Ugh, I can't pull the damn trigger!

[Cheery Lunatic]

My friend and I were talking about inFamous the other day. He thought the Evil playthrough was ten times more fun than the "good" one. See, the problem with me is that I felt like such a flippin' douchebag that I couldn't play the evil half for more than 10 minutes. And that's for all "choose your destiny" video games. Yeah, I realize it all just boils down to pixels, but I still can't do it. I just feel so bad, as sad as that sounds.

I forgot where I read it, but turns out American gamers (not sure about European) have a harder time doing "evil" quests in comparison to the Japanese.

Who else has this problem?

Though I guess I'm asking the wrong crowd since a bunch of you guys are apathetic and antisocial (or at least what I've seen from posting here).

 

[Marter]

I haven't had this problem, because, in the end, it's just a game. I'm not going to lose sleep over something that has no effect on real people.

 

[Milo Windby]

If I am playing a game that has only "evil" in the story line, I have no problem.
The moment I play a game where I have the choice between good or evil, no matter what I just can't play evil. I have to play good.

 

[JRCB]

I have this problem sometimes. I mean, I consider myself to be the good guy, so I should be doing good guy things, right? Like not killing innocent people?

 

[ward.]

"apathetic and antisocial" yep, summed me up pretty well at least.

I play through all routes of games, wouldn't feel right owning something that I didn't bother to finish properly.

 

[ultrachicken]

I've always tended towards the good side in those "choose your destiny" games, but that's begun to change recently.
Sometimes, a game will have characters that just don't seem believable or piss you off. Then I'm the evil guy.

 

[bookboy]

I don't really notice this, but I usually go for the 'good' alignment anyways. this is because I find that trying to complete games with a 'good' alignment is more challenging than doing so with the 'evil' alignment, and I do prefer a good challenge.

 

[zombiejoe]

My friend and I were talking about inFamous the other day. He thought the Evil playthrough was ten times more fun than the "good" one. See, the problem with me is that I felt like such a flippin' douchebag that I couldn't play the evil half for more than 10 minutes. And that's for all "choose your destiny" video games. Yeah, I realize it all just boils down to pixels, but I still can't do it. I just feel so bad, as sad as that sounds.

I forgot where I read it, but turns out American gamers (not sure about European) have a harder time doing "evil" quests in comparison to the Japanese.

Who else has this problem?

Though I guess I'm asking the wrong crowd since a bunch of you guys are apathetic and antisocial (or at least what I've seen from posting here).

YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
The last evil thing I was able to do was kill the little sisters in bioshock 1

After that, I started getting into religion and stuff, and now it's hard to be evil

But doing good feels awesome to. Evil is just fun I guess

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I never play evil in games when I have a choice. I like to role play and pretend I'm this great hero helping everyone, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

 

[Irridium]

It bothers me as well. Its strange really. I know they're just pixels, but I just feel like an ass.

Also we can use this to our advantage in potentially hilarious ways.

Spoiler

Video game doomsayer #4013: "Video games are turning our kids into murderers!"

Rational guy: "What about the fact that most gamers have trouble being evil in games? That could mean gamers are normal people who are good people an want to do the right thing."

Video game doomsayer #4013: "... But the games are desensitizing kids to violence!"

Rational guy: "That could mean when something serious happens, they will be quick to react and do the right thing."

Video game doomsayer #4013: "You have no proof this could be the case!"

Rational guy: "And you have no proof that games are turning kids into murderers."

Well I find it funny...

 

[skystryke]

While I have absolutely no problem playing evil in most games I find that it can hinder my role playing in games like DA because despite my character being a douche and murderer I always end up choosing dialog that makes all my companions love me despite hating everything I do because I can't stand those characters disliking me.

 

[Doc Incognito]

It bothers me as well. Its strange really. I know they're just pixels, but I just feel like an ass.

Also we can use this to our advantage in potentially hilarious ways.

Spoiler

Video game doomsayer #4013: "Video games are turning our kids into murderers!"

Rational guy: "What about the fact that most gamers have trouble being evil in games? That could mean gamers are normal people who are good people an want to do the right thing."

Video game doomsayer #4013: "... But the games are desensitizing kids to violence!"

Rational guy: "That could mean when something serious happens, they will be quick to react and do the right thing."

Video game doomsayer #4013: "You have no proof this could be the case!"

Rational guy: "And you have no proof that games are turning kids into murderers."

Well I find it funny...

I... I feel like I should frame this argument. You sir, have won my undying admiration. *THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE*

OP:I often do feel bad when playing an evil character. I tried doing a Bad Karma file in Fallout 3, just to see what it was like, and I felt so bad when I blew up Megaton, both because I liked the people in there, and hated the people next to me.

But I took revenge by mercilessly slaughtering Tenpenny and Burke, so I felt better about myself afterwards.

 

[eatenbyagrue]

I always play good, or at least non-asshole characters. Heck, IRL, I'm Lawful Neutral (in D&D however, I gravitate towards Neutral Good-Lawful Evil)

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I haven't had this problem, because, in the end, it's just a game. I'm not going to lose sleep over something that has no effect on real people.

Haha, I always seem to read your post at the top of the first page marter! How do you manage to snake the first response to every thread I look at?

OT: Are you kidding me? I like playing the good quest most of the time but sometimes I just let my inner evil villain take over and I relish the pain of the innocent pixels in front of my smoking guns. It makes me sound like a jerk but seeing as I'm quite a peaceable guy in real life, don't begrudge me this...

That being said, sometimes I can't be the villain if I like being the good guy too much or if the requirements for being evil are ridiculously depraved.

 

[ethaninja]

Yeah I'm usually morally inclined to do good even in video games. Not sure why. However, that only means I don't kill random people for no reason. If they got in my way however, I would kill them.

 

[superbatranger]

It doesn't really affect me, the consequences of the actions I make in a video game, because it's just a video game. I mean, you can always play it again from the beginning, changing any of the choices you made in your previous play through. Plus, it's fun to play the bad guy at times.

 

[Yureina]

It depends on the game. I usually play good-aligned characters, but I can also be quite evil in them as well. Some games however I cannot bring myself to evil actions, such as some of the more extreme events in Fallout 3. With that said however, the fact that my game characters, despite their "good" alignment, ruthlessly pillage all the wealth from the areas that they visit, it kind of makes me wonder if that aspect of my playing could be called "evil", but wealth exploitation doesn't really show up on karma meters.