So when you're given the choice in video games, who do you prefer to play? The good guys or the bad guys?

Despite the overwhelming number of games where you're 'forced' into the good guy role, when given the option I still find myself taking the good guys.

I guess I just enjoy smiting evil. 8/

I've always picked the "direct" good guys.

Not like druids or something that help out in their "own" way. Always Paladin/Knight type characters. I was always the "cop" when playing cops and robbers, and always the CT in Counter-Strike.

Most of my friends are the other way around, picking a character that is evil, just for the sake of picking the evil character.

Don't honestly care.

In any game where choosing good/bad guys is possible, usually the plot and or the characters are fairly equal. Like, in CS, is there a big-ass advantage for either side? Or in BF1942, Americans vs. Iraqis...both sides are fairly equal.

Depends on the game really.. usually I wind up playing the good guys simply because choosing to play evil means adding loads of nuisances. However if the programmers actually considered evil as a valid choice and didn't make it extra hard then i go with evil..

In games such as Counter-Strike where the difference isn't really that big I almost always play terrorists though :D

Both is fun :D
Which is why Deus Ex is in my top 3 PC shooters of all time.

1) Duke Nukem : Played it when i was new to gaming,still a classic Imho
2) Deus Ex : Great characters,plot,advancement system.Overall great game.
3) Halflife : Amasing,but i played it on PS2 so i think it was spoiled a little by annoying controls.

Good the first time around. Evil the second time. If there's replayability beyond that, I just pick some pain-in-the-ass constraints: i.e. going through all three difficulties in Diablo 1 permanently zoomed in (you can bet that Guardian was a must for those damned Advocates and Succubi) or Heroes of Might and Magic 1-3 campaigns without taking any gold from chests.

If I'm well acquainted with the game engine when I start a new game, though, I go for evil right off. It's harder, but it yields a good deal more fun.

Guy at the bar had an interesting t-shirt tonight; something to the effect of "20 things we learned from video games."

If you shoot it and it blows up, it was bad.

There is nothing you can't accomplish if you have enough quarters.

The best example for this that I can think of would be black isle games.(fallout, baulders gate, and knights of the old republic)

Up through baulders gate 2, I always played as the good guy first.(I maxxed my reputation at 21 about 1/3 of the way into the game, and it never dropped) Then I'd have fun being evil. I must have a huge concience or something, since it is simply hard for me to be evil in games with well written characters.(in diablo 2, pfft, necro from the start).

In kotor I even tried being evil, went most of the way down into darkside... until I got to the "big" choice, and I just couldn't do it. :( I'm playing through now though and being as evil as possible though, and it's great fun.

I also go with the "good first, evil a close second" playstyle.

Right now I'm playing Knights of the Old Republic (quality light entertainment, really a great game), and when it comes to video-games I'm always REALLY dedicated to doing the good thing. But in Knights of the Old Republic, as opposed to most other games of this nature, being good or evil really DOES impact on what happens. And, may I say, being evil kicks ass in this game.
So.. usually - and I guess it's down to my nagging morals, even in a video game - I go good.
But lately, red red red is the colour of the evening :P

What? It's hard not to draw out my Double-bladed, red, lightsabre and hack down a defensless wookie for bad mouthing me earlier when I met him in the port station! Damn wookies! I AM SITH RAVEN!!!!!!!!!

Uhm. Sorry.

I have at all times played a Paladin in EQ. I guess that says enough :)

The Baldur's Gate games were the first to pop into my head - the only problem with those was that it was nearly impossible to play the game as an evil character, you had to make so many sacrifices in order to finish the plot. Same with many other RPGs, unfortunately.

Me personally, I lean towards the good guy the first round, and if I replay I go for bad.


-Kanyli

I was the type person who would take my fallout character, and after I fucked the whole town, go back and kill them all.

I played on 3 different servers. My main was a cleric each time.. So yeah the good girl role.. :D Although of the 3 clerics, 2 have been dark elves.. hmm..

I qualify in-between :/
In RPGs I always go for "basically good, but antisocial blunt prick". Basically the good guy with an attitude problem. Sorta like myself in real life.
If I have to pick between black and white I usually go for good though.

As long as I get to kill stuff... it really does not matter much, does it?

Good... bad... whatever- as long as there is a pile of bodies at the end.

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Evil is Good

There are some things where you always gotta be the good guy.. Like when there is undead involved. Especially zombies, I've watched too many of those zombie movies! :x

But for other stuff.. It's fun to be a gangster! Look at Grand Theft Auto and such.

evil...

evil will always triumph because good is dumb.

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"I have at all times played a Paladin in EQ. I guess that says enough "

Almost the same here....started a Pallie as my first..played a Ranger to 50's, wised up and switched back to the Pallie last year.

Always play good guys in every game....not sure why it just does give me any enjotment to do evil. In D&D almost always played good, played neutral once, briefly :')

I tend to like to play extremes... in video games it always seems to be tailored for good characters so that is the direction I take. In face to face games I have on occasion played the evil side and had a great time doing it too. The middle ground always seemed boring for me.

kivorn couldn't have said it better for my response here.

If I have to pick between black and white I usually go for good though.

That statement could be interpreted a few ways :b

first time good,
second time bad,
colour allway's black if possible.

Anyone ever play Black and White?

Sacrificing people to create prayer power so that you can create lightning storms and fireballs is so much fun. But you can choose to gain prayer power by healing your people and providing for them too. A great game. But I admit that for me it's more fun to pick up my enemy's minions and throw them a few miles or set them on fire than it is to bless them.