Poll: Your game morality
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I like the powers of darkness, but I like also helping people and feeling like the hero. It's just how I am, I like to find ways to not fight, but still bring the pain when I have to. How come I can't be a "good" Sith in these games?
I'm usually super nice in video games that give you the option. In multiplayer games, I usually play a support role, healing, buffing, sharing ammo, sharing loot, protecting new players, etc., pretty much whatever would make the game more fun for other people.
I'm the same way in real life, so, yeah, that's pretty much who I am.
I'm the same way in real life, so, yeah, that's pretty much who I am.
Part of the reason we play games is to do things we don't normally do....be the hero, use weapons that are typically highly illegal, drive fast, blow stuff up....and break a lot of rules. That's part of what makes the GTA series (and its clones and off-shoots) fun. We could just do the story in Prototype, try to only kill the baddies that are shooting at us....or we could test to see just how many people we can hit with a thrown sedan. Being evil is fun....we get to do all the things we can't do in real life but really, really want to (to some degree at least). I tend to play games with morality systems (like Fallout) through twice so I can see just how different the experience is.
Uh, I pretty much hae the fact that Fallout 3 desperately tries to shoehorn you into playing a good guy. You get good karma for pretty much anything, and it's impossible to get most of the really good items if you opt for the more "evil" path in regards to quests and certain actions.
In Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 playing a good character was actually more fun due to the fact that you often had more resource based benefits from doing "evil" deeds, thus making the "good" and altrusitic ways more difficult overall.
Also, making a place like "little lamplight" and also make it impossible to kill any children in the game, that's just a recipe for gamer rage.
Anyhow, to answer the topic question, my game morality mostly depends on how fun the game is to play depending on doing good or evil. Games like Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 rewards me with a challenge to play a good guy, and that makes ut more entertaining. Games like Fallout 3 however that tries o shoehorn me into playing a good guy and effectively cut out half of the games content if I choose to be evil makes me want to do more evil action in the game (although I try to refrain from them because I know I'll be cheated out of many of the better and fun items inthe game if I act evil).
In Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 playing a good character was actually more fun due to the fact that you often had more resource based benefits from doing "evil" deeds, thus making the "good" and altrusitic ways more difficult overall.
Also, making a place like "little lamplight" and also make it impossible to kill any children in the game, that's just a recipe for gamer rage.
Anyhow, to answer the topic question, my game morality mostly depends on how fun the game is to play depending on doing good or evil. Games like Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 rewards me with a challenge to play a good guy, and that makes ut more entertaining. Games like Fallout 3 however that tries o shoehorn me into playing a good guy and effectively cut out half of the games content if I choose to be evil makes me want to do more evil action in the game (although I try to refrain from them because I know I'll be cheated out of many of the better and fun items inthe game if I act evil).
I play good on the first go,
Evil on th second,
And then if i ever do a third go just f*ck about.
Evil on th second,
And then if i ever do a third go just f*ck about.
I guess neutral is me.
But I am mostly good but I love to be a little evil sometimes, especially when I get anger.
But I am mostly good but I love to be a little evil sometimes, especially when I get anger.
Ah, it seems awfully silly, but I almost always go for the "good" options. I've been trained all my life to hold back my hatred of my fellow human beings, and when the avatars I'm interacting with happen to look like them, my training gets me down. However, one noteworthy exception is in Mass Effect, where I was about 60% Paragon, 40% Renegade. I think that's because the moral choices in Mass Effect are more complicated than the standard "Mother Teresa vs. Adolf Hitler" sort we get in most games, but they pathetically shoe-horned them into binary terms anyway.
If I only play through the game once, I go with the one that gets the best stuff. For example, I have max Honor in Red Dead Redemption, because the ability to go into stores and buy things is handy. If I play through a game twice, (like in inFamous) I go both ways.
Well in games I usually play as the good guy, I just find that in most games where you can play as either the good or bad guy, the good guy is usually a saint and the bad guy is just a prick. The only time I really play as the "bad" guy is in ME2.
In a world in which douche-bag frat boys play as the sith because "Red light saber's are badass!" and "we get all the chicks" I shall carve a path of righteousness. a bloody, violent path, but a righteous one none the less.
This is more of a story I had once. a couple of years ago when I went to a friend's house, his older brother was playing Kotor. he was fighting the three apprentices during the final encounter aboard the spaceship, bragging about how he murdered the crew he had just spent the entire game with, and was totally going to shag Bastilla when he was done with Darth malak. he asked me if you could do anything as cool on the good side. So I told him I dueled Bastilla, and then brought her back into the light. and then used her battle meditation to win the battle.
redeeming a fallen Jedi is far cooler than fighting three nameless apprentice's.
This is more of a story I had once. a couple of years ago when I went to a friend's house, his older brother was playing Kotor. he was fighting the three apprentices during the final encounter aboard the spaceship, bragging about how he murdered the crew he had just spent the entire game with, and was totally going to shag Bastilla when he was done with Darth malak. he asked me if you could do anything as cool on the good side. So I told him I dueled Bastilla, and then brought her back into the light. and then used her battle meditation to win the battle.
redeeming a fallen Jedi is far cooler than fighting three nameless apprentice's.
I normally play based on my personality in real life which is leaning more towards evil since I care about myself over the well being of others. But I do have morals.
On my first playthrough I'm always good, then on my second I'm bad, that way I get the most out of it. What I love about Bioware RPGs is that alignment isn't all black and white. For example in Dragon Age you can be good sometimes and bad others and there are no real consequences. It has a more realistic feel because nobody is nice all the time, so it gives the player the freedom to be nice to nice NPCs and a dick to dickish ones. Same with Mass Effect, I'm usually fairly neutral, leaning towards the good side, responding to situations the way I genuinely would IRL
