(10-10-2013, 06:41 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:(10-10-2013, 05:11 PM)Faye Wrote:(10-10-2013, 01:55 PM)Theodric Ironheart Wrote: One of the main issues I have with 'good guys' is that they often push to hold the 'bad guys' accountable for every little thing they do, yet then ignore any consequences associated with their own shady actions.
That's pretty much been my experience is the vast majority of 'good guy' role-players and 'justice' orientated guilds across a fair few MMO's. They're not above the law, though they often act as though they are and tend to be backed up by a network of close friends and allies who will crow on and on about how 'awesome' they are and make excuses as to why they shouldn't be held accountable for what they do.
Isn't that something that "good guys" often do in real life, though? Of course, there is a point when that goes from a realistic and interesting character to just being bad RPing--and that's based solely on the RPers OOC intentions. Did he mean to make his character a well-intentioned but self-righteous hypocrite? Or does he think his character is the best thing since sliced bread and for that reason is entirely blind to his character's faults and keeps going on about how his character is always good and always right (Yeah... I've run into people doing this before in a past MMO)? If it's the latter, it's just bad RP, which affects all characters and tropes, so it's not necessarily an aspect of RPing "good guys."
I think that it tends to occur more often with nominally good-aligned characters, at least in my experience. Â Whether that's because they end up getting more attention because they are openly good-aligned, or whether there just actually is a higher rate of this occurring among good-aligned characters, I honestly don't know.
This specific scenario would obviously apply more to "good" characters--in fact, I can't see how it could ever apply to bad characters. There are bad characters who charade as (or perhaps genuinely think themselves) "good guys" and parade around bullying other people who don't align to what they claim is law, but I can't imagine that sort of hypocrisy, if the character is intentionally an antagonist, could be accidental, since the character is supposed to be a bad character. That's not bad RPing, that's just someone RPing a bad person. And if self-righteous hypocrites exist in real life, why can't they in RP? In my experience, they're amazingly fun to play.
What I meant to say is that there are "bad" RPers playing characters of each and every alignment. If any alignment has more bad RPers than any others, I honestly think it would be anything in the evil spectrum. That may not be true, but most bad RPers I seeing playing good guys tend to just make boring, one-dimensional hero characters, and I would rather deal with that than the evil "I walk in and stab you and set the tavern on fire because i r ebil mwahaha" characters that bad RPers make.
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