Poll: How do you play: Good or Evil?

[Crossborder]

I don't follow petty moral restricictions as good and evil. As long as i get better from it, im in.

 

[Oh That Dude]

I enjoy watching people's limbs fly off in slo-mo far too much to be nice.

 

[Caligulove]

Baddies mean more combat... late I might play it as good to see the differences... but its more fun to see the destruction and chaos first time around

 

[Hapetiitti]

I always stick with the 'good' choices. I can't help it, I just can't bring myself to hurt those poor widdle NPC:s. But there is a secondary reason to this: I always help people because I'm a sucker for side quests. I recently finished Mass Effect completing about 98% of all the missions the game (Not including all the achievements, I just played through my first time.) Clocked around 40 hours.

However, I don't play strictly as lawful good. If the situation requires drastic measures, I'll do what it takes to finish the job. For example, by the time I finished Mass Effect my Paragon points were way over the scale but I had about two blocks worth of Renegade as well. I wasn't above sticking a gun to a gangster's face to avoid having to fight and kill him (which ironically would have made me the good guy for 'trying to talk sense into him' instead of taking the aggressive approach) and at one point I sacrificed the lives of two scientists to capture an alien terrorist who, if he had gotten away, might have blown up an entire planet. And as for situations where I can either help the guy for free or extort him for a 'helping fee', I'll usually choose the first option unless the prize is really worth it. Like a really rare item or LOTS of money. Usually the peasants are so poor they can't even offer me anything of value, so it would feel like taking their last possessions, and I couldn't do that!

Yeah, I'm really like that. Except for the helping everyone I can find for free.

 

[Atranis]

Evil. Because it allows me to do things that I normally won't be able/allowed to do in real life (kill people in cold-blood, destroy things with impunity, etc). And thus eliminates the necessity for me to actually attempt to do it in real life--not that I've been thinking of doing anything like that...maybe. I guess playing an evil person allows me to experiment on just how far I'm capable of going in terms of being really, well, bad.

 

[whycantibelinus]

I usually start out trying to be good but then I find the conversation options for bad characters more interesting and thus I change about a quarter of the way into the game.

 

[canadaowns]

I always play good in a game because i have problems dealing with injustice.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Good. I want my imaginary friends to like me!

 

[SmokeyOakey]

I just tend to arse around and see what comes out but I usually find myself going more for good without realising it.

 

[accountdeletethis]

First playthrough good, since all rpgs are developed with the good character in mind, second playthrough evil, the one where I feed my inner psycho.

 

[Acier]

Well since I'm naturally nice, good of course!


And also because it seems that in nearly every game it's in your best interest to do good as well.

 

[Joshroom]

I'm one of those people who can't stand people thinking he's an arsehole, even if it's only a fictional, pixelated character so I'm usually the good guy.

Except in Fallout 3, but thats only because anyone who doesn't like you can always be dealt out some combat shotgun justice, thus ridding the world of one more person who doesn't like you. By blowing there head off.

Christ, I do have problems. Heh, ho, what can you do.

 

[ajb924]

Evil, I want to shoot and kill everything and anything in my way. When you play good it calls you out on it.

 

[mattttherman3]

Well I play evil playthrough first because it usually depresses me, then I'll play good so I feel good about myself.

 

[Artina89]

I m usually on the good or neutral side, but I think thats to mainly to counteract my brother and most of my friends, who tend to play the evil side of the story.

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

I usually just go with what my gut tells me, which is more often than not the Good route throught the game. If it's a game worth playing through more than once, I play evil the 2nd time through.

 

[j1-2themax]

Usually good with some neutral tendencies, but I will try to play through an evil run at least once.

 

[Comma-Kazie]

Usually good, although if a game is really good I'll go back and play again on evil.

 

[darkless]

I play good, because it usually works out to be harder.