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Corinthian Newbie

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Rosh, he's talking about Rosh. And Rosh was not a good villain, he was annoying as hell.

 

For the record, Nines Rodriguez was not a villain. He never directly opposes the protagonist. Now, Smiling Jack could be considered a villain for manipulating the protagonist, but Nines had nothing to do with that. You're right about LaCroix and Ming Xiao, though.

 

Emperor Hawthorne, Exile. Not that Hawthorne was anything special as a villain, he was fairly standard, but the entire encounter with him, from teleporting into his Spire from Exile to storming up it's height with thousands of Imperial warriors at your heels, bursting into his throne room and slaughtering his personal guard before dispatching Hawthorne himself, seeing no escape, and then, right before the main host reaches you, Erika Redmark opens a portal to escape.

 

Starcraft: Former Lieutenant of the Sons of Korhal, and now self-styled Queen of Blades, Sarah Kerrigan. Simultaneously evoking fear, pity, revulsion, and awe and single handedly obliterating the greater strength of the U.E.D., High Protoss forces, the Dominion, and the renegade Zerg broods before finally taking on the combined surviving fleet of the U.E.D., a massive Protoss force led by Artanis, and Mengsk himself leading the last of the Dominion fleet and single-handedly obliterating them all.

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I'll just take your word for it, because I've never played JA. And I thought the villain from the start was

 

Tavion?

 

Rafael Ferrer aka Darth Malak never did any voices in JA so fa as I know

 

If you are light-sided then the final boss is

 

Marka Ragnos after you beat Tavion

 

 

If you are dark-sided than the final boss is

 

Kyle Katarn after you beat Tavion

 

 

Kreia, the most enigmatic villain I have ever encountered. I actually regretted her death, despite the fact her life ambition is pretty much 100% insane.

 

Kreia, Jon Irenicus, & SHODAN are my favorite video game villains.

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Jack Of Blades in the pre lost chapters fable before he got the weird voice.

definately the final boss in jade empire.

saren was a disappointment tho. as was malak.

and i consider the maw in halo 1 to be a villain cuz it was so damn hard

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I'll add a vote to Sephiroth from FFVII. The character's appearance, personality, and theme were amazing - not to mention playing in constant fear that he'd show up and tear you to pieces...

 

Also, the Order of Arcadian Judges in FFXII, Gabranth, Bergan and Zargaabath. Drace didn't have much of a story, but the others were great - from their weapons and armour to the backstory, and even the sound of their armour as they walked!

 

Final Fantasy villains are just so much better than the ones in Star Wars games...

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Darth Malak was in Jedi Academy?

 

I mean Kotor. I was in a rush and while writing JK2 I accidentally wrote JA as a reflex

 

Final Fantasy villains are just so much better than the ones in Star Wars games...

 

I beg to differ.

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as strange as this may sound the ones in ff are too fantastical whereas the star wars villains are more down toearth, if that makes sense i mean theyre more real they arent in it for world domination or to become a god they want to rule what they can and kill you

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as strange as this may sound the ones in ff are too fantastical whereas the star wars villains are more down toearth, if that makes sense i mean theyre more real they arent in it for world domination or to become a god they want to rule what they can and kill you

 

Plus the fact that almost every single FF villain always morphs into some sort of giant beast or unleashes something huge against you. Why can't they just fight fair?

 

But of course fighting them 4 (or three) against 1 isn't really fair

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Jack Of Blades in the pre lost chapters fable before he got the weird voice.

Ugh.

 

Also, the Order of Arcadian Judges in FFXII, Gabranth, Bergan and Zargaabath. Drace didn't have much of a story, but the others were great - from their weapons and armour to the backstory, and even the sound of their armour as they walked!

And the sound of their voice as they talked with the helmets on. Plus their heavy, Vader-like breathing.

 

Now onto specific judges, every one of them had very distinct personalities, and interesting ones, for that matter. The exceptions that corroborates the rule are Ghis and Bergan. Ghis because he was just a pet to Vayne and decided to spread his own wings, which led to his own demise. And Bergan was weak because he was simply a drug addict that was fooled by the apparent power of the Nethicite.

 

Gabranth is fantastic. He is, after all, a large part of the core from whole plot. Drace seemed like a smart woman. Not only she didn't fall for Vayne's trickery and convincing speeches, but she also warned Gabranth and formed a bound with him to protect Larsa's life. She would, as she did, die for her cause. Zargaabath is clearly the more mysterious of the judges and also looked the more human of them all. He doesn't plot, or at least he does it so secretly we never even see it. And for

 

being the surviving judge

 

and for phrases like "The Empire's debts grow legion", he was much of my liking.

 

Still, I can't deny that being as important as to feature on the game's cover, the Judges felt largely underused. There could have been more of their scenes.

 

Final Fantasy villains are just so much better than the ones in Star Wars games...

I beg to differ.

You're on your right. But name one such villain.

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not to mention every final fantasy character looks like a woman or at least a shemale........and its always save the world from the evil shemale once again! quite repetitive, not to say that star wars games arent repetitive they just have sum variety. example star wars battlefront you are the footsoldier, star wars empire at war you are the dude controlling everyone, kotor you are a jedi knight. whereas final fantasy you are almost always a common person who has to save the world from the huge effeminate villain

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not to mention every final fantasy character looks like a woman or at least a shemale........and its always save the world from the evil shemale once again! quite repetitive, not to say that star wars games arent repetitive they just have sum variety. example star wars battlefront you are the footsoldier, star wars empire at war you are the dude controlling everyone, kotor you are a jedi knight. whereas final fantasy you are almost always a common person who has to save the world from the huge effeminate villain

 

I'm still waiting for the inspired Star Wars villain.

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Starcraft: Former Lieutenant of the Sons of Korhal, and now self-styled Queen of Blades, Sarah Kerrigan. Simultaneously evoking fear, pity, revulsion, and awe and single handedly obliterating the greater strength of the U.E.D., High Protoss forces, the Dominion, and the renegade Zerg broods before finally taking on the combined surviving fleet of the U.E.D., a massive Protoss force led by Artanis, and Mengsk himself leading the last of the Dominion fleet and single-handedly obliterating them all.

Agreed. Kerrigan is one of the coolest villains out there and the best part is she was a complete opposite before her infestation.

One other Starcraft villain that might be even cooler is Samir Duran. He's obviously a very intelligent, resourceful and patient being. He was around for who knows how long and has bided his time, performed his experiments and secretly created something very terrifying. Not to mention that he managed to successfully deceive both Kerrigan and the UED.

 

Another cool villain would be Moebius the Timestreamer from the Legacy of Kain series. Now that's one devious manipulator. He singlehandedly managed to manipulate history to his own advantage. In the end he was stopped though, by the very beings he used to accomplish his goals.

 

Now, I'm very surprised none of you fellow Bloodlines fans mentioned this one so far - the Hengeyokai. I mean, it's a giant bipedal demonic Hammerhead shark!! It can't get any cooler than that! :D

 

I agree with everyone who mentioned Master Li from Jade Empire. Suffice to say he was very cool and there's no need to repeat what has already been said about him.

 

I also agree that when it comes to cool appearances Saren is definitely one of the coolest - cool sinister voice, excellent physical appearance. It's too bad in the end he turned out to be a simple puppet. Sovereing was much more cooler, but I was disappointed we weren't able to enter that living ship and kick its ass from the inside.

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I liked the Judges myself- though I wouldn't really call them villians. Mainly Ghis and Bergan are the few I could see as villians for reasons stated earlier.

 

........and its always save the world from the evil shemale once again!

I also seem to be one of the few that very much enjoyed Ultimecia, from FFVIII. Not an effeminate male evil person (even though Jecht wasn't? :confused: ) Wouldn't call Golbez a 'shemale' either. Also- FFXII the so-called 'main character' Ashe, is hardly a random civillian.

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Golbez wasn't the main villain of FFIV, and I'd really hesitate to call Kefka a Shemale. Think LONG and hard before you do that. Lord Kefka is always watching, and the Light of Judgment is at hand.

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