Who here generally play games as a bad guy first, then start again as a good guy? Who plays as a good guy first?

 

I don't mean just light/dark side of KOTOR, but Open Palm/Closed Fist of Jade Empire and other games that gives you the option to choose between good and evil.

I like to play as a good character at first. All the time in the KOTOR series. Unless I'm playing one of the GTA games. Then its free life from the back of the taxicab with a refund to boot...

I always start LS,to know as much as possible about all the characters in the game.Then after I've finish,I play DS and Force choke the ones I didn't like,everytime it's possible of course.

LS Male first, then LS Female, then DS Male and then DS Female. I decide which one I liked the best and pick that to my official KOTOR canon. At first it was LS Male but I switched it after I found out about the cut content. And will just pretend its official unless KOTOR 3 does something stupid.

I go Lightside according to my heart and then I have to force myself to be dark... it is so hard for me.

Well i don't play DS if i don't like the ideology of the faction. e.g if the only way to be Dark is to become a zealot-servant of an evil god i would never do it. But generally i prefer playing as DS male <--> "lawful Evil" alignment.

Play both good and evil

 

I do not care what to play first

Most of the time I'm evil the first time (Did that with Jedi Knight and both KOTORs) and then light. Then I remember having so much fun being evil that I go dark again and have to force myself to play light.

It's strange...but I find it very hard to play DS :"> ...I just wanna help all of those people ....and not harm them or inflict pain on innocents

 

Pust be my AD&D Paladin alter-ego

I most always play LS... except for my DS game now on KotOR II -- it's revenge on Disciple

First time through, always LS. Then I might try DS, but I can't keep it up for long, because I'm just too nice. I can only manage an hour or so DS, then I have to play a different LS character to cleanse myself. Kotor 2's 'switch character' function helped me a lot.

I always did good first, then tried evil, but I switched, so I can be evil before I get emotionally attached to the characters...

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It's strange...but I find it very hard to play DS :"> ...I just wanna help all of those people ....and not harm them or inflict pain on innocents

 

Pust be my AD&D Paladin alter-ego

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I'm that way too :D

I usually play LS first. But i have no qualms about being a total DS a-hole.

First neutral-Lightside (though it didn't fit at all with K1's mega revelation) then DS (though I regret always playing DS already at second) and then LS saint.

 

So if K3 comes out I'll play it:

1. LS Luke type (Sentinel most probably)

2. Gray (with a slight advantage of Light)

3. DS Anakin type ("they're jealous of my power n stuff" )

4. 100%LS Monk ("jedi are not allowed for such attachments")

5. DS Manipulator

 

Though I suspect that some of these won't work out well cuz it depends on what the story allows you to be.

 

In K1 because of you not starting as a Jedi I also had the chance to play a Gray Soldier-Type blaster Jedi which was very fun to play as.

I usually play evil the first time I play a choice game, since I go through the game and become a master by the time I finish as a bad dude. So when I start a new game as good, I'll do every little detail/quests of the game as good and leave nothing out during that game (keeping all good characters alive the best I can, make sure all good quests are completed, find all the hard-to-find items, etc).

I invariably play sickeningly good the first few times through - then I decide to force myself to go against my nature and be evil. I spend a couple of hours feeling guilty and finding it difficult to do the evil quests.

 

Then I invariably get right into it and murder my way across the landscape/galaxy, laughing all the way. :D

 

Heh, heh.

In KotOR I've always played Male/LS first, then DS (male or female).

 

Male/LS usually gives the best initial play through with the most story and gimics - I could just be too into the fact that Star Wars is the story of how LS eventually wins.

 

DS was easier cos of the extra credits here and there, but I think the reason why I find LS more fulfilling is because DS options tend to chop quests short by taking the "easy" way out.

I don't shackle myself to categorical labels - I roleplay *my* character the way *I* see fit.

Yeah the DS options do cut the dialouge alot but in K1 you could always choose the neutral option if the DS option didn't fit your needs. In K2 however the only other options that the DS one were Lightside.

DS is horrible...your character gets bad complexion. The only fun part about being DS was when I persuaded the 2 thugs on Nar Shadda to jump in the central pit

Gee, tough! I don't have a hard choice between DS and LS, I try to be neutral and see how the character takes me - my biggest problem is I can never bring myself to play as a female character!!! I have a hard time relating to them, my gf has played through KOTOR 2 as a female and I have no idea what happens in KOTOR 1 with a female as I can't bring myself to be female and she doesn't like KOTOR 1's outdated controls (after playing TSL).

I can't play as light. I play a ton of DSF characters and then sometimes I force myself to play LS to see how it ended up. Or I make my brother play LS so I can watch and just wince at all the goodie-goodie stuff he does, rather than feel like vomiting

 

I do agree that the Darkside is usually cheapened out and not as well written as the Lightside . . . But I just can't make myself do that Jedi crap. Ew.

 

KOTOR I has outdated controls?

 

And why can't you play as female? I much prefer being female (even if we get the short end of the stick. Damn. DSF gets all the shortcomings of the game ) but I'll play as male as well. . . . If you don't know what happens in the game, why not play female and find out?

I choose The Path of Fisting The Opening Lotus