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. :)
Mafia series - You play as a murderous mobster
Tropico series - You play as the dictator of a small banana republic
Red Dead Redemption - You’re Arthur Morgan, an outlaw who kills for money
Buuuuut I kill bad guys when I play RDR2 so I feel good about it!
While you do get to feed KKK members to the gators and gun down anti-sufferagettes, you also loanshark and rob innocent people amongst other things
Yeah I didn’t like the loan sharking business… and there are some innocent people that get robbed, but much of that is from the story, and there isn’t much you can do about it