Best video game players throw morals to the wind
October 29th, 2012
Wanna win games like Dishonoured, BioShock and Fallout 3? Be complete jerks and leave your ethics and social norms at the door. Or so says a new study.
Says the Smithsonian, "Andrew Weaver, a researcher who tested people's morality in [moral choice] games, found that people who were the best at said games were also the worst ethically: they made the least “moral” choices, they killed characters to get ahead, and they sabotaged their friends. And they won."
As for any jerky behavior overlapping into real life, the science on that is still incomplete. But Weaver says "things start to get fuzzy" for those that spend too much time in game. In other words, there may be crossover.
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my time has come.
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yeah I always sliced all the npcs and then I screwed up too much so I restarted. Then I played like a hero!
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I started a Xbox 360 group, so if anyone wants to join, just look it up or PM me.
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My first playthrough of a game is me just being a top class hero and enjoy it that way,
My 2nd playthrough I am pretty much a massive d**k because i wanna see how it changes the dynamics of the game
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Mario killed billions of mushrooms and turtles.
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Through all the differences it is still perfection.
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Hoo-Rah!
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal -Albert Einstein
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I pick the good path first then if the game is worth replaying I try it the other way around.
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Hopefully this "very helpful research" wasn't funded.
I've never played a good or bad character, but played myself. I make different decisions based on what I believe is right or wrong. Who I should trust and who I shouldn't. It keeps all my game choices realistic.
Enjoying my new life in California :)
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