The rumor going around is that the upcoming rainbow six game will feature a morality system. This worries me a bit. I have yet to see any video game really get this right.

My problem with morality systems in games is that they require clear definitions for what is moral and what is immoral. 

Has there really ever been a video game that featured a truly well implemented morality system?

well,infamous would be the obvious one. I happen to love a morality system. I love having the option to play as evil and good.

The morality system works if there are quit different storyline for being good or bad. I felt Mass Effect and Infamous do this well so I don't complain about the black and white aspect of it. Infamous is especially good as it gives you different powers depending on your choice. Having more than two outcomes in a game seems like it would take a lot of work to implement in games.

i have yet to find any worth it. morality choices seem so damn painfully obvious. only ones that have been pretty decent in recent experience is witcher 2 on some ocassions.

then as some of you say it opens up abilities or powers? wtf woudl that be. Lest bring up jedi. if i'm a good jedi, why the fuck can't i shoot lightning as well? Why do i have to go around frying innocents with lightning, why can't i use them to counter bad jedi or other reasons, like say starting a fire?

morality should not dictate what powers i can learn.  its the whole guns don't kill people, people kill people.  lightning don't make a person bad, what you do WITH the lightning makes you bad or good.

Infamous was a decent game but it had the most black and white morality system I've ever seen. Plus it had other problems as well. Certain things you do that should get you bad karma end up having no effect and vice versa.

Well if they implement it nicely like Mass Effect then there is nothing to worry about.

I agree. Haven't played witcher 2 but the only game I thought came close to having a good morality system was Red Dead. In that game I believe the only consequence for doing good or bad was in the way the public reacts to you. 

My problem with red dead ended up being the same issue I have with most such games. They always tell you that you're being good or bad with stuff lik +5 paragon or +5 evil karma. I would like to see a video game with a built in morality system that doesn't tell me what is good or bad. Don't hand out rewards for morality and don't make the consequences obvious. Just allow me to make moral decisons that have a natural effect on gameplay.

I think InFamous gets a bad rap for its morality system, I think it wasn't as bad as people say.

ClassicGamingWizzz said: dragon age origins, fallout 3, mass effect and fable 1 ( i only play the first ) have great morality systems , but they are rpgs , in shooter i dont know ... let´s wait and see

haven't played fallout 3, but the other 3 games have pathetic morality systems.  really morality games haven't improved upon KOTOR, and that is a very old game and as we have said its so painfully obvious what is what in choices morality wise and the blatantly obvious telling you when it happens and or rewards

I dont think any game has gotten that system extraordinarily right. Even mass effect doesnt in my opinion.