Unleash Your Darkside!

[PurpleRain]

I'm sitting here at home saddened because I can't find BG2. At the moment I feel like letting out my dark side. I want to make some sort of evil mage that enjoys it when he sucks the souls out of puppies and children. But I can't find the disk! (Slams my face down in my arm and balls my little eyes out... well maybe not so dramatic, but I'm a little ticked)

Are you the kind of gamer that enjoys a good town burning. I know that's all I do in fallout. I think games let you be evil while not actually doing anything morally incorect in real life. I might just go off and play Mass Effect. I'm half way through that while being an absolute prick to everyone I meet and great. Are there any games that you enjoy the temptation of darkness in?

 

[Eudaemonian]

I have a mixed sentiment on that. I very much enjoy nefarious characters in linear game stories. Some of my favorite characters in fiction are the villains of their respective stories. However, when it comes down to games that let you choose to be evil, I rarely do. Not because I don't like playing evil, but because I enjoy subtlety, tact, and the sense that an "evil" person believes that they are doing the right thing.

Evil choices in games are rarely any of those things. I remember in KotOR there was an evil choice where you could make a woman search fruitlessly forever for a droid she was in love with that you had obliterated. Now, I will give that credit because it is genuinely evil, unlike many of the things I did for darkside points like... threaten anyone that I talked to for money for no reason. What am I? A fucking bully hitting people up for their lunch money? But in any event, it had no justification. Nothing evil you did was something you could defend as a proper action.

On the other hand, I do enjoy the occasional rampant destruction. I remember in Morrowind I reached such an absurd level of power that when I stumbled upon the town of Gnisis (or something close to that) I killed every last person in the town starting from the Imperial Guard Commander. I did it while completely naked except for my Dwemer Claymore. Why? ...Town had an ugly name. Didn't care for it.

 

[The Madman]

That's why I have more than one copy of Baldur's Gate 2. Once lent the game to a friend and he'd thought he lost it, so I bought a new copy only to have him come up to me the next day and say "Oh, I just misplaced it!" and give me back my original copy. Then I couldn't find a copy of just the BG2 expansion pack, so I just bought the 'complete collection' box which had the expansion as well as the original game. Now I'm at 3 copies of BG2 and counting, and ya know what? Money well spent! Damn that game is good. MMMmmm, delicious Baldur's Gate 2.

As for evilness, sure, everyone once and awhile it's good to be bad. Generally I play through a game as the hero for the first time, then if the game has the option, replay as an evil bastard in my second playthrough. Just so I can get the full experience, ya know?

 

[PurpleRain]

That's a bit like Mass Effect. You don't strike me as being evil, just more or less an areshole. I generally play the good guy first. Then maybe down the track I'll make an evil guy to try and brake the game to see how evil I can be.

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Now I'm at 3 copies of BG2 and counting, and ya know what? Money well spent! Damn that game is good. MMMmmm, delicious Baldur's Gate 2.

Just die.

 

[The Madman]

Just die.

But why, I have so much to live for... like playing Baldur's Gate 2. BWAHAHAHAHA!

I only mock because I feel your pain, honest!

 

[shadow skill]

You really are a bastard The Madman...

 

[-Javelin-]

Unleash your darkside and download a torrent?

 

[PurpleRain]

Just die.

But why, I have so much to live for... like playing Baldur's Gate 2. BWAHAHAHAHA!

I only mock because I feel your pain, honest!

You really are heartless aren't you. Can you tell me where you live? No big deal, I just wanna know.

 

[Copter400]

I'm not a really evil guy. Besides, the moral choice most games offer you never make you feel bad. Even Bioshock. I just don't care about these hordes of identical twins.

Of course, I do love rampant destruction, especially when it's righteous. I was bored while playing DAH2, so I destroyed every last building in Albion. I had done just about every in the Exile 3 shareware and everyone in my party equalled the BFG in fiery wrath, so I, like Eudaemonian, killed everyone in a small town. And to think they were worried about the plagues of acidic slimes.

 

[PurpleRain]

I rememeber my first taste of evil. T'was Fable and I had just beaten the game being the nicest man on earth. Butterfly's followed me in my wake and I had a few houses with a my beautiful wives... and I was bored. So I killed some of them, beat the rest. I farted on children and taught them swear words. Broke windows and raided homes. Killed shop owners and took over their stores. Stole, murdered, drew all over my face and was a general arsehole. Yet my halo glowed brightly and those butterfly's wouldn't piss off.

 

[Knight Templar]

I'm sitting here at home saddened because I can't find BG2. At the moment I feel like letting out my dark side. I want to make some sort of evil mage that enjoys it when he sucks the souls out of puppies and children. But I can't find the disk! (Slams my face down in my arm and balls my little eyes out... well maybe not so dramatic, but I'm a little ticked)

Are you the kind of gamer that enjoys a good town burning. I know that's all I do in fallout. I think games let you be evil while not actually doing anything morally incorect in real life. I might just go off and play Mass Effect. I'm half way through that while being an absolute prick to everyone I meet and great. Are there any games that you enjoy the temptation of darkness in?

somehow my disks dont have "infscreen.cpp" so i can only load games in TOB

i feel your pain, purple rain.

damm couldent resist.

but i am not evil i just want power. "Dont worry i will save you. if somebody tries to buy me out i will say no i have self respect! ....the silver sword you say...in one piece you say.... wheres my wanten slaughter hat?

 

[Magnus Of Weelilplace]

I like games that let you explore your dark side, but I don't like them to be the sort where there is one "good" and one "bad" choice. I like to have a little of both in the games I play.

 

[The Irrelevant Gamer]

I usually play a good guy in Baldur's Gate, but every so often I quicksave, and proceed to murder everyone in town until I am destroyed. I can only play a paladin for so long before I just lose it. Any game that allows me to randomly kill bystanders will eventually elicit this reaction from me.

 

[[HD]Rob Inglis]

Every game I play, I am the evil guy. I kick the chickens, slap the little children, hit on the women, and kill all you appear on my HUD. It's fun to do bad things when there are no moral and real recourse. It's just fun to do whatever you want, without boundary.

 

[ilves7]

I literally re-installed BG 1 yesterday... last time I played through as a dwarf fighter on the gooder side. Now I rolled a woman half-elf assassin for the fun of it, planning on playing it evil.

 

[[HD]Rob Inglis]

I rememeber my first taste of evil. T'was Fable and I had just beaten the game being the nicest man on earth. Butterfly's followed me in my wake and I had a few houses with a my beautiful wives... and I was bored. So I killed some of them, beat the rest. I farted on children and taught them swear words. Broke windows and raided homes. Killed shop owners and took over their stores. Stole, murdered, drew all over my face and was a general arsehole. Yet my halo glowed brightly and those butterfly's wouldn't piss off.

Yeah, I remember that if you were good or evil enough, it was almost impossible to go the other way without paying billions to the temples.

 

[Girlysprite]

Dungeon Keeper! *glees*
well, its not like you have a choice really, but its fun being evil. And to some extend, there's overlord.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

I had done just about every in the Exile 3 shareware and everyone in my party equalled the BFG in fiery wrath, so I, like Eudaemonian, killed everyone in a small town. And to think they were worried about the plagues of acidic slimes.

Good times. I loved going through secret passages and stealing stuff when people weren't looking. I remember doing a mission for a guy in red robes that had me going to another town and taking back something they had stole from him. When every guard, townsperson and their kid/dog (literally) came after me, I took my sweet time slaughtering every last one of them, as opposed to getting the hell out of there as soon as the alarm went off.

 

[Count_de_Monet]

I used to have a custom map of Starcraft which jammed three different enemy bases together and put me in a walled fortress of death. I saved it at a point when the enemy was perfectly built up, as highly teched as they could get and generally a huge mass of killage while I had multiple ghosts ready to inflict my nuclear powered wrath on their asses. On a bad day I would log in, drop my ghosts off at the perimeter of said base and then nuke it all to hell. My other aggression-remediation strategy was to, on that same map, destroy every unit I owned and create an enormous army of marines then attack the enemy base until I wiped them out.

 

[PurpleRain]

Sometimes in Age Of Empires 2 I would go into a town (in the campagin mode) and slaughter the town, which you don't have to. I destroy some buildings, set fire to most of them, leave a few and pretty much try and kill as many pesants as possible to make it look like rampart chaos has just come through town.

In Hearoes Of Might And Magic 3 I usually play as the undead. I have a zombie and vampire fetish so any game that allows me to play them I usually do, and to the best of my evil. Purge the land of the living! and all that.