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Game stories are defined by great villains, murderous scumbags, savage ideaologists, obnoxious jerks, misguided leaders, corrupt politicians and various other kinds of baddie.
I have a great list of truly great video game villains like Andrew Ryan, Prophet Truth, GLaDOS, Saren, Roland Kane, the guys from COD4 etc.
However for every truly great menacing villain there are many villains that are just uninteresting and not very menacing. Such villains for me include Jack of Blades, ANY villain in Devil May Cry, and a few others. Sometimes the reason is just because you barely ever see these antagonists so you can't feel much of anything about them, like RAAM and Skorge in Gears of War. Other times they don't seem all that powerful like the villains in Devil May Cry. Sometimes they just feel like they are added for the sake of a villain.
So in your own opinion what is the most uninspired villain you've ever seen in a game?
 
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The Queen from Alien trilogy on the PS1, cos she was just too easy, and you had to fight her 3 times despite the only Alien film with a queen in it being Aliens...
 
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Fontaine from BioShock. Sure, he's a slimeball and a jerkass, but I never got the impression he was evil so much as just kind of stupid and angry. There's no real personal connection to him whatsoever developed during the game, just kind of an "oh, you have to kill him now" scenario that pops up.

Also, Frank Horrigan from Fallout 2. Technically he's not so much a main villain as he is the final boss of the game, but he just comes out of nowhere, is almost never discussed prior to his appearance, and seems to exist solely to add some extra challenge to the game's ending.
 
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Lucien from Fable 2. "Oh my family died, whaaaaa, whaaa.... nobody excepts this as odd... THEY'RE MAD! MAD! THEY MUST DIE! A NEW WORLD MUST EXIS-!" *Bang* Game over.
 
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O277 said:
Lucien fable 2, suckkkkkkkkked
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He was mostly absent from the story though.

Still, he was never going to shine, when you have Richard Glass and Stephen Fry on your side.
 
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Mankar Cameron (sp?) from Oblivion. Just another psycho cult leader. Very disappointing after the Big Bad in Morrowind ended up being so interesting and tragic.
 
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Aedwynn said:
Mankar Cameron (sp?) from Oblivion. Just another psycho cult leader. Very disappointing after the Big Bad in Morrowind ended up being so interesting and tragic.
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Well, he's not really the main villain... but I agree, definitely kind of boring and I never really gave a crap about him or his little cult until I ran out of sidequests to do anyway.
 
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Chairman Mao. Really just a rather stupid version of Stalin. I mean, who sends hundreds of thousands of men to fight an enemy that is decades ahead of you in terms of weaponery, training and strategy (Korean War). It was a guaranteed loss.
 
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2nd place goes to Dr. Eggman. Dr. Robotnick was 10 times more badass.
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Wait a minute. Isn't Doctor Robotnik the same person as Doctor Eggman?
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I think so, But I couldn't believe that. After all, Robotnick would take animals and transform them into enemies. While Eggman does.....nothing.
 
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Nemesis in RE3, it was present for most of the game and just become another common annoyance.
 
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Yamato Man from mega man 6.. I mean he threw a spear, that he had to go and pick up to use again >.<

true not a villain in the new sense but that's about as bad as they come.... It gets worse the further back in time I go...

on a more recent note....Dane Vogel from saints row 2.. not because he was written, or even played badly... your meant to hate the corporate douche....what made him so bad is that once you actually get into his office to fight him....it's over, a single pipe bomb, or rpg shot, and its over....
 
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