10 Awful Villains That Ruined Amazing Video Games

10. The Didact - Halo 4

While Halo 4's campaign certainly wasn't among the series' strongest, it's tough to argue with the sequel's well-honed, ludicrously entertaining combat mechanics regardless, which of course spilled over into the game's lush multiplayer suite.

Yet Halo 4's big sour note is its introduction of an arguable series-worst villain in the Didact.

It didn't provide a particularly encouraging start for new developer 343 Industries, that their first attempt at a Big Bad was a lousy charisma vacuum who offered up little in the way of palpable threat.

It didn't help that players were deprived of a proper final battle with him also, having to settle instead for a glorified QTE sequence, ensuring Halo 4's campaign wrapped up with a total damp squib.

There's just very little character to the Didact's, well, character - for as much as the Forerunners were built up to be ultra-intelligent beings, the Didact gives little impression of that.

From his physical design and voice onwards he's just a nothing character in the game, despite getting a far more worthwhile treatment in some of the Halo novels.

It's a shame as 343 certainly got the Halo fundamentals down pat in this game, yet couldn't deliver the goods where its major antagonist was concerned.