What's your morality in games...

[gazumped]

I play good because playing bad makes me feel terrible.

On my second Dragon Age run I tried playing as evil (Well, lawful evil 'cause you get into less trouble) and some of the things my character did made me feel sick. I didn't get very far with that playthrough, although I guess that might just be because I wasn't in the mood to play the whole game again.

My step-brother plays games evil and runs around swearing at the NPCs and laughing at their suffering. ... it... doesn't seem healthy to me. o.o;

 

[sycoesis]

i turn into a blasted saint for some reason i value the lives of game characters more than real life people it seems

 

[Kalabrikan]

Play The Witcher. Aside from the first chapter, there is no good vs. bad, there is organization vs. organization. Now in games where there is good vs. evil morality, I tend to be the good guy all the time because the other option is being a sarcastic asshole and being a sarcastic asshole is horribly unfun for everyone.

 

[crimsontide57]

well i fell like it depends on the game you're playing. for example in fallout i just felt like murdering everyone and everything. so i did. and it was awesome. but then take Mass Effect 1 & 2 where it really felt like your decisions had an impact. at the end of Mass effect 1 (warning spoiler) where you have to choose between the 'Speciest' Udina or the rational captain Anderson to head the new council i seriously sat there for a half hour. i didnt want to make a 'Bad' decision. udina had the political experience but he was racist and anderson had no experience but he was a military man and entering into a war it might have been better to have him leading the council. i guess it depends on how well the game draws me in. usually at some point i make a seperate save file and just have a blast, but in the end i always kind of draw a neutral line. i make the decisions on the same kind of moral basis. i kind of weigh whats fair. if an NPC isnt friendly i might eat his face in return. but if everyones civil i keep neutral..

 

[TOTL_UNIALAYSHUN]

KILL

EVERYTHING

 

[Rapamaha]

on my first playtroughs on games Im usually sarcastic/humorous, and other choices I choose depending on the situation but usually in the end im more in the "bad / evil" side of the fence, on later playtroughs I might just choose the morality Im going to be when I start a new characters

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

If it's something like Fallout in which I don't give much of a fuck about anything, then NPC's are just item containers. Big, squishy, walking, talking item containers... so bad. If it's something like Bioshock though where the game actually makes an attempt to make me feel bad, then good, then bad afterwards.

 

[Mute52]

I usually do what sounds fun and sometimes create a balance of good and evil.
Of course if i'm going for an achievement or something i just follow the rule of it regardless.

 

[Temah]

As much as i may wish to think i take the evil options, upsetting pixels makes me feel guilty, in a similar way i always set out hoping to be a stealthy rogue character and end up with a really big weapon.

 

[XHolySmokesX]

I always choose a good morality in game, i figure if you had the power to help the people who needed the help most then whats stopping you from making a massive possitive change to the lives of at least a few good people.

Then again it's always too easy and quite satisfying to go on a murderous rampage every now and then

 

[Irriduccibilli]

I always start out by picking the good decisions on my first playthrough, or the decision I think will be the best. It's usually either an good or neutral character. I always take the most witty options. I alwyas find it hard to get started with an evil character, but it usually turns out to be the most fun one. I never get tired of seing Shepard use his interviewer beating skills

 

[dkyros]

When I first started playing video games I was always the evil callous figure that screwed the rules bc he could kill anything the game could throw at him
However, I find that this isn't always the best way to go through a game and that you can lose a lot in certain games for playing this way. Now I play a mix, leaning towards good.

 

[loc978]

Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Good, usually. Depends on how much I despise the "good guys" in a given game.

 

[Katana314]

It's simplistic (as the "gray vs gray" people will know) but I like playing as good. I think we all do, in the end.

 

[Hazzaslagga]

I'd like to do evil in games but it comes off as more dickish evil which is not the way of true evil.

 

[Sebenko]

Pragmatic/ not totally retarded.

Most moral choices in games are a toss up between "nice or hitler" or "stupidly altruistic douce and minor irritation".

So I just go with whichever choice isn't totally stupid.

 

[Da Orky Man]

I go for the overall good, but willing to go through evil for it. Much like The Illusive Man.

 

[maxriderules]

Speaking as someone whose only gaming experience of moral choices are the Fable series, I start up as a good character. I pick all of the good choices, I make a nice little family in happy town, and I donate £7,000,000 to the temple of Avo, light, my little pony. Then, I get bored, or irritated, or just give up, and murder everyone in happyville, buy all of their houses, spend the rent on a huge sword/ gun, and then kick everyone out of their houses. End result? A permanent maxed out evil rating, an army of people who constantly boo you, and a bunch of empty towns that spell out, if you join them on a map, F**K YOU.

...yeah... I have a problem.