Is there anything that you will refuse to do in a game?

[Manbro]

There's not much I wouldn't do in video games. Rape and other sexual assault related activities is probably where I draw the line.

I disagree with the killing kids thing though. Those kids in Little Lamplight really pissed me off when they started giving me lip! (Fallout 3 reference. Im not a closet child murderer!)

 

[Uncompetative]

Use Adam.

Yeah, Bioshock ended fairly abruptly for me...

 

[xxginsuxx]

I completely refuse to do anything even remotely good in a game with moral choice or a karma system.

 

[Beefcakes]

I will not kill sheep in Age of Empires 2.

I'm the same as you, I mean come on!
There are good enough berry bushed right next to the mill you can use!
the will last us till at least the next age where we get farms...
Same with cows and goats in Age of Empires: Mythology
I mean, come on!

 

[Fraught]

I'll do everything, because I'm an evil bastard.

Also, no matter what, it's like you said, a transistor, and I acknowledge that at every minute of the day.

 

[hazabaza1]

In the end of Mass Effect, I'll never

Spoiler

choose the other guy over Anderson. I tried it once, felt like a dick, and started back to fight Saren...
That was on my renegade file.

Also, if someone begs for their life with decent voice acting, I normally don't, but may reluctantly kill them.

And I can't tell the beggars to find their own water in FO3. It's the feeling like a dick issue again.

 

[vladtehimpaler]

There were several things in Mass Effect I couldn't do.

I never kill the Rachni Queen, even on my renegade characters. She's just kinda sitting there, begging for her life, and something just screams "DON'T DO IT!" in the back of my mind.

But WREKS (who is god) tells you to!

 

[ElephantGuts]

Killing people just for the hell of it. Maybe it's just for the sake of immersion, but I don't just shoot someone I see just because I can. Or maybe it's because I'm a good person. I don't know.

I don't know if I can say I truly follow this tenant. In many games I've tried and failed to kill innocent people - sometimes you just want to see what limits are placed on your freedom. Often in games, killing innocent people has no real impact on your game. I defy someone to play saints row 2 for more than a few minutes without even accidentally harming a random passerby. When I see a car I want to steal, I shoot the driver. Such a death was never decreed by necessity, but rather simple convenience. It's easier to shoot the driver than to chase the car and try to steal it, and thanks to the laughably small penalty for such barbarity I feel there is no reason not to.

But, in some games there is a actually an attempt to make me feel something for those simple animated AI loops. Sure, I might go on a rampage from time to time - this is usually done in such a way that I can readily recover a save. In Fable 2, I murdered the population of Bowerstone because I wanted to see what I'd like like if I was simply oozing evil (not as sweet as the box makes it seem). When I was dissapointed, I reloaded the game and continued on being a lovable hero who could do no wrong in the world.

Well that's different. I've killed people for their cars or gone on rampages, but I was still killing them for a reason. Even if the reason is just, "I want to go on a rampage now", it's still better than just shooting people as you walk past on your way to a mission or somewhere.

 

[ragamuffingirl]

i always feel guilty if i try to play the bad guy in a game. so i guess i wont do a lot of things. but i don't think its necessarily wrong to play the bad guy its just not for me unless its cartoonish villainy like being the Condiment king.

I think it's weird to want to be the bad guy. Shouldn't you want to be the hero?

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I felt a little bad in Fallout 3 when you have to kill the wild dogs that attack you. Not because they're dogs, it's the little yelp that they make every time they die. I also try not to shoot anyone unless they shoot me because that way I feel justified. Even if they are bad guys, if they don't shoot at me first, I normally won't bother with them.

I also never killed a Little Sister, but that's because that lady told me I would get a reward if I didn't. The reward: 100 G. That's right.

Oh also in Dead Rising, I will feel awful if the survivor that I'm escorting dies. I will almost always have them hold my hand or something because I can't stand it when they die. If I die, yes I'll get upset but I will put myself in harms way to make sure that they don't die. Also, you know that part where those guys are boarded up in that store and one of them starts attacking you and you're supposed to mildly injure him to make him stop? Well I had a sledgehammer in my hand and I didn't think about it and I crushed his head and I felt like shit after that. My heart skipped a beat and I froze for a second.

 

[Jedoro]

"Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon."

If someone is nice to me or an uninvolved bystander, I can't do evil to them, at all. But if anyone hurts or attempts to hurt me, someone I care about, or uninvolved bystanders, it's on. No mercy, I kill 'em dead.

EDIT: Game-related, I even tried playing evil in Fallout 3 for the achievements, and I just can't do it. Can't even do some evil to be neutral.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

Never hurt the innocent and never compromise in the face of injustice.

For some reason while playing Deus Ex, I try to take as many enemies alive (i.e. knock them unconscious vs. killing them) as possible.
I was given a choice of extra ammo for the next mission, and choose tranq darts over rockets. I never do something like that! Any other game I take the rockets without question.

 

[RobCoxxy]

Use cheats. (apart from occassional vehicle spawning in GTA)

 

[S.H.A.R.P.]

I have no qualms with breaking morality. In a game I need money, items and experience. I can look the other side while commencing a vile act.

 

[meece]

I don't grief in multiplayer. The closest I go is teabagging but I only do that to friends who did it to me first.

Much as some people may deserve it....

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I don't grief in multiplayer. The closest I go is teabagging but I only do that to friends who did it to me first.

Much as some people may deserve it....

Once a tank killed 2 of my teammates and incaped me on Left 4 Dead and the last guy picked me up so I teabagged the dead tank in honor of my friends that he killed. But he wasn't a human player so I wasn't being a dick.

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

Revive Elika only to undo everything you just did? I think not.
I turned the game off and left her dead.

But there's a perfectly good reason for doing so!

Spoiler

If you allow Ahriman to be sealed by the time you've died he'd of eventually broken free again so you have to revive Elika so you can actually destroy Ahriman rather than just seal him.

Also I won't kill kids, rape, nuke megaton or crush Moira's Dreams.

But she's annoying... D:

 

[Jharry5]

When it comes to sandbox games like Saint's Row 2, Tony Montana said it best when he said 'I never fucked over anyone in my life who didn't have it coming to 'em'. I'm the same.

Also, when playing a war game, I can't leave a wounded comrade behind. I usually end up being a medic and healing them up. If I can't heal them I'll usually stay with them and try to defend them.

 

[Dantes Alaska]

homosexual marriage/intercourse (fable 1&2)

Haha, I should do that for the hilarity. I can't believe that is in the game. Then again, I've never played it and have no idea what Fable is about.

EDIT: Marriage in general that is, hehe; this has been edited to avoid moderator wrath, in case you were wondering

you need to play it then, NOW!

 

[deathstrikesquirrel]

Harvest little sister in Bioshock although I think this goes without saying.

nope, I actually did this several times when a friend brought it to my house, though he did call me a monster for it ^.^. I do remember I refused to let raiders who surrendering or running away live in fallout 3