10 Video Game Villains With The WORST Motivations

Serving as one of Heavy Rain's four playable characters, Scott Shelby is arguably the most engaging of the bunch. A jaded former cop-turned private detective, we're lead to believe that Shelby is rounding up evidence from the families of the Origami Killer's victims in the hope of bringing the culprit to justice.

Little did we know that Scott Shelby would, in fact, be revealed as the game's villain, collecting potentially damaging evidence with the intention of destroying it. Nothing would justify the atrocities he committed, but the motivations given to him by developer Quantic Dream were simply not worth the effort of providing any rationale at all.

The heinous acts he committed were solely to find a man who had the will and desire to save his child, contrasting the cowardly, drunken acts of his own father. This motivation somehow makes even less sense when, depending on the choices the player made, Shelby doesn't let Ethan and Shaun leave that easily.

Shelby's game is foiled, and Ethan has overcome the towering obstacles that were put before him. It's almost as if the game never expected Shelby to reach the conclusion, and when he did his (already ridiculous) motivations were abandoned.