The Big Question: Good Or Evil?

I still don’t think video games have ever done a great job of creating a ‘moral’ framework. You know the kind of thing I’m talking about — are you going to be good or evil? Are you going to be a paragon or a rogue. It’s all still a little bit black and white. But in video games, if you’re offered a choice — which way do you go?

In the Mass Effect games I always asked myself one question: what would Jack Bauer do? If Jack Bauer would choose to beat the shit out of a snotty reporter, I’d do it. If Jack Bauer would have have chosen to rescue this person, or throw this person out of a window, that’s generally what I would have done. My theory was that saving the universe was a task that required a certain amount of moral murkiness.

So I always end up being somewhere in between. How about you?


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