I see the real world in the terms of good and evil, with very little gray area. Which is why I prefer my entertainment to have little good and evil, with many shades of gray.
I find that really interesting. I find pretty much everything in real life to be shades of grey once examined from all sides, whether I agree with it or not. This is why I have a hard time with absolute good or absolute evil in anything else, because all the mental gymnastics I have to do to fit something into a box makes me frustrated unless I am attempting to roleplay a fanatic.
Originally Posted by Merlex
I'm playing an "evil playthrough" my next time, where I'm going to side with the Goblins. It will be my 1st time, I've always sided with the Tieflings, even with my morally gray characters. So I'm not as well informed as some of you; but there is a video from WolfheartFPS on YouTube, where he sides with the Goblins. In the video he goes into a house during the Goblin attack. It's full of Tiefling children, he wipes them out. He kept saying how bad he felt, while he was killing them. So you can kill them, just I guess only during the attack. I won't kill children in a game period; whether Goblin, Tiefling, or Martian. Though I love my entertainment gray, I just can't do it.
Personally I have no emotional reaction one way or the other, but I think for people like you they maybe could add something where the tiefling children run past you (like with the goblin ones) and the goblins kill them instead or they just disappear. If someone wants to personally kill them then it still can be done.
