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flowerboom
post Feb 11 2013, 08:33 PM
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Do you enjoy being evil ? Overall do you enjoy characters being evil or are you just opposed / dont enjoy the idea or playing of it

I love going to the dark side , it gives a lot just like being good does.

Also : do you think there comes a "point of no return" or can any character turn around

Do you think being a vampire makes you "bad" ?

And which people in the game / acts do you consider truely evil?
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SubRosa
post Feb 13 2013, 10:27 PM
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I only rarely play characters who are evil. As Desti said, in most video games (the KOTOR games especially) the 'evil' route is usually just the selfish dickweed's path. And that is not what I have fun playing. One thing I like about the ES games, is that the open world tends to give you more room to roleplay your 'evilness'. That lets me play a character who might be a sadistic murderer, but not a prick, if that makes any sense.

For example, I did the Oblivion DB questline with Lilith Arcadia. Before the events of the game began, she was raped and left for dead by Rufio. This transformed her in an I Spit On Your Grave way. Afterward Lilith learned to fight and to kill. Moreover, she found that killing gave her a feeling of power. That overrode the feelings of helplessness she had been filled with after what Rufio had done to her. The more she killed, the more she liked it, and the less she cared who it was or why. Ultimately she became a pure murder machine, who killed for nothing but the sheer pleasure of it. That is why she did not flinch to kill the other members of the Sanctuary, and did not bat at eye at seeing Lucien's corpse.

It was an interesting roleplay, to the say the least, and took me to some very dark places. It was a powerful experience, but not especially pleasant.

The nearest I have come to that since was playing Helregin. She was an ordinary Nord living out in the wilderness. She was hunting and fishing in those parts for years. Her poaching never hurt no one, it's not like the Jarl could eat every deer after all. All that changed when she was infected with Vampirism. After turning, she found herself consumed by the desire to feed on mortals. Since I used the Better Vampires mod, she did not have to sneak up on people while they slept. She could feed off them after killing them. So she went on a killing spree across Skyrim, and whatever conscience she once possessed was drowned in a sea of hot blood. The more she killed, the more powerful her vampiric powers became (again, the mod), and the more powerful and special she felt. She very quickly came to view mortals as being objects, things that only existed for her to destroy. In her worldview, they had no other purpose.

Meeting Serana actually mellowed Helregin out a great deal. Serana awakened her ability to feel love once more, and taught her that she did not really need to kill every mortal she met. That is not to say that she went cold turkey. But for the first time she was able to conquer her blood lust, and walk past living people on the road without anyone dying.

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flowerboom   Going to the dark side...   Feb 11 2013, 08:33 PM
Lopov   I usually switch from good to evil... if my curren...   Feb 11 2013, 09:06 PM
mirocu   No. Being evil for the sake of being evil is somet...   Feb 11 2013, 09:10 PM
King Of Beasts   I enjoy being evil when I do decide to torment the...   Feb 11 2013, 09:16 PM
Lady Saga   Do you enjoy being evil ? Overall do you enjoy ch...   Feb 11 2013, 09:18 PM
Darkness Eternal   My characters are usually necromancers or vampires...   Feb 11 2013, 10:04 PM
Lady Saga   Do you consider a lion is evil for stalking a man...   Feb 12 2013, 12:56 AM
Darkness Eternal   I disagree (sorry!) Animals don't have a...   Feb 12 2013, 02:22 AM
Lady Saga   Vampires have to feed just like everything else. ...   Feb 12 2013, 03:14 PM
flowerboom   YES, lady saga is in a lore war! :lol: I do...   Feb 12 2013, 08:30 PM
Lady Saga   I dont have time now but i will read both of your...   Feb 13 2013, 12:24 AM
flowerboom   I dont have time now but i will read both of you...   Feb 13 2013, 03:09 PM
flowerboom   Well i had a character - stacy , and she was so in...   Feb 11 2013, 10:43 PM
Lopov   That's interesting story about Stacy, flowerbo...   Feb 11 2013, 10:48 PM
flowerboom   That's interesting story about Stacy, flowerb...   Feb 11 2013, 10:52 PM
Lopov   Thank you! Nobody hardly ever says that! ...   Feb 11 2013, 10:56 PM
flowerboom   Thank you! Nobody hardly ever says that...   Feb 11 2013, 11:05 PM
mirocu   Sometimes what is evil can be hard to identify. IŽ...   Feb 12 2013, 08:42 PM
flowerboom   Sometimes what is evil can be hard to identify. I...   Feb 13 2013, 03:08 PM
Lady Saga   your suggesting that we get all our meat from hun...   Feb 13 2013, 04:24 PM
mirocu   There is a chance for failure (the animal gets aw...   Feb 13 2013, 04:50 PM
mALX   There is a chance for failure (the animal gets a...   Feb 13 2013, 05:11 PM
ghastley   The game is really missing the "unintentional...   Feb 13 2013, 04:19 PM
flowerboom   Well it seems like everyone is jumping on me , tha...   Feb 13 2013, 05:02 PM
flowerboom   OK no more hunting posts This thread is complet...   Feb 13 2013, 05:17 PM
Destri Melarg   Interesting topic, and a lot of lively discussion....   Feb 13 2013, 09:12 PM
Elisabeth Hollow   Interesting topic, and a lot of lively discussion...   Feb 13 2013, 09:20 PM
Destri Melarg   ... in most video games (the KOTOR games especial...   Feb 14 2013, 12:35 AM
mALX   That brings up a question that I would put to th...   Feb 14 2013, 12:39 AM
Darkness Eternal   That brings up a question that I would put to the...   Feb 14 2013, 01:00 AM
SubRosa   Helregin sounds like an interesting character. I...   Feb 14 2013, 01:56 AM
Darkness Eternal   I am not especially fond of terms like good and ...   Feb 14 2013, 07:30 AM
King Coin   That brings up a question that I would put to the...   Feb 14 2013, 05:16 AM
SubRosa   That brings up a question that I would put to th...   Feb 14 2013, 07:02 AM
Elisabeth Hollow   That brings up a question that I would put to the...   Feb 14 2013, 07:05 AM
mirocu   That brings up a question that I would put to the...   Feb 14 2013, 04:54 PM
Grits   I like to play characters who experience conflict ...   Feb 14 2013, 05:09 PM
mALX   I like to play characters who experience conflict...   Feb 14 2013, 08:55 PM
Colonel Mustard   When I think about it, I don't think I've ...   Feb 14 2013, 12:55 PM
Elisabeth Hollow   I enjoy evil characters, in moderation. I identify...   Feb 14 2013, 09:08 PM
Lopov   If I may elaborate a little here since my current ...   Feb 14 2013, 11:49 PM
Darkness Eternal   "The core conflict, the central dichotomy of ...   Jul 24 2013, 07:05 PM
mALX   There's no evil dragon kidnapping the fair m...   Jul 24 2013, 07:27 PM
PhonAntiPhon   Niamh is morally ambiguous, and her motivations ar...   Jul 25 2013, 12:43 AM
Renee Gade IV   [quote name='Darkness Eternal' post='180670' date...   Jul 25 2013, 01:20 PM
mALX   [quote name='mALX' post='180671' date='Jul 24 201...   Jul 26 2013, 04:55 AM
Darkness Eternal   Guys, not lets get off topic here.   Jul 26 2013, 12:39 PM
mALX   Guys, not lets get off topic here. "Huh?...   Jul 26 2013, 10:31 PM
Elisabeth Hollow   Thats what I like about RPGs, mALX. They're no...   Jul 26 2013, 10:33 PM
mALX   Thats what I like about RPGs, mALX. They're n...   Jul 26 2013, 11:07 PM
Renee Gade IV   IMHO, the developers aren't trying to repres...   Jul 27 2013, 12:07 PM
mALX   IMHO, the developers aren't trying to repre...   Jul 29 2013, 12:00 PM


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