Good. I get no pleasure out of playing a game and doing evil acts. On my second playthrough of KOTOR I tried to play evil, got to helping the Ithorian on Taris and just couldn't keep playing. It simply wasn't fun and I felt like a horrible person after I'd played it. I don't get any cathartic value out of it, maybe its just because I am quite sensitive to things like super violence and the like.
Do you play "Good' or "Evil" when given the choice?
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i always try on my first play through to play as i would forreal
so for instance try and be charming
sleep with all the women
give people who annoy me 2 options
get out of my way or wish you did
but always try not to piss off the guy with the bigger gun...
it normaly ends up somewhere around slightly evil which isnt really a good sign
but i much prefer playing as the charming rouge then the good hero.
so for instance try and be charming
sleep with all the women
give people who annoy me 2 options
get out of my way or wish you did
but always try not to piss off the guy with the bigger gun...
it normaly ends up somewhere around slightly evil which isnt really a good sign
but i much prefer playing as the charming rouge then the good hero.
Generally I play as Neutral, and it works for me. In games like Fallout, I go with the mind set that I'm simply a mercenary.
Mass Effect 2 quickly curb stomped this for me though, and forced me to play as one or the other, much to my dislike.
Mass Effect 2 quickly curb stomped this for me though, and forced me to play as one or the other, much to my dislike.
I don't exactly like to play good. I prefer playing badass with a bit of asshole. You know, that type of Mass Effect 2 renegade, not original Mass Effect renegade (who killed everyone he could - i want to be asshole, not crazed murderer).
I usually play pretty neutral like in fallout 3 I'll Be nice to some people but if anyone messes with me i kill them.
Evil is sexy...not to mention laughably easy to play in any game with a moral choice system. For instance, why would I bother running around Fable 2's boring and repetitive good-aligned quests, when to be evil all I need to do is stand in the center of the first city and spam lightning? Why, in Fallout 3, would I run around the overworld at a snails pace to do the research I promised to do for Moira, when I can leave her store, turn around, walk back in, and straight-up lie to her?
Luckily in a lot of actual RPGs this is avoided. Evil is as hard to play as good in most of the Bioware games I play, for instance, and most games based on DnD add more depth to evil choices, and raise some moral dilemmas in the process (ie, and this is a very rudimentary example, is it okay to rob and kill people who are themselves thieves and murderers?).
Most of the time I'll choose evil when it's easier, but only because what games count as being on the up-and-up is tedious, irritating, and just plain annoying.
Luckily in a lot of actual RPGs this is avoided. Evil is as hard to play as good in most of the Bioware games I play, for instance, and most games based on DnD add more depth to evil choices, and raise some moral dilemmas in the process (ie, and this is a very rudimentary example, is it okay to rob and kill people who are themselves thieves and murderers?).
Most of the time I'll choose evil when it's easier, but only because what games count as being on the up-and-up is tedious, irritating, and just plain annoying.
It is actually a rather interesting question.. I'd assume most people to be 'good', but all the stories I've heard of people torturing sims and such suggests otherwise.
Which also makes Mass Effect and Dragon Age interesting games, as you can't *really* be evil in ME and you can't *really* be good in Dragon Age..
Which also makes Mass Effect and Dragon Age interesting games, as you can't *really* be evil in ME and you can't *really* be good in Dragon Age..
Lawful Evil (fashist). In Fallout 3 recently, I had an apithany. I was in one of those morally ambiguous situations where neither choice could really be called a good one (I was in The Pitt). Now as it didn't affect what was quickly becoming known as 'my' wasteland I thought... fuck em' and killed everybody, the slavers, the resistance, innocent bystanders. I left Ashur (head slaver) alive but shot him on the way out, just to be a dick.
It's refreshing to play a game with such an intricate and morally grey storyline like this.
Edit: I sided with the good guys in broken steel (well, they healed me) and racked up full good karma for it... well, I am now hailed as a saint. And just to combat the whole 'I just can't be evil' thing that's going around, I used to be like that. Maybe you'd enjoy games more if you just twisted your perceptions...
It's refreshing to play a game with such an intricate and morally grey storyline like this.
Edit: I sided with the good guys in broken steel (well, they healed me) and racked up full good karma for it... well, I am now hailed as a saint. And just to combat the whole 'I just can't be evil' thing that's going around, I used to be like that. Maybe you'd enjoy games more if you just twisted your perceptions...
Given the choice I always play through games as the Good guy first then once completed I return to the start and be the biggest A**ehole that I can be hehehehehe
Good or Evil? But I'm chaotic neutral!
Usually I play as good, though I guess it depends on the game as well. But sometimes the evil choice is just too amusing.
Usually I play as good, though I guess it depends on the game as well. But sometimes the evil choice is just too amusing.
Chaotic Good.
Its hard to explain, but essentially all my characters aren't good people... they are in fact very bad people acting like good people. Take Dragon Age for example, My PC is an emotionally void killer, who only refrains from killing every living thing around him, becuase he is the poster boy for the Grey Wardens, who need all the allies they can get, and as such need to have the good will of the people(this includes elves and dwarves of course) on his side.
Same goes for mass effect one and two, my commander shepard doesn't really gives two hoots about who he has to kill to get the job done, but sometimes its just easier to talk to people, and if that doesn't work then... somthing something they die.
So again its not that my characters are nice its just that as the old saying goes "you catch more flies with honey, than with vinegar". Besides most games are made in such a way that you get more of everything(exp, loot and gold)for being good, than you do for being evil.
TLDR: I'm good because it pays better
Its hard to explain, but essentially all my characters aren't good people... they are in fact very bad people acting like good people. Take Dragon Age for example, My PC is an emotionally void killer, who only refrains from killing every living thing around him, becuase he is the poster boy for the Grey Wardens, who need all the allies they can get, and as such need to have the good will of the people(this includes elves and dwarves of course) on his side.
Same goes for mass effect one and two, my commander shepard doesn't really gives two hoots about who he has to kill to get the job done, but sometimes its just easier to talk to people, and if that doesn't work then... somthing something they die.
So again its not that my characters are nice its just that as the old saying goes "you catch more flies with honey, than with vinegar". Besides most games are made in such a way that you get more of everything(exp, loot and gold)for being good, than you do for being evil.
TLDR: I'm good because it pays better