Ugh, I can't pull the damn trigger!

[Doctor VonSexMachine]

I play good in fallout 3 because the mercs that come after you have better armor.

Other than that, it's just a video game. I mean, if I had a moral dilemma I wouldn't play games like TF2. There is no real reason to hate the team of the other colour. To paraphrase Gone with the Blast Wave:
"Why do we fight?"
"To win the war!"
"Oh."

 

[Giest4life]

Damn, that's pretty much what I feel. In Fable 2 I couldn't bring my self to do the evil deeds until pretty much I had finished the game. I just felt too dang bad. Although, I did make carrot juice from a bunch load of civilians in CoDMW2....

 

[Pifflestick]

The only trouble I've ever had being evil in a videogame was in Fallout 3 growing up in the Vault. I just can't bring myself to use the mean dialouge options, I don't know why.

 

[Blind Sight]

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.

Easiest way to solve this, in Sam Adama's words from Caprica: "Don't think of them as people. They're objects. Makes it easier." Of course he was talking about murdering literal people, but here's another trick: imagine your own cutscene at the end of the game where you show up, shoot your character in the face, and are hailed as a hero. It's a good little psychotic ego trip.

I alternate, it really depends on how I feel about the game. Usually if I dislike the characters, I'll go evil just to cause them misery. The exception to this is my playthroughs of Mass Effect 2, just because I found the renegade options to be way more awesome then the goody-two-shoes Paragon ones.

 

[DarkenedWolfEye]

I never imagined anyone had that problem until I opened this page. You must have guilt issues, feeling guilty about a computer simulation of real life. I'd like to see you play the Sims.

 

[Sir Kemper]

I can never really do evil stuff, something thats very evident in games like F3.

I just HAVE to be the good guy.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

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.

I forgot where I read it, but turns out American gamers (not sure about European) have a harder time doing "evil" quests in comparison to the Japanese.

Who else has this problem?

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).

I'm the same, OP. Dunno why, but it pangs me a bit inside when I do my 'evil' playthroughs, but only in realistic games with well-written characters. If it's a flat henchman character or cartoony in the least, I won't hesitate to pop a cap in that ass and giggle about it.

 

[Calhoun347]

I go with my natural response, which usually ends up being good. However, I almost ALWAYS do the obligatory Evil play through, just to see what happens there.

 

[Walkchalk]

Ive begun feeling the same way lately. Most recently I can think of is Red Dead Redemption. I actually got through the entire single player campaign Without ruthlessl murdering more than one civilian. I felt a bit guilty after the one I killed. That could just be because the setting was in America, but Im not sure. Being on the moral highground is fun though. I like to play the character the best I can, and John just doesnt seem like the randomly murderous kinda guy. Similar thing happened in Dragon Age Origins actually. I started off wanting my character to be a total douche, but I felt myself connecting with my character, and acting more like I feel like would handle the situation. Whatever the case may be, I pretty much agree with you on your point.

 

[Darth Caelum]

I'm Asian, so that's half-way. I can Pull the trigger, but if the Game somehow manages to make me emphasize with the about to be dead guy, then the guy lives, if not. Shotgun to the head time.

 

[Slenn]

I also have the same sort of problem. I don't buy games like Grand Theft Auto simply because I don't like to slaughter innocent people like that. Sure I slaughtered innocent people as an Undead commander in Warcraft 3, but that's more fantasy and much less on reality.

 

[War Penguin]

I have that problem all the time. I don't know why it happens. I know they're just faceless pixels, but I keep thinking to myself "What if I did that in real life?"

 

[child of lileth]

I don't have the problem. I don't think of it as if I can make a good or evil decision either. I just see it as wither I feel like wasting the time to do yet another pointless task or not. I usually don't play games like that though.

 

[goldenheart323]

GTAIII was my 1st game where I was the bad guy. At first, I didn't want to hurt anyone who wasn't shooting me, but after accidentally running pedestrians over in several car chases, and having zero consequences for it, I got completely desensitized. However, in Fallout 3, where I talk to people, I feel bad being evil. Sometimes I'll get a little bored & go on a rampage with all my big guns like the nukes & missile launchers, but I always reset to a previous save before progressing.

 

[Bouncing Ferret FIlm]

the MW2 "terrorist" level. I could never shoot the people. I spent about two hours shooting the terrorist before they started shooting the peoples... Got damn close to killing all of them a few times. but the damn reload always got me

So i got you there.

 

[Lunar Templar]

I'm odd
i tend to gravitate toward demons and such when i have full customization options, but i almost always make then good guys.
in moral choice games,like DA or inFamous, i have to make an active choice to be evil an hurt the masses, other wise, I'm a good guy

 

[medicvalues]

ill usally play through both but i couldnt play through infamous good side story and besides being evil is fun lol

 

[AMMO Kid]

I always play nice in my first playthrough and in my second one I play mean, except for in Amss Effect where I was a jerk in my first game no problem