10 Awful Villains That Ruined Amazing Video Games

Name a more iconic duo than Peter Molyneux and under-delivering. Fable II introduced players to the initially compelling villain Lucien Fairfax, a madman who immediately got the player's attention by killing their sister Rose, leaving them for dead, and plotting to annihilate the world.

It's all typical bad guy stuff for sure, but the bulk of the game did a solid job building him up as a palpable successor to the first game's villain, Jack of Blades.

Then comes a final encounter with Lucien that's jaw-dropping in all the wrong ways. The "boss fight" - if we can call it that, which we really can't - consists of Lucien monologuing at the player while they're prompted to use the music box to kill him with a single button press.

There's no proper battle here, just automated victory, to the extent that even if you don't press anything, one of your liberated pals will step in and do the deed instead.

Though one gets the sense that Molyneux was trying to subvert expectations in a playful and clever way, he ultimately just pissed off fans who were enjoying his open-world RPG up until it randomly threw its villain away like a moldy bag of chips.