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Andalusa

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I've done the same as you in Fable 3, only my first character was a lady, my second is a dude. I made all the good choices on my first play through, and when I started my second I thought: "I'm going to be an evil bastard this time." ...but I couldn't bring myself to be evil. I know it's only pressing a different button, but it's hard.
 

end_boss

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Actually, I generally tend to not play a one-sided character. Whether good or bad, I always play with a personality with a certain ethical code that can allow them to cross the line. My evil characters typically don't kill nice people. They either have to be attacking me or they'll be assholes. I'll kill an asshole even if unarmed and harmless. My good characters might still kill a bad guy in cold blood if in the name of justice and/or comeuppance. An unspecific example being that if a bad guy murders harmless people, then my good characters might still kill him cold-blooded if he himself is unarmed and harmless.

(All of the above is not counting when I'm in a "rampage" kinda mood while playing GTA. Then all bets are off and I will run over a granny just so I can beat her corpse with a baseball bat. But who doesn't?)
 

LogicNProportion

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I make as many different characters, with as many different personalities and quirks and alignments as possible. I'm a writer of novels and short fiction. Character creation is just something that appeals to me. ;]

That said, I always go for a 'warrior-angel' type of guy first. Rain fire and brimstone on the unjust, etc.
 

Capcom4ever

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infinity_turtles said:
It depends. In games like Fable, I don't have a problem, but I like to play persuasive characters, and often times that means being a good guy because there's no option to convince someone to betray their friends before gutting their wife like a fish.
Unless you are playing God of War as Ares.
 

Sampsa

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Yeah, I never can be the bad guy at games. hardships for doing the right choices in games are just so much easier to endure.
 

EboMan7x

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Icarion said:
EboMan7x said:
Icarion said:
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Icarion said:
Depends on my mood. If I have companions in a game I desperately want them to like me so I try not to piss them off. Sometiems I am happy to slay the prick who keeps holding me up, but ont the other hand if someone needs help I'll usually stop and help them.
EboMan7x said:
Me and the writers of the game often have disputes about what is good. The biggest conundrum I've encountered is that of The New Californian Republic in FNV.

I certainly want to be on their good side when the shit hits the fan, and they are better than Caesars legion (hey I take racism over slavery of whoever any day), but it just seems that in almost all of the quests they ask me to do I end up royally fucking some other people I've been trying to build up a reputation in.
I think that's the point they're trying to get across. The NCR might look like the good guys, but deep down they're just selfish, corrupt pricks. And Ceasar is actually a pretty cool guy, he just has an inflated ego :)
Well yeah, except again, Caesar promotes slavery... so... theres that.
Well yeah, but depending on how you look at it it isn't all bad. I mean Im not advocationg slavery or anything but I think Ceasar has the whole "Survival of the Fittest" going on. Point is he has morals and laws and implements them constantly across all classes and ethnicities. But the NCR depending on who you ask murder isn't a crime, "stealing? Nah, this is just redistribution of wealth", "Slaves? No, they're indentured servants" "Murder? Oh, you mean that body under the carpet?". Point being Ceasar is honest about everything he does the NCR isn't. He says fuck with me I'll kill you. NCR says you have the freedom of speech then takes you away in the night because you're the voice of dissent.
Well, okay fine the NCR are scumbags. But just because Caesar is being open about his assholism does not make him a good guy. In the end I feel it would be better to be on the good side of the NCR. Not that I actually support them, In "That Lucky old Sun" I distributed power to the entire region, and I support an Independent New Vegas. And also, I don't believe NCR has ever enslaved anybody. Or did I miss that quest?
Does the Sharecropper farm count? Because it seemed like a pretty shitty deal for the people there. Im not sure though. I only have one playthrough and thats not even done yet. Im pretty sure there was no outright slavery though. And no being open about being an asshole doesn't make you good. but I think the whole point (kinda) of the game is to show that there is no true "right" or "wrong" just degrees of evil
Well in that case, why would they implement a Karma system? A in built game system that will out right tell you if you are doing something good or bad.
 

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VanQQisH said:
Jonluw said:
VanQQisH said:
It's fun to just save, and kill the entire population of Cyrodiil.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I have done this. Many times. So many times in fact, that I created a fireball spell with a large enough blast radius that it burned anyone with the nerve to stand around town while I'm present.
Ah, it's so much more fun in Morrowind when people don't respawn. Walking around Ebonheart with dead guards everywhere is awesome.
 

Susan Arendt

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The only time I can be bad in games is by accident - there was more than one instance in Mass Effect 2 where I got Renegade points completely by surprise. I certainly didn't think my choice was the "evil" one, but BioWare apparently disagreed.
 

Nieroshai

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X

There I pressed it.

OT: I play good guy first then do whatever after that. Incidentally, did you know that as a member of the Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion your murders don't get you banned from the mages guild, whereas they always do otherwise? Maybe quest targets don't count as murders....
 

Celtic_Kerr

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VanQQisH said:
So I finished Fable 3 earlier this week as the Shining Knight, chose all the "good" choices, saved up the $6.5m I needed to save the world and all its people and decided my next play-through would be a female character and choose all the bad choices, just to see how the game ends as a bad guy.
Alas, I found that I made the same choice in the throne room and saved the townspeople, albeit for a different reason than my good character did.
"Damn..." I thought, "Ah well, lets roll with it anyway."
I continued to play and arrived at the Dweller Camp and after buying a rather itchy set of Dweller Clothes, I found myself, without any thought as though by instinct, handing out my spare gold to the nearby beggars.
"Ah crap!" I said out loud after I realized what I was doing and almost begrudgingly continued.
The game progressed further, I killed some hollow men underneath a library, played some Lute, and somehow my young female character grew a mustache... hmm.
I headed off to the Mercenary Camp next, eager to wet my blade with blood and fought my way to the Merc leader, who I battled with and spared his life.
"Oh, for the love of... Screw it, guess I'll play a good girl then."
I then teleported to the sanctuary, dyed my hair blonde, rather than emo black and made some pies.
The point of this thread? Do you also find it impossible to be the bad guy, even when you try your hardest to be so? Do you bask in the Light or bathe in Darkness or are you somewhere in between?

EDIT: I mean gaming in general, I'm just using Fable 3 as an example.
Oh dear sweet sweet christ no! When I choose to be a prick in a game, I'm a prick in the game. I'll pick out the nice options carefully when I wanna be good, and then I'll be the most maniacle ***** in the world. I always make a good guy and a ***** of a girl
 

Kasper Gundersen

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Even in games, I find my good natured happy-go-lucky personality getting in my way of playing the evil way! Why!? Why did I have to be such a nice guy!!?
 

Infinatex

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Not really. I just can't help myself but to be bad... well not really bad, I just look out for me first. If it's more profitable to not help someone then thats the choice I'll make. If it's more profitable to then kill them and their attacker even more so.