The good, the bad and the neutral?

[Luca]

Lots of games these days have a morality system in them. You do good deeds, you get good powers/perks/endings. You do bad things, you get evil powers/perks/endings ect. So when you guys are playing these games, were do you usally fall on that scale?

For most games I play I'm usally a good guy. In Mass Effect 1&2, inFamous, Red Dead Redemption and many more games I do the good deeds. I can't stay in the middle because I always like taking the heros path. But Fallout is a differnt story for me. It brings out the worst in me. In fallout I kill everything that doesn't give me what I want. I blew up megaton just for the caps and then killed half of the people in that hotel just to take that nice stuff. I steal everything. I just can't be nice in fallout...

[Lobar]

I always play a good guy first, then if I want to play through a second time I play as a total dick (or bitch, if the option is available).

[Jashwa]

I always play a good guy first, then if I want to play through a second time I play as a total dick (or bitch, if the option is available).

[this] because it's so much more work (usually) to be good. If I save good for second then I won't actually finish.

I hate how in games like inFamous that you can either be really evil and awesome or really good and awesome, but you can't be awesome neutral. Neutral just makes you horrible.

[Alstor]

Is it me, or does the entire game treat you like crap for being on the bad side? I know the characters in the game must hate you, but it seems like you get the harder enemies and the weakest perks when you're evil. It's like the game is saying, "Grrr. This is how you are in real life, no questions asked. You are a terrible person."

[Asswings]

I just do whatever the fuck I feel like doing, and not pay attention to the moral path it leads me.

In other words, I end up always being evil.

Also, I killed the megaton sheriff as soon as I saw him. "OH LOOK AT THAT HAT I WANNA WEAR IT IF I KILL HIM CAN I?" Protip: Yes. And you can wear his jacket too. It's pretty hawt.

[Jashwa]

Is it me, or does the entire game treat you like crap for being on the bad side? I know the characters in the game must hate you, but it seems like you get the harder enemies and the weakest perks when you're evil. It's like the game is saying, "Grrr. This is how you are in real life, no questions asked. You are a terrible person."

What game are you talking about? I've often found that being evil is way better than being good.

[Alstor]

What game are you talking about? I've often found that being evil is way better than being good.

I think it was Prototype and at some points Fallout 3. This is my own opinion, of course.

[Syradact]

I tend to pick evil races/characters. Whatever's the alternative to the hippy dippy out to save the world gary stu.

[Shànwàng]

I play evil first and as a woman. Then super duper eagle scout. I wonder what Freud would have to say about that.

[Luca]

I just do whatever the fuck I feel like doing, and not pay attention to the moral path it leads me.

In other words, I end up always being evil.

Also, I killed the megaton sheriff as soon as I saw him. "OH LOOK AT THAT HAT I WANNA WEAR IT IF I KILL HIM CAN I?" Protip: Yes. And you can wear his jacket too. It's pretty hawt.

I just wanted the sheriffs gun... So I could kill more people and take their fancy clothes.

[Stargazer Bleu]

I play the good guy in a first game.
A second time if the game was good I will play the bad way.

Got to start off mass effect 2 with bonuses for both ways from ME 1 saves.
Can't wait to do this in ME3.

[slydude851]

I take the evil way most of the time just because it's interesting the way things turn out. If it has some consequences in the future I would probably consider the pros and cons of going either way. For something like Bioshock 2, the endings were dramatically affected by your morale choices.

[Silver Dragon]

I play good first, then evil second. Lastly I try to play a game where I do what I would actually do when presented with those situations, which tends towards good/neutral.

[Willow]

I usually play good in Bioshock because of all the help you get in the end

Either that or neutral

I don't think I've ever played through to get the bad ending, which would be beneficial ADAM wise, but I wouldn't have the help of Tenenbaum in the long run

[_Zero_]

I prefer trying to stay somewhat neutral and then maybe a second or third time through I will try to be good or evil.

[Playful Little Foxy]

Fallout is one of the games that let's you 'choose a side' that is actually fun to do so in! You're so free to wander about and blow shit up and piss people off, and there aren't any guards to stop you. Just people. With guns and fists!

[Stratadrake]

I hate how in games like inFamous that you can either be really evil and awesome or really good and awesome, but you can't be awesome neutral. Neutral just makes you horrible.

There's a trope for that. Games with karma meters tend to forget the middle ground between the righteous good and unholy evil, so if you try to straddle between the two poles you miss out on all the goodies (no pun intended).

[Metal_Skunk]

I usually play as good, for some reason it's hard for me to be a dick in video games...unless it's KotOR, force lightning is just awesome. In Fallout 3 I finished it being good the first time, now I'm trying to finish it on neutral.

[Zydala]

I always have to be the good person. I don't know why, I think I just can't represent anybody that isn't myself (like, what I'd do in that situation). I also get attatched to characters >_>

My gf seems to be a good guy and still do bad stuff all the time. like in RDR when her honor meter was as high as it could get but she could set the town on fire and not lose so much.

[DarknessHaven]

KILL! MAIME! DESTROY! RAPE! PILLAGE! BURN!

*Coughs* Yeah, I end up being Evil most of the time cause overkill is my middle name. Fallout 3 got me using a mini-nuke on one guy down a hallway in a musuem place... A mini-nuke for one guy, Close quarters no less...

It really depends but I usually end up going for Evil cause it's easier to kill everyone then try to save everyone. *Shrugs* it's just convientent

[Browder]

In fantasy videogames lke Fable I'm always good. As soon as guns get involved though I go fucking nuts.

[Jashwa]

In fantasy videogames lke Fable I'm always good. As soon as guns get involved though I go fucking nuts.

Doesn't Fable 2 have guns? :V

[SirRob]

All of them for replay value. Derp.

[south syde dobe]

I do both, I'll be a dick to some and help others out

[Vaelarsa]

Depends on how naggy / annoying each moral side is, the choices I think the character would actually make, and what rewards or perks you get from being one or the other.

In Red Dead Redemption, I was mostly good.
In Fallout 3, I was somewhere between neutral and evil.
In Fable 2, I was pure evil.