An Evil Protagonist

[Celtic Predator]

I'd like to play a game where you're a merciless bad guy. I know there's that whole 'connection' your supposed to have with the protagonist, but I think acts of violence and evil through the eyes of the doer would drop jaws and change the way the player plays the game. No choice, not like Fable. I know it's been done somewhere before (if you know any, you can add down there \/) but not recently to my knowledge. Taking over a planet instead of saving one would be a fresh change. Thoughts?

 

[Fr]anc[is]

Overlord 2 lets you pick between Domination and Destruction, but they're both still evil. It's not the best game though

 

[Stickwell]

I'd like to play a game where you're a merciless bad guy. I know there's that whole 'connection' your supposed to have with the protagonist, but I think acts of violence and evil through the eyes of the doer would drop jaws and change the way the player plays the game. No choice, not like Fable. I know it's been done somewhere before (if you know any, you can add down there \/) but not recently to my knowledge. Taking over a planet instead of saving one would be a fresh change. Thoughts?

I wanna see it possible to have the protagonist open fire on a school bus, that would be pretty narly, I don't think I would even play that game.

 

[The Madman]

Kratos in God of War is pretty much the villain. You'd probably enjoy that!

 

[RandomWords]

just be a complete dick in a good sandbox game

 

[The Austin]

Play an RPG.
Choose all of the evil stuff.

 

[Celtic Predator]

I meant more like an FPS where you fight the good guys, maybe even lose in the end.

 

[Morrowind393]

I meant more like an FPS where you fight the good guys, maybe even lose in the end.

Why would you want to play a game where you are doomed to fail from the start?

 

[onikaze26]

OK evil genius is pretty good, but that's about it, all these games people have been mentioning you can be evil, but the people your fighting are usually more evil (overlord being the worst for this) and most RPGs your still saving the world at the end, not really all that evil. I'm all for this idea

 

[Chamale]

Alex Mercer in [Prototype]. The only choice between good and evil in that game is whether you avoid collateral damage, or revel in it.

Sure, the main character is sympathetic to his sister. But he's completely unrepentant and evil. I realized how evil he was when I noticed that at some point in the game, every single mission had more civilian casualties than 9/11.

It's telling that one of the game's harder achievements is to finish it while "only" devouring 10 civilians. You can kill as many as you want, but you're only allowed to tear apart and consume a max of 10. That's the closest to Good you'll encounter in [Prototype].

 

[blankedboy]

In some of the Star Wars games, you can take the evil path. I'm definitely going to in Jedi Academy.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I meant more like an FPS where you fight the good guys, maybe even lose in the end.

Check out the Postal games sometime. It's about all that comes to mind.

 

[Blueruler182]

just be a complete dick in a good sandbox game

I recommend Prototype. There is no better dicking around game, and you can easily feel downright evil.

Other than that, Kratos. He's evil. So very very evil.

 

[captaincabbage]

I'm gonna say it. Spore!
Seriously, you can be the biggest prick in the galaxy if you want. It fucking rules.

 

[Extraintrovert]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainProtagonist

Peruse the Video Games section of this page for some examples, though I can't verify the accuracy of all of them. To prevent this from being just TV Tropes whoring, I will also recommend Prototype. Just... wow.