Comments on: Lightning Returns and Species Extinction: A Question of Morals

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:51:50 +0000

That’s the thing with a lot of enemies in games. We are told they are our enemies, but when we really think about it, we realize they are actually just people or creatures just doing their thing. Today, I was blasting this big fish in Banjo-Tooie’s Jolly Roger’s Lagoon to knock out its teeth, but I felt bad because, when it comes down to it, it was just a fish minding its own business. Sure, it ate someone, but it just wanted food, after all. Poor thing. I’m sorry, mister fish.

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By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:04:14 +0000

I’ve always felt bad about killing guards in games like Assassin’s Creed or Dishonored. my thought is always that while some of them my be corrupt, bad people, most are probably just guys doing a job. Avoiding those deaths becomes part of my motivation for being as stealthy as possible in those sorts of games.

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By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 02:00:52 +0000

Ha ha, that sounds pretty funny. Sometimes I liked to steal the KG’s vehicles, for an added challenge. Good times.

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By: samearl13

samearl13 — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:21:20 +0000

I loved Jak 2 and i did that alot. I used to purposely go underneath the smaller vehicles in a bigger vehicle and hit them from below so i could watch them suddenly crash and explode lol.

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By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 14:47:31 +0000

I guess I don’t always feel bad about my decisions in games because I actually never felt guilty about stealing zoomers from people in Jak 2. I don’t know why I felt no guilt in that game, but I didn’t. I rather enjoyed only stealing zoomers people were driving. Sometimes it can be fun to be naughty. And I did eventually get over the creature extinction in Lightning Returns…. To the point that I had wiped out every species possible by the end of the game. At the very least, the Chocobo Eaters deserved it….

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By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 14:43:31 +0000

It’s interesting sometimes to just see how we would naturally respond to situations in a game. Sometimes, I go out of my way to only make the moral, good choices, but it can be even more interesting to only do what comes naturally. I’d probably still keep doing the wrong thing by accident, though. When interacting with characters in KotOR, I kept making them angry without meaning to. Sensitive characters.

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By: samearl13

samearl13 — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:11:36 +0000

I don’t usually feel guilty in games since i usually play in a super evil way even when i’m supposed to be the good guy (I know multiple ways to kill good guys/civilians in Assassins Creed 2 and get away with it for example). Although there’s a few times i feel guilty, mostly when i accidentally cause an over the top death.

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By: Dina Farmer

Dina Farmer — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:41:47 +0000

I know! I typically have multiple saves just to make sure I don’t make mistakes like that. But I really feel awful when I do play truly bad. But lately, I’ve been playing a game not completely light or dark, just how I think I would respond, which is typically the first response I gravitate towards.

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By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 03:11:59 +0000

It’s crazy how games can make us feel guilty. I remember feeling guilty a lot in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I would often do bad things completely be accident, and then I’d feel bad afterward, even if it was just by mistake. I was always getting Dark Side points without wanting to.

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By: Dina Farmer

Dina Farmer — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 20:16:02 +0000

BioWare and CD Project Red and Bethesda manage to make me feel guilt over a lot of the choices I make. There are way too many to list about the guilt I feel, due to the choices I make. Although, sometimes I just want to go neutral and not do anything!

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