Goddamn it everyone, why has nobody mentioned Destroy All Humans? The point of the game is literally in the name, you go around destroying humans and (according to Pox) make them into hamburgers.
Games where you play as a villain.
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Removing the planetary equivalent of cancer from the planet is not Villainous behaviour. Those Aliens are the savours of the planet Earth.D-Class 198482 said:
Evil Genius
Overlord 1&2
KOTOR 1&2
Fable 1&2&3
Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
Hitman
Star Wars: Battlefront 1&2 (you get to be the Empire and can even play Sidious in 2).
Star War the Force Unleashed, Darth Starkiller path rather than the canon one.
Kingdom Under Fire series.
Bioshock 1.
Prototype 1.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Angels are far from benevolent beings in Bayonetta. If anything the light aligned beings are bigger dicks than the demons, who are at least honest in their nature.krazykidd said:
Just about everything I could think of came up but I still got one. Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. At your best in that game you're a human who cast aside their most of their humanity to become a demon by making a deal with Lucifer, at your worst you get rid of what little remains to destroy the world and command the armies of hell to fight god himself.
Overlord
Destroy all humans.
VTM:B
Neveriwnter nights 2: MOTB has a reasonable evil play through although it dose assume you didn't pick the evil end for the main. You can play evil in many rpgs but it usually doesn't fit well and causes the plot to make no sense.
and that's all I can think of. *shrug*
Destroy all humans.
VTM:B
Neveriwnter nights 2: MOTB has a reasonable evil play through although it dose assume you didn't pick the evil end for the main. You can play evil in many rpgs but it usually doesn't fit well and causes the plot to make no sense.
and that's all I can think of. *shrug*
Without delving much into spoilers and depending on how you perceive it, Spec Ops: The Line certainly has you playing as a less than admirable person. While a big defense for you is that you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, the whole time, all the endings cast you as being guilty of some pretty awful things - which you can accept, embrace, or regret with your actions.
Jade Empire is my favorite example, if you adhere to "The Way of the Closed Fist."
Good times.
Near the end you decide to drain the power from/slowly kill a god, more or less permanently fucking the entire celestial order of things and making so that no one can pass onto the afterlife. All because you want to be the most powerful being in the world.
Spec Ops: the Line
Shadow of the Colossus
Do fighting games count? If so, I think most fighting games have at least 1 villain you can play as.
There was also this game called Splatterhouse, in which you played as Jason Vorhees. Your enemies might have been even worse than you but that didn't make you the good guy. You were still a machete wielding psychopath.
Shadow of the Colossus
Do fighting games count? If so, I think most fighting games have at least 1 villain you can play as.
There was also this game called Splatterhouse, in which you played as Jason Vorhees. Your enemies might have been even worse than you but that didn't make you the good guy. You were still a machete wielding psychopath.
Metro 2033 does something vaguely similar. Playing it like a typical shooter, you'll end up causing more problems than you solve.Chaosian said:
Prototype, you end up causing way too much collateral damage while trying to figure out why you suddenly have superpowers, and only start really acting more heroic near the end once you've eaten enough people with morals and ethics. (This doesn't count player actions, where you just eat everyone.)
In order to FULFILL THE PROPHECY (which may be total bullshit) you have to kill a ton of heroic characters, or cause a lot of misery for a lot of people.
- You kill Sif.
- You release the Darkwraiths.
- You kill The Fair Lady's sister, who was combination bodyguard, doctor and iron lung for her.
- You kill Ornstein, (possibly) captain of Gywn's four knights.
And, some things that may be averted...
- You doom Solaire of Astora to link the fire.
- You drive Siegmeyer to despair by constantly saving his life, making him appear worthless.
- You lead to Reah's kidnapping, to be experimented on by Seath.
- You kill the Pinwheel necromancer in the Catacombs, who may have actually been a nice guy after all.
- You lead Logan to the Duke's Archives, where he goes mad with power.
- You tell Laurentius of the presence of a brilliant Pyromancy teacher in Blighttown, he hollows searching for her.
- You kill Sif.
- You release the Darkwraiths.
- You kill The Fair Lady's sister, who was combination bodyguard, doctor and iron lung for her.
- You kill Ornstein, (possibly) captain of Gywn's four knights.
And, some things that may be averted...
- You doom Solaire of Astora to link the fire.
- You drive Siegmeyer to despair by constantly saving his life, making him appear worthless.
- You lead to Reah's kidnapping, to be experimented on by Seath.
- You kill the Pinwheel necromancer in the Catacombs, who may have actually been a nice guy after all.
- You lead Logan to the Duke's Archives, where he goes mad with power.
- You tell Laurentius of the presence of a brilliant Pyromancy teacher in Blighttown, he hollows searching for her.
Do RTS' count?
or deeper question, is the villain really just the name for an opponent? If you're helping your side and overcoming your enemies, are you ever the villain of your own story? Or are you just the hero fighting for a given side?
What about all the videogame 'heroes' whose mass murdering sprees would put them as indisputable villains if measured by real life standards, yet in game they're a big 'hero'?
or deeper question, is the villain really just the name for an opponent? If you're helping your side and overcoming your enemies, are you ever the villain of your own story? Or are you just the hero fighting for a given side?
What about all the videogame 'heroes' whose mass murdering sprees would put them as indisputable villains if measured by real life standards, yet in game they're a big 'hero'?
You know this goes back to my dream of there one day being a game that has the balls to let you play a nazi, and show the moral, ethical, and social repercussions of being ordered to do terrible things. Humanize the German people during world war 2 and all that...
But really as for evil people in video games you cant beat Saints Row, you are by far one of the most evil people ever featured in a video game, and the best part is the boss does not seem to care at all about the horrors he/she inflicts.
But really as for evil people in video games you cant beat Saints Row, you are by far one of the most evil people ever featured in a video game, and the best part is the boss does not seem to care at all about the horrors he/she inflicts.
Joel from the Last of Us. And before anyone thinks that he's an antihero think of what he did at the end of the game to save Ellie
To me that's more evil than someone like David who was just trying to survive.
Kills an innocent women in cold blood after she begged for her life when she was trying to save the world just because he just didn't want to lose another "daughter"
Funny thing is, in the first game, you can totally root for him, considering Ares made him kill his family for no good reason. After that game it's get so much harder to say, "I can see where this guy is coming from." Everything he touches be it man, god, or statue he will kill/destroy it without remorse. At least he realizes at the end of God of War 3, that he is the source of all his problems. Too little too late I'm afraid Kratos, you already practically destroyed the world.The Madman said:
Oh crumbs I got the names mixed up which I think I did even while I was playing the game. I was trying to refer to Sofia because the only thing Eleanor controls is the Little Sisters (whom don't really do anything that fits this thread's definition of 'evil).Mikejames said: