Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24.44.231.128-20131201005446/@comment-3076045-20140225140714

Rambard wrote: Alduin's mistake as an antagonist is, as Paarthurnax said several times, arrogance. He thought to himself "we are motherf*cking dragons, we don't need any organization, just unleash us and let's burn these puny mortals to ashes". And that's how he planned to roll his plan.

I haven't played Oblivion or Morrowind I must admit, but I've read enough to be able to talk about them, I believe. Dagon's plan wasn't really that cunning. It was just obvious. It was pretty much the same as Alduin's, with the exception that he had to take a step first: finishing off the Septim bloodline in order to be able to open portals. But once that happened, his tactics were just like Alduin's: Cause chaos and mayhem without any organization or strategy. In the end, Alduin is a black and flying version of Dagon that had it easier, yet failed in the same fashion.

Regarding Dagoth... he was a different kind of villain. He wasn't an all-mighty being, but he sure as hell wanted to be, so he needed to have a plan. In the end, however, he was but a mortal, and died a pitiful mortal's death. It comes to show us that once the bad guy has enough power he grows so bold and arrogant that he doesn't notice the face of danger speeding towards his sorry and undefended ballsack.

I can't choose a villain because they all sound so pathetic to me. In the end not a single one of them is worth consideration. A megalomaniac, a big bad megalomaniac, and a big bad dragon. What is there to like? Actually, Dagoth Ur is a bad guy, true, but if you read the in-game books and the like - he actually was once fairly decent. He wanted nothing more than to serve the Nerevarine. True, over time, the power of Lorkhan's Heart corrupted him (Hence the whole bad-guy thing) but he actually wasnt too bad to begin with. (He was initially just following orders - which, btw, the 3 Tribunal ... didnt. (Which is how they got their God-status).

As for Mehrunes Dagon... well, the Daedric Prince of Destruction shouldnt really be doing much OTHER than destructing :P