Poll: Playing as the bad guy

[Ranooth]

Dungeon Keeper, 'nuff said.

 

[Bernzz]

A purely evil protagonist is a nice change of pace from either: "We've got to saaaaavvvveeeee the wooorrrrrllllddddd..

Or: "Will you save the orphans from the burning orphanage, or will make it explode for extra shits and giggles?"

Sometimes it's just fun to play as an evil immoral asshole.

I swear officer, that orphanage attacked me first!

Hahahaha, true.

LFG?

 

[El Poncho]

I do like playing the bad guy but I try to be nice about it

 

[Marv21]

I don't think Alex Mercer is EVIL, but I mean he has amensia and at this point everyone and everything except his sister treats him like shit....so in the end I think if he rips apart a doctor who killed some innocent people for testing I do not find that evil! Or a marine the mowed down a family for being potiental carriers, hes not EVIL GODAMN!

BUT if you hit pedestrians with a tank they should've moved faster...I MEAN RLY! A FREAKING TANK IS COMING AT YOU 10 MILES PER HOUR MOVE MOVE! MOVEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!....so I can say that I was cleansing the virtual gene pool of Idiots who don't get out of the way of a moving tank!

 

[Brad873]

I like the evil side most of the time. Everyone wants to be evil, and in a game, you can. Try and eat out a little girls sea slug at the bottom of the ocean andyou get thrown in jail if you try to in real life, but you can get away with it on the xbox

 

[Valkyira]

I like playing as the evil character because its more fun blowing shit up than helping old ladies cross the road. Most evil characters look cooler than the good guy anyway ( cole from inFAMOUS, good= looks like a normal dude, shoots blue lightning, Evil= wrinkly skin, red eyes shoots red lightning. RED LIGHTNING!!!!

 

[Panzer_God]

I am firmly in the camp the videogame good guys are wimps and retards and only the bad guys understand the way of the world. I love playing villans because I don't want to play as some powderpuff who wins through the goodness of his heart or any of that shit.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I indulge myself in evil upon occassion.
Its like a good vacation, its fun for awhile, but I will always be the good guy at heart.

^^ Me too the "T"
Every now and then i just get the urge to slaughter innocents. Games
like Fable are great in this aspect, as, should i wish to slaughter
an entire village, i can, and easily regain my desired 'good' morality.

In response to the "Alex Mercer" grade evil, I become immersed in the super powers and through that, i easily find myself revelling in the dismemberment of innocent bystanders as it is more about the unleashment of awesome abilities than the deaths of many that i enjoy. However, i do have to add that in the case of "Evil" Cole McGrath (i think i spelt it wrong) I do not enjoy being a D***head, mainly cause in that case the visual of your character is not cool but evil whereas Alex does not (to my knowledge) change into an individual who peeved off an angry tattooist and then jumped into a vat of bleach. For me, the moral choices are not as whether my charcater still looks badass.

 

[bradley348]

i love playing as the bad guy, blowing up shit, knowing that peoples lives have been ruined. cause thats how i roll.

EDIT: Quick example for you, black and white, this heartbroken dude wants to be reunited with some chick, i grabbed her and sacrificed her on my altar, giving me power for more god powers and completely owning that dude.

pfft, dude wants ME to do stuff for him. ya, right. thats gonna happen.

 

[BlueMage]

Funny thing - I haven't found too many games that reward the evil choice (Fallout 3 was something of an exception).

That said, I enjoy being an utter bloody arsehole at times - quite theraputic at times. But none are as cool as Garrett. Not Altair, not Denton. Pre-new-trilogy Fett would be the only one, and you never really get to play as him as far as I know

 

[Blanks]

Isn't it because we can't to such things in reality we use games as such an outlet?

 

[Azraellod]

i enjoy the idea of playing as the evil character because i like the idea of playing as a character with a decent intellect. usually the evil player is a lot cleverer then the good player, and has already formulated some form of plan.

also, i often don't see a lot of problems with what the evil characters do. i often find myself agreeing with their perspective, because i have thought something very similar to it in the past.

 

[Manji187]

Perhaps a bit of topic...but does anybody know of a game where you have the moral choice of betraying your friends for personal gain, putting them in a situation of certain death? Cuz this I consider pretty evil, but I've never encountered it in a game so far.

Wouldn't it be original if you could be a badguy posing as a good guy? Then people would find out somehow and you would have to eliminate them to keep up appearences..

You don't get that kind of moral depth in games now do you hahaha.

 

[Cartman2nd]

Good guys are pussies. I'll keep those kittens alive in real life, in games I just want to f*ck em up. Well maybe not kittens, but you get the point.

 

[wordsmith]

To be honest, my favourite sort of antagonist is the guy who helps to put out the fire at the orphanage.


And then flicks a match at the petrol-soaked owner of it.

 

[Swaki]

not really, playing evil in games is in most cases ignoring a quest and just murdering everyone you see, when playing like a goodie makes the game much more interesting

 

[Soxafloppin]

I like playing as brutal bastards, i dont really mind if there good or evil.

 

[Jamous]

I enjoy playing as the completely Amoral arsehole simply because I have given up hope for mankind. In reality though, I'm always pretty neutral.

 

[Aanorith]

I never play the badguy if I have the choice not to. I don't have a problem playing Prototype, I love the gameplay, I', a hack 'n' slash fanatic. However, in games like mass effect and fallout 3, I get overwhelmed with guilt if I do something mean so ill have to restart aswell.

One of my friends who always plays the badguy motivates it with, "I'm always nice in real life so I always play the bad guy."
Wish I could, but just not possible for me

 

[GOATOFRAGE]

much more fun and no worrying about the bunnies
bad side is in a game where you kill everyone at the end theres nothing left
i.e. if you kill all the people in the cities of oblivion its boring