mess, but i dont need a roommate" "you can turn around and leave, not many get that opportunity" "You wont find what you are looking for"). He was actually trying to be diplomatic, he wants nothing to do with you, mostly because he regrets what he has done.
Hojo from FF7. Practically every horrible thing that happens in that game can be traced back to something he's done. It was just so satisfying to end him with a Bahamut ZERO nuke, courtesy of Vincent...
I can think of 2. 2 where I was actually immersed, angry, and seeing red.
The first was Ancano in Skyrim. The Mages Guild questline actually changed my entire character and up to that point gameworld of Skyrim. Up until that point my (in Bethesda games I call them "the natural" as in natural reactions and favored play style) "natural" character was going to be the character I ran through the mages, and thieves guild questlines and ultimately would be the dragonborn of my gameworld. But along the way I did want to get married. And that happened right around the time my character met Mirabelle Ervine. I had just gotten my first amulet of Mara, and decided that after the mages questline (so it wouldn't be a creepy teacher/student thing) I'd wear it in front of her. I figured even if she wasn't in a marriage faction, I could use the console command to add her to it. But then
Ancano killed her. It was even the first thing I asked in dialogue when I got back with the staff of Magnus, there is a dialogue option to ask Tolfdir "Where is Mirabelle?" When he said she didn't make it... I saw red. I stormed into the hall of elements and blasted Ancano, draining every drop of magic from him while burning him with the very low level spell flames. Because it would take longer... because it would hurt more. I slow roasted that elf until finally he died. Then I left the college, walked north to the edge of the coast, and threw the amulet of Mara into the sea.
That's when my "natural" character became "the false dragonborn" who took to drinking and became a serial killer of elves. First just Altmer, but soon any elf blood would do. Every once in a great while I'll load that character up and stalk and kill some random elf. My next character, a paladin build, became the actual dragonborn.
The second was in Wing Commander III. I had played 1 and 2 and the add ons. Your character and his side is betrayed by a traitor in their midst. For second game it is completely unexplained who the traitor is. But halfway through III the secret is revealed.
It was Hobbes.
I couldn't believe it... he was the ONLY ONE I trusted completely. The only one I KNEW wasn't the traitor. When he fled... I chased him down and murdered him. And you are given a choice, while you are gone, the capital ship comes under attack. If you return without chasing the traitor down you arrive in time to save everyone. If you don't you show up and about half your fighter compliment has been killed. And these aren't just redshirts, they characterize all of the pilots to some extent. And it's permadeath, you lose them in cutscenes and in battle for the rest of the game. And I didn't care. That's how good killing the traitor felt.
Bubi from Wolfenstein: The New Order was a pretty satisfying kill. If only because the writers managed to make me hate a lot of those characters so much only by simply listening to their voices. Damn shame Engle made it out though.
For me that award would probably go to Monsoon from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. I quite like him as a character, but after all the trouble he gave my "Get all the "Beat this boss on Hard or harder without taking damage" achievements" run it was rather satisfying to finally shishkabob the fucker.
Cubones Mother was one...
Pokemon Red/Blue/Green/Yellow.
God damnit it took me long to figure our first how to do anything about that fucking ghost and then when it finally showed itself with the SylphScope and it was this awesome Marowak!! AND I COULDN'T EVEN CATCH THE BASTARD!!!!
Later on anotherone was MetalFace from Xenoblade Chronicles.
Thought at first he was kind of cool as an evil person, then I got to know his backstory, not so happy anymore after that and was glad to lay the bastard!
Anytime I see a black soul gem in skyrim in a building or with a group of bandits/coven its usualy a good sign I get to M in manslaughter. Its also when I stop feeling sorry for them.
That one dark elf I cut free from the spider early on. It needs Benny Hill music.
Hunters in Halo 4, particularly when you get to use that one Prothean rocket launcher with the red plasma balls that continue to do dammage.
its weird hearing her in fallout 4 as one of the voice actors along with garus
for me it was kellog as well.. x-01 power armour, can see anyone invisible and packing a big boy MIRV fat man, and a super sledge.. PROTAGONIST SMASH!!!!
note to self the MIRV variant of the fatman is exceedingly dangerous to yourself, and should not be used in confined areas
To keep with the Fallout theme... Everyone in Fallout 4.
I went BoS because they were the first ones to make it clear they wanted the board swiped clean. I jumped with joy when they gave the go ahead to murder the Railroad, and was positively giddy when we cleared out the Institute. I cried when they didn't ask me to nuke the Minutemen and massacre Diamond City. I wanted to kill EVERYONE in that game.
Zeus in God of War 3. The culmination of Kratos' efforts, a deserving victim if ever there was one, and by the end of it you're covered in so much of his blood that you can't even see, though you can still keep going after that, and still hear the sounds... for as long as you want.
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