/v/ - Video Games

Evil Genius if you want a more strategy/management approach to crime, sending minions out, designing deathtraps in your superbase, kidnapping secret agents, etc.

Alpha Protocol, while a secret agent game, gives you a lot of those 'break in, murder people, steal shit' vibes with actual good dialogue and RPG everything.

Dishonored 1 or 2, again, has a lot of those stealth/combat/stealing mechanics if you're looking for broader 'crime' games.

Styx: Master of Shadows, first one, is very long and a bit drawn out but almost identical to the Thief series in concept. Be a goblin sneaking through one giant city getting loot and completing objectives. Styx 2 is trash, ignore it.

Invisible Inc is Xcom-like combat but with secret agents and infiltration operatives. Find a location, break in, steal shit, assassinate, get intel, escape. Omerta City of Gangsters is another xcom-like game but more focused on pure crime.

Just Cause 2 isn't really crime/stealth, more 'terrorism simulator' where you parachute into a town, blow fucking everything up, topple radio towers, steal a tank and drive off into the sunset.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a lot of potential to break if you play as a thief/burglar, quite a few towns to fuck with and stealth is safer than open combat if you're shit at the system.

Monaco is a low-graphics overhead tactical-ish stealth burglary game where you have to break in to offices, banks, etc, disable alarms get the loot and get out.

PAYDAY 1 or 2, obviously, if you're interested in team shenanigans or have actual friends who will cooperate.

This War of Mine is about refugees surviving 30-40 days by building shit in a safehouse, recruiting survivors, then by night going out to forage and loot other buildings. Not as much 'crime' again, but lots of stealth, a very fragile thief/character, and having to loot and ransack locations with minimal combat or sheer avoiding of all other targets unless you can get the drop on them.

Some suggestions.

I wouldn't recommend Red Dead Redemption 2. Its crime system is definitely whack. Even if you commit a crime in total secret, the local cops "somehow" know about it and raise your bounty level. If you're getting mugged in streets and kill the bastard in revenge, the game considers that crime and not just self-defense. You can't even heckle strangers too much or else that's a crime. Excuse me? I thought I was playing a game set in America with First Amendment protections. Not some europoor shithole.

I'm just mentioning RDR2 because it had the worst crime system I'd ever seen. You'll tend to rack up a "crime" count, even when you're just trying to play lawfully.

>>16382907

i wish dishonoured had something like hitman 2 (2018)'s escalation and random mission system.

>>16382956

> If you're getting mugged in streets and kill the bastard in revenge, the game considers that crime and not just self-defense.

thats not right for a cowboy simulator. what the hell were they thinking?

>>16382956

You only allowed to kill people without consequence if they're racist.

Unironically Elder Scrolls Games. I don't imagine playing a different character than a thief.

There's the Pizza Connection/Tycoon games.

>>16382907

I remember hearing Omerta wasn't very good, that was unfortunate to hear.

>>16384980

The faggots must never have ever even watched an episode of Gunsmoke.

Uplink has you playing as a black hat hacker, a cybercriminal. Not getting caught is a major game mechanic, you can frame other hackers for your crimes (or just hack into Global Criminal Database and falsify their crime records), rob banks (completely optional and freeform) and even free fellow hackers from the custody for some cash.

>>16383192

Too bad every server is filled with powertripping fagmins.

Guild 2 Renaissance. You literally have to go to court and get sentenced before a judge.

>>16385285

Is there a greater philosophical cuck than someone that plays an elder scrolls game as a squeaky clean palicuck of justice?

>>16382797

>>16385436

This, if you wanna commit electronic theft, forge records/documents, and be apart of corporate espionage, Then there's always Uplink and the fan expansion Onlink. It's not as personal as the stealth games mentioned, but I'd say it still counts with the game's risk of the government breaking into your house and shutting your whole operation down if you get caught.

>>16386020

but thats lame.

>Kingdom Come: Deliverance

While I like this game the stealth is OP/the 'befuddled by stealth AI' is retarded.

>wander into private farm for thieving

>dog kicks off barking

>owners get up and move around in house

>shoot doggo

>crouch by gate and accidentally light my torch

>owner walks out in their skivvies right next to me

>"Who's there?"

>"It came from over here"

>aimless wander back into house

There I sat plain as day, like a pyromaniac midget and not a peep of recognition out of them. Other times I've been followed around an empty field all night by some non-guard faggot who seems to think my flower picking night was something that needed supervision.

Any good serial killer games out there?

I tried playing Skyrim where I'd go out at night and stealthily kill someone at random, but the experience felt incredibly empty. Murder has no impact in-game, no one comments on the latest slayings, the NPCs don't react to changes like that. Even if you get caught, you'll only be punished for that single murder, and you'll only get a slap on the wrist. I need a deeper experience where NPCs become afraid of walking outside at night, where news of a serial killer actually gets around.

>>16385610

>not playing as a "good guy" who steals and murders when no one is looking

>>16386652

one of the ass creed games has a jack the ripper mod.

>>16386673

dlc* whoops

>>16386652

Theres an anon on here that plays some full loot pvp game as a serial killer. He plays a cute young girl who lures in thirsty neckbeards and kills them in a ritualistic way and the server has a rp police force putting a bounty out on him.

Almost makes you want to play an mmo. Almost.

>>16386793

>and the server has a rp police force putting a bounty out on him

Bless that anon for fighting the good fight.

>>16386825

But it does make you think of a traditional old school neckbeard furiously masturbating as he afks in a public space and hears people talk about how the police can't catch him.

>>16386673

Too bad it's AssCreed. I might pirate it though.

>>16386793

Sounds fun. I did think about RP servers, but I dislike MMOs and RPing is filled with too many autists and teenagers. It would be great for a laugh, but not to take seriously.

Heard of a game called Thief Simulator. Dunno if it's any good.

>>16385393

omerta was basically trying to be a more modern version of an old DOS game gangsters: organized crime. which is still a fucking good game but a pain in the ass to run on modern hardware. But Omerta failed pretty hard because everything was so dumbed down and basic

>>16383192

>play as Detective

>HoS actually treats you like a detective

>get called to crime scenes, break-in sites and murder scenes

>actively collect, collate, duplicate and file evidence as required

>take part in arresting the suspect

>take part in criminal hearings where you present the evidence before the court

SS13 lets me play Law & Order In Space and as a result I will never, ever stop playing it

>>16382956

Also RDR. The game would be so much better if you could perform crimes in places no one would know, and evade investigators.

Bonanzo Bros. for Mega Drive were fun. But just this.

The godfather video games. You get to take over fronts owned by rival gangs and have to shake down owners to take over. You should play the 1st one but the 2nd one is fine too

>>16382956

For all of the years and time they put into making it feel realistic and immersive they managed to leave the moral and bounty system all fucked up

>Accidentally bumping someone with a horse with get you a 5$ bounty

>cops in Saint Denis will open fire on you as if you just tried to kill someone over 5 dollars

>even adjusted for inflation that's 144 dollars and the cops will open fire in a crowded city to kill you over it

>self defense in many situations will make you lose karma but murdering KKK members in the woods does nothing

>old hermit lady in the woods keeps a pack of dogs that go after you if you are anywhere near her cabin

>If you shoot them you lose huge amounts of karma points even thought they are trying to kill you

All of these could be patched out but never will be

>>16436920

too bad there is no moonman costume

>>16425763

I like it when the game either gives you striker in a box or spanws you inside coke field/mansion so the best course of action is to mow down every guard in the area for easy "unnonticed" kills on future targets.

>>16397161

You ever notice how much Assasins Creed stole from this trilogy?

>>16385240

T. Soy

>>16425763

I really want a co-op mode, and I'm not talking about the gay sniper thing. One player would be male and the other female. The female player plays the same or she could have an extra initial inventory slot, but gets access to female disguises. You could have certain combo disguises to get passed certain areas like a reporter and cameraman, newlyweds, or any opportunity where both a male and female are expected.

>>16386490

It added cool shit like weighing in what colour the shit you wore was, how much noise it made, etc. and I liked you could steal a shopkeeps whole inventory, but in the end it wasn't a steath game.

>>16397161

Pity the platforming is the only remotely fun part of these and it makes up maybe 40% of the game if you're lucky.