Doth anyone know of a game that awards morally ambiguous players? I'm so tired of these games that have light and dark character paths, via dialogue choices, etc. You get cool abilities for being good and you get badass abilities for being evil. Never once, in my 27 years of life, have I a seen a game with cool abilities for those who stick to the middle. I want a gray character, damn it! I want to make good and bad choices, or choices that could be considered bad but were for the greater good.
But noooooo, you're awarded squat for picking neutral choices. Most people, I think, are morally gray. We're good, sure, but we make bad people sometimes too. Maybe a good game could combine the good abilities with the evil ones and have a whole different subset. For example, say a good power is to heal people. Say a evil power is to drain a persons lifeforce. A good gray power could be that you heal a person but at the same time you drain their energy. So the dude is alive but won't be moving around for a while. That's a dick move on your part, but you still saved the guy.
Besides, how fun would it be to be able to make good choices and evil ones? Usually, like in Mass Effect, I play through the game as a good character and then play through it again with an evil character. It's fun to see the results of making both choices. Well, why not mix it up with one character? There's times when I'm playing good but I get this awesome evil choice. But I have to wait for my evil playthrough to see it. Would be nice if I could just decide to be good or evil at a whim.
Any games like that?
But noooooo, you're awarded squat for picking neutral choices. Most people, I think, are morally gray. We're good, sure, but we make bad people sometimes too. Maybe a good game could combine the good abilities with the evil ones and have a whole different subset. For example, say a good power is to heal people. Say a evil power is to drain a persons lifeforce. A good gray power could be that you heal a person but at the same time you drain their energy. So the dude is alive but won't be moving around for a while. That's a dick move on your part, but you still saved the guy.
Besides, how fun would it be to be able to make good choices and evil ones? Usually, like in Mass Effect, I play through the game as a good character and then play through it again with an evil character. It's fun to see the results of making both choices. Well, why not mix it up with one character? There's times when I'm playing good but I get this awesome evil choice. But I have to wait for my evil playthrough to see it. Would be nice if I could just decide to be good or evil at a whim.
Any games like that?
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20/09/2011 03:56:19 PM
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I don't think I know anything that matches what you want.
20/09/2011 04:39:22 PM
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You are a horrible human being. *NM*
20/09/2011 08:24:05 PM
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I'm morally grey! Women love me, and men want to be like me. *NM*
20/09/2011 09:15:31 PM
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It'd be pretty difficult to specifically reward you for being a 'gray' character. (Two games)
20/09/2011 05:02:28 PM
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Take Knights of the Old Republic, for example
20/09/2011 05:08:04 PM
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That's not so much an alignment as just metagaming the system.
20/09/2011 09:27:49 PM
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Maybe I didn't explain right
20/09/2011 11:19:51 PM
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I'd say that's evil.
21/09/2011 03:00:32 AM
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of course, then you get into question of whether actions like that example are evil
21/09/2011 04:03:03 AM
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That's actually a pretty narrow view of Neutral when it comes to Alignment or Morality.
21/09/2011 02:19:34 PM
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You might want to try The Witcher series.
21/09/2011 05:16:05 AM
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Grey decisions are good but...
21/09/2011 06:19:04 PM
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they don't reward it because, for the most part, they don't want you taking a middle ground.
21/09/2011 07:10:48 PM
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Well that's just stupid. Tired of picking the 2 sides over and over *NM*
21/09/2011 08:02:11 PM
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Neutrality is often boring or selfish. Good stories seldom have truly neutral protagonists. *NM*
22/09/2011 06:27:05 PM
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Are you kidding?
22/09/2011 06:54:19 PM
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There's a difference between doing "bad" things for a good purpose, and being neutral. *NM*
22/09/2011 09:12:16 PM
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I have an on-topic comment as well as a general rant on game morality systems.
21/09/2011 06:43:21 PM
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if they wanted to make the conversation mechanics more complicated...
21/09/2011 07:14:21 PM
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