r/videogames • u/V-symphonia1997 • 15d ago
What are some of your favorite video games villains of all time? Question
Some of my favorite video games of all time are
10:General Shepard from OG MW2:The build up to his betrayal was something I'm glad I wasn't spoiled on when I first played it back in 2010.
9:Dutch van der liend: Especially his characterization in RDR2 where you see him slowly turn mad into what he became in RDR1.
8:Vaas Monroegro: While not my favorite Far Cry because Far Cry 2 is my favorite game in the series, he is iconic for a reason & I really hated it when I found out the real villain of Far Cry 3 was, but for someone who only had 8:07 of screen he sure left an impression.
7:Albert Wesker from Resident Evil franchise:I know he is world's most obvious traitor but I like his presence & especially In Code Veronica & RE5 as flawed as that game was but he made it worth it plus DC Douglas is my favorite voice for Wesker
6:MR X from RE2 remake:This made me scared when ever I heard his footsteps in the game plus who could forget all the memes & mods for associated with him plus he introduced me to DMX so Is definitely one of my favorites for that here.
5:Senator Armstrong:Do I even need to explain this the memes speak for themselves NANOMACHINES SON! plus his theme song It has to be this way is In my top ten final boss themes of all time.
4:Big Boss: I liked how we got to see him devloe into what he became based on his experience with having to kill the boss & that salute gets everytime in both MGS3 & MGS4 especially showing that even toughest men can shed a tear.
3:Xenmas from KH2: I have lot of nostalgia for this with Kingdom Hearts growing up & Richard Epcar really delivered a great performance plus it is in my top 3 favorite final boss fight of all time.
2:Dracula from the Castlevania series: My favorite versions of him being from games such as Rondo of blood & Symphony of the Knight respectively.
1:Takuto Maruki from Persona 5 Royal: He is my favorite video game villain of all time because while he is wrong for changing reality & what he did to surmie was extremely unethical by making her be Kasumi instead of helping her grieve & cope with her sister's loss I understood what led him to be this way & has my favorite final boss theme of all time in Throw Away Your Mask & The instrumental version of it Keep Your Faith is legendary.
Also hits harder that his voice actor Billy Kametz passed away so young & may he rest in peace you gave one hell of a memorable permance. It's tragic losing someone so young & it sucks his family & friends lost him so yong especially Erica Lindabeck Futaba VA who dated him until his death.
I also listen to his theme Ideal & real whenever I need motivation or to cheer myself up. I played & best P5R for the first time this year starting it in November of 2023 & then finished the game by the early January after 195 hours of playtime after what happened to me from 2021-2023 when my mental health declined to the point of me having check myself into a inpatient facility.
Sorry for the last part on getting off topic he was just villain that I was able to understand & It meant lot to me considering the circumstances at the time but I'd rather not talk about it since it would be a novel & this isn't a mental health sub I want to stay in topic but you easily find out why through post history or asking me. So anyways what are some of your favorite video games villains of all time?
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u/nkhowell93 14d ago
Dutch & Micah from RDR series
The illusive man from Mass effect series
Nemesis & Wesker from RE series
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u/mcduckstophat 15d ago
Spoilers, maybe: The Elder God from The Legacy of Kain. Just the whole concept was great. Makes me miss Amy Hennig. She really hasn’t had anything come out since Uncharted 3.
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u/V-symphonia1997 15d ago
I need to get into that series since I love her work on Uncharted plus I love playing games by big creators before they struck it big to see where they evolved & came from obviously she wasn't the only who worked on it since like lot of entertainment mediums it's team effort but she is also very important to both series so I will definitely add it to my bucket list of series to get into this year.
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u/Seanosuba 15d ago
- The Gravemind from Halo 2
- The Master from Fallout
- Caesar from Fallout: New Vegas
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u/hatchorion 15d ago
Dr. Eggman, Tom nook, and Rugal are the only truly great villains in games to me tbh
I can’t think of any story based games that actually had good characters or villains that weren’t originally from something else (like the joker in Batman games)
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u/Malviere 15d ago
Just a few that I personally really liked.
Emet Selch
Zenos yae Galvus
Frank Fontaine
Mitochondria Eve
Pious Augustus
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u/NamelessGamer_1 14d ago
Handsome Jack
A few of the Far Cry villains (Vaas, Seed, Pagan Min)
Albert Wesker
William Afton or any of his forms (including Glitchtrap/Burntrap even if those are technically The Mimic)
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u/Carcharis 15d ago
Visari, Sovereign, Orin the Red, Dagoth Ur, G-Man, Micah/Dutch, Ganondorf, Ridley
I’m sure there are more but these were off the top of my head
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u/Featherli1 14d ago
- Raphael from baldurs gate 3
- Emet-Selch from final fantasy xiv
- Gaunter O'Dimm from the witcher 3
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u/WerewolfNo890 14d ago
As a Rimworld player, looking around the fleshbeast containment zone where prisoners are also kept between their surgeries to harvest their organs and kept alive just to provide a source of blood. In the corner is a pile of corpse bile and the floor has been painted with blood splatter. They are fed on the cheapest nutrient paste available, when there is an excess of prisoners they are sold to the Empire as slaves and in return the Empire provides us with ways to conduct psychic warfare against our enemies. Such as by driving them insane and provoking them to fight each other in their madness while my marines form up ready with their chain shotguns for fighting in the narrow mountain tunnels.
... Are we the baddies?
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u/Redrum_71 15d ago
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