You've become the main antagonist in a game
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First, make it a world where all the cameras are fixed, survival horror style. Next, make a horrifying facade to disguise my appearance. During the final encounter, use my charisma to make it impossible for the character to skip my long, drawn out monologue. Then, make the whole world go black except for a 1 meter^3 area around our hero. Finally, switch the controls (call it an effect of the poison gas I have been injecting into large chamber) so my one hit kill power can be more effective.*
I give credit for this madness where it is due: thank you Fatal Frame (Project Zero) 3
for an immense amount of enjoyment bookended by the most frustrating boss fight in the history of gaming. EDIT: Some liberties taken to reflect my own dramatic flair.
***It took +23 tries to best it between two people.
So yeah, good luck protagonist, I shall take my chances that you will simply rage-quit and I shall live FOREVER
I give credit for this madness where it is due: thank you Fatal Frame (Project Zero) 3
for an immense amount of enjoyment bookended by the most frustrating boss fight in the history of gaming. EDIT: Some liberties taken to reflect my own dramatic flair.
***It took +23 tries to best it between two people.
So yeah, good luck protagonist, I shall take my chances that you will simply rage-quit and I shall live FOREVER
Turn out to be a perfect copy of the hero, letting him feel first-hand the effects of all of his abilities. Of course, being the protagonist, he'll win, but not without a good long battle during which I taunt him with all of the innocents that he failed and mistakes that he made on his way to me. As I die, I'll laugh as he has failed to realize that in copying him I've bound our souls and by releasing them he has finished the final step in activating my doomsday device: a portal to the resting place of Dark Lord Azathoth so that he and his infernal pipers can riddle the psyche of the world with madness.
Or something like that. Maybe I'll throw in a chainsaw.
Captcha: stravern Total
sounds like a finishing move.
Or something like that. Maybe I'll throw in a chainsaw.
Captcha: stravern Total
sounds like a finishing move.
I would force them to fight a vision of every single boss they've defeated in order to get there.
Then I would strip them off all their fancy weapons and starts to remind them to be humble.
Then I would teleport them to the end of the world/outer space/an endless abyss where we would fight and I'd be incredibly overpowered.
Then I would reveal that I'm the hero's father and that killing me would result in the apocalypse.
Then I would tell them that I have a reason for doing what I did but that it will be revealed in time.
Then I would disappear forever.
THEN I would summon a meteorite and blame it on nature.
Then I would tell them that in order to truly face me again (Not defeat), you need an unreleased expansion pack. Then when we cross that bridge, I'll figure out what to do.
What? I like messing with the hero!
Then I would strip them off all their fancy weapons and starts to remind them to be humble.
Then I would teleport them to the end of the world/outer space/an endless abyss where we would fight and I'd be incredibly overpowered.
Then I would reveal that I'm the hero's father and that killing me would result in the apocalypse.
Then I would tell them that I have a reason for doing what I did but that it will be revealed in time.
Then I would disappear forever.
THEN I would summon a meteorite and blame it on nature.
Then I would tell them that in order to truly face me again (Not defeat), you need an unreleased expansion pack. Then when we cross that bridge, I'll figure out what to do.
What? I like messing with the hero!
Arm my men with sticks, make sure they are heavily armored with armor that is grafted to their skins to make sure the hero uses up as much ammo as possible on them so the hero is armed with nothing but sticks when they eventionally come to mini-gun wielding me.
Stand on and easily collapsible bridge spanning a lava pit, with the means to collapse the bridge just behind me. What could possibly go wrong?
Step 1: Read the Evil Overlord list.
Step 2: Follow its instructions to the letter.
Step 3: ???
Step 4:Profit WORLD DOMINATION!
Step 2: Follow its instructions to the letter.
Step 3: ???
Step 4:
Force him to do a puzzle...that's Myst-like in design. If he can't complete it within a certain amount of time he dies. And no, the "magical godlike entity" that controls him can't just "look it up on the myth object called the internet". Each game has its own unique version of the puzzle. For this one in particular...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard?Lindelöf_theorem
Enjoy the game, "player entity"...Mwahahaha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard?Lindelöf_theorem
Enjoy the game, "player entity"...Mwahahaha.
This is very easy, actually. You see, I am indeed a villain unlike any other. I have 47 evil fortresses in stock. And while the antagonist IS destroying chunks of the one I'm in, I have insurance. Because this is a WORLD like no other. I'm trying to promote the villain lifestyle as a necessity in this world. But more importantly, I too have a past. Do you think me cruel just because life is hard? There's entire roving Gnoll parties that do just as much murder as me. Even then, you have not yet realized who I am...
For you see, I am not just Garlock The Destroyer. Oh no! I am, in fact, your great uncle's pet housecat, and I'm cute as a button in my true form! You would not dare strike down...a purring feline!
*Purrrrrr...*
For you see, I am not just Garlock The Destroyer. Oh no! I am, in fact, your great uncle's pet housecat, and I'm cute as a button in my true form! You would not dare strike down...a purring feline!
*Purrrrrr...*
I'd have to go the way of Magus from Chronotrigger. With one difference; I wouldn't fight the hero at all, I'd offer to join the party from the get-go so that I wouldn't lose a vast amount of power by getting beaten down by him. Hell after that I may as well slit their throats at the next inn we sleep at.
You win. EVERYTHINGryai458 said:
OT: Id just kill the hero when he starts, then burn his body so he doesnt get resurected or some crap. Then id make advances on his mother to rub salt in the woundv
When he marches on into my final level, eager to beat me down and slaughter my hordes of minions, I'm going to have the following obstacles awaiting him:
*My diplomat, who will offer peace terms to him, rather generous ones that offer him considerable blood money to make up for my evil deeds that affected him, up to and including offers to revive dead loved ones and rebuild that nice villa of his my men so callously burnt down.
*After he kills the diplomat on most playthroughs, up next will be the love interest's mother, who I will have spent the game quietly romancing and just married about three days before he showed up at my doorstep in a tasteful private ceremony. She'll plead for my life to be spared and for all this bloodshed to end, because naturally over the course of the courtship I would have been nothing but the tragic, misunderstood gentleman (to her, anyway). Even if he kills her to move on, that's going to be a hard one to explain to the love interest, doubly so if she's standing there with the hero at the time.
*If he gets past that, I'll have in place a locking mechanism for my inner chambers designed like a malicious mixture of Bejeweled, FarmVille, and Tetris, and make the indicator saying 'You can stop now, it's unlocked' so small and passive the hero might not notice for hours, assuming he even figures it out.
*Lastly, before my throne room proper would be the obligatory old mentor turned heel. Except in this case, it would be because I'm the only one who can cure his sickly daughter, and as such the old mentor has to defend me or lose the only family he has left. If the hero didn't totally screw the pooch with his love interest before with the whole mother business, then killing the mentor and condemning his innocent daughter either to be alone in the world if he fails, or to waste away and die if he succeeds in his vengence-driven desires, should pretty much kill that romance deader than 18th-century disco. Either way, he likely goes on alone from here.
*Finally, after all of that, he'll arrive in my throne room, the den of all my evil deeds, where he will have to face me in... a dance contest. Yes, that's right. The final battle is a dance contest. Why? Because that's how it's programmed, bucko. And if you win, I just leave and conceed the victory, vowing to come back in some vaguely conceived of sequel. No final blood-splattered win for the hero or any force controlling him, no justifying kill to make up for the passed-up chances and dead innocents, just him alone in my former throne room with everyone's blood on his blade but mine. Roll credits, curses out the development team, and throw your controller through the screen, game-boys; you won the battle but I won the damn war.
...or, y'know, just send some ninjas after him or something. Either/or.
*My diplomat, who will offer peace terms to him, rather generous ones that offer him considerable blood money to make up for my evil deeds that affected him, up to and including offers to revive dead loved ones and rebuild that nice villa of his my men so callously burnt down.
*After he kills the diplomat on most playthroughs, up next will be the love interest's mother, who I will have spent the game quietly romancing and just married about three days before he showed up at my doorstep in a tasteful private ceremony. She'll plead for my life to be spared and for all this bloodshed to end, because naturally over the course of the courtship I would have been nothing but the tragic, misunderstood gentleman (to her, anyway). Even if he kills her to move on, that's going to be a hard one to explain to the love interest, doubly so if she's standing there with the hero at the time.
*If he gets past that, I'll have in place a locking mechanism for my inner chambers designed like a malicious mixture of Bejeweled, FarmVille, and Tetris, and make the indicator saying 'You can stop now, it's unlocked' so small and passive the hero might not notice for hours, assuming he even figures it out.
*Lastly, before my throne room proper would be the obligatory old mentor turned heel. Except in this case, it would be because I'm the only one who can cure his sickly daughter, and as such the old mentor has to defend me or lose the only family he has left. If the hero didn't totally screw the pooch with his love interest before with the whole mother business, then killing the mentor and condemning his innocent daughter either to be alone in the world if he fails, or to waste away and die if he succeeds in his vengence-driven desires, should pretty much kill that romance deader than 18th-century disco. Either way, he likely goes on alone from here.
*Finally, after all of that, he'll arrive in my throne room, the den of all my evil deeds, where he will have to face me in... a dance contest. Yes, that's right. The final battle is a dance contest. Why? Because that's how it's programmed, bucko. And if you win, I just leave and conceed the victory, vowing to come back in some vaguely conceived of sequel. No final blood-splattered win for the hero or any force controlling him, no justifying kill to make up for the passed-up chances and dead innocents, just him alone in my former throne room with everyone's blood on his blade but mine. Roll credits, curses out the development team, and throw your controller through the screen, game-boys; you won the battle but I won the damn war.
...or, y'know, just send some ninjas after him or something. Either/or.
I'd set about doing pretty much everything on this list. [http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html]
Just sit there at a desk at the far end of a room and do something harmless like stack cards or read a book. If he tries to engage in conversation just act polite and cool and be like "well I guess you gotta kill me then, best go ahead and do that". No way is any hero going to attack a man who is sitting down, being polite and clearly not defending himself.
Either that or repeatedly use cutscenes as a form of attack and if it all starts to go bad just force him into a flashback, then run away while he is reliving the moment.
Either that or repeatedly use cutscenes as a form of attack and if it all starts to go bad just force him into a flashback, then run away while he is reliving the moment.