[StarSlayer]

I'm somewhat interested in seeing were taking the most humorous dialog choices in KotOR would lead me.  I remember some of the funnier ones being more towards the dark side.

[redsniper]

Well, I sometimes do the dark path out of curiosity on a second playthrough of such games. As for FS wingmen, if I can't leave early, neither can they. Usually a lot of empty red circles at the end of a mission.

[BloodEagle]

I was just wondering if any of you sometimes feel bad when you do something that can be perceived as cruel in a video game, or am I just being silly?

I purposely gib the terrorists and gangsters in Soldier of Fortune, so....

[Turambar]

I was just wondering if any of you sometimes feel bad when you do something that can be perceived as cruel in a video game, or am I just being silly?

I purposely gib the terrorists and gangsters in Soldier of Fortune, so....

I throw small animals at walls hard enough to destroy the walls in Crysis

[CP5670]

I make the animals walk up the walls and glide through the air.

[Polpolion]

I like how Mass Effect dropped the whole "Good" vs "Evil" and went with "Pretentious Nice Guy" vs "Dick."

[Scotty]

I can't stand being the evil guy.  Even when I try to to get acheivments on 360.  I'm running along, shooting everyone, just to get my karma down and then whoops, I just disarmed the Megaton city bomb.  Gigantic good karma boost.  I can't stay evil in that game, no matter how hard I try

Same with Kotor, both of them. 

Mass Effect is different.  Sometimes I do the Renegade things because of a slip up with buttons.  Then I find out you get more Paragon OVERALL by doing several good things as a result of a Renegade choice than the Paragon choice to begin with.  The only exception is at the end where

Spoiler:

you choose whether to save the council or not.  I always just let the bastards burn.

but I still have to choose the half-way nice option.

[Blue Lion]

Sometimes I'll leave a few enemies alive. Like they aren't any threat, so I just let them live. I could mow them down, but what would it do?

[Dark RevenantX]

I kill anything that can be killed.  And then hack the game so that everything can be killed.

[Turambar]

In Oblivion, I found two women living peacefully in a chapel in the middle of the woods.

They were my very first murder victims.

[NGTM-1R]

I kill anything that can be killed.  And then hack the game so that everything can be killed.

I did end up killing everyone in Morrowind when I was done with it. And I do mean everyone.

[karajorma]

I did manage to scare the hell out of my friends once by cackling maniacally as I torched innocent civilians in Syndicate.

[Dilmah G]

In games where there's character development done well I tend to care a lot for my characters, or really any game which named characters. My worst is Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and GRAW2, my mum's given me many, many weird looks from the kitchen when she catches me shouting at the screen. I don't try to do the morally right thing, just the logically right thing, which usually is the morally right thing in most RPGs. Mass Effect being one of them.

[ssmit132]

I haven't heard of this game,

Adrift is a text-adventure game platform that allows people to create and share their own adventures. For the record, the adventure I was playing at the time is here.

I have an example from the other end of the spectrum, too; when I play games like Need For Speed or Midtown Madness I usually don't care about the traffic cars if I smash into them. In Midtown Madness especially, it's hilarious to hear the drivers yelling things at you when you crash into or otherwise interfere with their trip.

[Dilmah G]

Yeah, but once the characters become 3-D I start to care a lot.

[Colonol Dekker]

Fallout 1, Childkiller title........cathartic release of stress buildup caused by crying toddlers on buses.

IE- being bad in games = not being bad in RL.

Also is fun

[Ransom]

I don't really enjoy being a bastard in games, but in things like RPGs where you're invited to create a character I tend to roleplay personalities very different from my own. I already know what I might do in a given situation. So I find it far more interesting to invent than to project. They tend to be a mixed bag, but I never play a perfect goody-two-shoes - that ****'s boring.

But yeah, I feel uncomfortable doing anything morally bankrupt. If it fits my character, though, that's what I'll do. By the same token I'll never do anything that doesn't.

Half the fun of those games for me is trying to form a compelling three-dimensional personality for my character over the course of the story. The Baldur's Gate series and NWN2/MotB are particularly good for this because the extended narrative allows for some interesting character arcs.

[BloodEagle]

I was just wondering if any of you sometimes feel bad when you do something that can be perceived as cruel in a video game, or am I just being silly?

I purposely gib the terrorists and gangsters in Soldier of Fortune, so....

I throw small animals at walls hard enough to destroy the walls in Crysis

I'm pretty sure that the animal doesn't lose a leg, and start wailing in pain as it crawls its way away from me. (No, joke. This happens in the game.)

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Fallout 1, Childkiller title........cathartic release of stress buildup caused by crying toddlers on buses.

Damned Brits, getting the real thing. The U.S. release removed child-killing. 

[Flipside]

I did manage to scare the hell out of my friends once by cackling maniacally as I torched innocent civilians in Syndicate.

Must admit, I was the same, Citizens were often collateral damage, or, on occasion, comic relief

[Ghostavo]

"Worshipers need food!"