Villains/antagonists or otherwise.

I’ve been watching some Fable 3 lets plays and was reminded of how much I absolutely hated Reaver. You can tell Lionhead was really going for someone that you would “love to hate,” but every scene with him in it is miserable. Absolutely ridiculous that you can’t kill him.

For a character from an actually well written video game, Eric in Tony Hawk’s Underground. Hitting the last line in the game and watching your character punch him out in a cutscene afterwards is extremely cathartic.

  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Saying “Kai Leng from Mass Effect 3” would be cheating, so I’m going to nominate Elro from Iconoclasts:

    spoilers for the entire game
    • One of his superiors is nice to him and gives him condolences about his father, and offers him some time off of his job - so obviously he fucking murders her in front of everyone, potentially getting his coworkers’ in trouble.
    • He gets his wife and daughter killed, right after an argument with the former about how his sister (= Robin = the protagonist) is doing something that might get them killed - AFTER murdering his boss, who was an extremely high profile individual, so he should be running away rather than being exactely in the most obvious place he could have fled to.
    • He antagonizes Robin’s only ally (known to him), Mina, just because she’s black from another settlement with another religion.
      No, he does not follow his own society’s religion - remember the murder? (kind of excusable, Mina also antagonizes him in the same way)
    • Seeking revenge, he goes after one of the responsible agents.
      … with a sword.
      And she has a gun. And she is effectively immortal (save for unconventional weapons (and he FUCKING knows this (again, he murdered one himself))).
      But hey, Robin and Mina do have the means to kill agents!
      Which is why he… locks them away from the fight, gets captured, gets his arm literally yanked off of him, and becomes a liability.
    • At some point, he insists on being the one to help Robin with a very important task on a risky quest. She has to fight off two agents, ONE OF WHICH IS THE ONE HE ANGERED, and when he has to push a button in order to let Robin go he decides “Nah it’s dangerous, she should just stay here. In a warzone, waiting forever for me to push the button.”
      Thankfully he gets shot by Mina and his former coworker pushes the button for him.
    • Only after Robin fucking bodies God himself he decides that maybe she should be able to make decisions on her own.