monkeydelarge: I don't know what you are trying to communicate. If you like me so much because you think I'm evil. You should know the digital person I become when I enter the world of Fallout 2 and monkeydelarge are two different people. If you like me so much because I'm good at being evil in video games, then thank you for liking me so much. I appreciate fans. And fans will have an opportunity in the future, to join my Imperial Monkey Guard.
Khadgar42: You don't need to justify anything, I just like that some people aren't that ignorant to understand the concept being evil in a video game doesn't simply make you a bad person in real life. As a matter a fact, the people I've met, who are evil in video games normally are very nice and helpful in real life. But that is just my personal point of view.
monkeydelarge: [...]
Every time I play a Mount & Blade game, I slaughter innocent villagers so my soldiers can gain easy combat experience. And because I like seeing my sword, soaked in blood. You also get free stuff you can sell from wiping out villages and that makes the game a lot easier for you because making money is hard in Mount & Blade games. If you play as a good guy in these games, you will be poor for a long time.
Khadgar42: Well Mount&Blade is a very peculiar point actually. I like the way they are trying to make things more realistic. Back then, medieval times, you basically did what you did in Mount&Blade, you clubbed some peasants to get richer.
But I'm still far from pleased how the gender role, diseases, religion and medieval misery are taken out of the concept just because it's not "political correct" to do so in a video game, but that's my personal point of view.
monkeydelarge: And what is cool is there aren't really any negative consequences from this as long as you only slaughter the villagers belonging to one faction.
Khadgar42: Taking about negative consequences...
Well what if there is a video game GOD, judging you on your moral decisions, if you had been bad to pixels or not? If you believed in the right faith, right publisher? Hopefully not, as for all my evil misdeeds I will burn in videogame hell and probably be forced to play FIFA 2098 without DLC and bad internet for all eternity...
I believe that being evil in video games is a lot more fun because it seems too many developers think being good = being some guy who is a door mat for everyone or some guy who just kills all the monsters. I seriously hope there is no video game god because then he'd hate me and I'd burn in hell for all eternity in the lowest level unless he was an evil video game god. Then he'd ensure, my after life is very comfortable, indeed. LOL Yeah, the medieval times were horrible times for peasants. A lot of people think Knights were good guys in shining armor but back then, Knights spent most of their time, killing and raping peasants, stealing from peasants etc. Yes, Mount & Blade had so much potential. There could of been 1000 more ways to be evil in that game if they only included religion, gender roles, lack of hygiene and lack of decent medicine in the game. For example, becoming a high status member of the church and convincing a naive rich person that he or she has to make up his or her sins by donating all of his or her money to your character. Then using that money to hire hookers and assassins. OR becoming a high status member of the church and manipulate Nuns into being your personal sex slaves.
monkeydelarge: Every time I play a Mount & Blade game, I slaughter innocent villagers so my soldiers can gain easy combat experience. And because I like seeing my sword, soaked in blood. You also get free stuff you can sell from wiping out villages and that makes the game a lot easier for you because making money is hard in Mount & Blade games. If you play as a good guy in these games, you will be poor for a long time.
And what is cool is there aren't really any negative consequences from this as long as you only slaughter the villagers belonging to one faction.
skeletonbow: Hrm, I like the sound of the sword soaked in blood. Next game I start from scratch I may need to try that approach. :) As for making money though, you can make metric catapultfulls of cash playing as a good guy, it's just a different approach to do so. I started out buying goods cheap in one city and selling them in another for a hefty profit (you need to learn where the various goods are lowest and highest priced to do this well), and by visiting the arena in towns and doing the challenge to win money, doing other gigs for money, fighting bandits and various other things. The arena matches are good though because you can level up your skills more quickly doing that, and once you get powerful enough you can enter tournaments and when you win tournaments you end up making truckloads of cash. I ended up winning my first tournament no prob and got almost $4000, then another and another and another... I just go from one tournament to the next over and over and make buckets of cash, buying up velvet and spice in Jelkala or Veluca and selling it in Rivacheg or Wercheg, then buying furs to sell in Narra, and various other similar transactions. When you know what to do, money is easy to come by, although the first few days of a new game is a bit of a scramble. :)
I really should play the next game as a blood thirsty tyrant just throwing caution to the wind for fun though. :)
Yeah, what is cool about Mount & Blade Warband is if you do a lot of killing, your weapon and armor slowly becomes soaked in blood. And then it looks all red and shiny. :) And then your character looks really bad ass. Yes it seems I was wrong about good guys being poor for a long time in Mount & Blade. You are probably better at the game than I am.
