If anyone else played Bowser's Inside Story, it proved that he was the best villian around. He may fail, but he tried his hardest. On top of that, the dude is a pimp, if all of his kids are an indication.
Bowser is to date one of the best villians ever created.
Dammit! I was just looking at this list, thinking to myself: why, there's still one big name missing. And just when I decided to add that name myself... Ninja'd. :P
But seriously, does Bowser even count as a villain anymore? The Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series has elevated this guy far above mere villainy. As far as I'm concerned, Bowser qualifies as a living, walking commentary on the ridiculousness of villains, and beyond that, he's a quite sympathetic character. Also, he always gets the best lines.
And you gotta respect someone who's beaten up his own fortress. :P
So true. I'm playing through Bowser's Inside Story right now, and it's great. I'm enjoying Bowser's sequences 10x more than Mario and Luigi's.
"Like the moon over
the day, my genius and brawn
are lost on these fools."
Oops, I guess I was mistaken about Charles Martinet.
I could've sworn I've seen some kind of "making of" video on one of the Soul Reaver games and he was in it. But, double checked IMDB and I guess I'm wrong.
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Gentlemen, I give you.... Sarah Kerrigan, Queen of Blades.
I will always admire Majora for her sheer batshit lunacy and ability to make every individual inhabitant of Termina miserable. It was shocking to see in a Nintendo game Mikau dying on the beach. Majora killed that guy. She's relentless, and ends three days of misery by possessing the moon and crashing it into the world. At first she just seems like a spirit of destruction without any personality. Then you reach the startling endgame and find out she's intelligent and has a softer side. Termina was a faithless mess that brought about its own destruction, and she believes she's the "good guy" for ending it. But all your work bringing people together has made her wonder if it can be saved. Majora's presence is everywhere in the game, manipulating people's own doubts and mistrust - even your own, sometimes - to corrupt the world to the point where it needs to be destroyed.
The worst thing is that you can't always save Termina. Majora's power is so overwhelming that you have to leave it behind and go back in time several times, and see everybody messed up on that first day over and over again.
Topic lacks Irenicus, and has far too many iffy JRPG prettyboy villains.
Good choice on Shodan, though, that man.
Well, that's where most of my RPG experience comes from. I've only recently dabbled in the western stuff, such as Dragon Age, Fallout 3 and Mass Effect.
Say what you want about the current trend of Sonic games, but if there's one reason I keep going back to the franchise it's for this fat, magnificent bastard. Ignoring his incarnation in Sonic X, Robotnik has always been an opportunist, something I think is a hallmark of a damn good villain. He plots when he needs to. He uses brute force when he needs to. He uses deception when he needs to. Sure, he has this terrible habit of abusing powers far beyond his reach and letting it inevitably bite him in his fat arse (I predict the reason this keeps happening is that there is just so much arse to bite it's going to keep happening), but Robotnik is still a great villian. He comes prepared too, packing an army of killer death robots and bewilderingly destructive machines.
And the Death Egg... Wow. I wasn't too impressed with it in Sonic 2, but damn... Sonic & Knuckles Death Egg was amazing. It wasn't just another zone that was shaped by nature, or the partial influence of Robotnik. No, this was entirely his work, and you could feel it. It was dark, gloomy, industrial, and deadly. Every bit of architecture sung mechanical malice. It's like an extension of the Doctor himself.
I've probably over-romanticised it at this point, so I'll just leave it there and say "Robotnik fucking rocks".
No matter how many times Sega will try to revamp Eggman, they'll never be able to top:
Sigma's much worse. Dude gets blasted into pieces each game, and in one occasion was even deleted as a computer virus, but he keeps on coming back.
One time as a literal robot zombie.
I'm also a big fan of Organization XIII.
Not the deepest group of villains, but they all have cool designs and have also provided some of the most entertaining boss fights I've had in a while.
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I could've sworn I've seen some kind of "making of" video on one of the Soul Reaver games and he was in it. But, double checked IMDB and I guess I'm wrong.
Gentlemen, I give you.... Sarah Kerrigan, Queen of Blades.
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I can't unsee this.
I'd argue this bitch deserves it more for just being a pain in the arse to position most of the time. Goddamn you, "S block".
Fuck. That. Thing.
I would get that and it's cousin. 3 or 4 in a row, or worse!
Shitty block. Shitty Shitty block. Hate it.
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Majora's female? o_O
I haven't played SS2. It's been on my to-do list for a while.
Also, I never said my choices beat out anyone else's. They're just some personal favorites of mine, as far as RPGs go.
Well, that's where most of my RPG experience comes from. I've only recently dabbled in the western stuff, such as Dragon Age, Fallout 3 and Mass Effect.
No matter how many times Sega will try to revamp Eggman, they'll never be able to top:
"I despise that miserable hedgehog, Cluck.
Despise him with all my metallic heart."
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It's unclear whether he's actually a "villain", but damn if he doesn't make my skin crawl.
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Sigma's much worse. Dude gets blasted into pieces each game, and in one occasion was even deleted as a computer virus, but he keeps on coming back.
One time as a literal robot zombie.
I'm also a big fan of Organization XIII.
Not the deepest group of villains, but they all have cool designs and have also provided some of the most entertaining boss fights I've had in a while.
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