im looking for games where you are a bad guy and you know it. you go around kicking puppies and clubbing seals to death with the corpse of dead kittens while an orphanage burns behind you. im not talking about games where its a choice like fallout 3 and there arent many of these. the best example is the overlord games in them the guys you conquer are all bastards so it doesnt feel that much satisfying. maybe the first prototype comes close to this but in that you are just looking for answers. i want a game where you are evil just to be evil. you are melkor-morgoth you are voldemort. so escapist is there a game like this out there?
games where you play as an evil character
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Alpha Protocol, if you make "evil" choices.
Basically, you're a callous self-serving psychopath that won't flinch at killing anyone that stands between you and your goals. Additionally, you can also be very rude - The nice part is that you don't have to be.
Basically, you're a callous self-serving psychopath that won't flinch at killing anyone that stands between you and your goals. Additionally, you can also be very rude - The nice part is that you don't have to be.
Legacy of Kain - you play as a self-serving monster who basically brings down Armageddon because he felt like it, and a clueless, revenge-driven moron who helps a soul-devouring lovecraftian abomination.
Edit: Hostile Waters might also count, depending on how you feel about their, uh, utopia, but it's less "puppy-kicking evil" and more "do your duty for your actually kinda horrific government and stop the Apocalypse while you're at it".
Edit: Hostile Waters might also count, depending on how you feel about their, uh, utopia, but it's less "puppy-kicking evil" and more "do your duty for your actually kinda horrific government and stop the Apocalypse while you're at it".
The old Syndicate games?
Persuadatron! Free will is overrated, corporate profits and murdering the competition is all that matters. Turning brainwashed agents into cyborgs to participate in war crime-levels of shit in the pursuit of ruling a dystopian world.
Course you could play an Evil party in the computer game-version of the classic D&D adventure (3.x ed, however) "The Temple of Elemental Evil" ... and you LITERALLY start the game after burning down a temple.
A unique title I could suggest is Uplink: Hacker Elite. The moral choices in those games are pretty fun. Like, learning the identity of the hacker above me on the Uplink ranks ... now, let's frame them for high-tech fraud and get them arrested!
Also, in terms of sheer douchebaggery, I'd suggest multiplayer Defcon ... secretly position 6 subs just off the coast of one of your allies, spreading disinformation to them through chat ... pretending to help them.Only to unleash a barrage of nukes against their silos, followed by a massive bomber strike against their cities to get buku-megadeath points. Not sure if that's the type of 'evil' you want though.
Persuadatron! Free will is overrated, corporate profits and murdering the competition is all that matters. Turning brainwashed agents into cyborgs to participate in war crime-levels of shit in the pursuit of ruling a dystopian world.
Course you could play an Evil party in the computer game-version of the classic D&D adventure (3.x ed, however) "The Temple of Elemental Evil" ... and you LITERALLY start the game after burning down a temple.
A unique title I could suggest is Uplink: Hacker Elite. The moral choices in those games are pretty fun. Like, learning the identity of the hacker above me on the Uplink ranks ... now, let's frame them for high-tech fraud and get them arrested!
Also, in terms of sheer douchebaggery, I'd suggest multiplayer Defcon ... secretly position 6 subs just off the coast of one of your allies, spreading disinformation to them through chat ... pretending to help them.Only to unleash a barrage of nukes against their silos, followed by a massive bomber strike against their cities to get buku-megadeath points. Not sure if that's the type of 'evil' you want though.
You've already played overlord. Well then you might want to look at the other games in the same genre. Pikmin and Little Kings Story. The evil there is slightly more subtle than in overlord or at least, more people managed to somehow look past it. Little Kings Story is especially fun in this regard. It is a satire of monarchy, authority figures and the church and you get to be the monarch, manipulated by your advisors, ruining your own country and conquering your neighbours unprovoked. Take care however. There is an anime version of Little Kings Story which is pretty much a betrayal of the the good version. It changes the story in such a way that suddenly the war is provoked and the monarch is now 14 instead of 7. Take the kiddy looking version, it's infinitely better and fits whay you are looking for. In Pikmin the evil isn't as overt but you are still basically an imperialist who exploits the local creatures to help himself.
The first KOTOR is probably my favourite game to play evil. The story is fantastic, and Star Wars dark side powers are much more interesting than light side.
Also, Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2.
Also, Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2.
I actually hate most "Evil" games, because you're never really evil at all. You're always chaotic good. Like the Overlord games. You're supposed to be this great daemonic prince with dozens of sex slaves and minions...and yet you're always freeing orphans from the corrupt and often corpulent "good" Knights and Paladins that eat live kittens. How can I feel evil when I'm doing what Shepard or Batman would be doing?! You never order your imps to burn nuns at the stake. You never really have sex slaves, because all your consorts are hopelessly in love with you and willingly go with you.
Or Evil Genius, where you're an "evil" Bond type villain. Except all the worlds governments are supposed to be super corrupt and tyrannical. And you never do anything truly evil! You never drop a nuke on London. You never steal orphans from China to start a death-cult of minions. You never have enemy agents(of either gender) raped or brutally tortured. You never go around just murdering innocent old ladies. You're never "evil"! You're only chaotic good or at worst, chaotic neutral. You never do anything Catwoman or Garrus wouldn't do.
And even a game like Hatred, yeah I suppose you're evil. But I think we can all agree its comical evil at best. Frank Miller evil. The type of evil Marv or Dwight would fight. And that's just not an evil I can take seriously.
Or Evil Genius, where you're an "evil" Bond type villain. Except all the worlds governments are supposed to be super corrupt and tyrannical. And you never do anything truly evil! You never drop a nuke on London. You never steal orphans from China to start a death-cult of minions. You never have enemy agents(of either gender) raped or brutally tortured. You never go around just murdering innocent old ladies. You're never "evil"! You're only chaotic good or at worst, chaotic neutral. You never do anything Catwoman or Garrus wouldn't do.
And even a game like Hatred, yeah I suppose you're evil. But I think we can all agree its comical evil at best. Frank Miller evil. The type of evil Marv or Dwight would fight. And that's just not an evil I can take seriously.
Dungeon Keeper and it's spiritual successor War for the Overworld.
In a very different sense, God Save The Queen. It's a of visual novel where you get to be absolutely evil. Also you'll die... a lot. Often it's necessary.
In a very different sense, God Save The Queen. It's a of visual novel where you get to be absolutely evil. Also you'll die... a lot. Often it's necessary.
Soul Nomad has one of the more horrifying evil paths I've ever played in a game. Although you have to clear the game once to unlock the path. You become such a horrifyingly evil monster that the evil god-like monster inside of you becomes scared of you. Some of the things you do will make you feel sick. It's amazing.
The undead campaigns in Warcraft III. Even in the Zerg campaigns in Starcraft had you preventing another evil force from taking control of the Swarm, but there is nothing remotely noble about the Scourge- you are simply spreading the power of the Lich King by destroying all in your wake and eventually killing all the demons who created and imprisoned him. Not to stop them, but so that the Lich King can enslave the world instead of the Burning Legion destroying it.
I'm not sure if even a completely Light-Sided Sith character in SWTOR can be considered to be not evil. Both are still dark leaders of the genocidal Sith Empire, either a Dark Council member or the Emperor's Wrath incarnate, in other words the Emperor's strongest and most loyal enforcer. Both earn their Darth titles even if they try to be good.
I'm not sure if even a completely Light-Sided Sith character in SWTOR can be considered to be not evil. Both are still dark leaders of the genocidal Sith Empire, either a Dark Council member or the Emperor's Wrath incarnate, in other words the Emperor's strongest and most loyal enforcer. Both earn their Darth titles even if they try to be good.
Best example I can think of is [PROTOTYPE], in that game, you play as Alex Mercer, an omniphagic abomination so powerful that he can basically kill people by breathing on them. His super powers are so overkill, that I found it hard to complete most of the story missions without causing at least 2,000 human casualties, and Alex does not give a flying crap about the people who get in his way. In one mission, the government creates an airborn vaccine to the zombie virus, but Alex destroys all the blowers and allows New York City to fall to the infection to save himself when he could have just fled. Alex is an irredeemable little monster, and it's just an awesome game.
Black and White. Either you're a benevolent deity or a wrathful evil deity and your chosen creature reflects your choices. Loved that series, especially how creepy it could be.
Also if you really want to go that way, the Sims can be pretty interesting depending on what whims you choose to act upon. Taking away the free will of Sims and forcing them to obey your every command, walling them up in a room with no doors, toilets, etc, and driving them to madness and death... yeah I'd say thats not a good act at all. I mean in a technical sense you're not playing a character, but it can be interpreted as you're the God of that particular existence... and you can choose to fulfill the dreams and hopes of your charges or torture the fuck out of them. I'd personally say that Sims is an interesting social experiment, possibly reflecting the inner voice of the player more accurately than any other game, but that might be reaching a bit.
Either way those two series are possible avenues into evil deeds, though the latter doesn't have a defined character per se.
Also if you really want to go that way, the Sims can be pretty interesting depending on what whims you choose to act upon. Taking away the free will of Sims and forcing them to obey your every command, walling them up in a room with no doors, toilets, etc, and driving them to madness and death... yeah I'd say thats not a good act at all. I mean in a technical sense you're not playing a character, but it can be interpreted as you're the God of that particular existence... and you can choose to fulfill the dreams and hopes of your charges or torture the fuck out of them. I'd personally say that Sims is an interesting social experiment, possibly reflecting the inner voice of the player more accurately than any other game, but that might be reaching a bit.
Either way those two series are possible avenues into evil deeds, though the latter doesn't have a defined character per se.
I think the problem is that, if you're going to make a game where your character is no BS evil, then you pretty much have to make it for extremely mature audiences, and that is going to 1: remove some of your potential audience, and 2: means you have to alter styles a lot (you can't really make a tongue in cheek game like Overlord if it has seriously done scenes of you violently murdering people in front of their crying children).Silentpony said:
I just think developers are skittish about it because it's such a delicate tightrope to walk. Sure, plenty of gamers might say they think it'd be cool to play a really evil character, but if the devs push things too far, then all hell would break loose. Imagine a game where you murder innocent people? No big deal right? Tons of games let you do that. Oh but you also rape a woman. MORAL PANIC!! Or how about a game where you are an evil conqueror and take over countries? No big deal, been done before in plenty of games. Oh, and your character is also a racist Nazi who murders interracial couples and kills all non-whites. MORAL PANIC!!!
It's telling that in a lot of, say, strategy games, they never really show you the consequences of what your Army actually does. Imagine if in Starcraft (the original, before they got all morally ambiguous) they had a cutscene of your Zerg swarm overrunning a Terran city, and your Zerglings devouring screaming babies. Suddenly not too many people would be declaring the Zerg as their favorite faction.
But anyway OP, Planescape: Torment had probably one of the toughest "evil" playthroughs I've ever encountered. Your conscience has to take a backseat to make some of the decisions in that game.
Pick a Drakengard game. The best you can hope for is to be a "hero" by comparison to who you're fighting. Also, Drakengard games hate children, which means your character usually does by extension whether they mean to or not. The straightest example is the Drakengard 3 DLC where you play as each of the primary antagonists in which the "least" evil thing you do is torture people to find local food.
May I direct your attention to the DECEPTION series?
Oh you just so happen to run your own practical murder dungeon killing innocent people, heroes and otherwise to resurrect Papa Satan with sadistic, humiliating and painful torture traps! Nothing too evil!
It's glorious...!
New game in the series is coming out in July!
Oh you just so happen to run your own practical murder dungeon killing innocent people, heroes and otherwise to resurrect Papa Satan with sadistic, humiliating and painful torture traps! Nothing too evil!
It's glorious...!
New game in the series is coming out in July!
Saints Row 2 is my choice. You play a horrible person who's whole desire is to topple the gangs of the city for no other reason than you want to. You commit horrible acts to various individuals (one highlight is literally burying somebody alive) and some of the side activities have you brutalising people whilst pretending to be a police officer and protecting drug dealers when the police come after them. There's also some of the weapons like the chainsaw which have mini-cutscenes of the victim screaming in agony as their body rapidly goes limp.
Saints Row: The Third is similarily reprehensible, but it's so tonally scattershot as to lost the impact. Saints Row 1 is similar, but the character is portrayed as more or less going along with people's ideas because he wants to help the people who saved him.
Saints Row: The Third is similarily reprehensible, but it's so tonally scattershot as to lost the impact. Saints Row 1 is similar, but the character is portrayed as more or less going along with people's ideas because he wants to help the people who saved him.
Braid...