Your moral event Horizons, in gaming.

[Canadian Briton]

So Escapist, What things in games (that you did) made your Faction/player character/the thing you play as go off the moral deep end into evilness?
My Example: In Dwarf Fortress I routinely slaughter kittens, to prevent my fortress being flooded by cats.

 

[Kavonde]

Using the Force to make Zalbarr kill Mission.

 

[OmegaXIII]

Blowing up Megaton, twas fun

 

[Srrrh]

In the Rollercoaster Tycoon games, finding ways of killing the guests, whether it be through crashing rollercoasters or drowning them.

In the first RCT, I seem to remember, if you drowned them their little "thought" scrollers said "Help I'm drowning" and if they held balloons they dropped them. And if you clicked on the floating balloons they popped.

Or create tiny sections of paths, putting one shop with the price hiked up and waiting to see how hungry they would have to be to spend £100 on a burger.

 

[Simple Bluff]

Okay, I confess: flinging cars around and doing that shockwave attack off of high buildings in inFamous is so fun I can't stop myself doing it.

Also: Red Dead Redemption: I discovered that NPCs have a crippling fear of lassos. Naturally, I tend to walk up and down Armadillo swinging my lasso of doom. It's hilarious watching them run and scream in terror of a guy weilding a DEADLY LENGTH OF ROPE. I can't count how many people I've mugged with it. Who needs guns?

 

[Nouw]

I don't do any evil things. Hell I feel sad when Marines in Halo die.

 

[Dxz5roxg]

I don't really go out of my way to be evil but if some guy is rude to me and I have the option they'll pay with their life.

 

[Cody211282]

I don't do any evil things. Hell I feel sad when Marines in Halo die.

I routinely go out of my way to save their asses for some reason, hell I have a hard time playing renegade on ME most the time.

 

[Nouw]

I don't do any evil things. Hell I feel sad when Marines in Halo die.

I routinely go out of my way to save their asses for some reason, hell I have a hard time playing renegade on ME most the time.

Me too. I was in the pits of depression when I accidentally crushed them trying to maneuver my way around these rocks. I was laughing as well though...

 

[Firoth]

Tossing people around in Black and White for funzies. That's about it really. I tend to stay on the straight and narrow in the games I play, the worst I usually do is hit gray area on the morality spectrum.

 

[Vrex360]

I can't really ever bring myself to be evil in video games. I even go crazy defending my squadmates in Halo, I just lack the evilness required to do renegade things in games. To the point where I pass on Tali, Jack and Miranda in Mass Effect 2 because I don't want to betray Ashley even though I know that it's just a game and it shouldn't upset me so much.
I just always feel guilt, even when it is completely not needed.

That said, I certainly did have a loss of moral conscience in the original Fable, back in my old rebellious days, and I know the exact point when I lost my moral compass and went warpath.

It was the second I realized how annoying the villagers were in Fable. For some reason they drove me up the wall and I began my daily slaughter fest, killing them all mercilessly.

That said, I have yet to play Fable 2 in the evil way, so that should probably be my next goal just to see if any evil remains.

 

[Cazza]

worst I do in any game (mainly rpg's) is get sick of npc asking for my help and ignore or kill them (if I can).

In the Rollercoaster Tycoon games, finding ways of killing the guests, whether it be through crashing rollercoasters or drowning them.

In the first RCT, I seem to remember, if you drowned them their little "thought" scrollers said "Help I'm drowning" and if they held balloons they dropped them. And if you clicked on the floating balloons they popped.

Or create tiny sections of paths, putting one shop with the price hiked up and waiting to see how hungry they would have to be to spend £100 on a burger.

I'm Impressed about how evil and creative that is.

 

[Srrrh]

I'm Impressed about how evil and creative that is.

I know, I always thought that this was a perfectly normal way to react to games because my little brother did exactly the same thing and we both laughed uproariously when a lion in one of the RCT3 expansion packs ran amok, but reading this thread it looks like perhaps we're both a little odd =\

 

[Cazza]

I'm Impressed about how evil and creative that is.

I know, I always thought that this was a perfectly normal way to react to games because my little brother did exactly the same thing and we both laughed uproariously when a lion in one of the RCT3 expansion packs ran amok, but reading this thread it looks like perhaps we're both a little odd =\

killing people in games is just whatever evil. Probably because normal people don't do that. Real businesses do rip off customers. Making it real life evil the kind of evil people deal with in real life. Definitely making it go off the moral train tracks.

then again everyone in sims/sim city make their lives hell. Maybe it's the god complex thing where people just wanna feel the power.

 

[Typecast]

I wiped out the mostly defenceless Mole People in Deus Ex, and piled their corpses into a toilet...

 

[Arcanite Ripper]

In Legend of Zelda, OOT, Whenever I see one of those chickens....Slash it with the sword until his friends come, run away, run back, and do it some more.

On a good day, it can go for about 20 minutes.

I'm such an evil person.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Using the Force to make Zalbarr kill Mission.

You can do that? Back for another KotOR playthrough, I think!

Abusing the supply and demand system in fable 1 to make infinite money buying and selling health potions to passing traders was always fun. As was hurling a fireball at them once I got bored.

Also Scribblenauts. There is a surprising amount of potential for evil there, from setting moles on fire to releasing a chupacabra into a pen of goats.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Having a crusade to rid the world of Oblivion of all annoying characters?

Also, once, using a Frenzy spell, I made a dude beat his wife to death. Oops.