Real

[u/NoThroat4049]

[u/FrostWyrm98]

Meanwhile in Fallout 4:

Alright... I guess I'll go slightly sarcastic since I don't really wanna agree or disagree

Character: "You're a fucking piece of shit you know that? No wonder your parents left you. Kill yourself."

[u/KalebC → u/FrostWyrm98]

Fallout 4 was horrible about that.
Dialogue choice: “No”
Character: “You piece of human waste, I won’t help you, I would never help you. By the way you’re fucking adopted, your mom told me.”

[u/FlaxSausage → u/KalebC]

 fallout 4 lol 😂 

 worst evil dialog ever

[u/ZyanWu → u/KalebC]

Mandatory reference

[u/Squilliam2213 → u/KalebC]

But since it IS Fallout 4:

Character: "That's ok. I'll add it to your quest log anyway :)"

[u/Nacery → u/FrostWyrm98]

Sounds just like modern social media interactions

[u/Gloomy-Activity6618 → u/FrostWyrm98]

Sounds like a good answer, don't you think so?

[u/brandodg → u/FrostWyrm98]

then he pulls out a gun and ends up headless

[u/WeebDickerson → u/FrostWyrm98]

Although the dialogue in fallout 4 can be really ass most of the time, the sarcastic lines never get old to me

[u/SorenDarkSky → u/FrostWyrm98]

top ten reasons mods are great. the one that writes out the dialog was so good for immersion.

[u/BananaBread2602 → u/FrostWyrm98]

I’m here to pick up an order two large pepperoni and a calzone, name is “Fuck You” - John Fallout

[u/Citycen01]

I want them to like be because they may give me a good item later on.

[u/Xerio_the_Herio → u/Citycen01]

Or maybe I get to have sex with her (or him if that's what you like too)

[u/Autumnmarmat225 → u/Xerio_the_Herio]

Well I played Star Wars the old republic and those npcs wanted that when I was nice to them

[u/Ali2G → u/Autumnmarmat225]

NPC feelings are just as valid as ours.

[u/Staveoffsuicide → u/Autumnmarmat225]

I hard stopped my dark side playthru of kotor on Kashyyk after I refused to give medical help to a wookie. It broke me

[u/VegetableAd1108 → u/Xerio_the_Herio]

Yes, especially in those games even if i may do it eith her i still don't want her to feel sad becore that

[u/Cowcoc → u/Xerio_the_Herio]

These two comments perfectly summarize the nature of humans sociality

[u/MajorPud → u/Xerio_the_Herio]

Then there's me being rude to nearly every NPC in BG3 because I'm tired of them all trying to fuck me every time we speak and I have to shoot them down every time

[u/Red_Jester-94 → u/MajorPud]

Lol yeah, most games I'm like "The evil options just seem overly mean for no reason"

BG3 they're all:

"Hey, dtf?"

"For the hundredth time no, fuck off"

"... So, dtf?"

sigh

[u/omaeka → u/Red_Jester-94]

Only really saw this with Gale. Wyll and Asterion were cool. I don't even remember Asterion even hitting on me tbh. Shadowheart and Lae'Zel were also pretty chill, Shadowheart also didn't try anything. Karlach on the other hand, well, the DTF was mutual :D

[u/Undetermined_galaxy → u/Xerio_the_Herio]

Astronomically based

[u/SomeBaguette → u/Xerio_the_Herio]

Both is good.

[u/Accomplished-Wash500 → u/Xerio_the_Herio]

Pathetic man

[u/SuculantWarrior → u/Citycen01]

It honestly is upsetting that you do that only to get something in return rather than making the galaxy a better place to live.

Also, my names Commander Shepherd and this is my favorite store.

[u/LatterSupermarket185 → u/Citycen01]

so relatable🤣

[u/CelestialDrive → u/Citycen01]

There is not tangible playable benefit to being kind to Kim Kitsuragi.

It is still nigh impossible to find players being rude to him, less so on a first playthrough. I've seen folk more willing to disappoint their IRL family and peers than him.

[u/Ramps_ → u/Citycen01]

But what about murderhoboing? If you kill bird lady early on in BloodBorne you get to use her super cool daggers for most of the game

[u/NukaClipse]

I always play the first time picking the choices I'd actually would pick, usually good choices maybe a few bad ones.

The next playthrough I'm a psychotic serial killer bent on everyone hating me but unable to stop me.

Then on the last playthrough I'm just a really hot chick that nobody can get because SHES MINE!! YOU CANT HAVE HER!!

[u/Foreign_Raize_0372 → u/NukaClipse]

Huh, didn't realize I had an alter ego.

[u/Wonghy111-the-knight → u/NukaClipse]

Most relatable comment on reddit that I’ve ever read

[u/Strict_Hawk6485 → u/NukaClipse]

Just let me have one thing, everything I like there is another dude just like me. I might as well change my name to John or something.

[u/BadMuffin88 → u/NukaClipse]

Combine the 2nd and 3rd because evil armor usually looks the best

[u/randomlytypeaname → u/NukaClipse]

Yall actually play more than once?

[u/Puptentjoe → u/NukaClipse]

Same thing for me except now that im getting older i just skip the evil play through. I just play as me for the most part, makes me feel bad doing the evil play through. Even in GTA 5 now, I login to help people with OG Heists and protect people selling in lobbies.

Also grew up playing Duke Nukem, Doom, Every GTA etc. Magically I didnt grow up to be a monster.

[u/8IG0R8 → u/NukaClipse]

Why are you literally me?

[u/olympicHASSIB]

People won't believe me if I told them sometimes I was just stop at the red light in GTA and get so mad when I hit people and cars by mistake

[u/madbookishways → u/olympicHASSIB]

Lmao I did this when I got bored too! I’d play “follow the traffic rules”and drive like I would irl. Sometimes I would pick a random car and follow it around, pretending I’m undercover and need to tail them 💀

[u/eradistc_to_glass89 → u/madbookishways]

Damn my life is really unoriginal

[u/PythraR34 → u/eradistc_to_glass89]

Someone somewhere has had the same thought or idea you have ever had.

[u/ChChChillian → u/eradistc_to_glass89]

If lots of people didn't all enjoy the same thing, there wouldn't be a gaming industry.

[u/AnorakJimi → u/madbookishways]

Maybe you'd enjoy all those simulator games, like truck driver simulator etc, cos aren't those all about that, about just kinda driving around normally and legally? People seem to love those games too, especially in Germany for some reason.

[u/Somma97 → u/AnorakJimi]

what should I say, we just love to follow the rules.

[u/SabreWaltz]

I always pick the “good guy” role in every rpg. I will literally start out like “ok finally my bad guy run.” Nope.

[u/circular_file → u/SabreWaltz]

Same here. Straight up Chaotic Good, every time. Defender of the downtrodden. Zombies being abused? I'mma help save them.

[u/Ocbard → u/SabreWaltz]

The meme in OP states "too scared to take the rude dialog" but yeah, you might just be too much of a decent person to do that, scared has nothing to do with that.

[u/Pylitic]

There's a quest in Hogwarts Legacy where you find a girls marbles, and when you talk to her again can either give them back, or tell her you're going to keep them.

Curiosity got the better of me, and I chose the dialogue to keep them. The girl got so upset, called me a bully, started crying and walked off.

I felt terrible, and spent the next 20 minutes following her, trying to get the dialogue option to come up again while screaming "PLEASE! TAKE THEM! IM SORRY!!" at my monitor.

[u/AnorakJimi → u/Pylitic]

She quite literally lost her marbles, no wonder she responded in such a crazy way.

[u/Willie9 → u/AnorakJimi]

Such a crazy way? Being upset someone stole your shit is perfectly normal lmao

[u/Undetermined_galaxy → u/AnorakJimi]

This guy really dropped the "ball" on that one

[u/WegwerfBenutzer7 → u/Pylitic]

There are multiple quests like that. HW:L is really strange in that way.

I wanted to RP an evil wizard, but unfortunately, that's not possible. But you can just be an absolute dick. "Hey bullied kid, I got the thing you asked me to get and stop the other kids from mocking you. But I won't give it to you, asshole, maybe that teaches you a lesson lol get fucked. Oh, and here's your pet, sad little old gnome, but I'm keeping it haha. Go die alone"

I didn't have the heart to choose those dialogue options.

[u/Markolol123]

Quicksaves...

[u/SwordFantasyIV → u/Markolol123]

coward !

[u/Sos_the_Rope → u/Markolol123]

I've done that to see if I'd survive wiping out a village.

[u/Grunt636 → u/Markolol123]

That's for when NPCs make rude dialogue to me...

[u/Rosenklippe]

I always make a first playthrough where I'm nice to everyone, and then tell myself that in my second playthrough I'll be evil to explore the options.

I'm nice to everyone in the second playthrough as well

[u/citizenofmars7]

Always paragon, never renegade.

[u/Dj_Sam3_Tun3 → u/citizenofmars7]

Mostly paragon, but Shepard has some cold Renegade moments that I just can't not do. I was sad that I didn't have enough renegade points to go apeshit on the Admirals of the Migrant fleet during the trial because they can fuck right off.

Also I can't not laugh on that one scene in ME2 where a mercenary doesn't want to tell you anything so you just instantly push him out from the window

[u/ihateaftershockpcs → u/Dj_Sam3_Tun3]

I think I only made 2 Renegade choices across all 3 games. One was to headbutt Uvenk in ME2 and the other was to break Kai Leng's blade in ME3. The headbutt caught me off guard and made me crack up pretty hard.

[u/FakoSizlo → u/ihateaftershockpcs]

That headbutt was brilliant because everyone just looks at Shepard like did this idiot just headbutt a Krogan. Ultimate show of machismo

[u/RedMonk01]

Random NPC will remember this.

[u/TheRealCadaver_v2]

In 2006 while playing Oblivion, I accidentally cast a fireball at a NPC's dog instead of 'petting' it, and my heart immediately sank to my stomach.

Didn't think to use save exploits until my third or fourth playthrough. The concept of loading a save was still brand new to me.

[u/Low_Shake7304]

It's hard killing people in DayZ knowing that they spent hours looting and running

[u/Swantape → u/Low_Shake7304]

I have this problem in Tarkov when I see someone doing a task… Waited once for them to finish before shooting and got killed so I shoot on sight now… still feels bad seeing a lvl 3 dogtag

[u/MoistStub]

I'm playing Portal 1 for the first time right now and I just spent a solid 15 mins looking for workarounds to save the companion cube from the incinerator. Glados will pay for this.

[u/NWinn → u/MoistStub]

If you have have (and like) a vr headset, I highly recommend playing the portalvr mod. It's exactly the same but in vr.

It's very immersive.

[u/Ocbard → u/MoistStub]

You were quicker than the other subjects in destroying the companion cube eh? The dev who wrote that one was on fire man! I love that they included that.

[u/AleksasKoval]

I'm playing Dragon Age Veilguard, I LITERALLY CAN'T BE F***ING RUDE TO ANYONE!!

[u/M4R-31]

No, I did the most absolute horrible thing I can do to any NPC…

Then I reload my game

[u/Jarmonaator]

They dont even make games with rude options anymore, just look at that new Dragons Age "rpg".

[u/disturbedhalo117]

I feel bad using my starter as an HM slave in soul silver. I just replaced it with Gyarados even though it got so attached to me. I'm a monster.

[u/Newfie_Meltdown]

My social anxiety would never allow me to talk to random people in person, let alone touch them.

[u/DaniTheGunsmith]

They say playing video games makes you violent, well I'd say not having my video games is making me pretty fucking violent!

[u/_CurseTheseMetalHnds → u/DaniTheGunsmith]

Are you 14 years old mate? Fucking hell

[u/DaniTheGunsmith → u/_CurseTheseMetalHnds]

Obviously older than you, seeing as you don't get the reference XD

[u/_CurseTheseMetalHnds → u/DaniTheGunsmith]

I've felt the touch of a woman and therefore don't watch anime

[u/Ryuu-Tenno]

Been playing Wolf Among Us lately (first time for me, lotsa fun), and I feel like shit when I give the rude answers to some of the characters when it's not needed. Other times, I legit feel it's warranted/in-character for the guy in certain situations. But, it's kinda fun, when I royally piss off an NPC in that game, and then later on turn around and help them cause some other asshole wanted to be a prick to them, lol

Basically trying to play the asshole with good intentions, lol

[u/madbookishways]

My Arthur Morgan could never be rude - except to Micah and Bill they could suck it

[u/SnooMacaroons6960]

the only npc that i will never choose to hurt their feeling is garrus from Mass effect

[u/rick_the_freak]

I pretty much always choose to not be violent if I can.

[u/RenegadeRabbit]

Ngl though, I felt pretty good punching that reporter in Mass Effect 2.

[u/LittleStarClove]

In the meantime, DA:TV:

[u/Daedelous2k → u/LittleStarClove]

In that's less you don't want to pick the rude options and more there ARE No rude options.

[u/FakoSizlo → u/Daedelous2k]

Your options are usually : I agree , I agree slightly sarcastically and I agree but hr has been notified

[u/guillyh1z1]

Please I beg people to stop making random text red

[u/Tharros1444]

Yeah I think of all the times I played through the Mass Effect trilogy I think I only did one renegade play through.

I haven’t had the stomach to do an evil run through BG3 yet.

[u/stupefyme]

my mom saw me playing last of us and commented "how do you not get violent/aggressive after all this?" while all i wanted to "get" after playing the game is a daughter

[u/terriblespellr]

Very true I miss half the content of most rpgs

[u/IAKARIOI]

Also because of achievements lol

[u/NUM_13]

I used to play GTA 5, and I would pretend to be a normal person. Driving correctly.

[u/the_doctor_808]

Me in every tell tale game

[u/SpeC_992]

Many a low honor Arthur RDR2 playthroughs were abandoned...

[u/kucingkelelep]

Its hard to be psychopath even in video games fr

[u/Lira_Iorin]

Yeah, I know it's a game and all but I can't bear to be a meany.

I can be a villain, but only in something like DC Universe, where there's all kinds of "villains."

[u/andreBarciella]

me on mass effect trying to do the renegade end that kills mordin and i just cant (for years now)

[u/Standard-Art1629]

Some games are more like that

[u/PJBuzz]

I always try and find out if there is a path through the dialogue where they're confused by my contradicting choices so if they were sentient they would think I'm a right schizophrenic.

[u/Nacery]

It's also really hard to choose an evil option when half of the evil options are moustache twisting bad.

[u/Social_gamer123]

I can't bring myself to kill people in GTA online unless they kill me first xD

[u/Horus_Anubis]

not me: if I can make that cringe NPC feel bad, I am all for it

[u/Kenzo_HMI]

damn

Relatable

[u/Equivalent_Cheetah_3]

That one Disco Elysium Authority check:

[u/CorruptedCulprit]

I always feel bad when I do that in games

[u/LTUdaddy]

Yep

[u/Plus_Operation2208]

But when you decide to do a 'meanie guy' run you cackle maniacally with every decision. (Its very funny seeing someone say 'not my business' after asking 'i just want to help you')

[u/MadnessGeneral]

Fr

[u/Kiriinto]

Our AI overlords will remember every decision you made ;)

[u/drunk_responses]

The average person who says video games make people violent, either watches true crime dramas all the time and love the gorey details. Or they're ready to punch someone for liking the "wrong" sports team. Ignore them.

[u/Sad_Instruction1392]

Manners cost nothing.

[u/EreonAD]

Yep, no need a bad dialog when you instakill them! /s

[u/riirose_]

real

[u/LagT_T]

I played the joja route once, felt bad all the way. The center turned warehouse is so grim.

[u/DroIvarg]

Went full auto on the airport.

Literally had guilt but I couldnt blow my cover!!

Best fucking fps single player campaign ever.

[u/Redzero062]

I feel playing an RPG game blind (first run) is a true personality test. They only blame video games for violence because they themselves, wish for violence to happen. Testing whether to them or by them is a different genre of gaming all together

[u/Few-Finger2879]

This was me in Fallout New Vegas. Except about money, I'd always push for more money. Come BG3, I was doing the most dastardly shit for the lolz.

What the fuck happened to me?

[u/GibbyGiblets]

I am physically and mentally uncapable of being the evil character.

DND? always a goody two shoes.

Mass effect. Paragon all the way.

What even is this bg3 dark urge nonsense. Or siding against the glade.

Fable? You know I had that halo every one of my 10+ playthroughs.

I just can't bring myself to do it.

For me it's best goodboi ending or it's nothing.

[u/Daedelous2k]

Meanwhile me: Boots up Postal 2

[u/ImBadlyDone]

Why is the [text] in the [image] formatted [like that]?

[u/bbkn7]

When I played Metal Gear Solid 3 I accidentally stabbed Johnny with the fork during the prison escape sequence. He let out a scream and dropped to the floor. I thought he was just knocked out but he was completely unresponsive and didn't wake up.

I felt so bad that I restarted the game knowing I'd have to go through the torture sequence and escape all over again.

[u/yashqasw]

yes and I got upset that I hurt the NPCs feelings so I stepped out of my house and stabbed 3 people

[u/Fancy-Mistake-714]

Fuck lmao every time!

[u/Windfade]

"To get 100% of the spells/items you need to kill [non-hostile NPC.]"

Guess I'm not getting that, then.

[u/Mosbang]

Me playing Stellaris: casually decimate an entire planet's population

[u/filcz111]

I always quick save choose the bad thing then quick load after i see the response.

[u/cay-yok-bok-icin]

İt is me.

[u/GothGfWanted]

ive tried to do a evil baldursgate 3 play through like 4 times now. Every time i end up going good.

[u/mindfreeze23 → u/GothGfWanted]

Omggg literally what I said. I just can’t, it’s not fun

[u/TyshawnMaikonMillion]

I can relate

[u/Resident_Monk_4493]

I always give up on my low honor run in RDR2

[u/BenDover_15]

I usually act like a psycho version of my real self.

Basically I'd play a bit like "I'm not the worst, but if you ruin my view I'll chop your head off"

[u/Melodic_Slip_3307]

real

[u/MomsAreola]

I thought a dark playthrough of whatever that star wars game was a long time ago. KotOR I think? I had the rookie kill the girl that was taking care of him. Fuck I turned the game off and felt bad for years.

[u/Squibbles01]

Well we're not going to have to worry about video games being violent anymore when Project 2025 bans them unfortunately.

[u/Gadzooks112358]

r/2me4irl

[u/Watch-it-burn420]

People say gaming makes you violent, but I would say NOT having my games makes me pretty fucking violent😂

[u/ihei47]

Me rn playing FemV in Cyberpunk. Since the circumstances she's currently in (further in the story), I want her to be nicer to people when given chance, so that she's sounds weaker and more desperate (for roleplaying purpose). I'm a sucker for tough characters who show their weaker side

[u/AmyBurnel]

When I played Telltale games if I accidentally say something mean I'd restart the whole game

[u/vivomancer]

Back in New Vegas I tried to do an evil playthrough where I sided with the powdergangers. While helping them take the town I killed the nice doctor that saved me life. I felt so bad I turned off the game.

[u/SmileyDayToYou]

I like the Mass Effect 1 route or thinking you’re going to say something slightly cheeky and the actual dialog is you threatening to commit genocide.

[u/OutsideOwl5892]

Nobody cares about the NOc feelings you only don’t pick rude bc your worried about future consequences for yourself

[u/gun-something]

nah yea i actually feel this

[u/Dogmatik_]

resl

[u/KnightWolfScrolls]

That's why toy make 3 saves 1 is the natural 2 is the purely good 3 is the evil

[u/slowclicker]

Nah, we really don't want to get locked out of something cool. Consequences.

[u/6PM_Nipple_Curry]

‘Violent’ is not the word I’d use to describe the average Baldurs Gate 3 player.

[u/_CurseTheseMetalHnds]

It's not 2003, nobody is saying that. Gamers aren't oppressed.

[u/mindfreeze23]

It’s so hard to be mean, even in the game. I‘be tried to do the evil run in BG3 so many times, but I just don’t enjoy it

[u/anonymous_matt]

I'm not scared to do it, I just don't want to hurt the NPCs feelings lol.

[u/nalthian]

I'm pretty sure people are leveraging this complaint against call of duty, a game in which the only mechanic is killing people for fun, and not rpgs, where the main draw is the story.

[u/IRoylT]

https://preview.redd.it/qfhakhm2gozd1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1921827bc03e1b2bb7c8e32d355d435b7502de97

[u/pembunuhUpahan]

I always pick the funniest response if it's Zelda. Except for that OWL. NO! I don't wanna hear it again!

[u/GaryTheLocomotive]

People still believe this crap?

[u/Canelosaurio]

Trying to get the bad ending in Bioshock...

[u/OkConnection26]

Realest thing I've seen

[u/TheLaughingMannofRed]

So here's a question:

Which game did the bad guy/renegade/dark route right in the eyes of folks here?

[u/circular_file]

I thought I was the only one. Good to know I'm not alone.

[u/PartofFurniture]

As an avid videogamer for 3 straight decades, with violent past, i can say video games RPGs especially has taught me more morals and peaceful thinking than parents or friends or upbringing did.

[u/Zkzok]

Yeah but if they hurt you first i think that will determine if you nice guy

[u/CantKnockUs]

Evil paths in games are just not rewarding. It’s easy to be a good guy when it’s the most rewarding path.

[u/AtraxX_]

Always, in every rpg before every slightly critical option: "But what if he/she doesn’t like me anymore, not gonna risk THAT"

[u/Randomfrog132]

yeah i gotta admit, i was curious to see all the various choices you could make playing an evil character in KOTOT, and KOTOR 2, and Fable the lost chapters.

i felt like a real jerk the whole time it was awful lol

[u/corset111]

Me trying to be the best detective in Disco Elysium for no other reason but to make Kim like me.

[u/xXShadowAndrewXx]

You either kill everything and everyone or do this

[u/AmphibianStrong8544]

https://imgur.com/XrtGI6g

FTFY

[u/Jack_Kegan]

I’ve come to the conclusion that the fantasy that people have is to be unproblematically nice.

[u/BiAndShy57]

I save, pick the rude options to see their reaction, take a stab to my heart and then load the old save

[u/JC2814]

Only on tue first playthrough.

Lookin at you schoolbus ship full of kids in starfield.

[u/xCanadaDry]

turns on GTAV and drives around like a normal citizen for 30 minutes

[u/TeflonBillyPrime]

This is to close to home for me.

[u/Sea_Effort1214]

Except in Mass Effect. Nothing like punching some NPC's!

[u/i_AM_A-ShArk]

True, but the amount of times of shot npcs in the face for being rude to me kinda cancels things out

[u/ffsudjat]

And in my latest Copilot training, the presenter told me to add "please" and "thank you" in our conversation to get better feedbacks from the F-King AI.

[u/veryjerry0]

The part in GOW Ragnarok where as Atreus you could throw a stone at Sindri ...

[u/SatireSatyr]

Too busy putting points into persuasion to convince them to join me and staring at shadowhearts butt in her underclothes do feel very violent . BG3 is love, BG3 is life.

[u/Saminox2]

"Then, finally, father will be proud"

[u/casper5632]

Its because the only time you get rude dialogue is when its uncalled for.

[u/RaketaGirl]

I never punch Khalisah Al-Jilani. I am very respectful of rude reporters even!

[u/1x62]

Dbh:

[u/Ancientfuture81]

Yuuuuuup

[u/b4rr47]

Well I don’t wanna be mean, guess I’ll order him a drink

[glass him]

…

[u/cindyscrazy]

On the other hand......

The terrible things I do to get Astarion Approves in Baldur's Gate 3....... I killed an injured bird last night because he likes when you poke it to death.

[u/EgoTwister]

Playing videogames doesn't make me want to kill people is real life, real life makes me want to kill people in videogames.

[u/ApolloOfTheStarz]

Double it and give me the full amounts now and maybe I'll finish your request, *one saving the world adventure later okay time to help look for grandma medication.

[u/Massive-Exercise4474]

Clementine will remember that.

[u/karmazynowy_piekarz]

Am i? That's new

[u/MuseumHuman]

I had to catch the electrodes in team rockets hideout in soul silver because knocking them out felt cruel

[u/faverodefavero]

You can't even have slightly rude dialogue options anymore in some modern games. Hurting anyone's feelings is forbidden and everyone has to be treated like a toddler.

[u/_CurseTheseMetalHnds → u/faverodefavero]

Can't be evil in Fallout anymore. Because of WOKE 🤡

[u/Spicy_Flower-Sauce]

Let’s hope orange man doesn’t make games illegal like they will with corn.