Yeah Cyberpunk really made me feel for the guards. Remember one time a guy was shown chilling on a railing, kinda shirking from his post but he was on the phone like calling his kid. Like I was about to put a knife thru that phone and his head, and it just made me feel like such a pos. Hell even the name of a enemy class, whenever I see “recruit” for any of the gangs I go non lethal just cuz they’re probably kids too dumb or poor to be elsewhere.

The more shards you read the more you just don’t want to kill anyone besides the scummiest, like you said Maelstrom and Scavs mainly.

Elden Ring. At first it feels like your just defending yourself, but as you go on and consume more lore and just get the bigger picture, it really feels like the Tarnished are a scourge on this land. Dozens of examples, but by the end of a boss fight that had “Ancestral” in the title I dint want to play for a while, if you played dark souls 1 it kinda feels like fighting Siff.