From my POV:
Short answer to title question: Yes. For me.
Heroes have a tendency to drive me to boredom tears, to the point that I can't play a good half of the FF games for more than a couple hours because the protagonists drive my face through my coffee table with the force of my headdesking, but I would never extend that tendency of mine to the world at large.
The most "good" I've played have been neutral self-interested with excellent senses of humor. Usually, I dive right off the deep end into lunatic manipulative mustache-twirlers. And I try to get myself ensconced in a group of lunatic manipulative mustache-twirlers.
However, in my experience, no matter what side of the evil/good fence you play on, the other one seems... I don't know if "stronger" is the right word, but something like that.
Even while surrounded by my fellow psychopaths, my characters have seemed to run across a constant stream of arrogant, flag-wielding, idealist knights in shining armor. That's not a bad thing, and is an extremely good thing in appropriate doses, but it's easy to sit here on my side of the fence and say 'Hot damn, is there nothing but goody-goodies out there?' Meanwhile, I find out later that they're on that side of the fence saying 'No one plays anything but murdering jerks anymore.'
And it happens in every game I've played over the past decade. So... that.
Short answer to title question: Yes. For me.
Heroes have a tendency to drive me to boredom tears, to the point that I can't play a good half of the FF games for more than a couple hours because the protagonists drive my face through my coffee table with the force of my headdesking, but I would never extend that tendency of mine to the world at large.
The most "good" I've played have been neutral self-interested with excellent senses of humor. Usually, I dive right off the deep end into lunatic manipulative mustache-twirlers. And I try to get myself ensconced in a group of lunatic manipulative mustache-twirlers.
However, in my experience, no matter what side of the evil/good fence you play on, the other one seems... I don't know if "stronger" is the right word, but something like that.
Even while surrounded by my fellow psychopaths, my characters have seemed to run across a constant stream of arrogant, flag-wielding, idealist knights in shining armor. That's not a bad thing, and is an extremely good thing in appropriate doses, but it's easy to sit here on my side of the fence and say 'Hot damn, is there nothing but goody-goodies out there?' Meanwhile, I find out later that they're on that side of the fence saying 'No one plays anything but murdering jerks anymore.'
And it happens in every game I've played over the past decade. So... that.
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