it's good to be bad...

it's good to be bad...

I'm playing through "Aliens vs predator II" at the mo (It was a christmas pressy last year and I've decided that I have to finish it before the this christmas i.e. before santa comes with another one , hopefully;) )
Its made me realise how much fun it is to play as the bad guy (for the uninformed you get to play as the nasty slimy pipe loving Aliens in the game if you want).
At first I usually try and be "nice" , only biting the heads off the poor defenceless civilians when "absolutely nessacary"(i.e. when I'm low on health, or ...well when they wont stop screaming), this phase usually lasts about 15 minutes after which I'm running around evisarating anything with a pulse and cackling like a loon while I do , regardless or not of whether they be armed, concious or hiding in the corner screaming

"Muhahahahh

I think this is fairly normal behaviour, I mean I've seen my sweet old dad play GTA vice city (the carnage!!).Or possibly I'm just a closet psychotic, one or the other.

Games where you get to "be the monster" rather than trying to destroy it are pretty liberating , though .Take an older example , on the Playstation ,Bloodomen:legacy of Kain ...it sees you unwillingly turned into a vampire.Again similar to AVPII you start off saying "look I'll only suck the blood of the poor, defenceless,cliched,germanic villagers when I absolutely have to"...and lo and behold twenty minutes later its you're knee deep in drained innkeepers and wenches, saying "yeah , look I can quit anytime I want , 2 two more villagers, ok three"
...and to think that my parents said playing so many video games as a child would warp me...;)