As some of you may or may not know, Gamespot is helding a Contest on who is the greates Villain of all time.

 

Their list of nominees include pretty much the staple villains from all mainstream videogames.

 

So, what would be your all time favourite videogame Villain?

 

Mine is certainly Kefka, that man was both insane and a genious, being one of the few who actually managed to destroy the world.

L-l-look at you, hacker...

 

Or technically Kane. But he can hardly be considered a villain, since he pretty much oozes amazingness.

 

D:

Inb4Sephiroth.

 

EDIT: Just had to get that in there quick. ;o

"The Sniper" - Any multiplayer FPS.

"The Sniper" - Any multiplayer FPS.

 

LOL.

 

When I read the title, Ganon came directly to mind. Though I guess that's just because he's the first villain to ever appear to be a true villain to me. I actually think the villains in video games are much less symbolic of a 'villain' that you'd see in a movie or read about it in a comic or novel. I've got tons of villains pouring in from comics, film and books but from video games? They just really don't feel all too evil or live up to the standard films or comics have.

The End from MGS3

if you cant be bother finding and killing him then you can always set you PS2 clock forward 1 week so he dies of old age

So many to choose from... But I have to say my choice would be Bowser. First game villain I ever came across. Although Diablo isn't far behind.

Jack Of Blades from Fable. He's just badass.

I'd put Dracula simply because he NEVER stays dead. There's also SHODAN from System Shock.

 

And more recently, YHWH (The Judeo-Christian God) from the SMT series of games. Although a small mention of things he does includes nuking Tokyo, and trying to force a regime that kills anyone who doesn't believe piously in his ideas. It feels so good when you get to finally slay the smug bastard. Although that ending isn't so good for the main character...

SHODAN. Yeah, no question about it.

 

Though lavos is pretty classic.

"The Sniper" - Any multiplayer FPS.

What? I'm not a villan :(

 

I'd have to say Mara Aramov or Singularity from the syphonfilter series.

Goroh Majima from Yakuza is awesome.

 

Otherwise I'd have to say every bad guy in MGS3. They were all so cool.

SHODAN. Yeah, no question about it.

 

Though lavos is pretty classic.

 

Yeah, SHODAN is a complete monster. It's so satisfying when you get to finally slay her.

When I read the title, Ganon came directly to mind. Though I guess that's just because he's the first villain to ever appear to be a true villain to me. I actually think the villains in video games are much less symbolic of a 'villain' that you'd see in a movie or read about it in a comic or novel. I've got tons of villains pouring in from comics, film and books but from video games? They just really don't feel all too evil or live up to the standard films or comics have.

On that note, Majora. Ganon was more of a manipulative villain, what with working for the King to overthrow him in OoT and being the man behind Zant in TP. Majora was pretty much the villain that wanted to destroy the world for no reason other than evil. Also this.

 

Pokemon, of all things, has a good candidate in Cyrus. Rocket? They do things for profit, only a crossing the line a few times, and they aren't much of a threat. They get more dangerous after Giovanni leaves, but not much. Magma and Aqua? They had good intentions, and the leaders ultimately try to undo their mistakes. Cyrus laughs in their faces. He uses his organization to remake the world and set himself as the God figure. On the side he wants to remove emotion as well. You see him torture annoyingly cute Mew clones to do so, and in the end even his second in command is disgusted. And this is a kid's game.

^ Zelda Informer ftw. I completely agree. Ganon has always been the stereotypical "I WILL RULE THE WORLD AND I WILL TAKE YOUR WENCH. I AM ALL POWERFUL AND AM CONFIDENT YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT ME. BEWARE!" Aside from a little bit of depth Wind Waker gave to him, he's always been a very boring character. The only thing going for him is the fact that his boss fights are always epic, and he looks kind of cool.

 

Majora, on the other hand... once you understand more about him, you kind of feel bad for him. His character's pretty complex and actually has believable human emotion. He didn't necessarily want to destroy the world, but all the bitterness and tension he built up over his entire life from being mistreated and misunderstood simply reached their breaking point once the mask took control of his body.

 

Also in Silent Hill 2, the projections of all the emotional unrest from James Sutherland essentially creating the enemies and villains of the game was pretty brilliant I'd say :3 And who doesn't think Pyramid Head is awesome, in a never-come-near-me-oh-god-you're-terrifying kind of way?

 

On that note, Majora. Ganon was more of a manipulative villain, what with working for the King to overthrow him in OoT and being the man behind Zant in TP. Majora was pretty much the villain that wanted to destroy the world for no reason other than evil. Also this.

 

Pokemon, of all things, has a good candidate in Cyrus. Rocket? They do things for profit, only a crossing the line a few times, and they aren't much of a threat. They get more dangerous after Giovanni leaves, but not much. Magma and Aqua? They had good intentions, and the leaders ultimately try to undo their mistakes. Cyrus laughs in their faces. He uses his organization to remake the world and set himself as the God figure. On the side he wants to remove emotion as well. You see him torture annoyingly cute Mew clones to do so, and in the end even his second in command is disgusted. And this is a kid's game.

 

That is one of the reasons majora never seemed a villain to me. He was just misunderstood, he didn't intentionally want to destroy the world and therefore he didn't want such evil. Gannon is a manipulative genious, who takes second place to pre-nerfed Zant. I can't believe they did that in TP <.<

 

On the note of pokemon, Rocket is the only one that seems an evil organization. Magma and Aqua were a bunch of greenpeace lunatics, and Cyrus was a bit overdone.Team rocket, and specially Giovanni, were the only ones that really looked like villains. They reminded me of an underground Mafia. That and they were the only team to successfully kill a pokemon, aswell as mutilate thousands of other pokemons like Slowpokes and magikarps. That and they capture wild pokemon to sell them for pure profit to stranger who will grind them to death.

 

Cyrus isn't very far behind, but Rocket are just the standart. A very high one.

 

PS: That last note reminded me of a critic who said the following about Wind Waker: "In this game you can break your enemies neck and use it as a weapon to fight it's brethren. You know, for kids!" :lol:

"The Sniper" - Any multiplayer FPS.

 

Too true. <_<

 

I'd also have to say the entire Locust army from Gears of War.

I wanna say Baron Praxis, but that's the Jak and Daxter freak in me.

 

 

But for someone who looks like that, you know he's badass. Personally, I would have rathered him to be final. I would have also liked to hear more about his assault on the Metal Head Nest.

That is one of the reasons majora never seemed a villain to me. He was just misunderstood, he didn't intentionally want to destroy the world and therefore he didn't want such evil. Gannon is a manipulative genious, who takes second place to pre-nerfed Zant. I can't believe they did that in TP <.<

I meant Majora separate from the Skull Kid. The mask was there feeding off of all that emotion and manipulating him to destroy the world whether he wanted to or not. When it realizes that SK wasn't that evil, or at least weak, it dumped him and continued its plan to destroy the world.

BOWSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or Andross...

Majora.

 

Though aren't there rumors that Majora isn't the evil one, and that Fierce Deity was actually the bad guy (hence the last moon kid saying "lets play good guys and bad guys")?

GLaDOS.

The pacman ghosts =]

GLaDOS.

I'm surprised how long it took for someone to suggest her.

As soon as I saw this topic I instantly thought of Iago from Shakespeare's Othello, but that's not a video game.

 

Cyrus from Pokemon is definitely up there. I was almost sick when I was reading team Magma and Aqua's text, that Cyrus' logic and intellect was quite refreshing.

 

Cortex from Crash Bandicoot is a fun one, although really quite incompetent when it seems like Uka Uka was the real villain. Ganon is also pretty cool.

 

I also like Ridley from Metroid Prime.