Poll: Your game morality

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Up till recently I would always play as a bad guy for the many benefits it held. In Fallout 3 I would always simply kill the guy for whatever I wanted. I'd trade and repair with a scavengers and then kill them to take my stuff and caps back repeating this with any scavengers I met. Now that I've finished Fallout 3 with Broken Steal, Point Lookout, Operation Achorage and The Pitt I find that I've got few people to trade with and any unmarked quests are unavailable because I've killed the guy that gives it.

So now I've changed my attitude and am a good character so I can get the most out of the game. This prompts the question; what is the moral attitude of The Escapist in a game?

 

[Palademon]

I play as the bad guy in games so that I don't have to in real life. So I can use my evil laugh and not care about consequences.

 

[imnot]

im normally good on my first playthorough and evil on my second.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I do what I'd do. So, good...but never "give away my money" good.

I'm help you...as long as I don't have to give you my stuff. I'm not a charity.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

I play as the bad guy in games so that I don't have to in real life. So I can use my evil laugh and not care about consequences.

Always a big upside to the evil guy. Especially when you can change your facial hair so you have a twirlable moustache.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I tend to play the Good guy in dialogue, if only because I don't come off as a massive jerkass.

 

[Macgyvercas]

I play once for each choice (good, evil, neutral), then usually play with whatever I liked best from then on.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

First playthrough of a game I go for the moral high ground. Second playthrough of a game I'll go the utter bastard approach. Might or might not try out other alignments depending on how well (or poorly) the game has grabbed my attention.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I always play as a good guy on my first play-through, because that's usually how the game is supposed to be played.
If I like the game enough, on my second play-through, I'll be a complete jerk.
I did this for Fallout 3.

 

[Audio]

I genuinely feel bad for the NPCs sometimes lol. I have trouble being mean if i have the chance to :|

 

[V8 Ninja]

Usually the option that gives me the most money or XP.

 

[sephiroth1991]

In sometimes good or netural, i'm only evil if it benefits me

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Whatever allows the most time to fuck around while pretending to be a serial killer is what I usually opt for.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I never go into a game thinking I'm going to be good or bad, I just take every decision as separate.

Basically, I do whatever feels right at the time, without worrying about good or bad points or alignment. It feels a lot more freeform to me.

Same here.

Unfortunately, most games force you to choose either the "Good" or "Bad" option without much wiggle room. The only game that's allowed me to be who I wanna be regardless, is Dragon Age: Origins.

 

[Darmort]

Pragmatically practical. Unfortunately there's few games that allow you to be such an alignment...

 

[101194]

I am the DEFENDER OF JUSTICE!

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Yeah, You get the point.

 

[viranimus]

LOL fallout 3 presented a fairly normal situation with unexpected results. My best friend kept telling me how awesome fallout 1&2 were and he got me interested in playing 3. So when I did play it, and when I would talk to him about it, and mentioned the things I did in it, I managed to upset him greatly because of all the evil things I did. Of course I did the basic things like Nuke megaton in exchange for a nominal amount of caps, then forcefully evacuated tenpenny tower claiming it as my own and many many other evil deeds.

My friend really disagreed with this because he felt he couldnt do the same because it was a ruined wasteland, these people had enough misery in their lives. He just didnt have the heart to cause more. But I boggled his mind and really upset him when I informed him I nuked Fawkes in the vault. He just could not fathom killing someone who he really felt deserved to live, all because I had an itchy trigger finger and accidentally let loose a nuke while trying to talk to it to get dialogue.

Yes I am an unmitigated evil prick. I play games because they allow me to do things that I cannot and would not do in real life.. so I am at a loss for developing sympathy for the equivilent of sims.

 

[twistedmic]

I usually go evil when I have the choice, it's just a lot more fun that way, and usually more financially rewarding. In fact, it can be an actual chore to play as the good guy. for me at least.
Though I will say that in some games, BioShock 2 for example, it's more rewarding to play as a good guy.