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The release of Fallout: New Vegas means that a whole host of gamers are about to invest dozens upon dozens of hours battling their way across the post-apocalyptic ruins of the Mojave Wasteland. For some, that journey will be spent fighting for what’s right, and for others, that journey will be spent tapping into the darkest recesses of human morality. Either way, a good time is guaranteed for all, and that’s why we love Fallout.
So what I want to know this morning is this: If you have a choice of being a good or evil character in a game, which one do you choose, and why?
I tend to play as good guys, because I’m kind of lazy, and if I’m good, I can usually convince a lot of people to do stuff for me that would otherwise require tons more energy or strength to pull off if I were just some evil bastard. Then again, I usually always reserve at least one save slot for my evil character just for those times when I want to let loose. It’s important to have balance in your life.
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Cathartic Denoument
My preference is towards Paragon-alignment. =)
Its just my belief that what you morally choose to do in a game is an extension of who you are in real life.
That said, the only time I'd be willing to stray to the Renegade side is on a totally separate game cartridge of Pokemon. (After already having played through on a separate cartridge [Silver version] as Paragon)
[e.g. Playing the original Gold version with nothing but Dark type Pokemon, and all that entails with raising them. (i.e. Don't heal them (or if I absolutely must) - give them bitter medicine, "Frustration" over "Return", et cetera) ]
hawkeye1010
Usually I'd base it off of acheivments available per karma. So I would do one run through very good, and the other very bad. As FNV doesn't give acheivments based on Karma, I'm finding myself very neutral. I'll do mostly good things, but don't really care if I am bad. Kind of more fun that way.
wicked_god
I always want to be bad but at some point i feel the need 2 help someone, and after i got to level 8 with bad karma i ended up with neutral karma when i was done and ended the game on the good side. As if my morals seem to seap through my hands into my controler. Or I will go back and play it through as both good and evil. But my favorite is doing someting good getting the xp and then killing the person who helped me
PkrPlr4LIFE
I am a good gamer. For some reason I have a conscious when I'm playing a game. I guess deep down I'm just a good person but when ever I make an evil choice i feel guilty. Like I really hurt a person in real life. Most people say that being evil is easier but for me it's sooo much easier being good.
DreamingDarklyRobin
The evil choices in games are never that evil, just douchey. Because of that I usually play as a semi-good guy, most of the choices I make are good, but one in a while I will make some orphans, if you know what I mean.
Duskulblaka
No matter how much I tell myself that this time I'm gonna be straight up evil, I can never do it. Fallout 3 and Fable II are excellent examples of this. I guess in Fable II, I really wanted to be evil, but every time I would walk into a town, everyone would run away screaming - which was amusing at first, but it just got plain annoying after a while. So instead, I turned good and just became the avaricious landlord instead.
In Fallout 3, I don't know what was up, but I simply could not be evil - no matter how much I wanted to. I hated the thought of destroying Megaton or pointlessly killing random people in town, even Confessor Cromwell. It killed me a little bit inside when I had to bring in Flak for the Strictly Business quest, and that was knowing it was purely for the achievement and I would simply reload after to go back in time and work around the quest. I think absolutely despising the Enclave really motivated me to be good too. I couldn't turn against those who were being oppressed.
Mass Effect is just entirely different - I don't want to commit to going fully good or fully evil in those games because I'm never sure how it will effect the future. I don't want to piss off or kill someone just for the sake of trying to be evil because pretty much everything in Mass effect has a consequence.
scottyrob82
I'm truly good. I just started playing Fable II and I'm trying to play through it as being an evil dude and I'm having such a hard time. I have to force myself to be a jerk.
ZacWilliam
Me and my wife are softies. Feel too bad doing evil things, even in a virtual game. She'll play an anti-hero type some times if she's played through the game a bunch, but even they have some sort of moral code and are never "too" evil.
BONERJAM
I'm usually a good guy because I figure most people go the evil route and I sometimes find it hard to do the evil deeds.
Chancegalaxy
Always good the first playthrough. I remember feeling so guilty the first time I tried a evil playthrough with the first KOTOR.
JDarkley
My first playthrough I'm a Boy Scout, and then my second playthrough I'm an a-hole. If I get around to a third playthough then I'll do a bit of both, depending on which I prefer.
JohnnyBuku
Always good - stems from my days as a Paladin in D&D. And if i catch you harvesting little sisters for their adam instead of curing them i will smite you!
MonkeyMann
it depends on the game like fallout i'm usually good mass effect i end up in between. and in fable i'm an evil bastard.
BigPoppaChunk
i try in all games to be true to how i would act in real life given morale based choices. but, in a certain few games i couldn't help to be one sided for example .
when playing red dead redemption i couldn't help to be a good guy i only did bad when the ai couldnt help it like targeting the wrong person on accident while hunting rabbits.
in that same vein of thought while playing fallout 3 i was a total douche, put it like this the only people i didn't kill were the the people the game wouldn't let ie; children and characters like harkness. trust me i tried.
we will see what fallout vegas holds for the shades of gray .
blueboykc
usually good..but at the end of red dead i just didnt care for the character anymore so i just went bad..kinda like his attitude..
Adampro123
I'm goon in pretty much every game, i just can't bring myself to be bad at least the first time.
but when it comes to Fable games i like being both.
For some reason i got the urge to be bad in Red Dead though....
Devero
The World is so full of shades of Gray, I just have to Play as a Good Guy where there is no Gray,
Meatball_Mamba
I tend to be bad in most games that give me a choice. However in Fallout 3 I just couldn't help but be a good person. The Capital Wasteland was full of so many terrible people and creatures as it was, it needed a hero.
In Red Dead Redemption I also stayed strictly to the good side of the scale. It just felt incredibly out of character to act like a terrible outlaw.
Tim_1138
Just like you Jake.
TKEmysterio
First time through I'm good. Then the 2nd play through I'm evil.
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