Why is there not a lot of games where you play as the "bad guy", that isn't some twist at the very end?
Why is there not a lot of games where you play as the "bad guy", that isn't some twist at the very end?
Ryan Thomas
Blake Perry
What are some games where the twist is that you were the good guy all along?
Owen James
It wouldn't be an interesting subversion if it was done all the time.
Austin Allen
Overlord kind of if I remember right
does Divinity 2 count ?
I think mostly because no one wants to actually be bad. Can be fun for a while but after some time there's some dissonance. unless it's a purely sexual thing then it's a-ok.
Nicholas Rogers
The ending of Spec Ops: The Line could be interpreted as that desu
Wyatt Jones
How is that a twist in Divinity 2? Aren't you a good guy from the start and just happen to become a dragon knight, but still good?
Benjamin Brooks
No one is the villain of their own story. Even the evil overlord sees himself as the hero of his own tale.
Handsome Jack is a good example of this. He's convinced to the very end that he was the good guy despite all the evil shit he's done.
Connor Garcia
I totally agree with you user, idk why that game came to me
Chase Hughes
Disgaea 1, I think?
Elijah Powell
Writing a compelling narrative for a villain protagonist is difficult because it has to follow a pattern. Doing 'evil' rewards you because evil can be done for the character's own sake, but you have to have a system like Overlord 2 did as well, where you are given the option to do 'good' to appeal to the average person's desire to be the hero, only for that good option to blow up in your face later. That girl you saved now has a town of villagers sent after you because she saw you use necromancy or something sorta thing. That way you get a more dynamic experience that shows why the path you took was bad in the end.
TLDR writing villain protagonists takes more work than writing macguffins for the hero to kill.