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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Mar 31, 2013 14:01:27 GMT 1
Odd topic, I know, but... has anyone else felt slightly guilty or in any way dirty doing certain side-quests in any games? I noticed this morning while playing a little bit of Skyrim that I felt a little squicky doing a couple of the Daedric quests... now, in TES IV: Oblivion, I was able to do all the Daedric and Dark Brotherhood missions without the slightest bit of hesitation... and in TES V: Skyrim, I completed the entire Dark Brotherhood line without any issues... but, I did two of the Daedric missions for the first time last night and this morning - for Boethiah and Namira. And Molag Bal. I have not yet done them all, and a few of the others I've done were not dubious at all. The one for Molag Bal only twinged a wee bit... but the mission for Boethiah (I had to choose a follower to murder in cold blood, and sacrifice them at Boethiah's Altar ) and the one for Namira (Cannibalism! Ick... not to mention who I was told to cannibalise... )... now those two made me feel weird. I almost wanted to re-load and not do them, but I do want full completion for this character... so I have to do all the Daedra missions - even the distasteful ones. Does this make me weak, somehow, that a fictional mission in a PC game can make me feel dirty? ;D
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Post by Clint Johnston on Mar 31, 2013 14:19:08 GMT 1
I just picked someone who really annoyed me, but wanted to be a follower (I think that priest/fighter who took me to a specific fort in the north. She spazzed out in game and I had to run & swim after her to go back. Die!)
I played along with Namira. It certainly explained the behavior of Markarth.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Mar 31, 2013 14:23:19 GMT 1
Oh, I agree... Markarth made more sense once I could see that Namira had sort of a hold there...
As for the follower I picked for the Boethiah situation, I picked the drunk guy in Markarth who picks a fight with me and I ended up brawling him, then he became a follower... I figured I wouldn't need him for anything else, so...
But still, it felt weird... maybe after a few more play-throughs I'll be ok... I think really the Boethiah mission bothered me because I had to kill a follower, and was not sure if I picked someone who I would not need later... last thing I want to do is kill someone I might need later in the game... lol
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Mar 31, 2013 14:34:22 GMT 1
The only time I felt remotely guilty was when I woke up from partying with Sam Guivenne.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Mar 31, 2013 14:37:33 GMT 1
Ah... yes... that one... ;D I never thought I'd end up marrying a Hagraven...
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Post by Clint Johnston on Mar 31, 2013 14:38:28 GMT 1
I missed half of that quest because I ran into Yvonne before I found the town I screwed up.
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Post by Mister Buch on Mar 31, 2013 16:56:25 GMT 1
That was a funny quest!
I feel guilty about quests all the time. It's half the reason I'm yet to try the Skyrim Dark Brotherhood. I remember feeling absolutely awful the first time I made Conrad Verner cry on Mass Effect. xD
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Mar 31, 2013 17:01:00 GMT 1
The Skyrim Dark Brotherhood is not bad... the people you're tasked to kill pretty much deserve it (especially the old hag you kill to get inducted) - there's contracts out on them for a reason (mostly)... at least until the last major contract - I felt kinda sad about that one, but mostly because the target had honor and was a pretty cool person...
I didn't feel too bad about the Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim - but, now I'm wondering if I did the Namira and Boethiah missions in the wrong order - the person who corrupted me for the Namira mission becomes a follower after that mission is complete - so now I wonder if I can get revenge on her by using her as my target for the Boethiah mission? Hmm.. *twisted diabolical thoughts*
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Post by Mister Buch on Mar 31, 2013 17:15:11 GMT 1
I'm the kind of person that thinks nobody deserves it. I have killed that orphan-master in other games, but I hated that that was the only way to stop her (or to get the 'Destroy the Dark Brotherhood' quest).
I can appreciate the art and the writing in things like the Dark Brotherhood questlines and GTA and stuff like that, but I very rarely bring myself to play them. I don't necessarily disapprove, you know, it's just that the fantasies I want to indulge don't include murder. I like to be the big hero, or the wandering superdude, or an honest soldier, and I also really like playing as a thief - but playing a game where you murder people, especially on orders, isn't fun for me.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Mar 31, 2013 18:57:17 GMT 1
Is it bad I never feel bad for making evil choices? I keep traveling around with Lidia, sometimes a orc compangion when i have a misses Lidia has to look after.
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Post by Mister Buch on Mar 31, 2013 19:24:15 GMT 1
I always had a orc companion too. They rock. They r-orc. Rork.
Come to think of it I don't mind being *evil* - being cartoonishly evil is fun. But the more realistic stuff makes me feel bad. I remember in KotOR 2 there is a magnificent bit where you meet these two guys and you just mind-trick them into jumping off a building because "You will reach the ground faster". And I laughed my head off.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Mar 31, 2013 19:42:52 GMT 1
I always had a orc companion too. They rock. They r-orc. Rork. .
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Post by Mr. Glow on Mar 31, 2013 23:39:38 GMT 1
One of the most recent things I can think of like this was in The Walking Dead. That bit where you can choose to shoot the girl being attacked by zombies or not interfere and let her draw them away from where the shop you're trying to scavenge from. Kenny convinced me to do it, but I felt really bad when he brought it up in front of everyone later on in the episode.
Also, I sacrificed my wife to Boethiah. She was useless in battle, ran a barely profitable shop out of my manor and was a Dunmer fucking shit anyway. Good riddance.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 1, 2013 9:17:42 GMT 1
Racist, sexist AND emtionless! I got a Bingo!
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Post by Mr. Glow on Apr 6, 2013 20:39:42 GMT 1
Killing the Big Daddies in Bioshock. The way they'll never attack first unless you mess with their Little Sister always makes me feel like I'm murdering them a bit.
That bit in Bioshock 2 where you find a tape on the body of a random Big Daddy that reveals it was the guy from the ARG who was looking for his daughter, found she'd been transformed and asked to become her protector was even worse...
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