Poll: Do you find it Difficult to play the Bad Guy?

[TheLefty]

This pertains mostly to Fallout 3, Red Dead Redemption and game like that, where you can choose to play good or bad.

I don't mean morally (mostly) but physically difficult. Even if I try, I end up just shifting to good. Unless I'm playing the games wrong, for the most part the only ways to be evil is to randomly kill people, and I always try to play the suave and smooth evil doer (I can't think of any examples at the moment, think James Bond's evil twin if there was one)as opposed to the bloody randomly killing kind. And, yes, I blew up Megaton (once).

But especially in Red Dead, even when I went through a random killing faze, most of the story quests give you +Honor anyway, I just find it difficult.

So I'm wondering if anyone else holds this same evil ineptitude?

(For option two I thought about putting babies instead of human liver...but thought that was just a bit too evil)

 

[Swarley]

Not even slightly. The villain has always been my favorite part of... well anything really.

 

[Omikron009]

I usually play as a bad character first, then as a good character on my second playthrough. I used to find it incredibly easy to make every bad choice, but now my bad characters tend to be a bit of a good/bad mix, but still mostly bad.

 

[jultub]

I'm having trouble playing the bad guy for moral reasons, I just generally get a kick downwards when I'm being bad. But I also generally like being able to play on the bad side once in a while, to stop caring simply. Sometimes I can detach myself from reality and morals enough to do it, sometimes I'm just a too nice person to do it.

 

[enzilewulf]

I like being the Neutral guy in moral games like fable. Yet in multiplayer online? Hell I could care less.

 

[Irridium]

First time I play through a game I do what I would actually do in the situation (which is usually the "good" side). Second playthrough is evil, and it is awesome.

I'd say it is easier to be evil than being good in Fallout 3 since it helps me deal with that poor excuse for the story.

 

[Rarhnor]

Yes. I do in fact find it hard. However, whenever I see some unjust or slightly evil, I become blood-hungry and manic for revenge on behalf of the victim, to a degree that is best described: Evil.

So, I balance my attributes quite well.

 

[magicmonkeybars]

It's only ever hard if the "evil" choice is lame or petty.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[Disaster Button]

If its something like in Mass Effect 1 where you had to help the girl overcome her trauma at the fact she was abducted as a child and watched her parents dissolve in front of her then yeah, I'd find it difficult. But only in situations like that, any other time I eat children smothered in sweet tears of nuns.

 

[Krantos]

I find it difficult when the only "evil" options are so cartoony or Contrived that I ruins the experience.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Playing the bad guy's never been that hard for me. It usually makes the game itself a little easier and less restricting when you can kill everything.

 

[BOXN]

Sometimes when I play evil, it usually gives me rewards faster, but not the greatest items i could get. I did find a Guide on Fallout 3 how to make the douchebaggiest (?) choices, like getting bribed to not tell that barkeep in Megaton where his ex-prostitute is, then kill her and steal the rest of her stuff. Same with the Replicating Man quest. You make it so The robot gives you a really good weapon for helping him, then tell the scientist who he really is.

 

[TheLefty]

First time I play through a game I do what I would actually do in the situation (which is usually the "good" side). Second playthrough is evil, and it is awesome.

I'd say it is easier to be evil than being good in Fallout 3 since it helps me deal with that poor excuse for the story.

That's how I usually play a game too. I'm a good person though, so it ends up being good usually.

Yes. I do in fact find it hard. However, whenever I see some unjust or slightly evil, I become blood-hungry and manic for revenge on behalf of the victim, to a degree that is best described: Evil.

So, I balance my attributes quite well.

That also what I do a lot. I tend to massacre Brotherhood Outcast patrols for calling me stupid, when I have a 7 intelligence stat.

 

[Harkonnen64]

First time I play through a game I do what I would actually do in the situation (which is usually the "good" side). Second playthrough is evil, and it is awesome.

I'd say it is easier to be evil than being good in Fallout 3 since it helps me deal with that poor excuse for the story.

The bad thing about open-world RPGs, they give you the ability to leave the story in the side of a ditch to die...

 

[GrymZero]

One of my favorite games is Overlord. SO yeah...I love playing evil.

 

[Woodsey]

Yeah.

I can't play through KotOR, Dragon Age or ME as a dick - or even Oblivion, a game with no moral repercussions.

Red Dead just makes me angry; Marston's supposed to be a nice guy (now), afraid of no one, unwilling to put up with bullshit, and respectful of woman.

So why in Mexico - after he's been strung along for the 5th time by either of those arse hole rebel/military leaders - is he happy to stand by and watch a bunch of women get raped and then get told he needs to be a bit more patient before they get Escuela for him?

 

[Irridium]

First time I play through a game I do what I would actually do in the situation (which is usually the "good" side). Second playthrough is evil, and it is awesome.

I'd say it is easier to be evil than being good in Fallout 3 since it helps me deal with that poor excuse for the story.

The bad thing about open-world RPGs, they give you the ability to leave the story in the side of a ditch to die...

Yes, but if the story is like Fallout 3's, then its not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[no oneder]

I like to be an asshole in multiplayer games. Like blocking the way through doors in MW2 or throwing smoke grenades.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

I don't usually.

Spoiler: But at the part in fallout 3 where...

...you reunite with your dad, I thought about how difficult it would be hearing Liam Neeson be disappointed in me so I used the fail safe

But I usually try to get money and that usually makes me evil.