Your personal sense of morality, and how it affects your playstyle - Games

i tend to be sorta bipolar. this applied to all the fallout games, dragon age origins, the walking dead, etc

I generally am very bent on getting a revenge but won't do it if it has negative things attached. If I am given a choice to kill someone evil or who has done harm to me I will kill that moron for messing with the player.

[QUOTE=Zestence;41457713]I usually play as a generally good, but also greedy character. In Skyrim I usually join the thieves guild, because I have nothing against stealing from the rich, so long as nobody gets killed. I would never join the Dark Brotherhood for example. Sometimes I kill "good" characters if they annoy me enough. In Fallout 3 I was actually going to help Roy Phillips, but he kept calling me a smoothskin bastard so I shot him in the face. It was totally worth the small karma penalty.[/QUOTE] Roy Phillips [sp] Isn't a good character. [/sp] [URL="http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Roy_Phillips"]http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Roy_Phillips[/URL]

It depends on the game. If the NPC's feel like other people, I tend to always be good and nice to them. But if they're just faceless, mindless things just moving around at random, I tend to not care one bit about them. Good examples of this are Skyrim and Prototype. In Skyrim, NPC's at least behave like they might be actual persons and doing bad things have bad consequences, but in Prototype they're just copypasted models that run around and don't matter game-wise. So, in Skyrim I'm nice to everybody and obey the laws etc. But in Prototype when I get a new weapon I spent a couple of minutes just slicing up civilians while testing it. :v:

Depends on the game, but I mostly spare people when given the option. When I played The Walking Dead, I couldn't bring myself to let anyone die or be killed. Some of the most heartbreaking decisions involved picking one person over the other.

I lie to myself when I say I'm the good or even neutral guy, because I play violent games and stuff like that. DEFCON included.

playing as a good guy is normally a lot harder (can't just steal what you want, kill everyone for quick cash, etc) so i just go with that

My first run through of a game I usually try to just self insert into the world I try not to focus on good or bad, but instead try to do what I would probably do in that situation so I let it flow naturally. That usually means being the paragon with a slight bend of selfishness in there. Sometimes, however, I am to be the bad guy. When I play the bad guy, I play as an incredibly selfish, manipulative asshole and engineer scenarios to reap the greatest reward, which frequently involves double-dealing behind everybody's back. Incidentally, in these types of games the best way to maximize your reward is to play the paragon, so I usually wind up playing a good guy anyway but only because I want to be the good guy. I won't hesitate to backstab and murder people in cold blood, though. The best example of this was my Pacifist New Vegas playthrough. I went through the entire game without killing anybody so I specialized in stealth and diplomacy. At some points I worked for all three major factions at the same time, doing missions concurrently to get the best reward. then, at the final act, I woke up the [sp]Robot Army under Caesar's encampment, deactivated House without killing him, and fooled the NCR into believing that I was on their side so that I could remove Ceaser easily.[/sp] I then used my army to coerce the NCR into surrendering without resistance, and finally made my first kill of the game by [sp]having my first act of power to throw General Oliver over the dam.[/sp] It was an extremely satisfying playthrough. I triple-crossed every single player on the field through careful political maneuvering and a shrewd intellect before finally swooping in and taking Vegas for myself without killing a single person, animal, or even robot. It was funny because I wound up with maxed out positive reputation for nearly every single faction except the Caesar's Legion, and with very evil karma.

I'm generally nice to everyone, except mass effect because being good in those games is fucking boring. Also I act like a cunt 24/7 in dota

[QUOTE=Jojje;41455560]I tend to always try to go for the solution that benefits the most people. If that's not an option I try to side with the people that can be deemed 'good'. I'd like to think of myself as shades of gray morality though, sometimes I can be real nasty to the people I deem deserve it. Like in Fallout: New Vegas, [sp]when Benny was tied up in the Caesar's Legion camp, after slaughtering Caesar and his lackeys, I executed him on the spot, as he'd attempted to do to me in the beginning of the game. Payback's a bit ain't it, ya cunt.[/sp] If it's something like DayZ I shoot people on sight as I simply cannot afford to get close to them in case they'd kill me.[/QUOTE] [sp]The first time through his charm actually got to me. I wanted to let him go but I didn't have the necessary shit so I fought him in the arena. I felt like that was the death for him worthy of the most respect. When I went my evil run I crucified the bitch.[/sp]

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;41597256][sp]The first time through his charm actually got to me. I wanted to let him go but I didn't have the necessary shit so I fought him in the arena. I felt like that was the death for him worthy of the most respect. When I went my evil run I crucified the bitch.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]My favorite way is seducing him then killing him in his sleep[/sp]

I make sure I get the best bonuses to better my character so I normally fuck everyone over to make my character more powerful

I always play like a little sociopath and try to prolong the death of whoever I'm fighting against as much as possible except in games like Zelda or Half Life where that isn't possible. I'll shoot the cop's legs out and watch them stagger in GTA IV and if they fall over without dying I'll crush their head with a car or if I'm playing Red Dead Redemption I'll hang people over a cliff or cut their legs up or something. Or if I'm playing a TES game I'll methodically stalk characters that I don't like and do things with spells so I can kidnap them maybe or paralyze them before launching an arrow into their throat or beating their brains in with a hammer. Especially parents. I always orphan or kill children in Skyrim, but if I kill their parents I make sure they see the corpses and get a chance to see them cry or call me out before I get them. [editline]26th July 2013[/editline] I like hesitating for a second before shooting people (execution style) who are cowering in Fallout since I can pretend they're coming to terms with their morality. [editline]26th July 2013[/editline] I'll do all of this if I deem it fit for the kind of character I'm making, though, not if I want them to be more respectable. I'll always go for the most moral route if I'm playing a game where I can't physically torture or cause pain to the AI/characters or if it isn't fun to do that because they have a really shallow damage/intelligence system. I'll still kill or try to harm characters that I deem amoral, though, like prostitutes or cheaters. I have a knack of stalking and murdering married couples, too, so they can never be apart.

I'm usually evil/chaotic in games though there are some games I make exceptions. I usually like being a dick to everyone except my companions/party members. There were some renegade decisions I couldn't bring myself to make in Mass Effect 3.

Whenever I play an RPG, I tell myself "If you would/wouldn't do it IRL, then go for it/don't even try at all." Example: An NPC asked me to go retrieve her money from a corpse in a radioactive/mutant infested area. Look lady, I'd really love to help you, but I can't risk my head for some materialistic items, let alone for somebody I just met. I have to hold myself up in the call of danger for other countless people. Ask me for help when you're about to get mugged by thieves, or when you or anyone else is about to face the eye of Death. I'll be here to make sure you breath for another day. Danger is something I try to avoid as much as possible, that's pretty much why I usually play as a sneaky character. It makes me feel a tad bit safer knowing I can snipe a bandit's head off from some distance away, while all he can do is hopelessly shoot an smg/shotgun at me. In short: I'll help you out if your life is at risk or you're close to me. But I will [B]never[/B] be your scavenger/delivery boy.

[QUOTE=U.S.S.R;41597593]I always play like a little sociopath and try to prolong the death of whoever I'm fighting against as much as possible except in games like Zelda or Half Life where that isn't possible. I'll shoot the cop's legs out and watch them stagger in GTA IV and if they fall over without dying I'll crush their head with a car or if I'm playing Red Dead Redemption I'll hang people over a cliff or cut their legs up or something. Or if I'm playing a TES game I'll methodically stalk characters that I don't like and do things with spells so I can kidnap them maybe or paralyze them before launching an arrow into their throat or beating their brains in with a hammer. Especially parents. I always orphan or kill children in Skyrim, but if I kill their parents I make sure they see the corpses and get a chance to see them cry or call me out before I get them. [editline]26th July 2013[/editline] I like hesitating for a second before shooting people (execution style) who are cowering in Fallout since I can pretend they're coming to terms with their morality. [editline]26th July 2013[/editline] I'll do all of this if I deem it fit for the kind of character I'm making, though, not if I want them to be more respectable. I'll always go for the most moral route if I'm playing a game where I can't physically torture or cause pain to the AI/characters or if it isn't fun to do that because they have a really shallow damage/intelligence system. I'll still kill or try to harm characters that I deem amoral, though, like prostitutes or cheaters. I have a knack of stalking and murdering married couples, too, so they can never be apart.[/QUOTE] Tell me about your childhood....

I'm usually the good guy. Except in GTA.

I usually don't kill unless is necessary or enemies are preventing me to do my job.