Are you the good guy or the bad guy?

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

Games with morality systems often do a so-so job balancing the good and bad sides. I prefer games where you're the bad guy like Legacy of Kain. Soul Reaver has a pretty cool main character. Too bad the gameplay stinks ass.

[RGC]

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[sven666]

killed everyone in the vault before i left (fallout 3)..

Not possible, it won't let you kill kids...I heard.

true, well i killed everyone killable in the vault then if that makes you happy?

altho you can bet your ass i hit those annoying snotnosed punks both once and twice with my batons..

[RGC]

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[Khan]

killed everyone in the vault before i left (fallout 3)..

executed all the "prisoners" in mgs 4..

always try to look up skirts/down clevage in whatever game i play..

..yeah im the bad guy i guess.

wow, your such a piece of shit!

[Acid King]

I almost always play as the bad guy because usually it's harder and is always more fun.

[sven666]

wow, your such a piece of shit!

"you all need me, so you can point your fucking fingers and say.."

well you all know the rest

[Square King]

good, bad...I'm the guy with the gun.

[xris]

I usually play in the moment, going with what I feel is appropriate. I like making snap desisions, and being ruthless. I won't just aimlessly kill, but accidents happen.
Chaotic neutral.

[ColonelFatso]

I played Jedi Knight light-side, partly because Blinding makes the game so much easier and partly because you have to work pretty hard to not end up light-side.

[Sasupoika]

I do whatever I feel like, be it bad or good.
Well, in real life otherhand, I am a real wussy. A good guy. Atleast so I think.

[GateofThunderforceIII]

Have the game but have not played it yet. Just like with similar games, I would play the straight and narrow way. UNLESS you get your heart broken by a bitch in the game, then I will flip out and be as vile as I can possibly be. Kind of like my actual life right now...

[Specineff]

MGS2 and 3, I'd have no qualms about incapacitating a soldier that managed to discover me sneaking up towards him, but I'd never kill him. Shoot him in the hands and feet, then knock him out.

But the fucker who dared cut or shoot me... he'd eat Taiwanese Cobra and Scorpion.

[Skykid]

In Red Dead Redemption, you can purchase a bandanna to hide your face, which will prevent any honor or fame changes due to evil acts. You can rob people, kill people, lasso people, do whatever the hell you want, and the only consequence is they'll try to shoot you or the sheriffs will hunt you down (unless you kill all the witnesses!).

HA HA!

So last night I went to Thieves Landing to get the bandana, spent ages in the dead of night trying to find the tailor shop, and when I do it's locked and I can't get it. Frustrated, I go around to the back to try the door there which is also locked. Some dude is standing next to it talking some shit to me, and in my desire to stop being so good I decide to hold him at gunpoint and rob the bastard as we're hidden out of sight.

Next thing I know he pulls a gun on me so I let him have it point blank with both barrels only to get two successive messages appear:

1: "Sometimes when you try to rob people they will fight back."

and

2: "You've killed a shopkeeper. This shop will now be unavailable to use for FIVE DAYS."

So now I'm going to have to wait even longer to get that bloody bandana!

Crime doesn't pay, it's official.

[null1024]

Bad guy always. Fullstop.

[sirmax]

Good guy, at least most of the time. Sometimes, when I got killed for whatever stupid reason (ie. a bear suddenly appears and wants some supprise buttsecks), I become so pissed that I put on my bandana and go apeshit on everybody until either I'm dead or out of ammunition.

And sometimes I blow everyone up, because I lost at whatever minigame.

[Ruldra]

You know, many people complain that games can't handle someone who goes by the evil way, but the truth is, they have no idea how to act like an evil character. They think being evil is all about killing everyone in front of them just for the heck of it. This isn't being evil, it's being a madman. In Dungeons & Dragons, people who act like that are known as Stupid Evil.

There are lots of ways to run a successful evil character: work for someone, then betray them at the right time to get the spoils for yourself; hire an underling and send him to a suicide mission so you can get his stuff; bribe city guards for favors, and so on. It depends on the situation, use your brain.

It's been a while since I last played RPGs, but I think most games nowadays gives you an evil option in quests to benefit yourself in detriment of someone else; at least in Baldur's Gate 2 I can recall plenty of quests like that. But crazy murderers will quickly be hunt down and killed, be it in games or real life.

[FIL]

I play as the good guy unless I see an opportunity for mischief that I can't ignore. Like griefing Maggie Chow in Deus Ex or putting a hogtied woman on the railway tracks in Red Dead Redemption.

[Skykid]

putting a hogtied woman on the railway tracks in Red Dead Redemption.

Best achievement ever.

[No_not_like_Quake]

I usually play as a good guy in serious attempts at games. I have, on occasion, gone on murderous rampages. I especially like pushing people in GTA4 down long flights of stairs or sheer drops.

[Alien Soldier]

Well, in modern videogames, I'm usualy the guy who get killed before he have the time to choose a clan so yeah, I'm confused here. I've killed a LOT of wild animals in RDR though, does it makes me a bad guy or just a canadian ?

[Ed Oscuro]

Well, in modern videogames, I'm usualy the guy who get killed before he have the time to choose a clan

It's like the old article about a "realistic" FPS that uninstalls itself if you die.

[Blade]

It would be nice, game-mechanic-wise, if being bad wasn't so easy to do, and being good would be less of a challenge. I am glaring at YOU Fable, with your evil points just because I want to read a book on a shelf!

[Specineff]

It would be nice, game-mechanic-wise, if being bad wasn't so easy to do, and being good would be less of a challenge. I am glaring at YOU Fable, with your evil points just because I want to read a book on a shelf!

Well, we gotta remember that Molyneux got started making his god simulators because he couldn't figure out how to get a character from point A to point B. That's gotta tell you something. Next time someone complains about how people let you ransack their homes in JRPGs, feel free to quote them your example.

[Ed Oscuro]

Well, we gotta remember that Molyneux got started making his god simulators because he couldn't figure out how to get a character from point A to point B. That's gotta tell you something. Next time someone complains about how people let you ransack their homes in JRPGs, feel free to quote them your example.

Ha ha, touche! Brilliantly said...I'm in awe. (Did he really start making god games because of pathfinding problems? if so lOL)