Ugh, I can't pull the damn trigger!

[RaphaelsRedemption]

Though I guess I'm asking the wrong crowd since a bunch of you guys are apathetic and antisocial (or at least what I've seen from posting here).

It's not really how I'd choose to open a conversation, by suggesting a large part of your audience wouldn't be interested because they were "apathetic and antisocial".

All quibbles aside, I can't play evil characters, unless the NPC's are really, really horrific. I think I'm scared of the consequences, because developers have that nasty habit of punishing you unless you act like the shining saint they want you to be.

 

[Marter]

I haven't had this problem, because, in the end, it's just a game. I'm not going to lose sleep over something that has no effect on real people.

Haha, I always seem to read your post at the top of the first page marter! How do you manage to snake the first response to every thread I look at?

I'm stealthy like that. I don't really know, I just have a tab open to the off-topic discussion, and I refresh it pretty often.

 

[Julianking93]

I have the same problem. I can't ever play as a dick when the game makes a big deal out of it.

In games like GTA, I could go hours by killing everyone I see and not feel an ounce of remorse because the game portrays them as nameless, faceless citizens that will just respawn in about 5 minutes and you're never punished for it.

In a game like Infamous or Fallout 3, you're punished for it and the game does a great job of making you feel like an asshole for what you've done.

I can't deal with being a dick.

 

[Pegghead]

I actually have a huge problem being evil in games, whenever I set out to be the biggest douchebag on earth in games I just stop playing. Besides, I find the benefits of being the stalwart, loved hero of the land in moral choice game alot more rewarding.

 

[AlchemicalGod]

If The Evil Mission Involves somthing like "Kill A Homeless Child and her dog"? Then no, if its "Blow Up A House Instead of USing soft entry tactics" Then Hells Yeah

 

[Rooker]

I think I've reached some degree of hatred for living things then because I never fail to enjoy myself choosing the "evil" side so that I can kill everyone without ever caring about why. I only ever pick going "Good" for a challenge (or for simple completion/alternate stuff) and even then I wind up doing evil things once I have my little karma rating or whatever at a high enough scale that the innocents I just slaughtered don't affect my credit enough to care. Or it could just be because most AI NPC characters are frustrating or tend to get in the way so all intention of making them people I should give half a shit about disappears when they run in front of me while I'm trying to shoot a bad guy, or hit me and get a brawl going to a point where I have to shoot everyone or else die when I smack them back for it. So no, I have no remorse for choosing evil. Though I still must admit that I try hard to pick the good side in games I haven't played before/have gotten bored with the wanton destruction of the evil side for a few minutes and need a reminder of WHY I'm evil.

 

[DocBalance]

Here's my problem: I'm real life, I'm the nice guy who pretty much can't hurt a fly. But even nice guy's get pissed off once in awhile. Thus, the solution to that slow, boiling rage that eventually explodes to the surface is to load up Arcanum and burn an entire town down.

 

[Lambi]

I'm able to play both good and evil. No problem with killing a few of the good guys or kill innocent bystanders. Though if I'm given an evil dialog option, like in Fallout 3 for example, I can have a little trouble with that. But only a little.

 

[Contun]

I tried playing through Fallout 3 as the bad guy but, ... I dunno... I just.... couldn't do it...

I guess I'd rather be a symbol of justice and hope than the embodiment of evil and chaos. I guess I also try to apply myself to the character and try to go down the road I would actually choose...
[small][sub]Whether or not I'd be successful or not remains to be seen... >.<;[/sub][/small]

 

[CK76]

Depends on my feelings towards the characters and all involved. If I get annoyed by a character (let us say those guitar players in Assassin's Creed II) it is hard not to kill them. On the other hand, if I genuinely like a character I don't want them to disapprove of my actions.

 

[HeySeansOnline]

My friend and I were talking about inFamous the other day. He thought the Evil playthrough was ten times more fun than the "good" one. See, the problem with me is that I felt like such a flippin' douchebag that I couldn't play the evil half for more than 10 minutes. And that's for all "choose your destiny" video games. Yeah, I realize it all just boils down to pixels, but I still can't do it. I just feel so bad, as sad as that sounds.

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I face the same thing, Mass Effect, Fable, hell even Steambot Chronicles I'm good, I only save evil for a second typically unfinished play through.

 

[Beartrucci]

Yeah I have that problem too. Sure, playing as the evil guy in these sorts of games is 'more fun', but after a while I feel like a prick and want to become the good guy. It happened to me in Fallout 3 as well. I started off being an asshole then by the end I was a Good Guy.

With inFamous, I started off as a bad guy then not too soon into the game I wanted to become good. The problem with that is, in inFamous your powers get stronger depending on your Good/Evil thing so I was sort of at a disadvantage for a while because I was trying to become a good guy.

 

[lasherman]

If I am playing a game that has only "evil" in the story line, I have no problem.
The moment I play a game where I have the choice between good or evil, no matter what I just can't play evil. I have to play good.

Same here. In a game like Overlord, I don't feel very 'close' to the character, because everything is predetermined already. It feels less like playing a game and more like watching a movie.

But, in a game like inFamous, where I have to make these choices, it just feels more real. It lets me think "what would I do if i was in this situation?", instead of just "I want to watch this character rip this other character's heart out"

 

[Gotham Soul]

I've always tried to project myself onto the character for immersion's sake, and when it comes to choices I always act like I would (or choose the choice closest to it). This usually results in a gray road but sometimes I surprise myself with my own morality (or lack thereof).

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Usually I just do what gets me the better stuff. Even if it's just slightly better. If the chouce is like, "put a baby in a blender and get 20 bullets for your worst gun" or "Don't put a baby in the blender and get 19 bullets for your worst gun" That baby would be blended so fast it'd make your head spin.

 

[Luke5515]

I have had this problem. Fallout 3 fixed it by allowing me to do small evil things or very evil things to faceless masses. Now I just find it humorous when I act like a dick in Mass Effect 2, sometimes. The other half the time I look at the dialogue and go "that's just horrible" and pick neutral.

 

[KeyMaster45]

Hands down I will always play through a "moral decision game" as the good guy on my first run through. The second run...ohhh boy did those NPC's pick the wrong day to exist cause all bets are off. By my third or 4th play through the game my decisions begin to reflect my own morals and often I end up inhabiting the gray area when the game tries to tell me if I'm good or evil.

 

[Worgen]

I tend to play a good char, I dont like being bad in games, getting the renegade achievements in mass effect was kinda hard

 

[daftalchemist]

The only time I'm able to play as evil and enjoy it is when it's the only option (such as Overlord). But when it comes to moral choice games, I'm always the good guy, except that I steal from people like mad. I think it comes from years of playing games like Zelda where everyone's stuff is actually my stuff and they just don't realize it. Then I started playing Fable and was suddenly getting arrested for breaking into people's cupboards.

So while I'm the good guy who saves the little children and helps the damsels in distress, I'm still sneaking away once their backs are turned and robbing them blind.

 

[Horben]

In Mass Effect 2, I played as the the sympathetic paragon to all normal, constructive, well-adjusted human beings. I was merciless and cruel to mercenaries, enemies, or anyone I might possibly face in combat.

I'm like you. That's the best "Evil" route I can do. I've tried the renegade again and again but my conscience can't handle more than a few minutes.