There’s been some good ones here, including Mike Tyson and Dracula…here’s my top 5.
The Ghost Pirate LeChuck-Not only could he survive being killed on multiple occasions, but he knew the true Secret of Monkey Island.
The Dragon from The Immortal (ummmm…is it possible to figure out the right order of spells without fighting him fifty times in a row…),
Garland/Chaos-Not only will Garland knock you all down, but the fiends will send him back in time 2000 years so that he can send the Fiends forward and complete the time loop…or something like that. Plus he gets reincarnated as a total nightmare who casts nasty spells and fully heals himself repeatedly. If you only used one fighter and he got wasted, or you didn’t give the masmune to create a second fighter, you had to get lucky.
Forget everything I said about Garland/Chaos. Warmech is the real nightmare boss of Final Fantasy. Only a 1 in 64 chance of hitting him on Tiamat’s bridge, my ass. My first time through the game (I foolishly had Fighter, Black Belt, Thief, Red Wizard) I felt pretty confident about my mid-20’s level party, then I ran into him TWO FRIGGIN TIMES IN A ROW, and he smoked all my guys within two rounds (NUCLEAR SUCKS!). Even with level thirty or forty guys, he normally kills at least one or two, and wins out completely at least one out of every three or four times. He’s worth the 34k in gold and xp.
Darth Revan-… Malak who? When Revan regained his rightful place as overlord of the Sith (at least in my game) he placed himself upon the pinnacle of videogame villains.
Honorable mentions: The Reaper from Resident Evil, the Leviathan from Shadowgate, that golden God critter in Morrowind (he’s an order of magnitude tougher than the “real” boss of the game), that Atlantean monster-thing in Tomb Raider (the T-Rex also gets high marks, but was a little too easy), and the dragon mage/dragon from Dragon Warrior (after beating the mage, you just knew it couldn’t be that easy).
How bad ass is he? He’s the tormented soul of an orc warlock trapped in a haunted suit of armor frozen in a crystal prison by demonic powers. He creates vast armies of undead warriors with no weapons but his force of will. He is the mastermind behind the mindless zombie scourge. Even the demons fear him.
Not bad for a guy who 1) is dead, and 2) can’t fucking move.
Originally Posted by The Sphinx always gets the sake The Lich King. How bad ass is he? He’s the tormented soul of an orc warlock trapped in a haunted suit of armor frozen in a crystal prison by demonic powers. He creates vast armies of undead warriors with no weapons but his force of will. He is the mastermind behind the mindless zombie scourge. Even the demons fear him. Not bad for a guy who 1) is dead, and 2) can’t fucking move.
You know, I’m having the hardest damn time thinking of badass, recent villians. I mean, the past couple of Final Fantasys haven’t had good ones, Seperhoweveryouspelloth was decent, and it’s just usually pain in the ass parts of games that make me mad (fuck you and your LAX shennanigans, Pandora Tomorrow). Lavos and Magus were great in Chrono Trigger. Lavos because he was just a total destructive being. Take over the world? Steal the mint? Fuck that. I’ll eat my way out of the earth and rain down fire. And Magus for being bad ONLY as a persepective from the good guys. Hmmm, let me rephrase that. Not neccisarily an evil man, but what he desired to accompish required him to do some evil shit. I dug that. Kefka was cool, if only because of his laugh. And the poisoning. The Nameless One in Planescape Torment. Yes, not the final bad, but some of his incarnations were fuckers . And I can’t thinkg of their names, but the two bads from Grim Fandango. They helped make that game one of the best gaming experiences ever.
It has been a while since I played Contra III, but didn’t that boss let the doors close on him and decapitate him when you beat him? If so, that takes him down a notch or two from being a badass.
Originally Posted by nineinchchrist It has been a while since I played Contra III, but didn’t that boss let the doors close on him and decapitate him when you beat him? If so, that takes him down a notch or two from being a badass.
Yeah, but he’s a giant fucking endoskeleton.
Also, nothing stands in the way of Team Contra. God himself quakes at their might.
