User blog comment:Lancer1289/Defining a Decade/@comment-217683-20101118001048

Additionally, I wasn't surprised at all to see Teyrn Loghain on the list, and kinda think he should have been a little closer to #1. Their reasoning for putting him on the list was spot-on. He's not a cookie-cutter, stereotypical villain. He's complex. His motives and goals are noble. He's a great man and a hero of his people who unfortunately seems to have gone off the deep end due to the stresses of his office and responsibilities, and because of what he's endured. I think most people can look at him and (if they're being really honest), say they could conceivably see themselves doing the same thing. Everything he did, he did because he thought it was helping his people and his country. He acted selflessly, he just took it too far. Great character, more deserving of being in the top three than two of the characters who made it, IMO. He's sort of the anti-John Marsden.

Oh... and just to be nitpicky/corrective, John-117 (aka the Master Chief) wasn't #3. He's #4. Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series is #3.