Edit: holy shit I turn my head around for one second and I got 40 replies? THANK YOU ALL :D <3

I just rewatched Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and following Bane’s and Miranda’s story made me realize that I’m a bit saturated in regards to playing as the hero, the protagonist, the “good guy” in PC games. While I love saving the world as much as the next person, I’d love to play as some perhaps self-righteous villain, or antagonist, or simply somebody portrayed in a way that’s meant to make the player sympathize with questionable morality or, at the very least, be conflicted about why you suddenly find yourself rooting for them.

I’m mostly looking for story driven open world single player games, but any recommendations are welcome. :)

  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Disco Elysium’s protagonist is a walking disaster and there are a lot of ways you can play him. Honestly playing him as a totally morally upright professional is one of the harder ways to play. You definitely don’t feel like a hero while you’re playing

    • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’m too dumb to play that game. I tried and kept dying during dialogue.

      I didn’t know you could die in a game from saying the wrong thing. But I did multiple times. A few hours in. I was playing on switch and it made me restart from beginning.

      So I gave up and just watched a YouTube on the story.

      Idk I’ve never played a game like that and I’m not sure how the mechanics work. Obviously too dense to figure it out.

      Very cool art style and world building though.

      • Famko@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        A few hours in and you restarted from the beginning? That’s weird considering the game has autosaves, unless there’s a quirk about the switch version.

        Do you remember what dialogue you died on perhaps?

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Honestly playing him as a totally morally upright professional is one of the harder ways to play

      Oh so I was just playing it wrong lmao

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I think that might have been my problem with that game as well. I felt like I was going absolutely nowhere about 1 or 2 hours in.

        I should probably restart.

      • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Yeah, it’s a little spoilery to say but the game tries to force you to learn that lesson. Trying to be a good cop and being straight edge is pretty frustrating. Then once you take a morally gray choice and it advances the plot, you use some drugs to meet a check and there aren’t really consequences. Then by the end of the game you’re high on 4 different drugs punching children and you understand the point they were making