Poll: Your Morality choices

[khaimera]

I'm always good. I try to be my opposite in video games.

 

[Flour]

Loot first.

Fuck morality, if I have to kill a puppy to get a +5 Bow of Awesome I will do it right after the puppy rescue quest to get a +3 Sword of Fire.

 

[Paulie92]

I usually go for teh lewt or for completely balls to wall evil. Most of the time the morality choices are crap and are either "Angry Shepard wants his ball back!" or "Naieve Shepard wants us all to get along."

Consequently I kill everyone and everything possible

 

[masseyguy911]

Well I usually play as the good guy. The only game I didn't play as the "good" guy was Mass Effect.

 

[Yureina]

I help as many people as possible while expropriating the wealth of everyone who is remotely evil. The result is I tend to be good aligned and extremely wealthy in my games. Best of both worlds.

 

[Undead Dragon King]

I like happiness.

Ergo, I am buona

 

[Ace of Spades]

Good, usually because evil breaks the immersion. Yes, slaughtering people randomly and stealing their stuff is a bit entertaining the first time, it sort of destroys the experience since it would be hard to justify such a blatant display of psychopathy in real life. I might change my mind if evil in games veers away from random murder and "I STAB YOU DEAD" options in dialogue.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I'm usually evil, just to see how the game takes it. It can take it as a second option, like inFamous, or it can take it as the option they thought no one would take, like Disgaea.

 

[Kimarous]

I'm inherently good, as befits my own personal morals, but I also tread the grey in certain situations.

For example, in Fallout 3's "The Pitt" DLC, I actually side with Ashur over Werner for multiple reasons, including trust, family values, and the handling of the cure. There are also games where I favour the darker side. Besides picking Sith in any Star Wars game, I also find that Dread is much more pragmatic than Chivalry in "Medieval 2: Total War".

I can't really think of anything other examples at this time, but I will say that some games have evil choices so distasteful or "stupid" in my eyes that I can't bring myself to do them. I definitely prefer good overall and in games where alignment doesn't really matter, like in Dragon Age, the deliberate act of being evil isn't even a matter of consideration.

 

[AlternatePFG]

It depends. In a non-RPG game, sometimes playing as a dick completely seems out of character (Red Dead Redemption for example)

I usually attempt to play the game Good, except when someone pisses me off. If they do, I just cap them and move on. Honestly, some of the evil choices are way too extreme.

For example, in Fallout 3's "The Pitt" DLC, I actually side with Ashur over Werner for multiple reasons, including trust, family values, and the handling of the cure.

Yeah I did the same, although both choices seemed neutral and

Spoiler

It was inferred after you sided with Werner and took down Ashur that he would be even worse than him.

 

[adam5396]

I usually end up being a good guy. (Except in Infamous) Mostly because there's no other option.

In Dragon age, there's the bit where you have to defend the town and you can do stuff beforehand to be better off. But For one, I even told the guy he couldn't trust anything I say and that I probably wont do it. And I still be a nice guy. Which annoys Morrigan and lessens my chances for boobies. I would've rather threatened him, but I don't remember that being an option.

 

[theComposer]

Normally I aim for a neutral good, but games like Mass Effect with a straight Good-Bad meter cause me to lean much deeper into good in order to get the conversation bonuses. (It saved Wrex. Totally worth it.)

 

[Jark212]

I'm usually good, because that's just who I am. Then I'll go through as the master of evil and douchebagness just for fun...

 

[inkblood]

I usually walk the path of rightiousness, but i wish they would give us harder moral choices than the standard good evil. It would be more interesting to see me save a little kid from a fire just to find out that he is the antichrist

 

[sharkinz]

I always try to play as the good guy.

 

[Betancore]

Depends on the game. I usually just choose based on how I would react to the situation, but that gives me mixed results. So I play the good path, because for some reason, I can't be a dick ingame.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I do what i think will beneift both the greater good of the people and my party (if its one of those games) if not, the NPCs you can call "friends" in the game.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

It depends. If the person I help sounds nice or pitiful enough, I'll help. If they act like a dick, I shoot them in the face and steal all their money.

Also, I tend to kill irritating NPCs. I've finally cleansed Oblivion of all the annoying characters, which seems to be most of them...

This. Oh so much this.