Do you play ruthless or nice?

PostDo you play ruthless or nice? by **Peter Crisp** » Mon Jan 20, 2020 1:53 pm

I'm playing Assassins Creed Odyssey and I'm trying to be as nice as I can. I'm not taking reward money if I can avoid it, I'm only killing people and animals that attack me or are in bases (those people deserve death so I'm wiping them out without mercy :shifty:

) and anyone I come across who asks for money I just hand it over and if they ask me to do stuff I do it for free.

I'm not sure why I'm doing this as they're only digital people so it really doesn't matter if I kill them all and tea-bag them like it's a new dance craze but somehow it just feels better to play a nice guy.

So, do you bother trying to take a role and stick with it or just act however you feel at the time?

PostRe: Do you play ruthless or nice? by **Jenuall** » Mon Jan 20, 2020 1:56 pm

I usually try to be as nice as possible in games, on the first run at least. If I've had enough fun to warrant a second play through then I'll ramp up the arsehole behaviour to the max!

If developers have a track record of indulging dick head behaviour from players then I may go down that route from the start - Obsidian games for example are good games to play as a complete tosser. :lol:

I always play it by ear and can change on a whim.

Sometimes I'm super nice, other times I'll shoot/stab npcs in the face as soon as they've outlived their usefulness.

Jenuall wrote:I usually try to be as nice as possible in games, on the first run at least. If I've had enough fun to warrant a second play through then I'll ramp up the arsehole behaviour to the max!

If developers have a track record of indulging dick head behaviour from players then I may go down that route from the start - Obsidian games for example are good games to play as a complete tosser.

I have tried being evil in games like Skyrim but I never stick with it as it's just not as fun.
I played as a bit of a dick when I played Ghost Recon Wildlands but that was just because I found it fun to now an again explode my drone and accidentally ruin a stealth attack while the rest of the gang were inside a base and get them murdered :shifty:

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We completed the game eventually though and I got my maxed out drone so everything worked out in the end :toot:

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I've played a whole bunch of games where you can be good or evil, i always tend to play as good as i can, but then sometimes things go sideways and i end up being deemed evil by accident.

I'll normally be nice on my first playthrough and evil on a second, if I do one

PostRe: Do you play ruthless or nice? by **Dual** » Mon Jan 20, 2020 2:49 pm

Ruthless just like I am in real life.

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I just generally go with the flow. Some games I will choose a certain path and stick with it, like evil Femshep in Mass Effect.

PostRe: Do you play ruthless or nice? by **Pedz** » Mon Jan 20, 2020 3:19 pm

I tend to play as a nice guy in games where you can be nice or a dick as I find being nice is a harder way of going most of the time. When you are evil and just slaughter the strawberry float out of everyone without a care in the word and still level up and get benefits then it just makes things easier. If you have to kill gooseberry fool and avoid casualties it makes it a little more challenging without simply upping the difficulty.

Good, with the occasional evil deed when needs must.

PostRe: Do you play ruthless or nice? by **Zilnad** » Mon Jan 20, 2020 4:47 pm

Depends on the game and my mood. There's no easy answer really.

I think I used to be nice more often but now I'm more "realistic" ie selfish.

Bluesky · PostRe: Do you play ruthless or nice? by **Kriken** » Mon Jan 20, 2020 4:53 pm

Nice usually, but I do tend to like playing as the somewhat shady good guy as well. Mostly picking the good options but also going for the "what's in it for me" ones and trying to get as most profit out of it as possible, and sometimes stealing stuff if I can get away with it. Maybe a bit of murdering bad people on the side too.

And then tend to do an outright evil playthrough next or later, if I do another. Couldn't bring myself to do that on Undertale though - started a genocide run but I liked the characters too much, plus it was too much effort.

I try and place nice on Civ, then everyone ends up hating me for stupid reasons like "you have too many horses" and then they get worse when I kill their troops because they declared war on me so eventually I sentence them all to death by nuclear explosion. :nod:

PostRe: Do you play ruthless or nice? by **Preezy** » Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:40 pm

Always try and play nice, I find it makes the game a bit easier normally.

YouTube · PostRe: Do you play ruthless or nice? by **Jezo** » Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:42 pm

Undertale

Generally nice, sometimes I do just try my hardest to be a insufferable person though :twisted:

I just did a mission where I had to get a lady some ingredients for a sex drug and it turns out her husband is old and tired from her constant need for sex so now he may die from having sexy time even more :lol:

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I could have seduced her myself to give him a rest (it was an option as I'd said previously that she was hot for an older lady) but all my game characters are always 100% anti hanky panky. Does that make me a bad person :shifty:

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PostRe: Do you play ruthless or nice? by **Met** » Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:29 am

Whatever gets me the best reward.

Honestly, it often depends on the likelihood of being caught. I tend to take more risks.

For example, cheesing in dark souls, deliberately introducing some element of chaos, "try charging" and just straight up "strawberry float da police" depending on my mood.

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