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A great villain is the part of a game people still describe years after forgetting the level design, which is why this list skews toward personality rather than difficulty. Draw one and make the case for them being the best written. It is a better pub argument than ranking the games themselves. Thirty antagonists spanning four decades. Several are genuinely well-constructed characters and several are simply a man with a moustache and a plan, and both traditions matter.
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