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Most evil enemies in a game?

abnaxus

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Blood had plenty of enemies that felt really damn evil. The cultists, the gargoyles, the wraiths. Hell, even the fucking rats and spiders are menacing.
 

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I know we already had the Haunts from Thief but I thought the ordinary zombies were even scarier.

Aaaaahhhhhhrrrrrrrrrr!

And when I was little I was really creeped out by this guy from Prince of Persia:
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No, not the one on the left.

I dunno about the most mustache twirling evil guys in my games, they don't tend to make a lasting impression.
 

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Doppelgangers in BG1. It was so cool to unmask those creeps. A great source of paranoia - I'm surprised more RPGs didn't use them.
 

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Doppelgangers in BG1. It was so cool to unmask those creeps. A great source of paranoia - I'm surprised more RPGs didn't use them.

Yeah, Dopplegangers were cool. Killing that smug Doppel-Elminster was especially satsifying.
Bard's Tale also used them to good effect, and you risked getting "dissention in the ranks".
 
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In the basement of the great library with the two dwarfs was the only time I got paranoid since everyone you met showed up was an enemy in disguise, I kept waiting for them to betray me, but they never did.
 

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Lanius came across as more of a warrior poet than necessarily evil I think. Yes, he did terrible things, but at the same time he had phenomenal charisma. And some great lines.
When I think of him, I am reminded of Lawrence of Arabia's writings on Auda ibu Tayi from the Seven Pillars of Wisdom: “He saw life as a saga, all the events in it were significant: all personages in contact with him heroic, his mind was stored with poems of old raids and epic tales of fights.”
 

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