Bring Back the Bastards @ Resolution

Here's a good conversation topic - the best game baddies.  Resolution Magazine dicusses their favourite bastards and the motivation they provide:

We need more bastards in our games. A good villain can really elevate a game above its peers. Of course, I’m mainly talking about first-person shooters, RPGs and the like: games that follow a good story. Remember characters like Jon Irenicus in Baldur’s Gate 2? Now he was a bastard: someone you developed a real hatred for as he popped up time and time again, doing very mean things to you and your friends. Father Karras in Thief II: The Metal Age was another great bastard, a man with a plot so nasty and apocalyptic I was actually taken aback by it. The man needed to be stopped, I was the one who was going to do it and I made damn sure that I did.