(Looky Here!) Options in Games that make you Twirl your Evil Moustache, because you can.

[Frotality]

recently ive gotten a kick out of gently shoving those fisherman on piers into the water in assassins creed 2. also punching bards, of course.

not really evil, but sadistically entertaining: in POP:SoT, at one part in that giant 20-story library, i misjudged a rope swing and fell to my death...but not by mere SPLAT, oh no. i managed to land right on the edge of a PIT OF SPIKES, shattering my knees before flying into the pit and impaling myself. words cannot describe how hilarious this was to me, especially after i proceeded to watch it 6 more times forward and reverse, using up all my rewinds just for the sake of watching the prince fall 300ft, crack his legs on a ledge, and roll right into a spike pit...over and over and over.

but to actually answer the topic: hitman:blood money is practically built around the premise of tormenting people: sabotaging a BBQ so it catches the hapless party host on fire was one of my favorites. i also remember climbing on an elevator and strangling everyone who got in when the doors closed...this was the christmas party level, and in the elevator some dozen or more guests used. suffice to say, the maintenance guy would have a hard time explaining how the elevator's recent slowness was due to it being over the weight capacity on account of the pile of corpses hidden on top of it.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Wow, those things aren't "twirling your evil mustache". They're just being psychotic. There's a difference. "Twirling the evil mustache" is more classical evil, like managing to cause a rival empire to collapse due to revolutionaries that you supported or turning part of an opposing army against itself by making them believe there are traitors in their ranks. That's when you twirl your evil mustache, go "Nyeh, nyeh. You've fallen for my trap!" and sail away in your evil dirigible while the heros shake their fists at you.

"Nyeh! This will surely affect my inheritance! Nyeh!"

Not to say that those things aren't evil. God damn are they evil. They're just more Chaotic Evil as compared to the Lawful/Neutral Evil I've described.

The only problem is that few games allow you to exercise that kind of evil. Most games only really allow random acts of violence. Give me a game that allows me to create and execute an elaborately over-the-top plan to, i dunno, steal some kids lunch money using a duck and a microwave oven, and I'm all over it. Until then, I'll just hit reload and pump another round into an annoying NPC that made me trek across the wastes/swamp/caves/plains for some random mcguffin for the billionth time.

Sins of the Solar Empire Space RTS..

Paid Purple to Take out Yellow, Yellow to take out Green. Green to take out purple.

Paid the pirates to sweep in afterwards and then i got my men to salvage the wreckage and raid the unguarded planets to get back my money.

Yousee? Its just because games doesnt make it obvious. You dont have to be rewarded in order to do this kind of stuff. Its called Creativity.

 

[Creator002]

...Nuking Megaton.

I've created a save point just before that so I can do it over and over.

OT: Killing Thunder, Briar Rose and the Guildmaster (especially that last one).

 

[Cazza]

KILLED EVERYONE I meet in saw in fallout 3 once. Well everyone I could damn kids. Maybe I should have got that mod. It was fun, I felt bad. Thought to myslef they are not real and went on with my epic quest to kill everyone in the wasteland.

It's funny those moral bars in games like that. You can kill the odd hobo you find and as long as you then help some kid find his cat your still a good person in everyones eyes.

 

[Exia91]

I love to twirl my evil moustache occasionally. You know, when I'm not giving to charity, curing cancer, or doing fetch quests. The greatest moments tend to be in RPG's, like Fallout 3 where you can kill a little boy in his sleep before chowing down on his corpse then sneaking away into the night, the people you meet never suspecting a thing. Maybe the thrill of slowly taking out a room of target's one by one before taking out the last terrified straggler, like in Arkham Asylum or maybe Hitman. Perhaps dragging a peaceful protester to your dungeon as he begs for mercy then throwing him in, locking the door and throwing away the key, like say in Fable 3. Or even something Primal like trapping someone in a room to slowly starve before setting them on fire, nearly drowning them in a pool, breaking their legs, and then watching drown in their own urine, like in The Sims.

Evil in games equals freedom,that's why it's appealing and that is why people appreciate evil choices, and boy these choices are EVIL.

These moments always make me twirl my evil moustache and use my best evil laugh.
Stealthy or Gory? Clever or Brutal (or both!).
What are your favorite ways to be an evil bastard?
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I love your writing. Well done!

OT:
Gears of War 2. In these caverns deep down in the planet, you wwill find these marvelous weapons called snipers. Enjoy making headshots, and do not worry, you do not have to clean up afterwards. *Splatter* You only twirl your Moustache and use a moderate to evil laugh. There are far better examples, I'll return once I know remember better ones.

 

[Juven Ignus]

Red Dead Redemption. Lasso. Railroad.

"Nyeh nyeh nyeh!" *Twirl*

 

[sleekie]

Fallout 2 was great for being a complete dick:

1) Take job to deal with ghouls at nearby reactor.
2) Go over there, steal everything, melt down reactor.
3) RUN AWAY.
4) Report back to quest-giver, let it sink in that you just blew up the potential powersource, and irradiated the water table.
5) Wait for her to finish raging at you and then politely ask for your payment anyway.

Alternatively, just give the group of kids playing in the street a loaded pistol as a toy. Or force your nice-but-dim new wife into prostitution.

Man, games these days seem kind of watered-down, now I think about it.

 

[Doclector]

Disrespecting the dead in dead rising 1 or 2. Never before has gaming's favourite punching bags been so susceptbible to humiliation and eventual ridiculous re-death. Don't think it's evil? You haven't seen me play zombie baseball with a ton of servbot-masked corpses. I am downright mean.

Trapping civilians in webs of mag grenades on crackdown 2. Then setting them free...at sunset.

Setting many, many horses on fire in red dead redemption.