Games that make you feel good / badass?

[dreadedcandiru99]

As a bit of a counterpoint and to cheer me up after the ending of ME3 and the relentless depression that is The Walking Dead I thought I'd ask, what games make you feel like a badass and have a good ending?

Infamous 2. Specifically the good ending (I kept trying to be evil and failing after twenty minutes). The ME3 debacle reminded me of this. Yes, it's kind of a "sad" ending because

Spoiler

the hero dies and all superpowers are gone forever, but dammit, you get to put up a fight on your way out, and you die saving the world,

and you definitely know that that's what you did. And you get to see what happens to the characters you've spent two games with. And you don't get hit with some magical bullshitty last-minute M. Night Shyamalan twist.

Closure, basically, is what I'm getting at.

...I think I'll play that game again.

 

[JordanXlord]

Infamous 2 on the good run, at the end when you are full charged and totally destroy The Beast. Ok, its not that hard but my God it felt good. The evil final fight just made me feel dirty.

Also probably the last game that I beat Mass Effect 3,

Shepard gets hit full on by a Reaper laser and still has the strength to get up and carry on the fight.

Spoiler

the fight one-on-one with the reaper on Rannoch, on the last part where he is going point-blank, man that felt awesome
or in Tuchanka when you're activating the hammers, hauling ass to one of them, then cloaking and hauling ass past the brutes to get to the other

OT: Warhammer Space Marine, just... Warhammer Spaec Marine

Yea This completely

Even i spent most of the game doing it...it did not get old...crushing and destroying Orks and Heretics will never get old....NEVER

 

[Daystar Clarion]

As a bit of a counterpoint and to cheer me up after the ending of ME3 and the relentless depression that is The Walking Dead I thought I'd ask, what games make you feel like a badass and have a good ending?

Infamous 2.

...I think I'll play that game again.

You're gonna want to put that in Spoiler tags, not everyone has played inFamous 2 yet, and probably won't appreciate you ruining the ending for them.

 

[dreadedcandiru99]

You're gonna want to put that in Spoiler tags, not everyone has played inFamous 2 yet, and probably won't appreciate you ruining the ending for them.

Whoops, just did. (I thought everybody had gotten to it or heard of it by now. Sorry.)

 

[Razoack]

If you want to feel invulnerable and just go on killing sprees, Prototype is a fun game.

For just slaughtering enemies, Orcs Must Die! is very enjoyable.

To feel like the ultimate badass? Batman Arkham Asylum / Batman Arkham City

 

[Darknacht]

Fallout 2 + Bloody Mess perk + gauss rifle to the eye.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

You're gonna want to put that in Spoiler tags, not everyone has played inFamous 2 yet, and probably won't appreciate you ruining the ending for them.

Whoops, just did. (I thought everybody had gotten to it or heard of it by now. Sorry.)

Don't worry about it, just thought I'd point it out.

We all forget things sometimes

 

[TheOneBearded]

Adam Jensen from Deus Ex: HR and Renegade Shepard from Mass Effect - badasses till the end of time. I felt pretty cool as the Courier from New Vegas and as the Dovahkiin in Skyrim, but Jensen and Shepard take the cake.

 

[Solstrana91]

Feeling pretty badass playing Borderlands with two of my friends at the moment as our double Soldier and Hunter set up.
Crippling most things straight off the bat.

Soon though, the second shall come...
Soon...

 

[Patathatapon]

I have no idea why, but Bastion makes me feel great inside. Its one of the few games that is (for me anyway) actually challenging, in a good way. You can tweak things to make it harder in a certain way, and beneficial! and the losses don't usually aggravate you. The only times I'm aggravated, are when I tweak the game to make it harder.

As a bit of a counterpoint and to cheer me up after the ending of ME3

I haven't finished it yet, but I heard its got great story telling usually meaning good endings! *nudge nudge*

 

[StriderShinryu]

The first things that leap to mind are fighting games and Ninja Gaiden 1/2. They have caveats though in the sense that for them to really make you feel badass, and they absolutely do, you have to put in work on your end. Nothing matches destroying an entire hoard of armed enemies without taking a scratch in the NG games or totally dominating an opponent both in moves but also mentality in a fighting game. No player, however, will truly feel that the first time they pick up the controller simply by any virtue of the game making you feel it.

 

[Tazzy da Devil]

Ninja Blade made me feel pretty badass. In my opinion there is nothing more badass than crushing a giant spider by riding a wrecking ball into it while wearing pink pinstripes.

 

[LittleJoeRambler]

I liked Crysis because of how badass you felt when facing human enemies, and the contrast with how small and insignificant you felt fighting the bigger alien exosuits.

Nothing quite like stealthing around cloaked, uncloaking, switching to Strength mode and hurling things at people just for lulz.

 

[gigastar]

I, for one, wont acknowledge myself as having played a game unless it made me feel like a badass in some way.

To that end, some of theese games are-

Asura's Wrath
Team Fortress 2
God Hand
Okami
Viewtiful Joe 1 + 2
Monster Hunter Freedom 2, Unite and Tri
Devil May Cry 3 + 4
Ultimate/ Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Dark Souls
Ace Combat 5, 0 and X
Command and Conquer: Renegade
Metal Gear Solid 3 and Peace Walker

 

[Jaeke]

How has this not been mentioned yet?:




nuff said

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

First game that comes to mind is inFamous 2. The game in general is excellent and the ending was so good I cried.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

When I want to feel good - Minecraft

When I wanna feel like a f*cking badass - Arkham City

 

[rednose1]

When I played the first Devil May Cry way back when. The combos I could pull off made me feel like a huge unstoppable badass. First game I ever played to have that.

The second DMC though....man, they missed the boat on that one big time.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I always love playing Soldier in TF2. Doing particularly well just makes me feel awesome.

Imagine this: a guy with a Rocket Launcher smashes his way through the front line and slaughtering all who get in his way so that his team can pour in through the hole he made and proceed to spread out and kill anything that isn't caught by the one-man army.

Playing a good round of TF2 make one feel like an utter badass, whether you're speeding around as a Scout, lighting swarms of people on fire as a Pyro, setting up an impenetrable wall as Engie or just being credit to team in general.

Pulling off a 50+ hit combo in BlazBlue as Lambda is also incredibly satisfying. In fact, any solid combo in general makes me feel great.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Bulletstorm and Splinter Cell: Conviction come to mind.