Do you choose Good or Bad in moral choice games?

bradbear117

bradbear117

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Ive been wondering, on a first play through of a game with moral choices(mass effect, fallout3, infamous, red dead redemption etc etc.) do you go for the bad or good moral choices/actions?
I can never bring myself to be a true bad ass but I really love the fact that the option is there.

So how do you guys play?
 
I will always be good and if the game is decent enough to be played a second time I will cross over to the dark side. :)
 
I always choose the good "side" first with all choices and convo options, as with normal game design this can offer you more missions and better rewards.

I will then go total badass on the next playthrough.
 
I always land up being good as well, although in ME2 I performed some renegade actions (smashing people through windows) which was a lot of fun.
 
bradbear117 said:
Ive been wondering, on a first play through of a game with moral choices(mass effect, fallout3, infamous, red dead redemption etc etc.) do you go for the bad or good moral choices/actions?
I can never bring myself to be a true bad ass but I really love the fact that the option is there.

So how do you guys play?
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I like playing "evil" characters who make good moral choices and perform good deeds (i.e. a lawful good Drow or, what I'm considering in Old Republic, a Sith Inquisitor with a soft heart :p).

I've tried being evil characters before in games like KotOR, Jade Empire, etc but I find it impossible. I regret my decisions and feel ridiculously guilty :p

Love being good :o
 
Lycanthrope said:
I like playing "evil" characters who make good moral choices and perform good deeds (i.e. a lawful good Drow or, what I'm considering in Old Republic, a Sith Inquisitor with a soft heart :p).

I've tried being evil characters before in games like KotOR, Jade Empire, etc but I find it impossible. I regret my decisions and feel ridiculously guilty :p

Love being good :o
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same here. although in mass effect 2 i tend to hit the middle of the road. mainly a paragon but using renegade options when it fits the bill :)
 
Ye I also almost always start being good and 2nd playthrough I play the bad/evil guy.
Only game I started playing bad was Fable II becuase it was too fun killing everyone in Bowerstone and having horns before you even start the game properly :D
 
Tank said:
same here. although in mass effect 2 i tend to hit the middle of the road. mainly a paragon but using renegade options when it fits the bill :)
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The thing with Mass Effect is that it doesn't always feel like there are any advantages to making negative decisions. That might sound a bit contradictory but hear me out.

That part where Garrus gets brutally maimed--I had hoped that by doing the renegade action (killing the guy who was working on the gunship) would spare him disfigurement but regardless of the action taken, it still has the same outcome.

I think it would be a lot more persuasive to be a "bad" character if there were tangible advantages to it. Nine times out of ten, you get better rewards (emotionally, in-game items, money, etc) being good than you would being bad.

Plus, I like saving lives more than taking them in games :p
 
I usually choose good. However if I play a star wars game and am presented with the choice I usually go for bad.
 
I pick 'good' every time. It always feels like you get more rewards that way (and I'm talking loot here, not the warm, fuzzy feelings.)
 
Depends on the situation really i'm at in the game. If its someone giving me trouble to get info from them, i go badass, otherwise if it's a normal person i'm usually good. also depends on my mood haha.
 
I pick good, simply because literally I feel bad when I pick the bad option (goes against my nature I guess :p). I usually leave the "bad" play for my second run.
 
On my first playthrough, I usually tend to make decisions based on the situation and what I feel like. In the case of Mass Effect, the disadvantage of that is usually that some options gets disabled cause I don't have enough paragon / renegade status. The second playthrough, I usually go with good and then with bad.

I also however, find it hard to just be plain badass. Sometimes if I do something really bad (even though it is just a game), I kinda feel guilty... and then I chicken out, reload the previous save game and make another decision :confused:
 
Almost always play as good the first time through.
If the game is enjoyable enough to warrant a 2nd play through (inFAMOUS 2) then I'll play as evil - and probably change the difficulty to the hardest setting while I'm at it.
 
I have a dark side that manifests when I play games....<evil laugh>

Not sure what that says about me considering what I am like in real life.
 
Good, even when I think about doing something bad just for fun, I never end up going through with it.
 
In a game like Infamous where it has to be one or the other, then I'll generally take good first. Then when I play it a second time I can go for total mayhem.

With Mass Effect I leaned towards good, but went the other way if the situation called for it.

It depends on the game and the rewards/consequences. In some I will try not to kill civilians, in others I'll kill them if they get in the way. In something like Grand Theft Auto it was fun to scare the hell out of the civilians, bring the police in and then massacre them as well.
 
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