Comments on: An A-Z of Evil

By: _Nocturnal

_Nocturnal — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:24:15 +0000

Terese & Jeanette Voerman – as seen in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
Neither your enemy nor your ally, totally unique and dangerously broken in the head, Jeanette was the improbably-breasted vamp used to promote the game. She had a nice line in both flirting with and threatening you, often in the same sentence. Then her buttoned-down, ice-cold sister Terese turns up, and before too long you have to pick sides. It’s not so much that discovering they’re the same person is a shock (a personality crisis brought on by parental sexual abuse), but rather the tragedy of it all – how can you convince someone to end a feud with a person who doesn’t exist?

Wait, that doesn’t have anything to do with the true reason they’re evil!
Namely, it’s because they send you to that goddamned hotel where you shit your pants off!
Oh, the abuse I took from that place…

By: Pseudonym

Pseudonym — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:20:44 +0000

Like your list Alec. On my list, I would place someone from Freedom Force, either Nuclear Winter or the Timemaster. And the Kohr-Ah from Star Control 2.

Oh, and the thing I like the best about Karras is that he is voiced by the same actor who voices Garret. Dude is talented.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:09:12 +0000

but perhaps not as *evil* as the ethereals.

Ah! Excellent point, and the same goes for the chryssalids too, I suppose. Everyone but the ethereals was just a pawn really, however monstrous. I withdraw my objection.

By: Red team

Red team — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:23:56 +0000

Add the filthy Blue team!

By: Blue team

Blue team — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:23:18 +0000

You left out the evilest of all: those Red team scum.

By: Diogo Ribeiro

Diogo Ribeiro — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:07:03 +0000

@Ozzie:

Didn’t say he was not featured, just that for many, Revan takes precedence over The Transcendent One.

By: Willem

Willem — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:12:23 +0000

I quite like the idea of The Cradle being viewed as a villain, as has been mentioned.

How about the Plague in Pathologic? Or the Executors? (I’m only 3 in-game hours into the game and I’m already scared senseless ;_; )

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:10:05 +0000

I just had to search Youtube to remind myself of the part you were talking about. Pretty good but I’d say the part where the huge guy charges you down the corridor and you have to leap to the next building is even better. Not least because the first time I died after a panicky bit of button-mashing because it involved pushing multiple buttons simultaneously. :p

By: phil

phil — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:37:14 +0000

@Ian,
Though Shenue II is not on PC, I’d nominate the butch, chainsaw wielding, lady boy chasing you up that dilapidated building as one of the most memorable villian encounters gaming, QTE or not.

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:24:23 +0000

@The Shed
it’s a lesser interaction, it’s less like you are doing those things it’s even less interaction than an FMV game so i take that back as it’s offensive to FMV game designers

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:46:16 +0000

Shenmue’s were an incredibly mixed bag and a fine reflection of why many people have a love/hate (or hate/hate) relationship with them. For example, I’d sooner use my own spine to make a pogo stick than play those series of QTEs that have you scaling a building by walking over planks spanning holes and broken floors for approximately 78 floors.

By: The Shed

The Shed — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:23:59 +0000

I still don’t get why everyone detests QTE so much… Shenmue had it awesome, God of War had it awesome, and Resi 4 had it pretty good. It’s just a different manner of interaction.