You Gonna Be Good Or Evil?

[TargetBlue]

Gonna do both. Will do good first

[Andrew]

What ever it takes...WHAT EVER IT TAKES! I WILL GET THE ACHIEVEMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO YES BOTH!

[Twilice]

To me raynor is supposed to be the "heroic" type, so I'm going to play the good way. Specially since I am usually pretty kind myself.

The second playthrough will problary try to be on the hardest difficulty, so I will do whatever it takes for me to get the best tech/upgrades/bonus in the next mission be it good or bad choices.
EDIT: yes, my second playthrough will be about just what andrew said

[n00bonicPlague]

What ever it takes...WHAT EVER IT TAKES! I WILL GET THE ACHIEVEMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO YES BOTH!

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[Spartan13]

editt

[phazonjunkie]

"Don't go following causes. They'll just break your heart. When idealism meets reality, it's rarely reality that backs down."

- Michael Liberty


Neither path you can choose can really be said to be right or wrong, good or evil in the strictest sense. The 'dark' side is just one that's a little more self-serving and pragmatic. In any case unlike KOTOR or Mass Effect, whatever path Raynor chooses is really a moot point, as it won't make any real difference in the overall scheme of things. The storyline, and by extension his fate (whatever it is) has more or less already been decided.

[Josue]

"Don't go following causes. They'll just break your heart. When idealism meets reality, it's rarely reality that backs down."

- Michael Liberty


Neither path you can choose can really be said to be right or wrong, good or evil in the strictest sense. The 'dark' side is just one that's a little more self-serving and pragmatic. In any case unlike KOTOR or Mass Effect, whatever path Raynor chooses is really a moot point, as it won't make any real difference in the overall scheme of things. The storyline, and by extension his fate (whatever it is) has more or less already been decided.

I would just totally agree about it when it comes to games like in this case (StarCraft).

But in real life... it's another tale, a rather complex one.

Without an ideal your life just becomes moot, an empty void without a reason to live.
It's true that ideals may break your heart, but what really matters is what you put your faith on!

Don't think the future is set on stone, dare to believe it!

[Norfindel]

Liberty went against Mengsk anyways, so that line... he didn't follow it.

[flak4321]

I would just totally agree about it when it comes to games like in this case (StarCraft).

But in real life... it's another tale, a rather complex one.

Without an ideal your life just becomes moot, an empty void without a reason to live.
It's true that ideals may break your heart, but what really matters is what you put your faith on!

Don't think the future is set on stone, dare to believe it!

Be careful not to mistake an ideal for a goal. An ideal can be a powerful motivator, but ideals are often unachievable ends given the person's starting means. A goal is an equally powerful motivator designed to balance resources, motivation and expected results. Ideally, I would prefer to take Raynor down as good a path as my combined senses of morals and ethics allow within the game structure. My goal however is to optimize my enjoyment of the game.

Some of our decisions on the moral issue will likely be a decision between what's best for crew morale and what may be the best decision in the grand scheme or for the greater good. I can gaurantee you that there will be times where these just will not mesh.

To draw these into a real world example, I ideally would like to be filthy rich, but my goal is simply to be financially comfortable. As for a morals versus ethics example, I need go no further than the Gulf oil spill. At first, BP attended only its ethical responsibility to keep trying to plug the leak. Morality urged haste, but BP ignored, until ethics also began urging in the form of shareholder abandonment.

These shareholders can be equated to Raynor's crew/fleet and the colonies he wants to save. The most ideal and moral end result is to make everybody happy. Ethically, we may have to set a goal to increase cash flow to the crew/fleet at the cost of saving one colony. You can't save a colony if you allow yourself to run out of allies. One man with a gun, even a Thor-esque BFG*, can only do so much.

*BFG = Big F***ing Gun, for those who are unfamiliar with the acronym.

[TheEconomist]

The author made Liberty pessimistic for the tone of the story. I doubt anyone truly believes that because you have to chase SOMETHING to be human. A lot of the people I've heard say things like that are in college. It's like they don't realize they're chasing a better future through education

Also, is that Bible verses I c tharr?