Poll: Your preferred moral choice?

[The Undoer]

The "I don't want to watch the world burn, so I'll help it, but I won't enjoy it" neutral stance, the kind which will stir up trouble just for the hell of it, burn buildings to watch them burn, hurt people to see how to kill best, but when it comes down to it, my characters always "finish the job". The good goal the evil way really.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Orphan stomping all the way! Hooray for immoral choices!

 

[Beastialman]

I play good, then I start two saves, one neutral and one the most excessive evil guy I can think of (Fear the Power of Emperor GodFuck).

 

[DocBalance]

I play lawful evil. By that I mean that usually I act only for my own gain, but I don't go around murdering people without purpose. I basically play it like a crime boss, doing only stuff I'm sure I can get away with. Unless it's Arcanum, then I'm going to go on an "evil murdering bastard" power trip and start slaughtering townsfolk >

If it's that black and white I'll choose Good. But to be honest I prefer moral choices when either option is a reasonable one. Or when either option has a negative outcome. Case in point, Dragon age: origins.

That game is full of moral choices where either option is a reasonable one. Like choosing which candidate should be the next dwarf king. You've got the old guy who seems nice but wants the dwarfs to be reclusive making them more isolated from the rest of the world. Then you've got the rebel son, as asshole but he wants to spread the dwarfs to the outside, strengthening the relationships with the dwarfs and the other races. Can you honestly say that choice is so black and white?

Spoiler

I would point out that if you play the dwarf beginning, that rebel son turns out to be an evil murdering douchebag who kills your brother and blame you for it. Just sayin'.

 

[Nyffenschwander]

In my experience a "good" playstyle is the far more rewarding one. Sure, you have to listen to all those whiny help needing NPCs and do lengthy quests for them to shut up any time soon. But you also get adequate rewards (XP, Items, a warm feeling in your heart and shit).
Playing evil mostly just means you proceed faster and in a less complicated way, but the reward (if there's one at all) just sucks major balls in comparison to the good way.

 

[DocBalance]

In my experience a "good" playstyle is the far more rewarding one. Sure, you have to listen to all those whiny help needing NPCs and do lengthy quests for them to shut up any time soon. But you also get adequate rewards (XP, Items, a warm feeling in your heart and shit).
Playing evil mostly just means you proceed faster and in a less complicated way, but the reward (if there's one at all) just sucks major balls in comparison to the good way.

I'm just going to go on record as saying that I would never want a "warm feeling in my heart and shit". Why am I pawing through my own fecal matter, and why is it warm?

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Take em all out!


Even the Major NPC's.....

 

[Rednog]

I stick to good because most games evil choice is rather shallow, you can never be a behind the scenes guy having other people do you're bidding. You're always some baby eating demon and in general there aren't a ton of options in a game once you turn evil, most npcs just outright attack you and you pretty much lose all the quests in an area. And it is just a pain in the ass to have to fight off everyone.

 

[Sigel]

Unaligned usually. If not applicable, I pick neutral or kinda good.

 

[Meggiepants]

Almost always good. I'm still trying to repair my soul from the last time I played through a game as evil.

It isn't worth the guilt I feel after playing evil. Even being virtually evil is enough to put me in a glum mood.

 

[Misterian]

I mainly play nice, for different reasons:

Fallout 3: I do things like wreak a bad guy's main base, abolish slavery, and give the Enclave a bad day, kill the Andale cannibals. mainly to spite the horrid nightmarish wasteland life where most people live in fear, and to carry the nice satisfaction that I'm making the Wasteland safer. though some rare times I take certain evil options as well, like killing Moriarty or Sister (guys who people get mad at you for killing regardless of if their jerks or not), or stealing crud from people when they aren't looking (which is actually pretty easy),

Shadow the Hedgehog: Black Doom was the main reason I started out going all the way good, 'cause I enjoy the idea of giving a middle figure to mystery men who think they can tell people what to do without good cause.

Mass Effect: eh.... I personally get the feeeling that with some Renegade options, that I'm not truly succeeding in anything, maybe I carry a genuine Paragon perspective on matters.

Infamous: okay, I don't have that game yet, but I got to play a small bit of it, and when taking the good options, I really felt I was being a superhero, and I'm a sucker for superheroes.

 

[Sampsa]

Sometimes I try to act like a villain but eventually I turn into opposite of the darkside. Don't know why this happens, but it happens nevertheless the game I play.

 

[crystalsnow]

Very interesting poll results. I chose neutral, but more exactly i would be a "chaotic neutral" because it means that I'm not bound to any moral, or lawful codes, I can focus on doing what is really right for the greater purpose, and I can essentially do whatever the hell I like.

 

[oppp7]

Good then evil, unless there's achievements involved.

Only broke this rule for Bioshock.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

I usually play good, but sometimes the game will push me off that path quite hard. In Daggerfall, for one ancient example, the NPCs were universally rude and stupid and eventually I got sick of them sneeringly refusing to help me save some kidnapped child or whatever and butchered the entire town. It wasn't exactly evil, just really brutally bad-tempered.

 

[Josh123914]

I do neutral(both), then whichever mode I hated(good) and the one I liked(bad) don't ask why, it made sense when I played through Spore.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

... you also get adequate rewards (XP, Items, a warm feeling in your heart and shit).

I'm just going to go on record as saying that I would never want a "warm feeling in my heart and shit". Why am I pawing through my own fecal matter, and why is it warm?

I read it that way too and was thinking it'd be easier just to have two bowls of a really hot curry.

 

[Zani]

What ever gives the best upgrades, but in other games it depends, on whether I like the characters in the game. And in some games like Medieval II: TW I just go the easy way and kill every prisoner and assassinate everyone who even looks at me funny, "It's much safer to be feared than loved".

 

[Booze Zombie]

I like to use the moral choices that benefit me and others.
E.g: Kill the bandits, take the bandit's stuff, give the peasants back the stuff they had stolen.
I've got a new sword, the peasants have their stuff back, have no more bandit problems and they'll probably help me somehow in the future.

 

[soapyshooter]

Always good. But in KOTOR i was evil the whole time till the time came to make a choice, I went good. Nothing like using force lightning to put the sith in their fucking place.