Everybody wants to be the "bad guy"...

Ace_of_Destiny

I notice that, as the title says, everybody wants to be the bad guy now-a-days.

This makes me feel good about the human race.

Because people always want to be (pretend to be) what they truly are not...in their hearts.


I ALWAYS play the good guy...in games.


How about you?

UltimaJoe777

I try to be me, and only me. If I happen to be a hero or a villain then it's whatev lol

Unfortunately some people really do delight in being cruel. The human race has anything but hope for salvation... We honestly get worse with each passing year.

Cathexis

I would cut down all the clan leaders in Wrothgar to attain Ruler of Wrothgar status.

Ace_of_Destiny

BTW: Did I mention...I LOVE cheese!

Fruitmass

I don't necessarily play the bad guy per say. It's more of a mercenary mindset. I do what best serves my interests or provides the best rewards. Not on every character mind you, I do play the archetypical white knight sometimes.

I mainly do it because in real life I try to be as nice a person as I can. Playing as a less than honorable character in games gives me a chance to blow off steam and indulge in what I like to refer to as "The Urge". That sporadic desire to inflict unmeasurable destruction and misery to anything and everything around you for no real discernable reason other than it felt like a good thing to do at the time.

I see it as cathartic. Good to get it out of the system now and then.

chaserstorm16909

Great post! And you are right. People tend to play the opposite of who they truly are in real life. That is why I play the worst evilest character possible in all games.

MrDerrikk

Yesterday's thread with me burning everything aside, I always choose the good option in games for quests; I.e. I do all the added optional missions in Dishonoured that are non-lethal, and save the people in ESO.

Ace_of_Destiny

Fruitmass wrote: »

I don't necessarily play the bad guy per say. It's more of a mercenary mindset. I do what best serves my interests or provides the best rewards. Not on every character mind you, I do play the archetypical white knight sometimes.

I mainly do it because in real life I try to be as nice a person as I can. Playing as a less than honorable character in games gives me a chance to blow off steam and indulge in what I like to refer to as "The Urge". That sporadic desire to inflict unmeasurable destruction and misery to anything and everything around you for no real discernable reason other than it felt like a good thing to do at the time.

I see it as cathartic. Good to get it out of the system now and then.

Nuetral Evil, which is what you describe from true RPG Rules...is still Evil


And, that makes you a good person.
Take it out on pixels...not people.

GreySix

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."

Ace_of_Destiny

GreySix wrote: »

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."

Good has rules...they will always lose against someone without them.

GreenSoup2HoT

I'm a villain.

Robo_Hobo

My characters tend to stray away from being white knights, but also not evil, but moreso honorable thieves in a sense, even if they aren't thieves.

It all depends on the circumstances really.

Ace_of_Destiny

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

I'm a villain.

Which, actually, means you love your Mom.

I killed my Mother.


Not directly...but...dead...is...dead.

I didn't kill my Mom.

UltimaJoe777

Ace_of_Destiny wrote: »

GreySix wrote: »

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."

Good has rules...they will always lose against someone without them.

Sooner or later though that no-rules society comes back to bite them. Good and evil may face off constantly but evil fights evil too. Being evil is a double-edged sword... They also bribe people with cookies.

Ace_of_Destiny

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Ace_of_Destiny wrote: »

GreySix wrote: »

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."

Good has rules...they will always lose against someone without them.

Sooner or later though that no-rules society comes back to bite them. Good and evil may face off constantly but evil fights evil too. Being evil is a double-edged sword... They also bribe people with cookies.

Very good...evil always eats itself.

Fruitmass

Ace_of_Destiny wrote: »

Fruitmass wrote: »

I don't necessarily play the bad guy per say. It's more of a mercenary mindset. I do what best serves my interests or provides the best rewards. Not on every character mind you, I do play the archetypical white knight sometimes.

I mainly do it because in real life I try to be as nice a person as I can. Playing as a less than honorable character in games gives me a chance to blow off steam and indulge in what I like to refer to as "The Urge". That sporadic desire to inflict unmeasurable destruction and misery to anything and everything around you for no real discernable reason other than it felt like a good thing to do at the time.

I see it as cathartic. Good to get it out of the system now and then.

Nuetral Evil, which is what you describe from true RPG Rules...is still Evil


And, that makes you a good person.
Take it out on pixels...not people.

Lol, sometimes. Sometimes it's closer to chaotic neutral.

Chieve

I fail to see how people wanting to be a bad guy implies they want to be a bad person

Most people would be the good person or wanna do whats morally right

But everday people are the good person and being the good person can be boring sometimes...and after being a good person in real life taking a bunch of bull ***, its nice for once to be giving ***

SahrotRein

My current main is mostly a good guy, but not completely stupidly naive good guy but rather somewhat reasonable when it comes to quest decisions. Many of my previous mains were pure evil, which I found to be fun, rather straight forward and always knowing what to do when I had the option - kill, bring chaos, lie and hurt. But in the long run, it wasn't fullfilling.

Therefore I enjoy both, but I never bring myself into a game, as in I don't decide in quest depending on myself, as I see the situation in my eyes of a real life person, but rather of the fictional in-game character.

But I like to be the bad guy irl, this look and acting evil fits me better but... isn't there a similiar song? "Somebody has to be the bad man..."? Or something similiar? lol

Sausage

I usually give it all for my friends and things in general so it feels good to be bad sometimes.

Cathexis

Trading Valaste for 2 skill points was the best trade I've made in this game yet.

Ace_of_Destiny

I am XM.

That stands for Ex-Military.

Until you know the real thrill of a kill...


Games are just...

You HAVE to do bad...to do GOOD.

GreySix

I am RM. That means retired military. Have been in combat, and combat in video games holds no comparison.

Nor would I wish others to experience actual combat. It isn't fun.

Just enjoy the game.

Cathexis

I let the werewolf in Glenumbra kill his family.

dsalter

Ace_of_Destiny wrote: »

Good has rules...they will always lose against someone without them.

not quite, if you understand most things dispite rules and good guy morals the good guy usually wins tho it's harder for them because of these.

Tholian1

I sent some lady off with Uncle Sheo so I could get some skill points.

I think that is as evil as my character has been in the game. As long as you don't count being a bloodsucking thief as being evil. I like to think my character walks the line between the two.

Stranglehands

I try a few different approaches and I think chaotic neutral is my favourite kind of tone for a character. Kind of a Han Solo, in it for the money, doesn't mind stealing or fighting etc. I've tried ruthless assassin, white knight, psychotic serial killer, nature-loving wood elf, etc. in the single player games, but being a dirty rogueish type has always felt the best

One of my eso characters (old redguard swordsman) has turned out pretty dark because i've always gone with the cruel authoritarian option when faced with a moral dilemma but then ran out of money and needed to buy some medium armour to research, so was reduced to robbing houses then had to kill a civilian who caught me in the act, so now he's a hypocrite with innocent blood on his hands

the "moral breakdown" is kind of a thing that happens a lot in video games. i've never seen a pacifist run in deus ex 1 all the way to the end, i've just said, screw it, i'd rather kill these MJ12 scum. In Morrowind I had a morag tong assassin who was a perfectly upstanding, law-abiding murderer until she got involved with house Telvanni

RedTalon

Because I see things in very black and white terms irl, been told my moral compass is to built on right and wrong and I have trouble seeing shades of grey. Has a result of my sense of right and wrong irl, I generally role-play has bad guys or morally complicated chars.

In DND terms some friends of mine have said my alignment irl would be neutral good, so when playing games try to go for what I'm not.

pepperybrine

My character is a good guy, but sometimes he sees some nice *** and he steals it.

Darkeus

i could never understand it but is true... all my char names are dark/evil themed and dark elfs (or something that can get close to concept of dark angel), and ingame or inreal i am not even a killer, liar, bully, raper, thief or evil oriented.... i would consider myself fair enough and that kind of guy you d better not mess with.

DannyLV702

I've killed my fair share of chickens in Skyrim so I guess you could say I like to be the bad guy

BabeestorGor

Depends on the character.
I need to feel at least some sympathy for my character if I'm to play them for a long time so evil psychopaths who kill for fun are out but some flaws in personality make a character more interesting and believable to me.