More ambitious villain: Chaos or Reapers?

Seriously, I don’t know how ideas like this pop into my head sometimes.  But I got to thinking about video game bad guys, and wondering simply who was the most ambitious?  Most of the time, video game antagonists really aren’t that ambitious if you were to stop and think about it; often times, they want to “take over the world,” or “kill Chris Redfield,” or something unoriginal like that.  And in the end, I’ve deduced my comparison down to two evil entities, who are similar, but not quite the same in their motives – Chaos (or Garland) from the original NES Final Fantasy, and The Reapers from Mass Effect.

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Mage Designers

Unless you’re a player like me who really likes to go through RPGs with as little reliance on magic as possible, then you probably play your own Final Fantasy games with a good enjoyment of spell-casting. Preferably, I like to fight; give me a cast of four Black Belts and after one turn, I will have hit the ogres about 72 times for close to a billion HP damage, terminated.

But today, I’m going to talk about the class that I don’t really use – the Mages, and then make a brilliant analogy about how it relates to my career and I.

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