Poll: Fallout 3 Karma
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Evil. So damn evil. The only reason i blew up Megaton was because me and the follower from megaton(cant remember his name) killed literally everybody inside when I got bored and killed the shopkeeper who is ALWAYS happy. I swear I heard her giggling when i shot her twice in both feet with a sawed-off.
In every game with a good vs evil system or ranking I always play good or the equivalent for two reasons.
1. I cant be bad, there's no way I could actually blow up megaton, what would happen to poor billy creel and his adopted daughter?
2. Bonuses received are usually better.
But how about we have a game with moral choices with no ranking system (or at least one that the player can see and constantly refer to), like The Witcher.
You kill a man because he poses a threat to your family is that good or bad?
Life is all about the grey areas, video games should aspire to that too.
1. I cant be bad, there's no way I could actually blow up megaton, what would happen to poor billy creel and his adopted daughter?
2. Bonuses received are usually better.
But how about we have a game with moral choices with no ranking system (or at least one that the player can see and constantly refer to), like The Witcher.
You kill a man because he poses a threat to your family is that good or bad?
Life is all about the grey areas, video games should aspire to that too.
Very Evil.
What bugs me about Fallout 3 is there are bunch of choices that give you good karma even if you could very well have done it for selfish reasons, such as NOT destroying Megaton because you want a place to unload loot without having to go across the world before you discover other towns, or freeing a Red because the slavers want you to bring her in.
What bugs me about Fallout 3 is there are bunch of choices that give you good karma even if you could very well have done it for selfish reasons, such as NOT destroying Megaton because you want a place to unload loot without having to go across the world before you discover other towns, or freeing a Red because the slavers want you to bring her in.
Neutral, even if this game makes it difficult to stay on that karma level. I'm only neutral because I do whatever benefits my character the most.
The whole karma system in Fallout 3 needs to be improved. I still don't understand why turning raiders into slaves gives me bad karma.
The whole karma system in Fallout 3 needs to be improved. I still don't understand why turning raiders into slaves gives me bad karma.
Even though I steal everyone I meet blind, I still end up with an incredibly high Karma level. Thats fine by me though, I like being nice.
I do multiple playthroughs, and in addition to playstyle (stealth, socialist, big guns expert, ect) I also select a given allignment. At first I normally do "me in the game". as was stated there are alot of grey choices, so I went screw it I'll play as me and if I deem stealing someones vodka as the greater good I will. Which got me to neutral allignment. I then found "impartial Mediator" perk so I then consiously went for neutral. Incidently thats harder then I thought, killing 4 people in megaton was enough to shift me from good to evil
I'm trying to be neutral because I don't like it when people try to kill me. Also being neutral means I can free a captive then shoot them in the back of head.
I tend to go good. Mainly because being evil usually involves killing the people who keep me rolling in guns and ammo. It just suits my scavenger/hunter style of play. When I have enough ammo, I go on missions. When I don't, I go pick up trash and sell it on to buy ammo until I... you get the idea. To do that, I need a good relationship with the townsfolk. So its not in my interests to go blowing towns up. Besides, the world is screwed up enough. What can you take from people who really have lost everything? I'd feel too bad taking the last of their measly caps, at gunpoint or otherwise.
I tried staying neutral through the entire game. But
after getting caught by the enclave my karma shot up and I couldn't do many evil things for the rest of the game