Are you looking for role-playing games where you can be really nasty and are therefore disappointed with Dragon Age: The Veilguard? No problem! MeinMMO has 6 RPGs for you where you can also do wonderfully evil things as a “hero” that would suit any antagonist perfectly.
A frequently mentioned criticism of Dragon Age: The Veilguard is that the protagonist only has a nice side, which hardly allows for the development of a personal identity. In the GameStar Talk at the launch of DA:TV (via gamestar.de), GameStar editor-in-chief Heiko Klinge even posited that the new BioWare RPG could pass as the Ted Lasso of fantasy RPGs.
As the main character, you are a kind of coach who always keeps the team on track with charisma and optimism and can even extract something positive from setbacks and sacrifices. A truly bad word directed at a companion? Ted … erm … Rook won’t allow that.
The Emmy-winning feel-good series has been airing since 2020 exclusively on Apple TV+ and currently offers three seasons with a total of 34 episodes.
However, if you want to be evil every now and then or permanently, you won’t have the chance in DA:TV. Good thing there are other RPGs where you can be delightfully nasty. MeinMMO presents some of these role-playing games that you can still enjoy playing today.
Baldur’s Gate 3
- Platforms: PC, macOS, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series
- Price: 59.99 Euro
- Release Date: August 3, 2023
The latest role-playing game from Larian is a unicorn. A game that brings such strong qualities in many areas that competitors will have to measure themselves against Baldur’s Gate 3 in the coming years. One of the major strengths is the enormous freedom that awaits you in the third part of the iconic series.
One example: Your hero can not only be a little nasty but also choose to be utterly evil. Or as colleague Benedict Grothaus has put it: You get to play a mad killer in Baldur’s Gate 3 who is so wicked that even evil NPCs fear you.
If you need to get hyped for Baldur’s Gate 3, check out this trailer:
That is possible by giving in to your Dark Urge during character creation and creating a Dark Urge character. This offers you a completely different gaming experience than normal runs and minimizes the lifespan of your companions to a minimum. To quote Benedict Grothaus again: I now know what the ‘Dark Urge’ is and it makes the character so much better.
Dragon Age: Origins
- Platforms: PC, macOS, Xbox, PlayStation
- Price: 29.99 Euro
- Release Date: November 3, 2009
Regarding the rather linear structure of areas, the staging of the story (many in-game sequences and nicely staged conversations), as well as the sequence of battles, exploration, puzzles, and dialogues, Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Dragon Age: Origins are similar. In many other areas, one might think that these are different RPG series.
Unlike in The Veilguard, you could be a real … excuse the expression … jerk in Origins and even provoke your companions to the point where they don’t want anything to do with you anymore. How a run looks where you steer a psychopath through Ferelden is shown in Kevduit’s entertaining video on YouTube:
Unfortunately, BioWare has gradually reduced this type of freedom for personal development with each new Dragon Age installment. Only in Dragon Age 2 could you still make some decisions that were wonderfully nasty. Often, your companions are the ones who suffer from these choices.
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