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If the game lets you choose good or evil

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[–] ArkiusAzure@alien.top 2 points 9 months ago

Pathfinder: Wrath of the righteous.

It's similar to Baldur's gate but on pathfinder which is (imo) a much better system than 5e.

In the game you choose a mythic path which grants you incredibly strong abilities but also drastically alters your gameplay and story interactions. You can have the powers of an Angel, Lich or even just be the embodiment of a swarm, so intense that you actually kill your whole party.

I loved how well the game does at fulfilling the fantasy of the path you choose. In my lich playthrough I really felt like an unstoppable mage with incredible power.

I recommend playing in turn based mode.

[–] Original-Childhood@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

InFamous. The powers were cooler

[–] _TheNumber7_@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

They are linked by funny mustaches (Alduin VA is also Mario’s (now former) VA)

[–] ihoptdk@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

In Bioshock, draining Little Sisters yields more resources than sparing them (although, that also has its benefits).

[–] alid610@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Capitalism.

[–] Officer_Hotpants@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

In Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, the worse shop prices are offset by having way more powerful party members available.

[–] orbitaldragon@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Fable

Infamous Series

Grand Theft Auto

Skyrim

[–] Inevitable-Sir76@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Skyrim and fallout 4

[–] AceyKacey119@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Fallout New Vegas by a landslide.

[–] LordAsbel@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

In elder scrolls games the daedric quests generally have you doing questionable or downright bad things and you’re rewarding with some pretty good stuff

[–] Altruistic-Map5605@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Baldur's Gate 3

[–] Full_Log_6604@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago
[–] Manicscarecr0w@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago
[–] Popular-Extreme3474@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

RDR2's Bad Honor certainly has it's perks.

[–] ToasterUnplugged@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I remember Fallout 3 giving you a ton of caps if you choose the, uh, nuclear option for the first town.

[–] RobIson240YT@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Too many things to list in Skyrim (beware spoilers).

 If you destroy the Dark Brotherhood, you get 3,000 gold as a reward. You get over WAY more by joining them and doing the quests, plus more unique armor and weapons.

 You can't kill the theives guild at all, some members can die but most can't. And you don't get anything for *not* joining them, at no point do you have to, but you just miss out on content if you don't.

 And at the end of the main quest, you're supposed to kill Parthuunax, which I guarantee nobody wanted to do. You miss out on content if you don't kill him, and if you do, you'll be able to reform the blades.
[–] thepariah13@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I have an incredibly hard time being evil in video games. It just feels so wrong.

[–] MrWildstar@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Same. I've tried several times in Baldur's Gate, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Especially once I recruit Karlach, I can't bring a frown to her face 😞

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[–] bugmultiverse@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Spider-man web of shadows.

you own the world and got your own chick

[–] SluttyMcFucksAlot@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The first Infamous the evil powers were definitely better than the good from what I remember.

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[–] dnew@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

It's a lot easier to be evil in dishonored.

[–] Dariaskehl@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

OP, seek out: Black and White.

[–] ADickShin@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.

The funnest part of the game is light saber fights and you get WAY MORE light saber action if you make the evil choice. There are Jedi Knights and Dark Jedi both present in the last level. If you went good, you are allied with the knights, if you went evil you get to fight everyone.

There is also an extra final boss fight if you go evil. Along the way, evil powers like Force Lightning are also generally more fun and useful IIRC.

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[–] Blade_Shot24@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

In COD Cold War: >!The MC if he works with the Americans he is later put in a situation where he and the supporting character are put in a situation where the MC is very likely killed. In another part he is killed if he rats out the Americans but doesn't know the secret code. In the final ending where he gets his Russian allies (if you call it bad ending), he kills the Americans, being your allies of those being Woods and Mason. So in the last ending you win and live after being used the by the American that while having to stop a possible nuclear threat, you become disposable.!<

[–] sizzlinpapaya@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Mass effect.

Get to punch the shit out of a reporter.

[–] Saix027@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Dungeon Keeper (Dungeons Series as nice successor, while War of the Overworld is also good in it). EA had to ruin Dungeon Keeper, sadly.

Overlord 1 and 2. Great games.

Miss those kinds of games that are funny, evil simply for the sake of it.

[–] Elegant_Spot_3486@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Tyranny

Outer Worlds

[–] 98VoteForPedro@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Web of shadows Spider-Man

[–] AxelCanin@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago
[–] FluffyTid@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Portal, if you sacrifice your cube companion you get rewarded with a bunch of extra puzzles

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[–] Running-With-Cakes@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

GTA Online. I’m a billionaire gun running, drug smuggling, bank robbing psychopath who kills cops and civilians, never obeys the rules of the road and if I get in trouble I just murder the problem and pay off the cops

[–] DietAmbitious5503@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Blocklords gives you the option to farm (which requires time and resources) or wreak havoc on your neighbors' lands and steal everything (which can have consequences later)

Any decision has its pros and cons.

[–] masonicone@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Ultima Online from it's launch until the release of Trammel in 2000.

Alright for those of you who never played UO or are too young to remember or ya know not being born yet? UO was for the most part the granddaddy of MMO's. Some of it's systems and ideas have been taken into other games, things like player housing, crafting being a 'big' thing.

Anyhow Ultima Online ran with an free for all pvp ruleset. In the normal Towns and Cities you where under protection of the guards. Note you could have player thieves work in those areas and that was about it. Outside those areas? You could pretty much attack whomever you wanted.

So with how the game was set up? You had the following. Player thieves who would get into your pack and try and steal anything that was worth a crap ton. Player killers who would just run up and gank you, most of whom worked in packs. You'd see them coming if you saw a solid red name pop up on your screen. The "Notoriety Killer" namely someone who used the notoriety system to kill others, namely if they saw you use an AoE spell like firefield? They would run into it flagging you as a "criminal" and would kill you. Finally there was the Looter, namely someone who would lead monsters to other players with the idea of letting that person kill the things and they would grab the loot, or grab everything off the persons body when they died. And note you did have folks using exploits, hacks and the like.

And it did pay off big time. I did player thieving and believe me I could get more loot and then like from just stealing it off other players. PK's made a crap ton, and the more clever ones when they put in a bounty system would once they got a bounty to some insane level? Have a friend kill the character, claim the bounty and would have a new PK already to go. Looters? Two of the most well known looters on UO the Galads of Sonoma became pretty well known. Galad the good did an interview where he even talked about how he got a crap ton of more of everything via playing 'evil' then he ever did being a nice helpful player.

Anyhow that's how UO was until Trammel rolled around, Trammel being a mirror world of the main map and the Lost Lands. See Trammel's rule set was that you couldn't attack, steal, so on, from other players unless you where in a guild war or part of the order/chaos faction system. Looting still happened at first however the Dev's changed some of the rules with that, monsters only being lootable by the players who kill them no real way for players to 'block' other players.

Anyhow needless to say Trammel pretty much became the main map everyone played on. Felucca the 'old' map pretty much started looking like a ghost town. To be fair for a moment, the Dev's did try and bring life back to Felucca. They doubled the amount of resources and loot one could get there. Put in a Felucca only Dungeon that had some pretty nice ideas that went into it. Still needless to say there was a good chunk of the player base who hated this change and claimed it killed the game.

[–] IAmZeeb1337@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Any GTA game.

[–] Chronic_Misreader@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Vampyr. While I wasn't a big fan of the game in general, you do get more XP and better skills by being evil and hunting humans throughout London

[–] Helpful_Air9263@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Trumpian politics!

[–] Ghost403@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Kotor, black and white, fable... Oh my god the sword

[–] A-Game-Of-Fate@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

In Fable 1/TLC, the best ranged weapon in the game is locked behind human sacrifice at the temple of Scorm. At the end of Fable 1 (Not the Lost Chapters), you can kill an ally to keep the Sword of Aeons, which is by far the best melee weapon in the game; it’s so good, in fact, that in the Lost Chapters they nerf it’s damage by something near 200 points. It’s still the best melee weapon on the game overall (tied with another weapon, a duplicate empowered by irreplicable circumstance), though it now has competition for specific circumstances.

I’m Mass Effect 1, if you renegade hard enough you can tell the main boss to personally give himself a handgun lobotomy and he’ll do so- though you can get similar results by being Paragon as fuck also.

[–] elanhilation@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

some of the best gear in FNV, including the best power armor, is locked behind firing the nukes at inhabited regions in the Lonesome Road dlc

[–] MENDACIOUS_RACIST@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

in Watch_Dogs 2 you just murder a gajillion people for open source because reasons

[–] moonshineTheleocat@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Rollor coaster tycoon.

You kill your visitors and still make money

[–] PurpoUpsideDownJuice@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Infamous. If you make all the evil choices you get super badass edgy black and red electricity

[–] Chowda-Da-Void@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Any Star Wars game

[–] Chemical_Ad3952@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Overlord 1 and 2, Dragon Age Origins, perhaps Bound by Flame, Command Conquer games.

[–] BarelyClever@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago
[–] Beno169@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

In Minecraft I lock the villagers in a jail cell and force them to trade with me. I don’t know, feels pretty evil to me.

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