0:15 Number 10 - Dragon's Dogma II 1:56 Number 9 - Sons Of The Forest 3:30 Number 8 - Crackdown 4:53 Number 7 - Control 6:02 Number 6 - ELEX II 7:22 Number 5 - Infamous 8:39 Number 4 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 10:07 Number 3 - Hogwarts Legacy 11:22 Number 2 - Path of Exile 12:31 Number 1 - Earth Defense Force (Series)

Oh man, Shadow of Mordor, you start on taking a few isolated Uruks, but by the time you reach the end you're controlling half of them, attacking fortress, taking on an entire army on your own.

In Ghost of Tsushima once you fully upgrade the Sakai Clan armour and have a certain set of charms, you pretty much turn into a monster.

Where's my boy Alex Mercer from Prototype?

Saints Row 4 where you can become a nuclear warhead

It is a damn shame there isn't an Infamous 1 and 2 remastered collection. I'd pay full price for that. Those being locked on old hardware is a crime.

Cyberpunk 2077 should have been on this list, particularly the stealth Netrunner build, it's even more broken than Stealth Archer in Skyrim.

Uhh where the hell is fable??

Control's Ashtray Maze was the perfect combo of power fantasy and power ballad heavy metal

Fun fact about infamous: If you're in an area without power, find a street light, a bench, a manhole cover, anything made of metal, and fire the weak shock at it a half dozen times or so to conduct electricity through it, then absorb it. You always get back more than you put in, and it makes it so you don't need charging stations or power grids. Instant power on the go, and it's pretty fast and easy too.

I just finished Immortals Fenyx Rising, and that deserves an honorable mention. Even though the enemies get stronger as you do, they never quite close the gap by the end of the game. After youve unlocked everything youre basically unstoppable

I genuinely had so much fun playing control, I’ve always wanted a game where I had telekinesis

Kingdom Come Deliverance. You can’t even beat up the town drunk in the prologue, and by the end you could take on an entire army solo.

Prototype 1 made me feel like a badass by the end of the game. The amount of power you have by then, running up walls, jumping at a helicopter and just generally being a ridiculously agile/fast walking tank against everything just feels glorious.

Star Wars Force Unleashed I & II, you eventually become a Force wielding GOD

Shout out to Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War. By the time you've upgraded all your skills you can just shadow strike your way through so many enemies like they are not even there.

When I hear "stupidly powerful" all I can think of is vanilla Skyrim with all it's glitches you can exploit

Prototype 2 not being in this list is a crime

Fable 1/The Lost Chapters/Anniversary. You can grind to the point that endgame bosses take seconds, you could count the hits you land on one hand, (not because they dodge, but because you're so OP you don't need to hit them that often,) and it gets to the point that nothing can really harm you.

I came here knowing Skyrim will be there.

How does Prototype 2 and the lesser known game Chorus not even get a mention? You become stupidly overpowered in that game. This topic definitely deserves a pt 2

In Ghost Of Tsushima, towards the end of the game after having found the legendary techniques/weapons/armor and having unlocked a large part of the skill tree I felt like I could defeat an entire army of Mongols alone and come out unscathed

In case anyone manages to see this post and love the Earth Defense Force games as well, EDF 6 has a page on steam for international users with a TBD release date. It's coming someday.

The developers of control should make a Doctor Strange game

Saints Row IV needs to be included in the PART 2 of this list!

Every time I've become stupidity powerful it hasn't ended well for me.

Always happy to see Control get a mention. The maze level is amazing (ha!). That part really felt like taking the fight to the enemy. "Im not stuck in here with them. they're stuck in here with me" kinda thing. 10/10 game

I remember playing Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen and reaching level 200, the sorcerer maelstrom is crazy. But no matter how powerful I get, I still die falling off the edge 🤣

What about shadow of Mordor, you’re one mf badass by the games end

The sentence " I am not a huge fan of Piranha Byte Games" just broke my heart. Can't believe my favorite Game Bird would do me like this. That said PB had its peak a while ago.... Gothic 2 is the best Game I have ever played to this day.

4:28 I loved the fact that the upgrades came visibly as well in this game

I feel like Saints Row series should be up here too. Especially 4. Infinite ammo, stamina, health, fly forever, spam black holes, etc.

Borderlands. All of Borderlands. The entire franchise, excluding Tales, and there is no such thing as a New Tales From The Borderlands.

Alex Mercer from Prototype makes you feel like you can take on Marvel & DC, walk on Mars and still have time for your afternoon tea

In Vampire Survivors you Start off weak then eventually become stupidly powerful

Another strong example for me would be Vampire Survivors. You start of with a simple whip, being chased around my the starting enemies and towards end game you can destroy all hordes of enemies when they barely make it on screen. Such a great game to play though the first time, going from strength to strength.

I think the best part about your Path of Exile footage is that the "after" footage you use is from literally the next zone after the first town in the game (which you reach immediately after the area where you're just smacking enemies with a stick), comparing that with endgame maps (akin to Diablo rifts) is even more of an insane power jump

Why did you put up video of Morrowind while talking about Oblivion?

Warframe. Week 1 of playing you're briskly jogging through missions & barely understand what your character's powers actually do. After a month, you're bullet jumping while creating localized black holes, summoning The Kraken, casting "meteor" every 3 seconds or electrocuting every enemy in range... And you're *still* not at full power! It's known as a "power fantasy" game, and it definitely lives up to that hype.

Great list. Saints Row IV also comes to mind.

Surprised to see Earth Defense Force on top of the list. Even at end game high level enemies can still smoke a player in a few seconds. It can actually get very tactical With the popularity of Helldiver 2, hope more people will find out about EDF

To me, Control is really a good pick, my favorite. Then, I'll choose Asterigos. You start already incredibly strong, wondering how you can be more powerful... But, trust me, you can !

Prototype is also worth mentioning, you start weak, afraid of bullets, preferring stealth and speed even with simple soldiers, but later you are a menace in armor destroying tank after tank, hijacking helicopters, slicing hordes of enemies

Most Metroidvanias would fit onto this list as a single entry

I'm pretty sure gameranx has an affinity to the old Crackdown game. It's fun to be reminded of it. It was one of the first games I had on my Xbox and it was so cool.

I always felt like saints row 4 was like this. When you start out, you will possibly get beaten by just a few enemies, if you are not careful. And then you eventually are able to annihilate anything that moves.

Cyberpunk 2077 and Kingdoms of Amalur have to be on here. You are a demigod by the end-game.

I gotta throw TotK. Every Zelda game brings you from practically useless to outright unstoppable, but in TotK, everything seems to one-shot you at first. By the end, you're hunting down Gloom hands just to get your hands on Phantom Ganon's bow.

EDF one of the most goofy game I know but I Love IT and the absurd weapon you get. EDF!!! EDF!!!

i love how this is a video about how you become stupidly powerful, but then right at the end of some of the segments you get shown the player character dying. makes it feel especially overpowered.

I would add Warframe to this list. At the start of the game 1 thousand is a big number. At the end you can make numbers so big that they cause an ingeger overflow and go into the negative.

I love how in Immortals Pheonix Rising, you can get to a point where you can instantly stun lock anything you come across. It doesn't matter how much stamina it took, the sword will instantly gain it back while hitting the stunned enemy like a piñata.

Infamous needs remasters and a reboot

Great list 👍 But I would like to throw my hat in the ring for Star Wars The Force Unleashed 😎 It is comically hilarious and meme worthy how strong you become 😆

Saints Row 3 and 4 have been mentioned already but lemme repeat them. In both its possible to be almost completely invincible (vulnerable only to fire in SR3 - but SR4 has a few other things to wear you down) and have limitless ammunition. At that point, the routine encounters tend to be most fun when you go full melee with the baseball bat. Plus in SR4 you get "super powers" which can be insanely powerful.

Hello, Falcon!!

I think "universal paperclips" is the game I have played with the largest difference from starting the game to completing the game. That game is insane😊

I always think of the starting levels of Batman: Arkham Asylum, when I think of "the right way" of being overpowered. Once you've figured out the fighting mechanics (and before the gangs have guns), you just waltz through a dozen of enemy goons. It's not easy, per se, but it feels right. "I am Batman!", and I am way too quick for 12 enemies, engaging.

Saints Row 2-4, especially 4. You're pretty much a god by the end of it. I mean, you rule over the universe at the end, and Gat is the new Satan. So I would say this deserves a spot on the list.

Crossing my fingers that Deathloop made the cut! So satisfying once you get access to residium after struggling the first few hours

I would add Noita to the pile to consider. You're pretty much programming your own magic spells. At first you only get these dinky little wands with bubbles and blast of wind, but you can quickly evolve into hyper efficient machine guns or unlimited nukes.

In Kingdom Come Deliverance, you start out as a guy who can barely even swing a sword. By the time you reach level 20, you should be fully geared with all sorts of perks. I mow people down at level 20. A funny story was I beat a high level bandit at level 3 or 4 and it took forever and the bandit says almost at the end, "To be beaten by the likes of you!" so, the game developers oven put in interesting dialogue when you actually do something not really intended to be done. I have only heard that comment once in the thousands of hours I have put in.

I don’t know if defense works the same way in Dragon’s Dogma 2 as in the original, but it’s especially true in 1 because of how it works. Defense is a numerical modifier, not a percentage or anything. This means that if your attack is too low, you can effectively deal 0 damage per hit to stronger monsters. It’s not that they have a lot of HP, you just have a huge threshold to overcome. Once you level and get stronger weapons, you deal exponentially more amounts of damage. The final boss of the Dark Arisen expansion which always takes me forever the first time, because I’m under leveled or poorly equipped ends up taking barely seconds.

I don’t understand how Prototype never makes it onto lists like these. Consuming every enemy and any NPCs, destroying tanks and helicopters with your bare hands, the insanely awesome list of powers you can unlock… There has never been a game that made me feel so unstoppable by the end.

You missed Saint's Row 4. 3 was insane, but 4 was just... stupid powerful.

Games with sliders or accessibility options that let you control every facet of a game's difficulty are basically my favorite thing in modern gaming. "Control", for instance, has a thing in the accessibility options where you can just turn on god mode and one hit kills. which is awesome in and of itself, but they go the extra mile by letting you still collect achievements. That's nice of them, they didn't have to do that and i wish i saw that in more games...lookin at you from software.

I know this won't likely be a popular mention, but Forespoken. You start off essentially able to throw rocks at enemies and run away just faster than you run your mouth, but you quickly gain 4 entire ability trees of magic that you can rapidly swap between, making you one of the most insanely mobile battle mages in almost any game in years. Many can take exception to the story and dialogue, some to the exploration, but when you have an army of repeatedly-spawning enemies surrounding you for huge sections of the map, it's incredibly satisfying being able to rain destruction down on entire armies while zipping around the battlefield.

Correction: There's one, HUGE reason not to use Warfarer, and that's Meister Skills. Meister Skills are the most broken things in the game and the Warfarer can't equip any of them. I'm talking about one-shotting every boss in the game and having ultra instinct-that level of broken. Wayfarer doesn't get that, and thus isn't worth it imo. It's fun, but not as fun as having ultra instinct, summoning meteros and tornados to one-shot even lesser dragons and melting their corpse so they respawn quicker, summoning heavenly magic arrows to one-shot every boss and every enemy within sight at once, infinite stamina + haste, and so on. Also, warfarer is significantly weaker, stat-wise, than other classes. And it's very noticeable.

Cyberpunk should also be here, with some builds you become unstoppable with very insane one shots and quickhacks

The ability to stop time in Dishonored makes you stupidly powerful to the point where you have to be careful not to abuse it. Also I think Morrowind was more generous than Skyrim in terms of level scaling, like the early game is harder but by the end you become a killing machine, while Skyrim tries to keep things a bit challenging for you.

Quantum Break and the first Prototype were also games that were night and day from the start, compared to the end of the game. God mode is activated and it’s awesome

Virginia in sons of the forest takes the cake. While the player is "powerful" with a shotgun and golden armor, she annihilates everything wielding several firearms simultaneously. All while wearing that adorable dress and giving the player dead animals. Love her

Warframe: You start out with some pretty cool powers, mainly the movement system that makes you feel pretty badass (once you figure it out), but enemies can still deck you. A thousand hours later (yes, a thousand), when you upgraded your hard-hitting mods and figured out a bunch of builds, you're essentially nuking lvl 100 and above enemies while casually discussing the weather with your teammates.

I think Prototypes 1 and 2 should be mentioned. The MCs of those two games are some kind of shapeshifting bioweapons or humanoid version of The Thing and gameplay is similar to Infamous. The best part of the Prototype games is that players can consume NPCs, shapeshift into them, and infiltrate the enemy bases. Just like the creature from 'The Thing' movies.

Prototype 1 & 2, you missed that game. XD

what about Saints Row 4? You become way more powerful than most of the games on this list

Rage 2 is the most unstoppable badass I’ve felt. Thing is, you have to master the tools, and it ain’t easy. Make a video about games that give you the means of becoming OP, but it takes mastering the game to do it. As for Rage 2, playing it on normal is recommended, as by the end of the game, you’ll feel awesome. But crank it up to Nightmare (an iD software game), and if you can get into a flow state, even those enemies will be laid low, truly an accomplishment.

I dare say Arkham Knight could be an honorable mention. You start of good but by the end of the game, you're Batman at his apex of existence.

I was really hoping for one of the prototype games :(

The prototype games: "👀"

5:17 that fight in Control is TOUGH, i died so many times to that freaking optional boss you get to fight after finishing the game, everytime you die you lose about 10% of currency and i lost about 90% of what i had fighting Tomassi, from more than 200k to about 17k, it was a nightmare

Control power scaling be like Early game: "Obtain telekinesis power strong enough to lift and throw a fire extinguisher" Late game: "Lift THREE vehicles at the same time and throw them"

You miss Assassins Creed Odyssey where you one shot everything and deal MILLIONS of damage in a single hit

Final Fantasy 15 should get a mention. Noctus at level 120 is a demon. 😮

BulletWitch. You start out as a weak witch with a basic rifle, defensive wall spell, and a rose spell that impales enemies. By the end of it, you are mowing down enemies with a Gatling gun, sending enemies flying or impaling groups of enemies, and calling down lightning, tornados, and meteor showers on a semiregular basis. Only downside is that you have to buy DLC to use the great spells in earlier levels than they're typically unlocked in. Also, you missed Prototype. You start as a basic guy with limited powers that makes him barely stronger than a normal human in standard-issue body armor and end up as a one-man biohazard/natural disaster combo that can tank nukes. Also, you can dragon kick a helicopter, which is inherently cool.

Completing the sphere grid in FFX and getting every Aeon makes you OP

In Gothic I think it depends on what class are you playing. I played as a mage only once because it was too easy.

_Kenshi_ - you start out as a nobody and by the end of the game, you're still a nobody. Then you learn how to go into the game files and beef your guy up to 99999999999 stats and you go back and wreck everyone who bullied you before.

man, Control is such a beautiful and fun game, I love what Remedy has been cooking, and I can't wait to see some stuff related to Control 2

Now of only there was a stupidly optimized for Dragon's Dogma 2's graphical performance on PC. I'd might enjoy the end game a bit more when it's not running below 30fps

So, no one remembers Prototype?

So basically every souls game?

Thank you for the Infamous mention. I feel like it gets overlooked for alot of lists😅

Castlevania SOTN: eventually the 'Walk Armor" will be the strongest armor, where any enemy will only cause 1 point of damage, except for the strong knights near the clock in the centre of the map and maybe the yellow medusas; and for the attack you have the 'Crissaegrim" and the 'Duplicator' to use any spell you like. Kingdoms of Amalur: the 'Meteor' spell takes a while to unlock, but when you have it, you can one shot pretty much anything. Ratchet and Clank: maybe 'Deadlocked' could make it in this list. After a while you will be replaying the stages just to upgrade your weapons.

In Cyberpunk 2077 you become stupidly op

Shadow of Mordor. At the beginning it's a bit of a struggle to take on a couple of orcs. By the end of the game, you're literally decimating armies.

Sifu. When you start out, battling multiple enemies is really, really difficult. Then you figure out how to move around, use the environment, pick up weapons and objects. With practice, you can just calmly walk up to them empty handed and KO them as they come. And you didn't even level up or anything, you just got really good at playing the game.

Dragon's dogma 2 fights become mundane not because of wayfarer, but around lv. 40-45 and you have a sorc in the group. Specially if you have meteor and/or maelstrom, those skills 1-3 shot most large mobs and makes the fights trivial. Thankfully, there's mods out there that actually does the devs job where they improve the difficulty scaling and balances the skills and vocations. Among other things that Capcom failed to do.

All the Soulsborne games could be on this list. Also Cyberpunk 2077, you literally become sought out and feared within the world once you cross a certain threshold

When I saw the title all I could think of was Crackdown and how satisfying the godlike progression was lol. So glad it made the list