A reader complains that online game villains lack depth and correct causes to hate them, whereas praising the dangerous guys in Rockstar’s GTA 4: The Lost And Damned.
I don’t suppose online game villains hit as onerous they need to. Many of them look like evil for the sake of being evil and to provide the protagonist an almighty foe to face off with, come the endgame. The finest antagonists are irredeemable items of excrement, who you longingly want to shut up and vanquish from ever invading your eyesight and ear lobes.
Sometimes although, it’s the secondary antagonists that may be extra entertaining in how they obediently perform their masters’ bidding, and their personalities might be so smug and righteous, that they make an even bigger impression than the principle antagonist.
Of all of the online game villains I’ve encountered in my 25+ years of video-gaming, Brian Jeremy from GTA 4: The Lost And Damned must be probably the most snivelling brown-noser of a secondary antagonist I ever noticed. The right-hand man to central antagonist Billy Grey, Brian Jeremy is fast to take sides with Billy anytime protagonist Johnny Klebitz has an issue with the best way Billy is working The Lost biker gang.
Brian Jeremy is a tremendously boastful, goofy little wretch, who could as effectively be Billy’s pet as a result of he’s nothing greater than a subservient ass, who waddles alongside just like the nerd Algie from one other of Rockstar Games’ mega hits Bully. Brian is proof constructive that among the most despicable characters in video games are unflinchingly loyal pests who all the time facet with their masters it doesn’t matter what.
I suppose one little complement Brian ought to have, if something in any respect, is that he’s extraordinarily loyal, even when he’s handled like a bit of mud gripped to one in all Billy’s biker boots he’ll nonetheless slavishly agree and comply with his lead.
I feel you possibly can inform from my descriptions to date how loathsome I discover Brian Jeremy to be, and that’s a testomony to how unbelievably sturdy Rockstar’s characters are. I’ve by no means felt the best way I do a couple of online game villain earlier than, and Rockstar provides us all the explanations on the planet to maintain us craving to trace him down and end him off.
Billy Grey may be a psycho, who at one level smashes a hammer into a motorbike mechanic’s face after the latter had his face grated towards the shifting wheels of an in any other case stationary bike whereas underneath interrogation, however he’s only a ruthless and delusional boss – the best way a fundamental villain must be – and he doesn’t fairly make me froth with disdain as a lot as Brian does.
Brian Jeremy is a continuing nuisance you’ve no alternative however to place up with, till you get the prospect to silence this subordinate little weasel – which makes it extra satisfying once you get the prospect to punish him. Nothing is worse than somebody who blindly follows any person else, regardless of what’s proper and abandoning all pretences of particular person thought and opinion.
One amusing little second is available in a minimize scene the place Johnny Klebitz remarks that Brian is dumber than he thought, earlier than Brian mocks what he stated with a goofy face and voice, which really proves Klebitz proper. Again, you’ve bought to provide it as much as Rockstar for making a secondary antagonist like Brian as a result of he’s nothing however an obedient device. He reminds us of the inherent toxicity of unquestioning followers, which in a deeper method demonstrates what our tradition is diminished to once we don’t query issues.
I don’t typically discover online game villains attention-grabbing sufficient, however Brian Jeremy is one that’s so incessant and boot-licking that he’s really easy to despise. He typifies for me why Rockstar is my favorite online game developer, as a result of he forces me to concentrate to him, though his sliminess forces me to go and wash my palms.
No different developer apart from Rockstar makes an impression on me like them, as a result of they all the time develop video games that they need to make. In a online game panorama that continually chases tendencies, Rockstar has all the time had religion in themselves because of the legions upon legions of followers who play their video games.
By reader James Davie
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