I can't do this...

[Insanum]

Morning All,

Just a quick question for you: Ever had a moment where you couldnt do a simple task in a game due to a moment of morality?

Ive just been reading an article from 2006 (it popped up as related news to an Extra Punctuation Article) about Thief[/I]. In it, it stated that if you listen to the guards, they start complaining that the people above them have all the favours, Yet they havent eaten in days.

Now if i was playing that game, I wouldnt be able to kill that guard. If I was forced to kill him to progress, It would trouble me. A similar thing happened with the airport scene in MW2 (The First Time) - I only shot one Civi, and a few cops who were shooting me back - Now i know these "People" are not real, But if you stopped to think, If it were[/I] the protaganist in that game (which is supposedly the point to videogames).

Have you had any moments where your own morality has stopped you from progressing?

Incidently, I can quite easily grasp the difference between Real Life & games, But i do tend to get quite into my characters in games.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Once I hesitated fighting a former ally in an RTS game. He had helped me out so much in prior missions, it didn't feel right destroying him... So he destroyed me. Immediately after I squashed him. Usually however, I never have real moral dilemmas in games.

Edit: I can't stop watching your avatar, it rocks!

 

[Marter]

No, games are games. I'm not going to let my own morals alter my actions in them.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

No, can't say I have. Then again I have the emotional pallet of a rock. I do, from time to time, think about what I'd do in a given situation though.

Like MW2 airport scene. What would I do? Stand behind Makarov and his men and gun THEM down. Boom, war averted. Get the Brits or Americans to extract me, and done.

 

[twaddle]

actually yes. i didn't want to move on in ff7 to disk 2 because Aerith died, but then that became a desire for revenge and i moved on purely for revenge against sephiroth

also in fps games i try to survive whole missions with out killing innocent NPC's and with out losing any of my men

 

[Druyn]

Im a little worse than you. For a while in Halo 3, I would actually go through Sierra 117, counting the marines I had with me and trying to keep them all alive. Everytime I took a head count and one was gone, I restarted a checkpoint. It was so wierd. It was like I had it in my head that they were actual people I wanted to keep alive!

COD6 didnt help either, giving people names. Im over it now, but I still sometimes look at the names and try to keep as many alive as possible. So at least you arent alone.

In RPGS, I dont give a fuck. Bring em on. Ill kill innocents like there is no fucking tomorrow.

Except in Bioware RPGs. Their people seem too... human. I cant bring myself to go evil in any Bioware game, I have to go good.

 

[Tuddle]

Morning All,

Just a quick question for you: Ever had a moment where you couldnt do a simple task in a game?

In Heavy Rain changing a baby's diaper.

 

[wasalp]

doing renegade stuff in mass effect 2 was usually hard-ish

 

[JRCB]

Yes, I have. I didn't kill a single civilian in that MW2 mission, and even stayed beside one as he died. I did shoot at the cops, because they were shooting at me.

 

[ethaninja]

Once. Not sure why but I had a really difficuly time choosing between the human and the blue chick from Mass Effect. I ended up tossing a coin.

 

[Flying-Emu]

Morning All,

Just a quick question for you: Ever had a moment where you couldnt do a simple task in a game?

Ive just been reading an article from 2006 (it popped up as related news to an Extra Punctuation Article) about Thief[/I]. In it, it stated that if you listen to the guards, they start complaining that the people above them have all the favours, Yet they havent eaten in days.

Now if i was playing that game, I wouldnt be able to kill that guard.

If you're playing on anything but candy-ass modes, killing anyone is an automatic failure in a mission.

 

[NeutralDrow]

My morality has certainly kept me from pursuing certain paths out of curiosity, yes (no matter what, I don't think I could ever take the "evil" path in Planescape Torment, for example).

Sometimes my sentimentality gets in the way, too. The very first choice in Kana: Little Sister is to either look for Kana (she's lost in the woods) or wait. I don't know what happens if you wait, and I never will, because I can't make myself do it. There's a few things like that in the game. I can do things like trick her into discovering porn for my own amusement, but being deliberately mean to her is beyond me.

And there's a moment in Fate/Stay Night (near the end of the Heaven's Feel route) where it took me several minutes to progress, because I couldn't make a certain choice. I knew what the right answer was, I knew that there was no way I could avoid it, but it involved someone I'd grown incredibly attached to during the game.

For perspective...I've heard you have to <color=white>shoot The Boss in Metal Gear Solid 3. It's that kind of situation...I'm not sure I'd be able to do it in MGS3 at all.

 

[TheTaco007]

I was stuck on Portal for the longest time because I REFUSED to incinerate the companion cube.
*sniff*

 

[Insanum]

Im a little worse than you. For a while in Halo 3, I would actually go through Sierra 117, counting the marines I had with me and trying to keep them all alive. Everytime I took a head count and one was gone, I restarted a checkpoint. It was so wierd. It was like I had it in my head that they were actual people I wanted to keep alive!

Unfortunately, because ive killed so many marines in H1 due to their love of diving infront of my moving warthogs that i wont Kill the marines, But im not too fussed about them. Idiots.

COD6 didnt help either, giving people names. Im over it now, but I still sometimes look at the names and try to keep as many alive as possible. So at least you arent alone.

Same, I like to try & keep a couple of people alive.

Edit: I can't stop watching your avatar, it rocks!

Why Thankyee!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

The final choice in The Pitt, which I will not spoil for anyone who hasn't played it.

Suffice to say it's a lose-lose situation.

 

[masher]

Ah yeah. I have a moral voice egging me in the back of my head sometimes. MWII was a bit much, and with that, I agree.

 

[AWDMANOUT]

I was almost going to scream "THE SPIKE AND BOX PUZZLE FROM GOD OF WAR!! IT TOOK ME 69000000000000000000000 TRIES!!!!" But then I realized you meant I couldn't *morally* do it.

No.

I'm a different person in video games.

 

[jeirhart]

Had this problem a couple times in Fallout 3, as I personally have qualms against killing female characters (and from the looks of it, would therefore hate Mass Effect due entire race of "females"). I end up killing them anyway but in any situation where I can let someone go free, I usually do.

However I have also been known to save game, go on a killing spree in Megaton and wipe out the population before nuking it into a crater. So take from that what you will.