Poll: Playing as the bad guy

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Isn't it because we can't to such things in reality we use games as such an outlet?

 

[Azraellod]

i enjoy the idea of playing as the evil character because i like the idea of playing as a character with a decent intellect. usually the evil player is a lot cleverer then the good player, and has already formulated some form of plan.

also, i often don't see a lot of problems with what the evil characters do. i often find myself agreeing with their perspective, because i have thought something very similar to it in the past.

 

[Manji187]

Perhaps a bit of topic...but does anybody know of a game where you have the moral choice of betraying your friends for personal gain, putting them in a situation of certain death? Cuz this I consider pretty evil, but I've never encountered it in a game so far.

Wouldn't it be original if you could be a badguy posing as a good guy? Then people would find out somehow and you would have to eliminate them to keep up appearences..

You don't get that kind of moral depth in games now do you hahaha.

 

[Cartman2nd]

Good guys are pussies. I'll keep those kittens alive in real life, in games I just want to f*ck em up. Well maybe not kittens, but you get the point.

 

[wordsmith]

To be honest, my favourite sort of antagonist is the guy who helps to put out the fire at the orphanage.


And then flicks a match at the petrol-soaked owner of it.

 

[Swaki]

not really, playing evil in games is in most cases ignoring a quest and just murdering everyone you see, when playing like a goodie makes the game much more interesting

 

[Soxafloppin]

I like playing as brutal bastards, i dont really mind if there good or evil.

 

[Jamous]

I enjoy playing as the completely Amoral arsehole simply because I have given up hope for mankind. In reality though, I'm always pretty neutral.

 

[Aanorith]

I never play the badguy if I have the choice not to. I don't have a problem playing Prototype, I love the gameplay, I', a hack 'n' slash fanatic. However, in games like mass effect and fallout 3, I get overwhelmed with guilt if I do something mean so ill have to restart aswell.

One of my friends who always plays the badguy motivates it with, "I'm always nice in real life so I always play the bad guy."
Wish I could, but just not possible for me

 

[GOATOFRAGE]

much more fun and no worrying about the bunnies
bad side is in a game where you kill everyone at the end theres nothing left
i.e. if you kill all the people in the cities of oblivion its boring

 

[space_oddity]

I like being evil when it has a point, like you actually are rewarded for your cruelty or you teach someone a lesson etc.
Pointless immorality is...unsatisfying.

 

[j0z]

I enjoy playing as an evil character, but if the game has a moral choice system I will probably play through with a good character too.

 

[Triple G]

I would totally be the evil guy. I hate most people anyways, so if I can be an asshole to most normal people, than I can kill all NPCs and doin harm with ease and fun.

 

[Lordkeppington]

I like being the evil guy its more refreshing than haveing to be the good guy all the time even though in games like Fallout 3 people generaly aviod you when your evil its still fun to do. Especily in games like overlord.

 

[StormShaun]

This is where inFamous helps, you can be either!
Being bad on it looks cooler though..

Cooler.....umm not for me I prefer being good.....better thing happen to me then.......and also if I play evil, it will probly be a game like prototype........if I have to choose (fallout3) I would be good, because good things happen to me.....and sometime you miss out on stuff if your evil (eg. Blowing up a town....yes im talking to you whoever blew up Megaton)
and also you wouldnt see MC or Gorden Freeman being evil....but if he was, you would probly like it but I think it will spoil it......also its more fun 4 me.......but it is still ok if its a game like prototype.....

 

[Slash Dementia]

It's fun playing the bad guy; I really enjoy it, but it takes a long time to get me into that character in some games. I love dismembering people in games and such, it's fun. Hell; in Gears of War 2, I crippled two people just to see them crawl away (I took it as a race and killed the loser first).

If given a game with moral choices, I will always be naturally a good character. I can't be bad unless there are no consequences (or I'm about to save my game and I have a town full of people--Fallout 3, Morrowind or Oblivion).