Can I share something with you? Y'know just between you and I? There's a particular microscopic part of me that fantasizes about going on a killing spree. That's a bold statement to make, so I feel comfortable expressing it since it's just you and I, without any right-wing judges of evil to cast any judgement on me. It's that same part of me that I pander to when I pass an accident and slow down so as to get a peek at the possible mayhem I might be able to witness.
Seeing as I'm a very domesticated happily married husband, father of three, and quite sane, the thought of going bat shit crazy and going on a murdering spree generally doesn't cross my mind in the real world. But in the confines of the gaming worlds I choose to visit, that's quite a different story. In those instances my lack of inhibitions, restraint, and guilt turn me into a raving homicidal psychopath. I walk down the game world street with thunder in my eyes, unbridled rage in my chest, and purpose in my idle hands.
As a matter of fact, the first thing I do when I begin a game is to test the boundaries of it. Will it allow me to do my nefarious deeds, will it allow me to kill and maim the innocent? Or is it confining me to play by its rules and ethics? Generally I gravitate to games that are open ended and/or give you moral choices. Good or Evil? Like that's even a choice. How one would deny their darker side in a game world, when in the real that's all they do, is beyond me.
To me the most appealing games out there are the ones that unshackle your dark side loose. Games that let your killing tendencies run amok, the ones that let you deviate or give you a choice of unleashing hell on the game world and it's inhabitants. Being in far far away places with a homicidal psychopathic robot cheering you on, to drinking the blood of the innocent to replenish your health, it just doesn't get any better for me.
My Partner-in-Crime.
Is it wrong for me to derive pleasure from my violent tantrums in games? Is it crazy to laugh my ass off at the chaos I create? If it is, I think there's a bunch of crazy gamers out there. I mean really, what better way to release the stress or frustration that you accumulate then to spin your game disc, pick up your controller, walk around a massive environment teeming with innocent pedestrians and casually taking out your AK and unloading at everyone you see all to the chorus of their screams.
If that's not a guilty pleasure, I don't know what is.
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There's nothing more annoying than a game with pedestrians that can jump out of the way no matter how fast you drive at them.
someone needs to go play crackdown...
Yeah, there's nothing quite like unleashing your violent wrath on unsuspecting civilians. Cutting both the guilty and righteous in twain in a hail of gunfire and grinding them beneath your heel like the pitiful, insignificant worms they are. Oh wait, this is about video games... nevermind.
for everytime time you ran out of lives on the last boss everytime that bugger killed you and had 1hp left...etc
I can't count how many times I would get frustrated with a mission on GTA and vent by five-starring and going to the roof of a building with a rocket launcher.
I'm on the same page as s0lesurvi0r, Every time i get busted or sent to the hospital in GTA, weapons or not, ill just start beating up the first cop i see, take his weapons, and star killing everything is sight.
Especially the paramedics, i hate those guys..they'll revive gangbangers and drug dealers but not me? bleh.
Tomorrow, I start my bid to say farewell to San Andreas by annihilating EVERY single living thing I see. I suggest one last go around to cure the homicidal maniac in us all.
i found this post extremely hard to read because i know it was written by a now-beardless man. however, you have a picture of HK-47, the most awesome robot in the Star Wars universe, so i forgive you. meatbag.
None of you people would understand what it means to be a "psychopath" if it went to your house, and raped and murdered your family.
God Mode + GTAIV = The Ultimate Psychopath System
So that's why you play Hot Shots Golf all the time!
I'd like to follow by Darkknight37's example and revisit San Andreas for the last time before I get my grubby lil hands on GTA4 (I live in Aus and am importing uncensored version for maximum hookers). I think a killing spree is in order.
I was actually going to do something like this, but mine was going to be called "Killing innocent citizens for fun"
I cannot wait till Tuesday. First thing I want to do is get as many guns as possible and then find the best building I can. From there, we start with a sniper rifle and work our way down. Cops, women, whatever. It's all good, baby baby.
So off topic, I should be shot.. but I thought you would be the one to ask, so forgive me...
Is there a COD4 for ps3 FNF's going on regularly?
Dephect:
Yes it is. The rotation is as follows: UT3 @ 8pEST, followed by COD4 @ 9:30pm and finally Warhawk wraps it up @ 11pm.
The PS3 Friday Night Fights posts with info and any changes I generally post on Fridays between 2 to 3pm EST. Look for it and add your name to our online shenanigans.
Thanks Y0j1mb0, will do :)
I have my doubts that this is actually a guilty pleasure for you.
Well damn, I was thinking of doing a similar write-up, but not fully on the same thing. I guess mine is a bit broader, so I still may do it before the month is up...
Regardless, I can fully get behind this "Guilty Pleasure". Being evil is just more fun, eh?
Evil IS fun, I have also this guilty pleasure of killing everything I see, like in Crackdown. Nice write up Yojimbo.
Aah... this is one of the reasons I'm looking forward to GTAIV.
I remember just running around in ESIV: Oblivion slaughtering every civilian I could find, and I would have hundreds of guards after me.
I would create a powerful "Area of Effect" spell wich would send everyone in a large area flying.
Killing mayhem combined with physics = WIN!
Muhaha.. I've always held a love for carsurfing since GTA 3. I love to see what people will do around me when I start going insane on them. Also, I'd pick one NPC and follow them around to see where they'd go for a while before getting trigger-happy.
With Saint's Row, NPCs would go crazy and start causing all kinds of madness on their own much to my own amusement. I couldn't carsurf much in that one because the car would catch on fire after a while. With Oblivion, I killed every beggar in my game by taking their few worldly possessions and replacing it with one poisoned apple. Ahh, good times!
On a sidenote, you're doing HK-47 wrong. Add Observation before his statement and innocents=meatbags. XD
HK47 is my hero
I cannot imagine playing Knights of the Old Republic, Fable, or Oblivion without being a baby-kicking, blood drinking, soul devouring monster from the darkest depths of hell. Somebody catches me stealing something? That's a murderin'. Somebody has a shiny bit of gear I think I would like? Their kids are orphans.
Yes I have that feeling in me as well. I only let it out when I play games. I don't like boundaries. Assassins Creed pissed me off because I couldn't heartlessly kill civilians...
In oblivion, a friend and I always make sure to kill everybody, despite if they are on our side or not. Finish the mission, collect the reward, kill the dude, steal his stuff.
Destroy all humans, get in my ship, and zap the town to smithereens. Get out, eat their brains.
GTA, get on top of a roof, and bazooka thell out cops and hellicopters.
We all can relate.
This should really be frontpaged.
One of my favorite things to do in oblivion was kill as many citizens and guards as possible only to be arrested so I can break out of jail and do it all over again. <3 Wizards Fury, best spell ever.
There is nothing wrong with enjoying the creation of chaos in a video game...Although I'm sure JT would argue this causes the good people of planet Earth to become aggo-maniacs who have teh blood lust, I see it as a way to enjoy being different within the confines of a different reality. The fanciful destruction you're allowed in Liberty City is far different than the way you would actually behave in the real world. I say blow it up bigger, kill them deader, and enjoy the shotguns...And remember, drink your Ovaltine.
i love pushing characters over ledges and such.