Moral Choices in Games: Are you Good or Evil?

[gf78]

In games that allow you to make good or evil choices, which side do you fall on?  What do you think it says about you as a person?

For me, I overwhelmingly choose the path of good.  I only ever go "evil" when I am doing a second playthrough to see what happens differently.  In all of the Infamous games, I had good Karma.  In the Fable games, I always chose to do the right thing...except that one time in Fable II when my female character was married and I started flirting with a man in a different town and got caught by my suspicious husband.  But we won't talk about that...I've always also been on the Paragon side as opposed to Renegade in the Mass Effect games.

As for what it says about me as a person, I think I'm a good person that wishes the best for everyone in life.  My friends and co-workers all find me extremely likable.  I'm the person they tell their secrets and feelings to so I guess they feel I'm trustworthy. 

[burningdoom]

I usually go for good, simply because a good majority of those moral choice games actually punish you for being bad in way or another. You can't access certain missions, shop sellers won't sell to you, guards attack you on site, etc.

[romanticore]

I usually do a playthrough as good... and all playthroughs after that initial one, I play as evil. The two KotoR games are a perfect example of this. It's harder to play the path of evil, when it comes to the challange it gives my empathy, but somehow much more rewarding.

[matimo]

It really depends on my mood and how the videogame's story progresses, i do notice however i tend to lean more towards the negative choices as i go on. It is sometimes more fun to be evil. >

[rayne315]

neither. I entirely play as a chaotic neutral character. if the choices I am given sound fun that is what I do. What? blow up a nuke and destroy an entire settlement that I will never be able to go back to? ok sounds like fun. Huh? kill a person in a town that turns the entire town against me? and I will be killed on sight? no thank you not just yet.

[baseycillings]

I agree with the majority of you. I'm always good my first time around. On top of the fact that I don't enjoy killing innocent people..you do get punished. Factions won't allow you to join, vendors won't sell to you, you're constantly attacked by guards..

[fighterpilot562]

I normally play as if that was really me in that situation. Normally good. But if I get a chance to get back at an enemy in a cruel way. I'll do it. Lol

[baseycillings]

I normally play as if that was really me in that situation. Normally good. But if I get a chance to get back at an enemy in a cruel way. I'll do it. Lol

You're right, I do the same.

[kamikazekeeg]

I also very much play "myself" in the situations.  It's almost always good and I'll almost never play the "evil" or "bad" side in anything, even on repeat plays.  I know it's a game, none of it matters, but it just rarely feels right to me and I hate playing the bad guy unless the game is specifically built around being a bad guy, though I can't think of too many like that off the top of my head...

[kevininja]

I play the Good Guy most of the time. I actually feel bad whenever I go for the Evil Route, haha

[ignition365]

I generally play somewhere in the realm of neutral good to chaotic neutral.

I do what I want, when I want, usually it's good, but sometimes it's not.

Fallout for instance, I almost always help the good guys, but then I steal their loot when they aren't looking.

[indenton]

Now that I think about it, I haven't played many games with that kind of mechanic.  I left the gold alone in the Cave of Bad Dreams, gotta save Clark. 

[devancowan]

I find at the beginning of the game I always try to be a good guy, but as the game progresses I turn into an asshole. I often find myself thinking "I wonder what will happen if I shoot this kind man in the head" 

[kashell]

I think it depends on the game and the characters involved in the current situation. For instance, in Chrono Trigger when you first meet Marle, I feel it's the right thing to do to show her around, immediately give her back the pendant, etc. Of course, on future plays I try to make her mad because she's annoying. Team Lucca all the way.

In Heavy Rain and/or Beyond: Two Souls, I make choices that I think would be best for the current character. If that means killing someone else or setting a house on fire, so be it.

[bikingjahuty]

Naturally being a nice guy and pretty moral, if I say so myself, I almost always end up being mostly good when it comes to games. The only time I deliberately went asshole in a game was when I replayed KOTOR. Dark side baby!