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Do you ever feel bad for making certain choices in video games?

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ph4zr:
(click to show/hide)Tried a quick forum search for something like this. I'd think it'd have come up, but I either ended up with nothing relevant for narrow searches, or 30+ pages of seemingly irrelevant posts for broader searches.
Anyway, I know they're just games, but I was recently playing Kanon, and having rejected taiyaki for the fifth or so time I felt kinda bad. Previously I was just skipping most of the early dialog because I'd seen both shows, but actually reading it made me feel like a bit of an ass/jerk/"meany".
(click to show/hide)Having watched the anime, I also felt pretty low for leaving Makoto at the shopping center when I wasn't playing her route...

More Western-y, I also feel like a bit of an ass when I play ME 1/2 non-Paragon characters. x.x

So, I thought I'd create a thread and see what other people thought in general, especially since an anime themed forum would probably have a higher concentration of VN players. :P

Feel free to share your experiences or thoughts (behind spoiler tags as necessary), but try to keep flaming to a minimum. I realize the "it's just a game" option is there, but I'm -pretty- sure most people know that already, so I see no need to get too up in arms about it.

-edit- I guess I stressed the VN aspect a bit too much. I meant games in general. The VN bit is just a recent example for me.

Kyrdua:
4 voters and no response? /#I'm the fourth#/ lurkers gonna lurk :P

Sometimes :: I usually -don't- go for negative choices in my first run. But when i've finished a route once. I'd like to see "what if I chose X" and hence if i see the characters sad or commiting suicide or something because of it. A child in me curiously says "So that's what happens, eh?" /#said child seems to be Canadian#/

EDIT: I forgot the topic is "whether i feel bad". well, I do, sometimes. depending on how attached i got to a character or how well made an established the character is.

mgz:
i dont play vis novs but i enjoy fucking shit up intentionally in games like dragon age and playing them again just to change outcomes.

I really dont care about hurting feelings because its a fucking game and i want to see outcomes.

i_am_otep:
Not really visual novels...

But occasionally, I would try different choices, reset without saving, and see the outcome I like best. This is just for little things though., kinda like choosing weapon a or b.

As for story-changing choices, depends on my mood, lol.

zat0x91:
It's just a game...

It doesn't really matter...

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