When Evil is Cooler than Good?

[Shanecooper]

SW Battlefront 2: The Jedi Temple mission.

Most badass, epic, glorious, wonderful, EVIL mission ever.


Really, why Lucasarts decided to do a sequel of their FU game instead of giving us BFIII with space-AND-land battles (with say, 64-player online) is beyond me.

Can you imagine online, 50 people as the clones, with maybe 100 more AI clones, going zerg rush on 10 jedi? It's AWWWWWWWW RIIIIIGHT

That... would be AWESOME!!! Nothing more satisfying in BF2 than getting to be the Jedi/Hero, rushing an enemy point and killing half the team, only to be gunned down after taking the point and going after the next group of squish, blood filled victims.

 

[RanD00M]

The Helghast are so much better than the ISA. Except maybe on multiplayer, because their goggles are as obvious as headlights on a big rig.

Super bad ass space Nazis with posh British accents.
You just can´t beat the Helghast.

 

[Joa_Belgium]

Evil is cooler than good when your name is Ocelot or Saren.

The Helghast are also quite cool.

 

[Tiny116]

I recently experienced the hilarity of planting a bottle cap mine in someones pocket in FO3...hilarity ensued. And I lost Karma so... after blowing my one ass up trying to defend myself against the hoarde that is Megaton. I immediately tried again...with two other people in proximity....
Yeah I found that far to much fun XD

 

[Kaltazraza]

INfamous. Cluster missiles and grenades. BOOOM goes everyone

 

[Axeli]

"Do you enjoy genocide, Shepard?"
"Depends on the species, Turian."

That is all.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

virgil - DMC
Vega - street fighter
deadpool .. although technically the dude is neutral

well, he is NOW, but he started out as chaotic evil

 

[Cowabungaa]

Hell, when is evil not cooler than the good. The Horde in Warcraft is much cooler (except for the dwarves), so is Chaos in Warhammer (except for dwarves again) and Warhammer 40K doesn't count because everyone is evil in that universe. The Sith, also, are cooler than the Jedi, the Yrr from The Swarm are cooler than humanity, so are the Combine from Half Life.

As for individuals, the Joker is obviously way cooler than Batman, heck most super villains are cooler than their good counterpart. The Master is cooler than the Doctor, and the Doctor is flipping awesome so that says something. Sylar from Heroes is more badass than anyone else, and I could go on like that for a while.

It's almost an exception when the good guys are cooler than the baddies. The baddies are often so much more stylish. Luke Skywalker doesn't look nearly as awesome as Darth Vader does. The baddies get the tight leather, the baddies get the cool black capes, the insane and ingenious plans, the cool texts, they get everything.

Nearly half my entire post count consists of thread openings. Yeah, I make a thread whenever I feel like it.

Eh, I did that a lot when I first joined. You grow out of it.

Indeed, instead of thread openings, your post count consists of first posts. Must be the follow-up phase.

 

[Avatar Roku]

All the synth units in Half-Life. They look awesome.

Yeah...my first thought when I saw your post was the Hunters, and yes, they do look fucking awesome.

 

[Truly-A-Lie]

The thing that annoyed me about being evil in inFamous was that after all my hard work becoming a complete cock, murdering people in the streets with black force lightning, the civilians would still throw rocks at my head when I was climbing stuff. They should be running in fear the moment they see me, but instead I just get punished by the game for going the dark route.

 

[StrangerQ]

Overlord

seriously i laughed like hell with those two games

 

[Jandau]

Two words on this - Dungeon Keeper

That is all.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Dear god man, too many threads, can't keep up...

Well, Demented Teddy will like me for this, but I always liked the Tediz from Conkers Bad Fur Day.

very true, loved em way more, teeddiizzzz

OT: i liked the enclave armor way more than the brotherhood armor from fallout 3, dk why just looked cooler to me

also in kotor 2..you get fucking force crush, insanely OP move and the lightside extra power is puny, force crush ftwwww

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Evil Genious game...

 

[ostro-whiskey]

How come in games you glorify being Evil but in RL you dont laugh at the assholes dieing in Haiti or talk about how awesome the Serbian massacre of Muslims was.

Is it some sort of Societal immasculation that has had you stow your balls away in the overhead compartment of condsideration and tolerance.

 

[evilartist]

With all games, I start out as a good guy, and then I play through again as evil to compare them.

Oblivion is great at catering to evil me. The Dark Brotherhood quests are sadistically fun. >

 

[Lonely Swordsman]

Any Starwars games.
The Jedi are completely worthless. They limit themselves in everything they do with some bullshit hypocritical moral code, which they constantly refer to when asked to do anything but sit on their asses.

The Sith may be (mostly) evil, they at least make an impact on the universe. Hell, the Jedi effectivly died out in KOTOR2, but the galaxy at large is still the same. So basically: a hundred thousand Jedi did absolutely NOTHING, but a single Sith or Grey Jedi shows up and EVERYTHING is effected, for better or worse.

 

[RatRace123]

Well, Wesker is pretty damn cool.
Sephiroth
Darth Vader
Darth Bane
Darth Malak
Darth Revan
Cad Bane
Boba Fett
Jango Fett
Darth Maul

Actually, this trope could mainly apply to Star Wars villains.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

What is your favorite example of this in gaming? I would personally have to say in Killzone 2. The Helghast are so much better than the ISA. Except maybe on multiplayer, because their goggles are as obvious as headlights on a big rig.

Pay no attention, you make many threads but they're always interesting and awesome!

OT: It was always great playing the evil role in Prototype or inFamous, especially Prototype. And this is gonna sound pretty odd... but I think if they worked it into a Pokemon title, that'd play pretty well! I've always wanted to be a Team Rocket member!