I wanna call out the OP on being a Biased turd, but I don't know who he's fanboyin for. Theres the obvious Nintendo vibe coming out, then theres the Final Fantasy nerd coming out. Theres Old Snake in his Avatar. I don't even know anymore!
Maybe I shouldn't have made this a poll, seems a bit stupid to me now. (Is there a way to edit the poll options because most people had picked other and after reading some of the initial posts I have realised I have missed out some very important bad guys).
I wouldn't say I am a fan boy, but I would say I have had a lot of good experiences with Final Fantasy and MGS, however I do not understand why you would assume that I am a nintendo fanboy, I put nintendo bosses because I thought they would be most popular. My first console was a Playstation and I have never owned a nintendo console other than the Wii and I have only played the earlier Final Fantasy games on emulators. I definetly wouldn't say I am a "Final Fantasy nerd", more of a fan, I haven't played any of them more than 2 or 3 times.
Well this is alot different to the most famous or your personal favourite, even though I don't like the FF games much, Sephiroth, Kefka and Ganondorf do make better villians than the others.
I would say EDIT for now because he and his plan is evil enough as well as killing EDIT off makes him a real bastard! I'm gonna do some research before making my final decision.
Well this is alot different to the most famous or your personal favourite, even though I don't like the FF games much, Sephiroth, Kefka and Ganondorf do make better villians than the others.
I would say EDIT for now because he and his plan is evil enough as well as killing EDIT off makes him a real bastard! I'm gonna do some research before making my final decision.
Well this is alot different to the most famous or your personal favourite, even though I don't like the FF games much, Sephiroth, Kefka and Ganondorf do make better villians than the others.
I would say EDIT for now because he and his plan is evil enough as well as killing EDIT off makes him a real bastard! I'm gonna do some research before making my final decision.
Oh I ran across it when I had just found out about the ORLY? owl and couldn't stop laughing. Now everytime I play OoT I ignore everything the owl says and just replace his text in my head with ORLY?!
Doom Dragon from Golden Sun The Lost Age, you end up killing two of your party's parents and one character's dad. And the thing is if you would have lost they would have died anyway. God, I hate "miracles". And the theme is badass
As awesome as the floating rock thing (wise one) is as a bad guy, i still say Alex is far better. He just seems to be able to manipulate everyone, and also seems to have a greater knowledge of things to come than all the other characters too. well, excluding the wise one ironically. and he's weaker then him... but in my eyes he's still the "better bad guy", even if he's weaker and not as clever.... definatly nothing to do with his hair ;p
this isn't quite to do with this, but i've noticed a post (by someone who's banned, so i can't quote it as such) saying "those aren't final bosses" and how the post i've quoted is talking about the last boss of Golden Sun 2, whilst suggesting the wise one as the true bad guy he likes. is this thread really about final bosses? maybe the OP changed the title or something halfway through, so pragmatically, it made sense to them but times have changed.
anyway, onto my favourite badguy, Specter, from Ape escape (1,2 and 3... and he is the final boss in all of them... weird that xD)
He is a massive part of my childhood... along with my childish moments i have as a teenager where i suddenly need to play and complete an ape escape game in a day (or two). The game is primarily designed to be played by kids, but they wanted to make specter seem really evil (particularly in the second installment of Ape Escape, Ape Escape 2... i'm saying Ape escape a lot hoping that the name sticks into your head until you feel the urge to play it... ape Escape)
but the games for kids, so they couldn't have him swear or do anything overly violent. so they thought "screw it, lets go as close to the line without crossing it". In Ape Escape 2, when he's in the goliath monkey robot, he screams "die!" and fires 4 homing rockets at you. this sound coupled with "lets do this!(beats metallic chest with fists)" are to me the coolest lines a bad guy has ever said. He also says "Damn". as a 3 year old- 7 year old, shouting "DIE" and "Damn" will, and i'm sure firing homing missiles will also, get you punished by your parent, making Specter pretty badass (least in my house, i know bad parenthood exists elsewhere, but i suppose they can play Gears of War instead).
naturally, this is from a Fanchild/nostalgic perspective, so maybe specters not the best video game bad guy. But what i found entertaining is that he actually progressed as a character. in the first game, it was suggested (when you caught every monkey and just before the final battle) that he was unable to overthrow mankind as he still had feelings for one person, the zoo keeper who looked after him. In the second game, he seemed to overcome that small bit of humanity/ape-anity inside of him, becoming truly darkhearted and was very ready to obliterate all of mankind without regrets. he seemed much more evil. and in the third game, he had learnt his lesson, Apes could never overthrow mankind... but they certainly could just segregate themselves from it. The only problem was how he was going to do it, which is why you had to stop him.
yes, i do have a lot of love for specter as a bad guy, and its definatly not do with his hair ;p
i've got to have an extra bit though i'll put all this in a spoiler tag, as it really makes the post more of an essay.
my favourite bad-guy for fighting them is totally different. That belongs to Dead-Rising's vietnam-surviving psycopath, Cliff. Cliff is the first boss that comes to mind when someone asks me when i was last scared/uneased by fighting a boss (i'm yet to play Condemned though, i've heard those are pretty awesome. but i have played manhunt, so its higher up than that... to me). Cliff is a vietnam veteran old grandad, who for unknown reasons as kept himself in good shape and carries a machete around with him (well i couldn't find any for sale in the whole mall), has bad memories with vietnam, and sudddenly he finds himself re-living those times when the zombies eat his grand-daughter before his eyes. he turns into a psycopath, using some underground ventilation system in a DIY store to use Guerrilla tactics in order to sneak up on, interrogate and decapitate zombies and survivors alike. he asks them for ID or something, and no matter what they say, assumes them as an enemy and cuts off their head and then hangs up their headless body from the roof.
Whilst you fight him, he runs up to you, taking most attacks without flinching (he has a good pain threshold, takes a bit to make him flinch) and slices you up as best he can. when he's done with that he runs and jumps down an open panel where you can't follow him. thats when you catch him sneaking up on you. Otherwise, he mostly jumps out a hole on the otherside of the DIY store, jumps onto the top of a shelf and throws home-made smokebombs and pipe bombs down onto you, until you look at him and are standing close, where he jumps down and runs for the closest hole. so you spend most of the battle looking at the top of shelves for him. as soon as you realise that you really can't find him on the shelves, he always seems to have snuck up behind you, where he grabs you by the throat and stabs you through the chest, lifting you up with one arm and throwing you off his machete (oddly, this does about 2 bars of damage, more than the pipe bomb but less than you'd think considering what he did)
Took me 3 attempts to beat him. since then, i can actually beat him in less than a minute if he plays ball and doesn't run and jump down holes too often. but those first 3 goes against him, the second in particular were truly petrifying.
I described them to my friends at school the next day with loads of excitement, describing my tactics. i noticed there was infinite chainsaws laying around, so i tried to hit him with those, but starting the motor of them was a problem, and even then it only took one hit from his machete to make you drop it, and he only flinched after other attack! so he whupped me the first go. the second time i prepared by taking a shotgun in with me. i found this did a decent amount of damage with my first shot, which sent him fleeing down a hole. i spent the most part of this attempt looking for him, getting stabbed in the back and through the chest and crapping myself whenever a smoke bomb landed close, pretty much blinding the camera causing me to get blown up by pipe bombs that i couldn't see and inevitably stabbed in the back.
The third time was the most ridiculous. I noticed the circular saws (i'd dropped the shotgun after the first shot, it wasn't too useful after that) and filled up with what wasn't orange juice space with them. it took 3 direct hits to make him flinch for long enough to give me some time to distance myself from his mad swings. i realised that was an equal amount of time as to start up the lawnmower. so i'd throw the third circular saw and run for the lawnmower as Cliff bent on one knee, took a breath and stood back up. i'd start it up, run him over as best i could then dive away from the lawnmower in order to avoid him hitting me. I picked up more circular saws and repeated. i did this until the lawnmower broke/ran out of fuel. thats right, this guy was still kicking with easily over 9 circular saws sticking out of him and being run over by a lawn mower several times. about another million (seemed like it at the time) circular saws and half an hour later, i barely won and let out the biggest sigh of relief i've had my entire life (i'm only 17, so i've not had any job interviews of anything important like that).
it was probably the most fun experience i've had whilst also struggling to accomplish it. (i really want to make a wanking joke here >.>, like "i've never gone for a third in a row" or something, but it would reflect on me badly)
like i said though, its nowhere near as hard for me anymore as i've developed a more effective tactic than the lawnmower (use the single-hand chainsaw from the clown when he falls down, if you run past him, you can get two hits and one more in the back before he gets up again, and if you get one more hit before he gets you, he'll flinch again)
wow, i've been sat making this post too long. Badguys are so awesome
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