Comments on: Am I Evil?

By: Rook

Rook — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:54:02 +0000

Damn you Pix3l, damn you! They’re the words you’ll hear whenever you feel the need to do your bad deeds.

Like others, I play the good guy and only do the bad when the game has achievements for it. I’ve never shot an innocent traveller in the airport level of MW2. I even tried to get away with not shooting the police force but you had to to progress. Karma would catch up on my evil ways.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:26:09 +0000

I used to always play the good guy in games, choosing the ‘right path’ without thought until I checked myself and thought, ‘hang on a minute, this isn’t as fun as it could be’. When I started Fallout 3, I made a concious decision to be a complete dick and though I’ve been a slack arse and not gone back to it, it was enjoyable…as was being a dick in Fable 2. I loved slaying peasants, sacrificing them in the Shadow Temple, and choosing the big wad of cash at the end to screw Albion over. Sod the peasants and their whining…Reaver liked it and he’s a good lay, so that’s all that counts

By: richie

richie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:47:47 +0000

You’re a terrible person, I loved that wee fluffy fella in Fable 2. I totally picked that ending as well.

Generally I prefer to play as the nice guy, always saving the evil playthrough (if one is needed) for after.

That said, I do quite like games where you are meant to go a bit mental. Postal 2 for example.

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:50:13 +0000

I do actually. I just need a dastardly moustache to twirl now

By: Tania

Tania — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:07:19 +0000

Do you have an evil laugh? Bad guys always have a maniacal laugh like: MWOOHAHAHA!!!

By: MarkuzR

MarkuzR — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:29:32 +0000

Oddly enough, I tend to play the good guy in games. I have some pretty twisted morals though and have to look at whether someone is going against MY principles and, if so, they’re the bad guy and will be taken down. Playing through Fallout had me more or less on the side of good the entire time and I rarely did anything that could be seen as countering that cause. In Oblivion, on the other hand, I played through the various guild quests with a degree of apathy until I joined the Assassin’s Guild… then I REALLY started to enjoy the game. I do love the stealth killings though, and there were plenty of them in that game.

I’ve never really considered that disconnect you’ve all mentioned, because I try to completely immerse myself in a game whenever I’m playing so, for as long as I have the controller in my hands, I AM that person. Even better if I’m playing a woman, as I can pretend to touch my girlie bits. If I have a gun, and the game allows, I’ll go for headshots every time. I had to switch the target help off in RDR as it tended to go for body shots and it was starting to annoy me as my headshot count wasn’t going up.

Does anyone else try to get the horses from killed outlaws lined up on the rail tracks in the hope that a train will come and piledrive through the lot of them? I’ve tried a dozen times but they start to wander off… it’s most annoying. I even played TWO nights in a row with the XBox running through the PC (windowed, about 2/3 the size of the full screen) just so I could capture a video of it happening… but they always wandered off. Bastards.

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:31:33 +0000

@Matthew – I’m sorry baby, I’ll buy you something pretty to make up for it….. Yeah it always pisses me off that people who don’t play games dare to blame them for violence in people. Granted games can be the catalyst foran already unstable person but they aren’t the cause.

@Edward – I usually do two playthroughs. One as a complete bastard then another as a good guy. More recently in games like Mass Effect 2 and Red Dead I’ve tried going for the flawed anti-hero approach. A man (or woman) who does good deads but is reluctant about it and refuses to do it nicely. For example, the random missions in RDR. I help the person, but If I’m given a choice between killing and the hogtie, I got for the headshot. It’s a lot less effort….

@Preacher – I did bring cake but a pidgeon flew into St Pancras and stole it…That’s believeable right? Meh, it’s a computer generated little girl. I would’ve shot her in the face if the game had let me -_-

@Ste- As soon as I heard about the ‘Dastardly’ acheivement in Red Dead, where you have to tie a woman to the train tracks and let get hit, I went out and done it. I have no soul

By: Ste

Ste — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:12:19 +0000

I somehow feel compelled to do the right thing in games. Unless of course there is an achievement involved for being bad. In that case, such as Bioshock, I completed the game good first then replayed it and went bad. I’ve gotta admit it is kinda fun to be bad though. Good article.

By: The Preacher

The Preacher — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:43:46 +0000

For someone who is such a nice guy in person, I don’t recall you greeting me at Euston Station with cake. Where’s the cake, arsehole?! A tissue of lies all of it…

Took me a while to get a 360 too. Mostly because I didn’t like the original Xbox though. I was finally swayed by Ace Combat 6, and my 360 has the 45nm architecture and dedicated HDMI port that they trialled on the Halo 3 limited edition prior to the Elite being released. I don’t like Halo… I bought this one because it’s green. I like green.

You know, I have never once harvested a Little Sister in Bioshock. I could not bring myself to do it. And I have done some evil shit in games… driven exclusively along the paths on GTA, shot a teammate in the face because I don’t like his name on shooters, played through Mass Effect only selecting the renegade options, etc etc.

But a little girl? That’s fucked up, dude.

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:39:49 +0000

I have to admit, I’m a massive goody two shows when it comes to games with moral systems. Something compels me to be a goodie goodie instead of a massive bastard.
I liked this a lot

And it’s such a good example of why the disconnect in videogames is awesome