The Best Video Game Villians

What are some of your favorite video game villains? Vaas, Sephiroth, Haytham? There's a lot to pick from.

I haven't played Far Cry 3 yet (I just got it for Christmas), so I can't say for sure on Vaas yet. But as for ones I know, my favorites are Saren and Harbinger, Handsome Jack, and Father Elijah.

Agreed on Handsome Jack. I also like the Radio Man and Konrad, if they even count. There's also Alma, Kane, and Doctor Breen.

edited 26th Dec '12 3:13:22 PM by RocketDude

These two.

For all the praise Half-Life 2 gets, I think that Dr. Breen deserved a better game.

edited 26th Dec '12 5:09:57 PM by DAStudent

It was good, just not game of the decade. Episode 3 wasn't even released!

My list:

Kreia from KOTOR II: Plays everyone like a fiddle and is awesome in general. Plus, great voice acting.

Master Li from Jade Empire. Same as above.

The Practical Incarnation from Planescape: Torment. Not really sure if he counts as a villain, but you really get to hate the prick and reversing his attempt to take over your body is very satisfying.

Ravel Puzzlewell from the same game for being awesome in general.

Darth Jadus from Star Wars: The Old Republic. The man has a pretty cool scheme going.

Bob Page from Deus Ex. He has style.

Loghain from Dragon Age: Origins. Mostly for his amazing voice acting.

Master Van from Tales of the Abyss. He's refreshingly different from other JRPG villains. Also, unlike many of the villains in the Tales Series, his Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds status is downplayed in favor of his being a ruthless bastard.

Leland from Alpha Protocol. Because screwing with him is really satisfying.

Konstantine Brayko (sp?) from the same game. Dude is hilarious.

Albedo from Xenosaga. Mostly because of the 5 minute long Evil Laugh.

edited 26th Dec '12 7:18:23 PM by lrrose

Some of my personal favorites:

• Revolver Ocelot/Liquid Ocelot
• Handsome Jack
• Zoran Lazarevic
• The Joker
• The Illusive Man
• GLaDOS and Wheatley

edited 27th Dec '12 7:22:15 PM by MrPoly

• Handsome Jack
• Sophia Lamb
• The villain from the sequel
• Karras
• Leland Palmer
• Ming Xiao
• Sephiroth
• Vaas
• Father Elijah
• SHODAN

edited 28th Dec '12 4:31:00 AM by Nicknacks

Ulysses, from New Vegas: Lonesome Road. Well, sort of a villan.

Dr Fetus hates me, but I love Dr Fetus.

edited 28th Dec '12 12:34:04 AM by eternalNoob

Kefka, Grahf, Vergil, there's probably more but those ones sprang to mind immediately.

Dr. Wily!

Some solid entries here, but I'm surprised there's been no mention of Andrew Ryan yet.

It's Andrew Roiyn, thank you very much.

Of all the people you mentioned Knicknacks, I'm surprised you didn't mention Kreia. She was your Avatar for quite some time!

Anyhow, here's my list. It's just off the top of my head and in no particular order. I'll have to go into detail someday later as to why I chose them:

• Revolver Ocelot - Metal Gear Solid Series
• Kreia - {{Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic}}
• Glados - Portal
• Captain John Walker Spec Ops: The Line
• Rodrigo Borgia AKA the freaking Pope - Assasin's Creed series
• Andrew Ryan - Bioshock
• Kane - Command & Conquer series (and probably my favorite of the bunch)

There's definately more, plus some that I know have some really awesome writing behind them, but I can't remember them for the moment.

edited 28th Dec '12 8:38:07 AM by SgtRicko

She's there. Just hidden. In retrospect I'm surprised I didn't add Brayko given that he was my avatar for probably longer!

So...

• Constantine Brayko
• Conrad Marburg
• Omen Deng

edited 28th Dec '12 3:42:26 PM by Nicknacks

YOU from the Overlord games.

• Albert Wesker, Resident Evil: The most magnificent of bastards. I only really started liking him after DC Douglas started voicing him, though.

• Vergil, Devil May Cry 3: I liked him because he was such a badass, but so different from his brother. He wasn't evil for the sake of being evil, he was also ice-cold, and he's cool in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, too. DMC3 was a magnificent example of Red Oni, Blue Oni in contrasting Dante and Vergil.

• I also liked (well, not like-liked) how Claudia Wolf in Silent Hill 3 and Walter Sullivan in Silent Hill 4 The Room were Anti-Villains with pretty tragic backstories. They were bad people, but not Chaotic Evil.

Vega(Claw), RugalBerstein, Geese Howard, NightMare, Cervantes De Leon, Shao Kahn, Quan Chi, Dr. Eggman, Vergil.

Oh come on, no mention of Hades yet? Guy's freaking hilarious.

I also like the X Parasites from Metroid because they are not really evil, they're just doing what nature intends for them to do. Ghey evolve and adapt to the conditions and are usually one step ahead of Samus. They are not by any means sentient, but they are very intelligent, and now that I think about it the only reason they actively avoid and attempt to kill Samus is out of natural instinct. I'm sure they recognize her as a Metroid rather than the Hunter.

edited 29th Dec '12 2:29:28 PM by NesClassic

Lautrec. Mainly because he's one of the few villains who hits you hard and just pisses you off.

"Sapient", not "sentient".

This guy

Also Saya clearly

edited 29th Dec '12 11:15:34 PM by Saya1

For good humorous villains, theirs always Ratchet And Clank games, particular Dr. Nefarious and Gleeman Vox:

Haha, love the fact he has a Sign Language translator.

When it comes to hammy 40k villains, I think Crull is more fun (or more funny, anyway).

Winter Assault - The Titan Awakens (Chaos)

edited 30th Dec '12 11:03:20 AM by Medinoc

Grahf from Xenogears tops my list.

After him comes Moebius from Legacy of Kain. He is the consummate Chessmaster and by god you love to hate him.