What games do you recommend that don’t try to be realistic, push the importance of an “open world”, are P2W, etc, etc that only care about making an experience where the universe pretty much revolves around you?
DOOM is the inspiration for this question, anything that just focuses on you the player rather than trying to make a moving world around you.
VR set with Blade and Sorcery. Nothing else comes even close to power fantasies
Katana Zero just says “You’re a ronin with time bending powers go kill these bitches and reflect bullets”.
Playing Dishonored 2’s NG+ with all powers available was my favorite pass time. You’re basically a God and the only challenge is deciding who you’re going to kill and how creative do you want to get when killing them.
Rollercoaster tycoon
The Darkness 2. Its actually one of my favorite BTS game dev stories. When they approached the sequel to “The Darkness” they decided that there was no reason to hamper the player with limited abilities at the start like pretty much every game does. So they started a prototype that was on par with the end of the first game. They decided to not even proceed on the development of the game until the prototype was perfect. They call the gameplay in that sequel “Quad Wielding” because you can basically attack with four limbs. The opening of The Darkness 2 is still one of my favorites of all time. Found a video
Robocop: Rogue City does this well while still being a game with gamey challenges. Robo is not a God, and he does get hurt and face tough bosses, but every criminal in detroit knows and fears Robocop.
Batman: Arkham games also do this well.
Is that game good? People keep talking about it but the gameplay seems kinda odd in videos.