Poll: Have you ever experienced guilt in a game?

[bluebrino]

If any game has a moral choice system and I go evil just because I've done the good playthrough like a hundred times, I feel bad. No matter what. I just can't stand being an asshole. Call me a pussy but I just don't like it.

In Jacob's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2, when the girl is talking to you and you're given the paragon option of throwing her out of the way of an incoming bullet, I just blanked and completely missed the cue. She took a bullet to the head, and for absolutely no reason. I felt really bad, so I loaded up the previous save and made sure to save her this time.

You, my friend, have the best avatar I've seen on the Escapist(in my opinion). Sorry if I'm getting off topic and that this may not be the right place to do it, but I just remember seeing that in the show and thinking how amazing it was! And no everyone else, this is not an invitation to tell me about better profile pics or avatars. Especially if it's yours.

 

[TheDoctor455]

MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING!!!!!

In Jade Empire, I had set my character up to be a "god-killer", and to that end I killed both the fox-goddess and that demon-toad "mother" thing. But as I progressed further in the game, I did take the opportunity to free Death's Hand only to shackle him to my will again. When both Silk Fox and Dawn Star objected to this course of action... I was shocked to find that the dialogue had presented me with the option to shackle, Silk Fox... who was my character's love interest at the time, and Dawn Star... who as you may know, is set up as your best childhood friend, who has supported your character fully until this point.

I paused for several minutes, thinking about this decision... and then... finally... I did what my character would've done... I shackled my character's girlfriend and childhood buddy to my character's will.

I didn't enjoy it... it conflicted with both my own morals and my character's... but... my character was able to justify it by telling himself that it was only temporary, and once the Water Dragon and Master Li were dead, I would release them all (at least that's what I imagined my character would've done after the credits rolled).


I still feel guilty about that.

 

[TheRealGoochman]

I hate when I have to kill video game hotties, or have a girl die in the game........also I usually play on the good side, so when I try out the evil side I always feel a wee bit guilty for letting the innocent peeps get killed and such

 

[cricket chirps]

1) Nope.
2 For The Evulz
3) I didn't
4) Yes. All it was was killing a few million New Yorkers in Prototype.

hahaha! great example of a game where there was NO guilt what-so-ever

 

[cricket chirps]

Fallout 3 (Spoilers)




1)Surprisingly not blowing up Megaton!(didn't really feel all that bad about it because I barely talked to anyone there on my first play through) Anyway, burning Harold (a man who as grown a tree grown into him) would be the act that made me feel quite terrible about myself.
2)He wanted to die and when I went into the caves and encountered my first group of Mirelurk Hunters, I decided to take the easy way out. He wouldn't mind too much right.......?
3)WRONG!!!!!!!!! Horribly, painfully, traumatizingly, wrong! I knew he was afraid of fire but I just didn't really think of it as a big deal. His screams and cries of excruciating pain will probably haunt me for the rest of my life. You'd have to have burned him too to understand just how awful that scream was.
4)Not if it was the same situation. I would need a lot more than just an easy way to finish the quest. If it was for some incredible unique weapon, I would probably do it.

OH MY GOD. i had FORGOTTEN about that moment. i did the same thing and almost cried hearing that. no joke after going through every dialogue sequence with him and i think the kid who talked to him, i reaaaaaaaaaaally felt horrible about having to kill him. let alone that i didnt even think of "not burning him" and just did it as if it ment nothing. From that moment on i never went back there and ive never even gone there again on any other profile.

 

[Proctorninja]

Fallout 3 (Spoilers)




1)Surprisingly not blowing up Megaton!(didn't really feel all that bad about it because I barely talked to anyone there on my first play through) Anyway, burning Harold (a man who as grown a tree grown into him) would be the act that made me feel quite terrible about myself.
2)He wanted to die and when I went into the caves and encountered my first group of Mirelurk Hunters, I decided to take the easy way out. He wouldn't mind too much right.......?
3)WRONG!!!!!!!!! Horribly, painfully, traumatizingly, wrong! I knew he was afraid of fire but I just didn't really think of it as a big deal. His screams and cries of excruciating pain will probably haunt me for the rest of my life. You'd have to have burned him too to understand just how awful that scream was.
4)Not if it was the same situation. I would need a lot more than just an easy way to finish the quest. If it was for some incredible unique weapon, I would probably do it.

OH MY GOD. i had FORGOTTEN about that moment. i did the same thing and almost cried hearing that. no joke after going through every dialogue sequence with him and i think the kid who talked to him, i reaaaaaaaaaaally felt horrible about having to kill him. let alone that i didnt even think of "not burning him" and just did it as if it ment nothing. From that moment on i never went back there and ive never even gone there again on any other profile.

after reading this i am really happy i decided to help him grow faster, horay for thinking of the greater good

 

[Thaius]

If any game has a moral choice system and I go evil just because I've done the good playthrough like a hundred times, I feel bad. No matter what. I just can't stand being an asshole. Call me a pussy but I just don't like it.

In Jacob's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2, when the girl is talking to you and you're given the paragon option of throwing her out of the way of an incoming bullet, I just blanked and completely missed the cue. She took a bullet to the head, and for absolutely no reason. I felt really bad, so I loaded up the previous save and made sure to save her this time.

You, my friend, have the best avatar I've seen on the Escapist(in my opinion). Sorry if I'm getting off topic and that this may not be the right place to do it, but I just remember seeing that in the show and thinking how amazing it was! And no everyone else, this is not an invitation to tell me about better profile pics or avatars. Especially if it's yours.

Heh, thanks! I actually just changed it last night: it was the moose from Invader Zim before this. Then I decided I wanted a moving Avatar, so... win. Besides, Avatar: The Last Airbender being my favorite show and the movie coming out soon, I kind of had to.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

let me ask you a question

have you ever played a bioware game??!?!

then hell fucking yes i have

otherwise, there are some games where they can't get any kind of rise of emotion out of me, in oblivion i come in sword a swingin at every mofucker who dare thinks can challenge me!

 

[likalaruku]

Like....stealing from NPCs who just paid you after doing a quest, or killing them just to stick them in a door to exicute a hilarious glitch that will make them dance?

 

[Ze_Sapper]

let me ask you a question

have you ever played a bioware game??!?!

then hell fucking yes i have

otherwise, there are some games where they can't get any kind of rise of emotion out of me, in oblivion i come in sword a swingin at every mofucker who dare thinks can challenge me!

I agree completly. Bioware always gets a hold of my emotions with their RPGs, especially Dragon Age.

 

[Billion Backs]

I try to have control over all my emotions.

I might have felt some regret doing some bad things to certain people online in my early teens, but then I remembered that I didn't care anyways.

So no, no real guilt. Well, I guess I did experience some regret and anger at certain games - mostly RPGs. Like, in KOTOR2, I LOVED Traya and her philosophy, so her turning into a bad guy (and this is hardly a fucking spoiler, the game was out for how long now? 7 years?) in the end pissed me off. I'd rather kill off everyone else and have her as the mentor, the way she killed the close-minded jedi masters was awesome.

Oh, and the rage thing, I'm generally unsatisfied with most moral choices in games like KOTOR and KOTOR2. Both the evil and the good choices are often inefficient and pointless...

/end the post with something generic dark and edgy and totally sociopathic!

 

[MajorKris]

Dragon Age: Spoilers



I remember when I spared Flemeth to trick Morrigan, thinking that she had it coming anyway, just to have her tell me that she thought of my character as a "Sister" and a true friend when I gave her the real Grimoire.

So yeah, I felt pretty bad after that. (But not for very long of course)

 

[Ldude893]

Friendly fire in Call of Duty 4 and its sequel. I can never forgive myself for it, unless I chuck a grenade between my feet.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

let me ask you a question

have you ever played a bioware game??!?!

then hell fucking yes i have

otherwise, there are some games where they can't get any kind of rise of emotion out of me, in oblivion i come in sword a swingin at every mofucker who dare thinks can challenge me!

I agree completly. Bioware always gets a hold of my emotions with their RPGs, especially Dragon Age.

i feel helpless playing their games sometimes, they know EXACTLY how to press my fucking buttons into making me a cyber slave into always being the good guy, which is possibly why i play their games so many fucking times...each game of theirs i have played at least 5 times (kotor *cough* 40 times and counting * cough* )

 

[joshuaayt]

... Fallout 3- Republic of Dave. I was just trying to be a good citizen, expecting maybe a nice reward after getting everyone to vote... then the game glitched up and nothing happened. I tearfully put a bullet into the heads of everyone there, stole some decent stuff and, saluting, left.

 

[Angerwing]

Accidentally missing the hug with da Vinci in Assassin's Creed 2. He looked so hurt...

 

[Danglybits]

I tend to feel guilty when I lead my character into harm or humiliation. In multiplayer I feel bad if I screw up and ruin stuff for people if they're being plesant or if they're my friends. In WOW I lead my friend off of a fatal cliff because I was just following my normal route and wasn't thinking; so while I was in flight form, he plummeted to his doom.


I felt really guilty when I got Alistair executed in the Landsmeet. He was in a relationship with my character for extra guilt. I didn't mean for it to go that far!! Any way I wish that the dialogue had reflected heartbreak, betrayal and rage since what I did was pretty fucking horrible. Having to watch the execution and/or see the corpse would have really added to that I feel. You'd think that the rest of the party would say something about me having our MT executed...