..."No! I must kill the aleins" he shouted
The radio said "No, John. You are the aleins"
And then John was a flood.
Sephiroth was a frikkin sweet villain.
No, I actually wrote that myself on another forum, in a thread attempting to find who the most badass video game character of all time was if I recall correctly.
Wesker from Resident Evil.
Over-rated game: Battlefield 2142
It's fun, yeah, but we're on Patch 1.5 now, you'd think they would have fixed some things, like bases becoming glitched and therefore uncapturable, or not leveling up until 10 matches AFTER you get enough points, or not getting the points you earned because you have to stay in through an entire match to get them, but get booted out because some punk decides you're so good you MUST be cheating, even though THEIR K/D is something like 1/10.
Fuck you, EA.
[copypasta]Sephiroth is the number one most over-rated character in any video game ever. He gets way more credit than is due. He's not a villain, he's a plot device. He's got little will or motive of his own. He's basically a glorified, overpowered henchman, a mama's boy, and little more.[/copypasta]
Granted he's a very powerful, very cool plot device, but I'm afraid the above stands.
villain
One entry found.
Main Entry:
vil·lain Listen to the pronunciation of villain
Pronunciation:
\ˈvi-lən\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English vilain, vilein, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin villanus, from Latin villa
Date:
14th century
1 : villein 2 : an uncouth person : boor 3 : a deliberate scoundrel or criminal 4 : a character in a story or play who opposes the hero 5 : one blamed for a particular evil or difficulty <automation as the villain in job…displacement — M. H. Goldberg>
I gotta disagree with you here.
That's directly copied from Mirriam Webster's Online Dictionary, found atYou must be registered to see the links. Definitions 1 and 2 clearly do not apply.
3. Sephiroth does what he does of his own free will; he chooses to kill people for his own ends.
4. Sephiroth opposes Cloud Strife.
5. Sephiroth is blamed for killing Aeris and summoning Meteor.
To call someone or something in a work of fiction a mere plot device is to say that the nature of the subject in question is unimportant. This is not the case with Sephiroth. After discovery of his origins he becomes a psychopath. This leads him to the destruction of Nibelheim and eventually to the murder of Aeris. Some call his motivations unclear, but I see no reason why we should make a game's creator explain the motivations of a psychopath.
You can call him a mama's boy or whatever else floats your boat (remember that Norman Bates was a psychopath who obsessed and served his dead mother in the Alfred Hitchcock movie, "Psycho"), and you may be right. However these broad oversimplifications fail to destroy his stature as a villain and furthermore they fail to prove him a mere plot device. Your conclusions are debatable at best.
For the record, I don't believe him the greatest villain ever, or even close. But I still think our long-haired little psycho with the dead mommy and the big sword was "a frikkin sweet villain."
I gotta disagree with you here.
That's directly copied from Mirriam Webster's Online Dictionary, found atYou must be registered to see the links. Definitions 1 and 2 clearly do not apply.
3. Sephiroth does what he does of his own free will; he chooses to kill people for his own ends.
4. Sephiroth opposes Cloud Strife.
5. Sephiroth is blamed for killing Aeris and summoning Meteor.
To call someone or something in a work of fiction a mere plot device is to say that the nature of the subject in question is unimportant. This is not the case with Sephiroth. After discovery of his origins he becomes a psychopath. This leads him to the destruction of Nibelheim and eventually to the murder of Aeris. Some call his motivations unclear, but I see no reason why we should make a game's creator explain the motivations of a psychopath.
You can call him a mama's boy or whatever else floats your boat (remember that Norman Bates was a psychopath who obsessed and served his dead mother in the Alfred Hitchcock movie, "Psycho"), and you may be right. However these broad oversimplifications fail to destroy his stature as a villain and furthermore they fail to prove him a mere plot device. Your conclusions are debatable at best.
For the record, I don't believe him the greatest villain ever, or even close. But I still think our long-haired little psycho with the dead mommy and the big sword was "a frikkin sweet villain."
He becomes psychotic, not psycopathic. There's a big difference between the symptoms of the two, but more importantly in this case you have to be born psycopathic while psychotic episodes occur from large amounts of stress. I'm not trying to disprove your argument, it just REALLY REALLY pisses me off when people confuse the two disorders.
Ryu Hyabusa (sp?) from Ninja Gaiden was pretty bad ass. Though the game's story was lacking, the combat was smooth as silk, and he honestly was a bad ass.