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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Righteous, Neutral or Malevolent - what's your gaming choice?

Videogames sometimes present the player with a choice -binary, or multi-consequential-, one that can be defined among the parameters of "good and evil", and whatever lies in between. You could try being a heroic, selfless protagonist that tries to solve everyone's predicament without blinking. You might try to avoid any confrontation, and just mind your own damn business. Or else, you could be the ultimate hedonist, taking pleasure over your helpless victims.

 

So, what's your get-go morality when you start playing a game that allows you to choose who you want to be? Do you enjoy being on that side? Do you fear taking a liking to the other side, or you go for a second playthrough and see the endless possibilities? What do you feel when you have to play with a character whose aligment does not fit with yours, or he make decisions you wouldn't have made?



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When a game presents some sort of morality system I always go for the good side, if sometimes neutral. I can never bring myself to do something from the evil side.

For example I cannot bring myself to try to do a thinner run on Epic Mickey, even if that means not seeing everything a game has to offer I just can't do it. Same with games like Infamous, Undertale, ect.



ARamdomGamer said:

When a game presents some sort of morality system I always go for the good side, if sometimes neutral. I can never bring myself to do something from the evil side.

 

What if you were to play on the evil side from the beginning? Would you go with it or would rather play something else?



Wright said:

What if you were to play on the evil side from the beginning? Would you go with it or would rather play something else?

If is something already established, I go with it, I only apply that to games that give me the choice to be either evil or good.



All sides ...

If it were me though I wouldn't want this good or evil crap though since group psychology is far more deeper than that ...



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I've never been able to bring myself to be on the malevolent side. I'm always a mix between neutral and righteous.



Depends. If an NPC annoys me then i'm definitely going to kill him.



I cannot stand the thought of choosing the "bad guy" lines in games that allow the option, it makes feel, well, bad.

In GTA, tho, I kill everyone.



My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first. 

Whatever feels right, like in life.

I hate choices like that.



I tend to side to with the chaotic good side. I like doing what's right, but my own way and not the way of the law. That's how I roll Though role playing different roles can be fun in itself too. If I can see both sides, I will likely play the game twice. It's fun seeing it on both sides.



 

              

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