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Which path do you typical choose on Alignment based RPGs?
Good path first 7 (36.8%)
Evil path first 1 (5.3%)
Neutral path/Just feel it out first run 5 (26.3%)
Depends on the theme of the game 5 (26.3%)
Depends on the path my friends chose 1 (5.3%)
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Which path do you typical choose on Alignment based RPGs first?; Good? Evil? Neutral even?
Topic Started: Jul 30 2010, 05:48 PM (661 Views)
Obreck
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Traditionally I've found most such RPGs I would be playing at the same time a friend was playing a code of their own. Thus I often tend to just create a character that clashes wildly with theirs, as I often get to see a lot of the events their path produced viewing their play.
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I usually opt for evil or otherwise "Do what profits me the most" for most non-structured, "sandbox" RPGs like Morrowind... or if there's a sexy evil woman trying to recruit me.

For most games with a lot of inter-party dialogue and are heavily story-driven, I tend to opt for the "good" path so I can avoid being an ass when I have to live with it for the whole game.
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Typh
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evil path because that's the hardest path
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Oh ffffffff I meant to put depending on theme, because in Shin Megami Tensei Good, and Evil paths are BOTH bad endings, the only real good ending is the neutral. But in most games that don't screw you over in the good and evil paths, I normally pick the good paths.
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Man, I ALWAYS choose the good path because:

1) Most of the time I get awesome sh*t from it.
2) . . . I am naturally a good person. SHADDUP.
3) I usually wind up ACCIDENTALLY choosing good, even when I actually don't want to.
Edited by Cabooseblu12, Jul 30 2010, 09:53 PM.

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AuraLancer
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Dragoon rule #1: Don't jump indoors.

I always do good, with an occasional neutral thrown in. Even though it isn't real, I can't bring myself to go evil.

The only games that I tend to get evil points from are the ones that give it to you for stealing, although I will only steal in-game, not if it's a dialogue/cutscene choice.
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Generally on a first playthough would be my honest opinion, which is mainly 95% good - after all if im considered a hero, might as well live up to it.
Subsequent playthroughs tend to me more extreme ranging from extreme good and evil, though if I generally do an evil playthough it kinda feels uncomfortable. I know it sounds like I'm a wuss.
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Jul 31 2010, 03:46 AM
though if I generally do an evil playthough it kinda feels uncomfortable. I know it sounds like I'm a wuss.
Nothing wrong with that, I feel the same way too.
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Bombs, you want it?

No one feels that taking a specific path breaks the "immersion" of a video game?

Of course, after one goes through one path, one should try the others, but I personally believe that one should just do what they'd actually do if in said situations, unless such things would prevent the game from progressing, doesn't that make sense?
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Whatever I feel like at the moment, I guess.

... although good is generally the default.
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wow am i the only one who chooses evil

pansies you don't need no friendship kill all villagers and NPC's
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Jul 31 2010, 01:21 PM
pansies you don't need no friendship kill all villagers and NPC's
THOSE VILLAGERS HAD IT COMING IN FABLE 2, ITS NOT MY FAULT! THEY KEPT ON LOOKING AT ME FUNNY, AND SAYING THINGS ABOUT ME BEHIND MY BACK!
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Fable 2 is painful to be evil in. "Forge the sword, not the anvil!" ...I'm 8 feet tall and five feet wide, with my own magical aura, with cracked-lava skin and devil horns. I've been doing this for 3 days straight without rest. I have a red-hot shortsword in one hand, and a hammer in the other. Don't. Fucking. Push me.

I tend to go with whatever is the polar opposite of the theme. If it's so idealistic it hurts? Cynical evil monster. GRIMDARK game of GRIMDARK? A passionate idealist who puts the (invisible) children of the game to shame.
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Dvv
Jul 31 2010, 02:09 PM
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Jul 31 2010, 01:21 PM
pansies you don't need no friendship kill all villagers and NPC's
THOSE VILLAGERS HAD IT COMING IN FABLE 2, ITS NOT MY FAULT! THEY KEPT ON LOOKING AT ME FUNNY, AND SAYING THINGS ABOUT ME BEHIND MY BACK!
Yeah, the Fable 2 villagers drove me to a massacre too. I was playing a good alignment code, got married, had kids. But every time I came to visit my family, strange women I never even flirted with would just come walking into my house, demanding a wedding ring 4 feet away from my wife.

So one day I just snapped, told a bunch of those trespassing stalkers to follow me, and took them all to the graveyard. Filed a restraining order with a blunderbuss.

Things got even weirder after that. My wife went bi-polar. "I love you so much!..... MURDERER!". "I'm so happy to be with you!..... HOW COULD YOU MURDER THOSE PEOPLE?!".

Honestly I found Fable2 to be one of the least painful games to be evil in. The NPC's personality quirks/glitches just drive me insane after a while.
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Ah Fable 2, ok game in which I've played a few times.
First playthrough - Good guy, yet who is a complete slob.
Second Playthrough - Good guy that's also morally pure.
Last Playthrough - Evil Guy, yet morally pure.
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I running a good file msotly first, then go Completely Bat shit evilk on my next run. Fallout 3 right now is fun to be evil in, fatman overkilling thoses that run.
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I running a good file msotly first, then go Completely Bat shit evilk on my next run. Fallout 3 right now is fun to be evil in, fatman overkilling thoses that run.
i hate doing that, never have enough patience for the second run.

fable: both fables were annoying to be evil in
you said everything i was gonna say in fable 2

but the first fable, jesus i'd have like a crapload of good reputation, then i'd look around and i'm like hmm i wanna take out this book and look at it, i take it out suddenly i'm labeled as a thief, i try to escape, guards block my path, i kill them

suddenly im a damn criminal wtf??
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Ah,Alignment based RPGs...my favourite!
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I usually start of as one of the good guys.This is basically just to explore the regions and cities without having much trouble except for monsters or similiar things.

Then,usually on the second run through the game,i chose the evil side.
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I just do whatever the hell I feel like doing. That usually nets me a Neutral / Semi-Evil character. Like in Fallout 3, I got the sheriff dude to pay me for disarming the bomb, I then immediately proceeded to kill him (with style :D) just for his hat. I KILL PEOPLE FOR COOL HATS, FEAR ME.

And in Fable 2...dohohohoho, Fable 2. My reaction was similar to Obreck's. I got REALLLYY tired of the stupid annoying people, so I proceeded to kill them too [with style (and magic)]. But I also take the good guy path just to see what opportunities open up. But I prefer a neutral-ish sort of evil-ish alignment.
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In my RPG gaming style it also depends most on my mood. In Shin Megami tensei series at first SNES translated game I ended on Law (good ending), on second Chaos (evil), in If i had neutral and on PS 2 SMT Nocturne I had True demon ending.
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Good. Always good.

I can never bear with myself to take an "evil" path, even in a video game. Yeah, I'm a major weenie, but it's just that I couldn't deal with it. Maybe it's seeing or doing things I wouldn't like, or feeling as if the game would punish me for choosing that path, but that's just the way I feel. It's also why I normally have reservations playing GTA, since you'd be playing on the criminal side (yeah, a lot of people enjoy it, but I would prefer being a cop).
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Usually good because it always ends up being the only ending that actually happened according to the sequel!!

Other endings are just a bonus...
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The only game I've ever played that's even remotely in this vein is Shadow the Hedgehog. I managed to get the Perfect Good ending on my first playthrough.
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The only game I've ever played that's even remotely in this vein is Shadow the Hedgehog. I managed to get the Perfect Good ending on my first playthrough.
First three playthoughs I got the nuteral ending, dispite taking differnt paths to get there!! O_O

Forth only just manged to squeeze into the evil ending, got bored after that.
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