Poll: Your Morality choices

[Dango]

I absolutely always play the good guy, I sometimes try to play the bad guy on the second playthrough, but I can never bring myself to do the evil stuff, so I just end up being good again, since that's kinda just the person I am. I love being nice to people.

 

[Savagezion]

Depends on the game. I wanted to play RDR as an outlaw but sort of wasn't allowed to. (Game made no sense when I did so I had to play good to enjoy it.) Infamous, same thing kind of. But then I feel compelled to play Paragon in Mass Effect. Arcanum, it depends on the charactor I make.

When I sit down to play a game and I am making my charactor, I sort of decide their personality and then play accordingly. Do to morality systems that are either chaotic evil or chaotic good. Alot of times they end up neutral for alot of the game. It just changes too much to say one way or the other I guess.

 

[Steppin Razor]

Good. I'm typically Neutral Good in most situations, but I can go to Lawful or Chaotic Good here and there.

Oh look, the Queen of Sunshine and Happiness put down some form of 'Good' for her answer. Was there ever any doubt that you'd have answered this way?
[small]That's not supposed to sound sarcastic, it just seems that way because I'm too tired to think of a better way of wording it.[/small]

On topic: I nearly always play as a good character in games with moral choices. Good is subjective, of course. While none of my Fallout 3 characters have ever blown up Megaton and they are always giving caps and water to people that need them, a number of them have 40k Inquisitorial leanings and spend a lot of their time exterminating any non-humans they encounter. I've lost count of the number of times I have cleansed the museum with purifying flame and my trusty gatling laser.

 

[Regular Guy]

I transcend simply being evil in games and go into the realm of being a total sadist.

I was playing Red Dead Redemption, earlier, and saw a guy playing fetch with a dog. Being me, I shot the dog. The guy was obviously not happy about this, but by the time he went to draw his gun I dead-eyed both of his kneecaps, ran up to him as he struggled to get up, and shot him execution style in the face.

 

[zehydra]

In RPG's I always play "Good", just out of habit, except for theft. I'm the Caring Thief.

 

[hittite]

My White Knight Complex strikes again. I'm simply incapable of being evil.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

I do what comes naturally, and due to being raised in a Catholic school and damn good parents, I usually go the good route.

 

[Jedoro]

I'm usually good, but there are plenty of times where I'll fuck bad people up.

 

[Skorpyo]

I like to switch it up.

In Fallout 3, I'm nice to people in town, because that is the best way to get what I want.

Also, Moira is awesome.

But if some bastard out in the wastes thinks he can tell me to "mind my own business", I make his face the business of my bullets.

 

[Tenkage]

I'm a good guy the first time round, but would say I'm more Lawful Neutral if you want to get really serious. However second time playing, I'm a jerk

 

[Dwarfman]

For the most part I take the path of goodness. That don't mean I take the path of rainbows and fluffy bunnies though, I like my characters to be able to talk through a situation but once negotiations have fallen through my characters can be pretty darn nasty. Mass Effect 2 and Fallout for instance.

I've played Planescape Torment a few times and without even trying wound up being neutral good almost always.

 

[xbrandon]

I usually go with good, but if I have multiple save slots and time I'll create another just for evil quests

 

[JoeThree]

I roleplay. I have a select few characters I always play as and make decisions as I feel they would.

 

[ShakesZX]

I play the entire gamut. I play every different role i can think of in the time i play through the game numerous times.

I've done good, evil, and neutral twice in both Mass Effect games. And in Fallout 3, I've switched it up depending on the situation my character's placed in. I really do enjoy pretending to be a variety of other people in games.

 

[Steppin Razor]

What if I had pout down Lawful Evil?

I would have assumed that your account had been hacked. In which case I would have informed the mods.

[small]*shakes fist*
Damned moral compass. Let me do bad things without feeling guilty, damn it![/small]

 

[Someperson307]

I pretty much always take the evil path, but I will occasionally be good, like at the end of Fallout 3, at the end of the Pitt, and when ghoul bigotry is involved.

 

[lacktheknack]

Well, it all started in Bioshock when a little girl screamed "WHAT'S WRONG, MR. BUBBLES!?", and I've played good ever since.

 

[Canid117]

In the Kotor games I usually played good because evil just seemed a little too... petty... while in games like Mass Effect I was a mostly good character who was perfectly willing to shove you out of a window if you refused to talk. Kind of like Jack Bauer but with less torture.

Dragon Age was very similar. I was a decent person who was perfectly willing to say... sacrifice a woman with dark magic so as to destroy a demon and get the support I needed to save the kingdom. Pragmatic but not an asshole.

 

[cavemano727]

The first playthrouh I tend to be good, but I try to be different on the second or third but it isn't easy.
I don't feel that moral choices are done properly however. I feel that it should be less black and white and the gray area only being nuetral. I feel that choices should only be in the long run, and say if throughout a mission you do something good/evil that it shouldn't be emidiate, it should wait until the end of the mission to determine loss or gain in karma. Say you killed an innocent guard, but in order to reach a location in time to save lives. Maybe the public would like you less at first but you should gain karma.
Also the middle ground has to be bigger, usually the choices for most desicions come down to good with no prize, nuetral with a prize, or brutally murder then steal prize.

 

[Serenegoose]

What if I had pout down Lawful Evil?

I would have assumed that your account had been hacked. In which case I would have informed the mods.

[small]*shakes fist*
Damned moral compass. Let me do bad things without feeling guilty, damn it![/small]

I always imagine moral compasses actually point to something supremely irrelevant. What is moral north, after all?

"My moral compass always directs me to act in a way that will eventually lead me towards a large iron deposit."

"My moral compass gets confused when in space, or in a strong magnetic field"

"If I go in the opposite direction of my moral compass, I will end up in Australia."