10 Video Game Villains Created Out Of Spite

10. Buff Gamer & The ECHOnet Game Reviewers - Borderlands 2

The Borderlands series has a penchant for equal opportunities mockery, gleefully taking to task anyone and anything should it fancy.

Yet despite the original game receiving generally positive reviews from critics, developer Gearbox Software clearly couldn't resist the urge to throw some shade at those critics who weren't quite so charitable.

In the optional "Matter of Taste" mission from the DLC pack "Mr. Torgue's Campaign Of Carnage," Mr. Torgue instructs players to track down a number of obnoxious video game critics and straight-up murder them for negatively reviewing some of his favourite games.

The ring-leader of the pack goes by the moniker "BuffGamer," and players are also asked to slaughter ECHOnet's general reviewing staff.

Though on one hand the mission is clearly using Mr. Torgue to make fun of how seriously gamers take video game reviews, it's also undeniably ribbing reviewers themselves.

This is especially obvious when BuffGamer refers to a 6/10 game as having "sucked," mocking how so few game critics actually use the full 1-10 review scale.

Evidently Gearbox just finds the entire review circus exhausting on both sides of the fence, and this reflected that frustration with hilarious irreverence.