Do you identify with good or evil?

[Autumnleaf]

When you think of yourself as a superhero in games or real life do you fancy yourself a hero or a villain?

 

[SiderealExalt]

When you think of yourself as a superhero in games or real life do you fancy yourself a hero or a villain?

If we're talking hypothetical here. Generally when I play an rpg or whatnot. I prefer playing a villain.

 

[WatersMoon110]

If we're talking hypothetical here. Generally when I play an rpg or whatnot. I prefer playing a villain.

See, I can't stand being mean. In Black&White 2 I always end up being "good", because I just can't stand to let my little fake people suffer.

 

[Washington]

I'm considered a hero to religious fools, and a villain to the religious foolers.

 

[brinny]

Washington, could ya break that down for me?

i be a hero who may be forced to use unconventional means to get the bad guy

 

[PassionFruit]

Do I identify with good or evil.

The superhero I suppose, but others probably see me as the villain.

 

[The Nihilist]

villain!

 

[Washington]

Washington, could ya break that down for me?

Sure 'nuff. I very seldom argue theology with the expectation of changing anyone's mind, but it has happened a few times with friends who foolishly believed what their religion was saying, and was later thanked for setting them straight. On the other hand, some of my theological opponents, particularly those who knowingly use bogus information to support their cases, don't care for what I have to say, and see me as their enemy.

 

[brinny]

Aah, i see.

thanks

 

[colgraff]

I have played several RPG games that give you the choice. I find it hard to play a villain (though I try)

But then again in games the choices are not real. The implications do not translate to real-life... After all it's only a game.

 

[SiderealExalt]

I have played several RPG games that give you the choice. I find it hard to play a villain (though I try)

But then again in games the choices are not real. The implications do not translate to real-life... After all it's only a game

That's part of why I like playing a bad guy in those, you have a little more freedom to go against type. But the game has the have compelling enough villains for me to want to play em. I'll be the shining hero if I find them more interesting.

 

[lawtonfogle]

When you think of yourself as a superhero in games or real life do you fancy yourself a hero or a villain?

In games for the most part I play the good guy. I have actively tried to play the bad guy, but in many games I can't do it to much of an extent and enjoy it, but one thing I do notice I can do which many others can't is play the purely evil side as well. To use a pop. culture reference, when I was watching the Dark Knight, I was up to the end constantly pointing out things that the Joker should have done to paint himself crazier and more evil. Basically, it was second nature to me to see the choices that would make the Joker become so bad that his current self would be considered at least decent if not good. But, I always tend towards good. I cannot stand to see suffering, so I will always remove it where I can find it.

Yet there is a bit of a problem, in that I know locked inside of my current self is another who can enjoy suffering. It is one of the reasons I consider myself a crazy, even if not in the standard sense of the word. Luckily, that me never comes out. Then again, I think that such a darker self resides in all others as well, just many are unable to see it, because it would hurt their self image beyond repair, to know that someone far worse than most if not all the evil people you think of is a possible side of yourself. But I digress.

So, long story short, I always tend towards good, but I realize that I have the ability to do the opposite.

 

[Cassandra]

Depends on how you define "good" and "evil".

 

[B'alaam]

I dont "identify myself" in any such way, but Batman, Raven, Wolverine and Catwoman have always held a strong appeal for me.

Magneto pretty much rocks as well, along with Emma Frost and Ghost Rider

 

[QuakerOats]

When you think of yourself as a superhero in games or real life do you fancy yourself a hero or a villain?

Neither, or both, depending upon how you look at it. Even superheroes are complicated.

 

[TimmyPage]

Most games that offer a choice really intend for the good choice to be made, with the evil choice being ill thought out.

In honesty, I'm generally a good person, but I'd prefer to be in the middle - have the ability to do what I thought was for the best whether it seemed evil or not.

 

[quatona]

When you think of yourself as a superhero in games or real life do you fancy yourself a hero or a villain?

Since I am the superhero in real life I prefer to be the villain in games, for a change.

 

[GryffinSong]

I love playing good and nice beings. In my 30ish years of roleplaying, I can only remember playing a "bad guy" once. And even then, that character had a "heart of gold".

 

[cantata]

See, I can't stand being mean. In Black&White 2 I always end up being "good", because I just can't stand to let my little fake people suffer.

Ditto!

I know it'd be a lot easier if I just threw a few fireballs at the little fellas, but I can't bring myself to do it.

 

[sidhe]

I tend to run around chaotic neutral in day to day life, and am unabashedly evil in games.

My reputation was so low in one D&D campaign that guards were dispatched if I entered a town. Might have had something to do with the wholesale slaughter in one town after a shopkeeper refused to lower their prices.