Lemme explain this a bit. This idiot double booked himself, and rather than just clear his schedule or wait a day, decides to go awaken a Bad Thing that could destroy the land today, over something bad happening in 1000 years. (All this over a crappy game mechanic.)

Writing for video games is hard. You have to take the plot of something that typically can be explained in as little as, "The Heroes have been stuck in a time loop for 1000 years and need to defeat Chaos to get out while restoring light to the crystals" and stretch that across 10-30+ hours. And most video game writers couldn't even hit the levels of publishing a young adult novel.

So this is a thread to celebrate those maligned motivations, insane machinations, Machiavellian misfires, and catalogue those villains who were the worst.

(In the quantification of, "What were the writers smoking?", in terms of incompetence, inexplicabiliy, motive failure, and just general feelings of, "Wait, WHAT?"

As a reminder, clairvoyance is not a feature of these forums, so please explain your replies.

Let's ignore the fact it's never explained how Erol was made into a cyborg between Jak 2 & 3, how does that lead to him developing a machine-supremacy complex? And how'd he make contact with the Dark Makers?

Oh, simple. The oldest anti-transhumanist pony of them all.

Mass Effect's Reapers!

We must kill all organic beings because eventually they'll go at war with their synthetic creations and die. Ssssssooo... let me get this straight... uhm... no. It makes no sense.

Oh, yeah? Then how am I supposed to know what game you are talking about?

It took me a second, but Galar is the latest Pokemon region. Your point still stands, though.

the list have some good amount of crap villains but i think none of them can top!!!!! this one
Dragon age: Corypheus

i not really sure how to begin to describe the writing of this villain
it motives highly questionable, explaining why or what?? really weird

I was literally about to type the same thing. Corypheus was so generic I was like "Who's this guy again?" at the end of the game.

It's pokemon Sword & Shield, easily the worst Pokemon game to date due to the fact that they tried to cram a full HD game into the same release modus for a 3DS game. Mass Effect's overarching plot feels like it was written last. As if they'd made all the models, locations, and missions, but now needed a story to glue it all together.

Voice was the true ending was leaked and they rushed a change at the very last. I wouldn't know if this is true though.

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They don't kill all organic beings, they only kill the super advanced ones that are making AI. Basically the reapers are a finish line for organic life, once you start creating synthetic life you gotta go for the sake of the other organics your AI will kill.

Not saying this is much better, but it isn't what a lot of people present it as.

I'm afraid this loses something in the essence of translaiton; you mean Syobon Action.

Which is a perfectly harmless game with no villain.

If so, that still equates such dire straits that none of us picked up on such a crucial detail. Also, it still puts the Reapers in this crappy situation of refusing themselves the chance to be proven wrong. You'd think such advanced logic-only machines could corral advanced species and observe how things develop for Scientific research.

I am not mocking people at all, it's a dense game story wise with tons of dialog, but as someone who recently replayed the trilogy with the remaster I can tell you they state that very clearly multiple times.