What games excel at making you feel incredibly, ridiculously powerful?
Kingdoms of amular: reckoning.
The combat system makes you feel like a badass as it is. However, it's the crafting system that lets you become hilariously broken. If you collect parts for a while, you can build staves that may be over 20 hit points more damaging than the most powerful staves you had collected at that point, with multiple effects, something not often found in any weapons. You can create armour that'll up your mana and make you practically unpoisonable too. This is all before I even gained the ability to craft using gems, another piece of the crafting system that can be abused to joyous effect. Before long, you're bringing all kinds of havoc to anyone who opposes you, almost feeling sorry for such inferior beings. Almost.
Skyrim
Poor little archer boy. Nobody seems to care much for his bows and arrows. The warriors that call skyrim home laugh and drink their mead, while even the mages, viewed with suspicion and paranoia by the natives, laugh at the archer's seemingly crude technology. So he retreats to the shadows where no-one can see him, let alone ridicule him, and strokes his beloved bow, his only friend...
And instrument of revenge. Little archer boy got good at hiding away, so good that the warriors don't see him coming. His arrows are drawn and fired faster than any mage can bring up their fancy wards. Soon, skyrim has learned to fear the dark, not for vampires, not for dragons, but of the archer who could lurk in any shadow.
Yes, my precious bow...it won't be long...
Any multiplayer game that you become good at.
Slaughtering AI is all well and good, but it's often more satisfying if you know that somewhere, somebody is wondering and possibly raging about how you managed to do it. For me, it's halo reach. I'm not brilliant all the time, but when I get good, I become nigh on unstoppable, And there's nothing quite like that moment when you're simply on fire. FLEE MORTALS! MAY YOU EVER WATCH THE SKIES FEARFUL OF MY LANDING! I SHALL REAP YOUR BLOOD UNTIL IT FILLS BLOOD GULCH! YOUR WEAPONS ARE UNIMPORTANT, YOUR LEVEL IRRELEVANT, NONE OF YOU ARE SAFE!
Ahem.
The combat system makes you feel like a badass as it is. However, it's the crafting system that lets you become hilariously broken. If you collect parts for a while, you can build staves that may be over 20 hit points more damaging than the most powerful staves you had collected at that point, with multiple effects, something not often found in any weapons. You can create armour that'll up your mana and make you practically unpoisonable too. This is all before I even gained the ability to craft using gems, another piece of the crafting system that can be abused to joyous effect. Before long, you're bringing all kinds of havoc to anyone who opposes you, almost feeling sorry for such inferior beings. Almost.
Skyrim
Poor little archer boy. Nobody seems to care much for his bows and arrows. The warriors that call skyrim home laugh and drink their mead, while even the mages, viewed with suspicion and paranoia by the natives, laugh at the archer's seemingly crude technology. So he retreats to the shadows where no-one can see him, let alone ridicule him, and strokes his beloved bow, his only friend...
And instrument of revenge. Little archer boy got good at hiding away, so good that the warriors don't see him coming. His arrows are drawn and fired faster than any mage can bring up their fancy wards. Soon, skyrim has learned to fear the dark, not for vampires, not for dragons, but of the archer who could lurk in any shadow.
Yes, my precious bow...it won't be long...
Any multiplayer game that you become good at.
Slaughtering AI is all well and good, but it's often more satisfying if you know that somewhere, somebody is wondering and possibly raging about how you managed to do it. For me, it's halo reach. I'm not brilliant all the time, but when I get good, I become nigh on unstoppable, And there's nothing quite like that moment when you're simply on fire. FLEE MORTALS! MAY YOU EVER WATCH THE SKIES FEARFUL OF MY LANDING! I SHALL REAP YOUR BLOOD UNTIL IT FILLS BLOOD GULCH! YOUR WEAPONS ARE UNIMPORTANT, YOUR LEVEL IRRELEVANT, NONE OF YOU ARE SAFE!
Ahem.
