How many of us genuinely enjoy playing 'evil' characters?

Not me realy I personally prefer playing the dashing hero of the piece rather than a nasty character. I've managed to do somewhat Renegade Shep's on occasion and I think in some cases it can be justified. Because for example whlist I do trust Wrex can the rest of his people on the other hand be trusted to keep peace and order given their previous violent tendencies? So in situqations like this it can be justified letting the Krogan die. In Dragon Age on the other hand I find it much harder to be nasty especially as in 2 of the games DAO and DAI you are supposed to be representing 2 very well respected organisations or at least in DAI one that hopes to be seen as one once it's had a chance t ogrow in the Inquisition and in the case of DAO tha torganisation being the Grey Wardens and really because of the situation you're in there isn't really any justification to be a dick in those games I don' tthink especiasll yas in both games you need as muc hhelp as you can get. Whereas in Mass Effect in the cases of the Krogan and Rachni and even the Geth to some extent it can beseen as minimizing the risk post Reaper war. Aside from the darkspawn in DA there really isn't a threat that needs that much control. Most fights that take place in DA are mainly disagreements not one group just literall y trying to wipe out the other. At least that' show I see i tfrom the games as I haven' tread the books. Only tim ethat cam eclose to happening was when the Mages and Templars started fighting one another end of the da ythough again this was mostl ydu et odisagreements I think most mages accepted their powers are dangerous when not kept under control. The yjust weren't happy with how the templars were handling it.

You know, its odd. In most games I often opt to play an evil playthrough at least once. And in Bethesda games evil playthroughs are what I end up playing almost exclusively (Hail Sithis!).

But in Bioware games? For some reason I can't bring myself to be an intentional di*k. The closest I'd get is a rugged militant bent on getting things done as efficiently as possible, but even then that is more due to pragmatism rather than intentional malice.

I always have one playthrough being as evil/dickish as possible. If I like the game enough to have several playthroughs that is.

I wouldn't call that evil though more taking a precaution a sh emight call for reinforcements and come after you later. Bestto takre him down now while he's vulnerable.

I can't do completely evil characters. I never killed the rachni or wrex and never killed the virmire survivor in ME3 and so on. I have done renegade choices without a doubt but they are not "evil" ones. I tried but I couldn't bring myself to do some things.

Personal nitpick: While I like Wrex and sympathize with the krogan plight, killing him on Virimire was in no way evil. Wrex pulled a gun on his commanding officer in essentially wartime, jeopardizing the mission and potentially handing Sovereign victory.

In universe, Shepard only has a split second to react, and can't pause or reload like we can. I usually prefer to talk him down, but given the context, I feel Shepard or Ash taking out Wrex is equally valid.

I generally find playing good or evil characters pretty much...uh what's the word I am looking for....real life morality does not really work like that. I want my RPGs to give us the greyest possible choices possible. Choices that make sense from a certain point of view but yet another character could find abhorrent because of their point of view.

I can't say I do. I generally need to like my character in order to actually like playing as well, so roleplaying a character that does a lot of things I don't agree with is really hard. Dragon Age is not the game where I want to be needlessly cruel or make asshole, even evil decision for the sake of it.

I wouldn't say i do complete evil playthroughs. Characters certainly have moments where they can be selfish/heartless/jerky/dark

In Mass Effect i tend to prefer pragamtic renegade rather than evil, though I've certainly shoved a certain Mercenary out of a window as a shep or two.

In Dragon Age origins and dragon age 2 lots of my characters aren't completely pure of heart. a number of my characters interfered negatively in the Cammen/Gheyna thing either because of interest in Gheyna or just because they view Cammen as rather worthless.

For me, I like evil playthroughs, but I feel that many games' evil options don't quite provide the benefits you'd want from taking evil actions. Yes, your companions and allies should be angry with you, but you should also have some positive consequences, too, to justify making that choice. There should be, you know, a reason why the player character decided to be unethical. It shouldn't be just Stupid Evil.