Video Game Atrocities and Altruism

[Tearen Wover]

Alright you freaky deaks.

We all know we've dabbled in the depths of depravity in any video game that leaves us with an open choice. I want to know the absolute most angelic and devilish things you've done, respectively.

Only acts that are entirely your own choice and not compelled by the game's story (if any) apply.

The only reason I'm not putting mine up right now is because I'll have to...think about it... :hee:

[Bobby Worthing]

In both GTA: Vice City and GTA 4 (both gifts), I went around obeying all the traffic laws. In both games, a speeding police car went right into me, then arrested me.

I once tried to kill Marcy Long in Fallout 4 because she's an ungrateful bitch. Turned out she was immortal. I can't even do evil right in games.

[Tearen Wover]

I think...the worst thing I've ever done in a game only wins because of the scale involved. That game would be Spore, and the act involved would be personally and singlehandedly killing billions and billions of screaming, panicking lifeforms, claiming their planets as my own, and terraforming and rebuilding their cities in the appearance of my species' homeworld, thus eradicating even their history from existence.

The fact that everything in Spore looks like a plastic toy kind of...creates a cognitive dissonance around just how much pain and suffering you can cause. :frog:



It's harder to think of something truly benevolent, because most of the things I can think of were heavily incentivized by the game. In Fable 2, I chose the option to bring all the Spire workers back to life, but that was because I didn't really use my dog, and I was already a real estate mogul and didn't need unlimited cash. In EVE Online I did a lot of charity work for the Sisters of EVE faction, but that was just so they would agree to sell me their special gear and ships.

...I guess the most altruistic thing I do is just donate lots of money to homeless NPCs in any game that allows for it. Generosity, in general, is something I tend to practice in video games.




...just don't let me fly the space ship.

[Guu]

I usually like to play good people so I rarely partake in evil shit.

I have attempted the genocide run in Undertale. Undyne put the breaks on that.

The only other thing I could think of was Grand Theft Auto 5. I'd just a buy a knife and see how many random people I could stab before the cops rightfully kill me. Something way worse about killing people with a knife, something you just don't get from killing by gun or bludgeoning.

I'm not going to look good after I admitted that, am I?

[Trixie]

Medieval II Total War - I would execute all of my prisoners after a battle if the country I was fighting started pissing me off. Just to prove a point. Don't FUCK with me and I won't eradicate your military and raze your cities.

[Guu]

I've been told to list altruisms...

I once completed Undertale with all monsters with yellow names, meaning EVERYONE got happy endings and not just the main characters.

I'll list more as they come to me.

[Trixie]

I managed to get the complete ending of Mass Effect 2 where nobody died. 

In Fallout 3 I sacrificed myself and had Sarah Lyons watch as I melted into nothing inside the radiated chamber. Made me tear up.

[Alex]

Yea, seriously.

I keep all those fucks alive in every Mass Effect game.

[Alex]

Terrible things?

I follow the Joe school of slaughtering prisoners when countries don't surrender to me.

In Alien: Isolation, I also got a giddy joy out of drawing the Alien out to slaughter the panicked people on the station who would shoot at me. I'm sure they were just scared and everything of what was going on, but fuck you. Jagoffs. Get skewered.

[Amber Veritz]

I can't play any game with dead NPCs. If I lose an NPC, even someone you can't interact with, unintentionally I have to reload the last save and attempt to save said NPC.

The only way I can play GTA is with a fully loaded Bazooka. Put the pieces together yourself.

I will kill anyone who talks about wanting to hug trees and that crazy stuff.

I can't take competitive games lightly. If your my enemy, you're going to lose.

[The Rogue]

In Saint's Row IV, I sprint around and leap off roof tops until I see one od the Security programs or a bunch of unfortunante Zin, and i completely wreck thier shit. At time of bordem I go around with the Prober, and launch random citizens.
When bandits are trying to hustle peiple in Skyrim I kill them all, and loot them all. I always to help poeple who have been robbed by bandits and I always give to the beggers.

[Guu]

Oh! I remember!

So I was playing Journey. I was doing a self-imposed challenge where I don't collect any scarf upgrades (for the unintiated, upgrades allow you to fly further) and I got a first time player as my randomly generated partner.

I stuck with that player the whole game, going out of my way to show them where every single scarf upgrade was while not collecting them myself. We played to the end, and after the game revealed our screennames, I sent them a message over playstation network:

"Thanks for being my student!"

They replied, half of it was Japanese. My friend who knew the language translated it as a celebration for an achievement. The other half was in english, which read:

"Thank you, sensei!"

[Doomguy]

I play Dwarf Fortress

That's all I need to say, BUUUUUUUT...

Repeatedly capture animals for the sole sake of getting training experience on my animal tamers, thrown goblins into pits at the top of temples dedicated to Armok as sacrifice, repeatedly drowned fisherdwarfs because they're too stupid to not dodge into the river, trapped goblins into rooms with lava hanging over head, drop ceilings, unsafe work conditions, and traded with Elves.

Also, Altruism? outside of pacifist run in undertale (which I don't really count), uh...
I actually saluted, IRL, to all who died in XCom: Enemy Within. That ending made me cry ;_;7

[Sam]

Not sure this counts but once when I was a lot younger me and my brother were playing Halo, (like, the multi player mode) and I beat him and teagbagged his body.

Another time I was playing assassins creed and more or less had to kill a random NPC and it made me feel bad so I never completed the game....

[Oleander]

For me, I usually do the extremes in every game I play, just to see what I'm capable of.

I used a mod on Skyrim that makes children killable, then had fun at the orphanage in Riften. Reloaded the last save point, loaded a different mod, adopted all the homeless children (around 20+ I think.)

In Fable 3, I literally killed every home/shop/etc owner I came across in order to buy out their house... I then rented everything out and worked my ass off to boost the economy of every location.

[Dane Regan]

As I lawful evil cleric, I once repetitively killed and resurrected, tortured and healed, someone in D&D until they told me what I wanted to know. Probably my worst, even if we didn't rp it out because I don't think I'm capable of that. I just rolled a bunch of dice and used my spells. I think said NPC had a resistance to the spells I had that would have made him tell me stuff. Normally I played the cleric as a quiet serial killer, and just occasionally made people disappear (often to our benefit). So IC the party never knew, but things like witnesses to party crimes suddenly just disappeared overnight. We only did about 5 or 6 sessions though. I never actually multiclassed. I just had a wand of invisibility (a couple of uses per day) and decided to blow points into stealth. Only time I ever really played an evil character. I've done battle crazed barbarian, but that's kinda different.

Obviously, in Shadow of Mordor and SKYRIM and Assassins creed and any free roam game I've gone on a killing rampage (probably after quicksaving if relevant). Once in GTA V, I parked a bus blocking off a road section to see how many cars I could get on the road at once. Then blew all of them up at once.

I went though KOTOR doing every dark side choice, except in the case where a light side choice would allow me to make even more dark side choices (save someone to kill them later, that sort of thing).

Once in CIV (5 I think) multiplayer, I was one turn away from a science victory. But because I could I won by domination and spammed nukes at everyone. All because one of those guys stole my worker. And someone else stole that worker from him and kept it. And so on.

Never trust me on any game where you can make temporary teams or alliances. I lie my arse off until you're no longer useful to me - or you become stronger than me. If you're weaker and more useful alive, you stay alive. Otherwise I'll stab you in the back. That said, in the early game, it'll still probably be mutually beneficial. Just be wary and keep an eye on me.

[Omni]

In Fallout 3, there's some coven of ex-cannibals whose leader has convinced themselves they're actually vampires, and to only drink blood instead of giving into their flesh-eating urges. I killed them all because they were dangerous and mentally ill, and I was roleplaying my guy as a "ends justify the means" type of fellow. I got massive negative karma all over the wasteland (really? In a Mad Max type of world, these motherfuckers sure are judgemental tumblr-types). I hate that game's stupid karma system. IMO it was a morally grey choice, but NOBODY ELSE WOULD HAVE KNOWN ANYWAY. Stupid psychic T-Dog or whatever his name is.

In my first game of Endless Space, I was attacked early on by the Empire guys. They did huge damage to my peaceful Science Greys until I finally brokered a peace treaty.

So I spent the next .... I dunno, hundred turns (years?) recovering and building up an army. I planned to hit hard, and hit fast, with everything. Surprise attack. Just like real combat, you don't play honour, you don't "give them a chance". I broke the peace treaty after a hundred years of peace and hit them with everything, until every one of their worlds was taken. Fuck you, Empire, you threw the first stone!

Then I won a peaceful science victory.

[Tearen Wover]

I just remembered all the Chap I beat up in SA2 to make them turn dark. >.>

I am legitimately uncomfortable with that in hindsight. But also fuck Sega for making that a thing that was possible for a 14 y/o to do...

[Ezrihel]

Yea, seriously.

I keep all those fucks alive in every Mass Effect game.

I never let my space babs die. I'm too attached. I won't play the 3rd game because I can't choose between Tali or Legion. Breaks my heart man.

As for the evil shit, oh fucking boy.

I'm the most evil in Skyrim (and ark but we'll get to that later). Say in skyrim I was wondering around and an NPC really just irked me in town. Well, I'd set to sneakily following them around for about a week or so IC, stalking them, learning all their schedules and quirks. Then, on the dawn of the seventh day (always the seventh day, I'm never late) I'd make a dagger that matched my feelings on the NPC and name it after them. That night when they were alone or sleeping, typically at around 4 am, I'd get into their house (had already lockpicked and produced a key copy), cast soul trap on them and then murder them with the dagger I'd named after them.

I'd then stuff their body in a corner or under a table, maybe behind some boxes, or what have yous. I'd leave the house and as soon as possible (typically at daybreak) enchant the dagger with their black soul gem and throw it into a drawer somewhere because I already have mad loot.

I think the worst time I did this was when Braith's mother effectively pissed me off. I killed her with my bow and propped her corpse up in a chair and left a book on the table in front of her. I did this so Braith and her husband could see the crime as soon as they walked in. I also killed Nazeem and left him in the fire pit of the Bannered Mare's main room. The entire Inn watched him burn that night and I had myself a dazzling new enchanted necklace.

Also any random NPC travellers on the road that aren't the Bard or the Merchants? I'm killing them. I specifically look for NPCs travelling to solitude for the wedding because they usually have some good stuff on them. I always strip them of their fancy clothes and dump them in the nearest body of water.

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In Ark I'm one of those asshole raiders. Don't leave things unlocked, don't build out of thatch. Put a fucking roof on your house for god's sake. I will ninja into your house, I will take the things I want and I will dump the rest on the floor to despawn. I will break all the containers, your mortars and pestles, your well worked for smithy. Your dinos aren't an issue- I'll kite something into your base to handle them when I'm done ruining your day. I'll take your body and drag it into the water and feed you to the sarcos or just watch you drown. I collect Specimen Implants as trophies in PvP.

And I love to revisit people who cry about it in the world chat. I'll listen to you complain, I might even give you some supplies to help you rebuild.

And when you sign out for the night I'll do it all over again.

Because if you're stupid enough for me to raid you without effort (seriously I don't put much effort into raiding) you deserve to be raided. //end evilness

[Jade Harley]

I added a mod to Skyrim that just. Added a bunch of dogs. All these dogs, everywhere. Perfect.

OH AND UHhhh evil things? Playing Viva Pinata and smashing my own pinatas with a shovel to feed the candy they dropped to wild pinatas so I could tame them. It's hard to get over that.