You've become the main antagonist in a game

[RobfromtheGulag]

I'm a fan of those villains who are well spoken and ultimately end up not really being 'evil' so much as 'different'. I don't mean different as in they wear purple overcoats at all times, I mean their views are categorized as outside the norm.

Sephiroth is a weak example. Adrian from Watchmen is a better one.

 

[mParadox]

I'm thinking... the power of fire! Who doesn't love some fire huh? :3

 

[TheRookie8]

1) Come back in a sequel through some hole in the plot (I'm looking at YOU, Sephiroth. Why won't you die? And you too, Bowser. Why doesn't Mario kill you?)

2) You can attempt to hijack the game console (like what Psycho Mantis did in Metal Gear) and hope that the player is too dumb to figure out what you did.

3) Tell the protagonist you're their father (or some other long lost family member). As they struggle to overcome this emotional revelation, hit them over the head with a hammer.

4) Let them go. Seriously, it worked for GlaDOS, and you get a free theme song in the end credits.

 

[Mannayz]

I would be the Tetris God. A very merciless Tetris God. No goddamn line-pieces for you, player!

 

[JasonKaotic]

Have an hour-long cutscene made up entirely of Gordon Brown doing stand-up comedy before the fight to discourage them from reloading and trying again.
Ha.

 

[IDTheftVictim]

Don't put myself in harms way when I taunt my opponent/get angry
No charges where I hit walls if I miss
No easily thrown back explosives
No long charge-up attacks
And from there just relentlessly attack without giving my opponent a moment of rest, comparable to the Demon's Souls Flamelurker

 

[Lionsfan1986]

You don't want me I'm just the decoy the real evil is in another castle...And he has cake! I can take you to him. And while we go I take out all his powers of saving and regerating health and kill all of his allies one by one and keep there most powerful items and then when he is all alone take him down!

 

[Kair]

I would use a cutscene to kill him. Sure, he could reload, but all he would end up with would be the same cutscene playing all over again. It would be like a really bad ending.

 

[Mokuren]

Actually have some character development, humanlike relationship with non-evil people, a zany and humorous side, quirky recurring minions that are too cute to kill and a reason for doing all that I did that not only earns me a cutscene but also a moment of admiration and makes the good guys wonder "Are we really doing the right thing?".

Oh, and everything I do, I do with style. Flashy, fabulous and very distinctive.

I'll still get my ass thoroughly kicked, but I'll live to see the ending and be way more popular than that block of angsty teen emo concrete with no personality whatsoever that dresses with random pieces from a garage sale and calls himself the "main character". Pff.

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

Lock the door. Protagonists in games seem to have trouble with locked doors. No buttons, no face scanners, just a normal key. Which I will then destroy.

I would be the Tetris God. A very merciless Tetris God. No goddamn line-pieces for you, player!

LINE PIECE!

 

[Reed Spacer]

I'd start antagonizing people

...because that's what we do.

I'd start with hanging a donut from a string tied to a stick and and harassing people on diets.

 

[Aetera]

I make sure that a cutscene happens when they arrive, instead of normal gameplay. During a normal fight they may be able to use dozens of phoenix downs/their equivalent when fighting me, but if I kill them all during a cutscene they'll stay dead for good.

 

[gregitaly]

okay you either follow the evil overlords list:http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Or just follow the 12th commandment: "Don't be a dick"
remember antagonist does not equal asshole

 

[So_So_Man]

Pull an Adrian Veidt and put myself in a position where they can't afford to take me out. Alternatively, practice my incredibly long and boring unskipable cutscene and prepare the death rays.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

I think like Doctor Destroyer.

Carried out my plan and wait from the darkness as the heroes clean up my shit. Send my henchman to destroyed places, nuke towns and I will there drinking red wine.

 

[hypovolemia]

Kill the hero when he's at level 1.

This.

If that somehow doesn't work, I hide in a room with an unavoidable deathtrap in the only entrance. Said trap can only be deactivated from inside the room.

If that fails (stupid no-clip), my minions and I attack him relentlessly all at the same time so he can't block or dodge. Or stupid, unavoidably quick teleport-attacks (fuck you, No More Heroes 2).

And just to be sure - use catchy one-lines and be interesting and likable enough that I get to return in the sequel and change sides (the protagonists always win, after all). On that note, I could also declare myself protagonist right from the start (thank you, Disgaea 3).

 

[Seagoon]

The game is Overlord 2... In being the Antagonist... i am the Protagonist!!

 

[Reed Spacer]

The game is Overlord 2... In being the Antagonist... i am the Protagonist!!

No, you'd be the proantagonist.

Because nobody wants an amateur.

 

[Yopaz]

I'll have the weapon that I'm weak against hidden away in a room just before mine and have it guarded by a slightly challenging mini boss.

 

[AntonicKnight]

Did anyone say...Doomsday device(with no timer delay)?