Edit: holy shit I turn my head around for one second and I got 40 replies? THANK YOU ALL :D <3
I just rewatched Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and following Bane’s and Miranda’s story made me realize that I’m a bit saturated in regards to playing as the hero, the protagonist, the “good guy” in PC games. While I love saving the world as much as the next person, I’d love to play as some perhaps self-righteous villain, or antagonist, or simply somebody portrayed in a way that’s meant to make the player sympathize with questionable morality or, at the very least, be conflicted about why you suddenly find yourself rooting for them.
I’m mostly looking for story driven open world single player games, but any recommendations are welcome. :)
Black and White
PotionCraft actually, now that I think about it
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Wasteland 3
I probably sucked at the game, but it felt like if you didn’t get the surprise attack, you would get wiped by pretty much every encounter
Wario World
Planescape: Torment
Disco Elysium
Prototype
CrackdownAlready mentioned elsewhere but seconding the recommendations: Infamous I and II Bioshock Infinite
Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but Wanderstop could fit the bill. It’s a little unconventional, but to great effect; going in without too many preconceptions is probably the best way to play it.
Dungeon Keeper 2
Well, let’s say that you’ll find out your role at the end of bioshock infinite. It depends.
Not open world but man it’s so enthralling.
Really great game. Awesome stories.
Well there’s always Grand Theft Auto.
Factorio, you literally colonize alien species and pollute their worlds because you feel like it.
Well, maybe not just because you feel like it.
I think the premise is that you crashed on an alien planet and need to build a spaceship to return back home?The fact that you are destroying the entire ecosystem of the planet to do so is just a slight inconvenience.
Satisfactory in the same regard as well. At first I felt bad about disrupting the natural landscape. But then I needed more power, and land for my factories. And then more land for more power for more factories on more land. It’s a fun cycle.
It’s like a different kind of bad guy… a real world kind of bad guy, really.
If you’re open to Pokemon romhacks, there’s a good one where you play through the Kanto region from the perspective of a Team Rocket grunt. https://rocket-edition.com/
This reminded me of those gory Pokémon roms.
Never tried this, but you could play New Vegas with the Legion.
Baldur’s Gate 3. Not only can you make an evil character, one of the premades is a special evil character called the Dark Urge and basically forces you into doing things that are often even more fucked up than the basic bad guy stuff.
Most cRPGs are like that, actually. Rogue Trader is another good one. Being a paragon of good is nigh impossible in that one, since you’re basically a tyrannical land baron in the WH40k universe where everyone is garbage. 😃
No one’s said Infamous yet. Shocking. Well Infamous. You get to choose if you’re going to be good or bad and it’s super satisfying either way. Dishonered has that same sort of choice, also amazing whichever way you go.
Great games.
And this reminds me of Prototype as belonging here.
Infamous 2 was my favorite of the series, but it’s stuck on the PS3 and doesn’t emulate well.
Infamous 2 was my first time seeing someone from a North American indigenous tribe as the protagonist in a (edit: video game) story. Also not an “Indian” archetype of any sorts and without clichés.
Cole was in Infamous 2, and he’s a white guy. You must mean Delsin from Infamous: Second Son. I liked that as well! Connor Kenway of Assassin’s Creed III is half-Mohawk, if that counts.
Ah, yes, thank you!
Is that the one where you had to spray paint stuff by holding the controller sideways like a spray can and acting like you were spraying in the air?
No, that was Second Son, the one that took place in Seattle. Infamous 2 was New Marais (New Orleans).
