7 Ways to Succeed by Being a Total Bastard

Draining everyone's blood! Killing a defenseless dragon! Charging people to use your bathroom! Sometimes the best way to become more powerful in a videogame is to be a total and utter bastard, stabbing people in the back, sometimes literally, to get ahead in your electronic entertainment of choice. Don’t believe us? Here are seven times when being a total bastard gave you a significant leg up on the competition. Enjoy, and subscribe for a video like this every Thursday!

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[athena]

I figured the Roller Coaster Tycoon one would be the famous "build a coaster that hucks them straight into your rival's park, thereby tanking the rival's rating because *technically* they died in his park, not yours" version of financially motivated bastardry

[Xuvier]

“It’s like fire festival but it makes money.” LMAO that killed me.

[butter_scotch]

The only thing this video has taught me is to stay away from Jane when she eventually becomes a Vampire. Or when she starts running a theme park apparently.

[A.Fort.]

I quite liked how Vampyr explicitly equates the vampire's desire for blood with the player's desire for XP, making feeding on NPCs mechanically desirable in a way that renders the vampire's hunger emotionally accessible to the presumably non-vampire player.

[riksweeney]

"Nope, my mistake, that looked agonising." I just love Andy's dry delivery of this line.

[victoriousf.i.g.]

I wouldn't necessarily call letting Olgierd die a bastard move. He is, after all, the leader of a group of murderous bandits. He stole the house he lives in, sacrificed his own brother, trapped his beloved in an alternate dimension, and turned a prince into a toad monster. Saving his soul might be something he would have wanted to consider before doing all that villainy.

[andymcp]

That Bioshock ending might not be all good..

apparently laying sick and dying after a long life surrounded by your grateful family also dramatically increases the odds of some scrub tarnished hacking at your feet for half an hour for some runes

[Kissma]

Funfact: The voice actor of Jonathan in Vampyr Anthony Howell is also voicing Margit, one of the first bosses in Elden Ring! :D And there is a fun interview with him about the games on the youtube channel Dan Allen Gaming, for everyone interested!

[jimbo]

Any game with a morality system deserves a 'be a complete bastard run'

[antimon]

You should make a list about being a bastard biting you in the arse in the end: like in Mass Effect 2 where if you're a total jerk to your squadmates, you can lock yourself from finishing the game, or Jedi Academy where if you go full Dark Side, you have to fight both the Jedi and the Sith on the final level. Or in Oblivion, where being a vampire just absolutely sucks

[ZRS]

You can abuse the mace quest because that man has to be killed by the mace. It's a great way to train destruction on one hand and healing on the other. I feel you really make the theme of the mission.

[kes-d]

For the dragon in Elden Ring, use a bleed weapon. Bleed damage deals a set proportion of the total healthbar, when I did it every bleed status inflicted dealt ~13000 damage.

[nickbender]

If it didn't require being level 15 to start it, I would have expected Mephala's quest in Oblivion to be on this list. That is possibly the most inhumane quest I've found in an Elder Scrolls game. Mephala wants you to kill the heads of each clan in a 2-clan town that is getting along peacefully. All this so the town will turn on itself and everyone will beat each other to death.

[MetalheadAndy]

Jane's park idea was bad enough but the daily mascot drownings made me crack up, so bastardly evil

[blobfishking]

10:35 The only Daedric quest that isn't bastardly is Meridia who tasks who with clearing out a tomb a mage is using to revive the dead. She seems to be the one who tasks good deeds

[dastvan]

Should I mention Infamous 2’s evil ending where you murder your best friend, decimate humanity with a deadly plague and become the evil you were supposed to stop in the first place? Granted everyone who isn’t dead gets cool powers so there is some silver lining here.

[MagTheMercenary]

This title sounds exactly like something I would say to my colleagues at work tbh 😆

[damienedmiston]

I ducking love Vampyr. I have played it a million times. My first play through, I did it without killing any of the NPCs and I got so attached to some of their stories. In the next play throughs, killing those NPCs is so sad. You hear their final thoughts, and can visit their graves. The related NPCs are also effected. Like if the son of someone dies, the father goes into grieving then he goes missing. It's so sad at times.

[derpgoldfish]

I was really expecting a fallout game, especially with nuking a whole town to get ahead 🤣

[phoebehamilton]

4:45 you could also use a weapon with bleed, since hemorrhage damage is based on a percentage of the enemy’s total health.

Also killing Greyoll not only gives a ton of runes but is actually necessary for the platinum trophy, since she unlocks one of the legendary incantations upon her death