Game villains still need to appear

The core appeal of video game villains in general is that you get to see them get dragged down by their own villains by the end of the game. Solve big problems, save the day and earn credits so everyone can go home happy. If they're lucky, their downfall may add irony to their grand plans.

But that isn't always the case. Some villains get away with their actions, while others are set up for follow-up releases that never succeed. The bolder ones will even flaunt that there are no consequences for you. Here are some gaming villains who still need to make an appearance.

10 General Serrano – Bulletstorm

“Thanks to me, you will be able to fight another day.”

Bigoted, misogynistic, and sadistic, Bulletstorm's General Serrano has been a thorn in Grayson Hunt's side ever since Grayson discovered that Serrano was using Hunt's crew as an illegal death squad. In an act of revenge (or blind drunkenness), Grayson crashes both his and Serrano's ships on an abandoned planet filled with hostile mutants.

While Grayson and his friend Ishii are forced to work with Serrano for a while, the not-so-good general betrays Hunt and leaves them for dead, and while Hunt catches up to him and beats him up a bit, he doesn't get the job done. . The game ends with Serrano's sequel sting and a brainwashed Ishii not receiving a follow-up.

9 Aaron Griffin – Gears of War

“We’ll resolve this later, Phoenix.”

Gears Of War 3 was considered the conclusion of the Locust War era of the Gears series, with the COG's fight against the Locust Queen reaching a bloody finale near the end of the game. However, some people may forget that GOW3 features human characters in Act 4. He's not evil, just a bit of a dork.

After losing Dom, the shattered Delta Squad reaches Char, a city devastated by the COG's Hammer Of Dawn attack. There they meet Baron Imulsion named Griffin. Griffin makes his hatred of the COG clear, forcing them to run errands and yelling at Marcus when the Tower is attacked by Lambent and Locust. Griffin leaves, promising to resolve his and Marcus' dispute later, but we're still waiting to piss the guy off.

Griffin appears in Ephyra Rising, a novel set after the events of Gears 3, but he and Marcus do not interact.

8 G-Man – Half Life

“Be prepared for unexpected results”

See, can you tell if the G-Man from Half-Life is an appropriate villain or not? No, the business-suited mystery man was responsible for many of the series' disastrous events, and while he was at times outwardly hostile to Gordon Freeman, he was also merciful to Freeman and the gang. He's not 100% evil. We would say so.

Still, The G-Man is clearly a willing manipulator pulling the strings of Half-Life's story, and while the sheer brutality of the Combine is the most sinister part of the game, people tend not to like being controlled by otherworldly forces. . We certainly don't. What we're saying is that throwing crates with a gravity gun at a G-Man outside of a G-Mod would be nice.

7 Randy – Shenmue

“You really want to die, don’t you?”

Since the Dreamcast era, gamers have waited decades to give Shenmue's Lan Di, who killed Ryo's father at the start of the game, some defeat. After killing his father, Lan Di mostly disappears from the series, leaving Ryo to chase his shadow and find sailors or racing forklifts. Obviously, it's easy to get distracted while seeking revenge.

After Shenmue 2 failed to resolve the conflict, fans had to wait nearly two decades for a follow-up, hoping to get some flesh from Lan Di. Enter Shenmue 3, which features a showdown between Ryo and Lan Di. However, Lan wipes the floor with you and the game ends with her foreshadowing another fight down the line. But the lackluster response to Shenmue 3 may have killed that opportunity.

6 Necromorph Moon – Dead Space

“Make us whole”

Dead Space's necromorph scourge is not a traditional villain. Their only motivation is to feed, kill, and perpetuate a mutation cycle by gorging on new organisms, essentially turning them into space zombies, but in Dead Space 3, they reveal a necromorph hive mind disguised as a moon searching for Earth's location. Think of all the delicious humans it could feast on.

Isaac Clarke and his new friend Carver spend the entire game trying to stop the Tau Volantis moon, and do so successfully in the climax. However, the DLC expansion Awakened follows the pair as they attempt to return to Earth, only to discover several more Necromorph moons waiting for them when they get there. Where's the Sonic Adventure 2 Eclipse Cannon when you need it?

If everyone reading this buys a copy of Dead Space Remake, maybe EA will make another one. maybe.

5 Kingpin – The Punisher (2005)

“You were deceived. Someone is using you to weaken me.”

The Punisher isn't usually the type of guy to leave a villain behind for a later appearance. Shoot first, then shoot some more with Frank Castle. The same goes for The Punisher video game released in 2005. Frank butchers most of his rogue gallery, including Jigsaw, Bushwacker, The Russian, The Gnuccis, and even The Game. Bullseye.

One of the villains who lives to disrupt another day is Kingpin. Frank leaves Wilson Fisk alive for some reason during his passage through Fisk Tower. That decision could have bitten Frank with an end-credits stinger that saw Fisk vow to take down The Punisher, but no follow-up game was made. I'm embarrassed, honestly.

4 Angelus – Darkness

“The world has gone too long without my light”

Jackie Estacado lives a bit of a complicated life. He is already an accomplished mobster, but on his 21st birthday, a dark, demonic-sounding force awakens within him. During the course of the first game, his girlfriend Jenny is murdered, and Jackie spends the remainder of the game seeking supernatural revenge.

In the sequel, we see Jackie still in mourning, and in the finale, we see her literally fighting her inner demons through hell to save Jenny's soul. He learns that Jenny is now a new vessel for Angelus, a direct opponent of The Darkness. Angelus trapped Jackie in hell forever, as the series hasn't seen a new game in ten years.

3 Locke – Call of Duty: Ghost

“There will be no ghosts…”

Sorry to have to remind you of the existence of Call of Duty: Ghosts. But there are literally dozens of people who want a solution to the game's climax. Set in a post-apocalyptic America invaded by the South American Confederacy known as the Federation, the campaign ends with the Hesh brothers and the player character Logan avenging their father by eliminating former Ghost Gabriel Rorke.

In the final scene of the campaign, we see a wounded Hesh and Logan washed up on the beach, congratulating themselves on a job well done, but the still-alive Locke blinds the brothers, assaults them from all sides, and then kidnaps Logan. The implication is that Logan is brainwashed like Rorke, setting up a sequel that will never come.

Is Rorke back as a Warzone character? Has Activision given up on Ghost entirely?

2 Isabella Keyes – Dead Rising

“You are the one who created this nightmare.”

If there's one character in the game who keeps running away, it's Isabela Keyes. She played a key role in orchestrating the outbreak of the first Dead Rising, and worked alongside Frank West after seeing the horror unleashed by her brother Carlito during his remorse, but she was far from innocent.

Keyes was forced to work with the Phenotrans to develop Zombrex, but the Phenotrans began deliberately creating outbreaks in order to harvest the queen bees needed to ultimately create Zombrex. Then, in Dead Rising 3's post-credits scene, Keyes is revealed to have initiated the game's outbreak in order to reveal Nick's location and develop a true cure. It's certainly a sacrifice worth hundreds of thousands of freshly transformed zombies.

1 Victor Donovan – Dead Or Alive

“So are you ready for step 4?”

Villains in fighting games tend to show up quite often, either as part of the game's story or just because you can load up a match with that character and wail on it yourself. It may not be a traditional appearance, but assaulting an idle Kazuya is a good stress reliever after the Tekken 7 story mode. His boss fights were brutal.

But one villain who escaped a beating is Dead Or Alive's Donovan. Donovan, the shadowy corporate figure responsible for the Dead Or Alive tournament, has been kidnapping fighters for cloning experiments to create the best fighter. His plans usually fail, but Donovan is like a Saturday morning cartoon villain, already planning his next steps when the heroes blow up the base.