How much thought did you put into your characters' actions?

[ercpkr]

The first couple of times I played through the games, I played an absolute good guy and an absolute bad guy, so I didn't really put any thought into it, I just made the decisions that were good and evil respectively. The next time through with my neutral mage, I simply made the decisions that benefitted me the most (ie. killing Whisper for the money, leaving Twinblade alive, since there was no incentive to finish him off, etc.)

The fourth time I played through the game... now you'll think I'm a total nerd... I made up a "personality" for my character, deciding that he was deep-down a good person, but on the surface was a tortured soul, so I would do things like accept evil quests, but not finish off the job by killing the trader begging for his life, or I would finish off surrendered villains mercilessly, but I would spare my childhood friends like Whisper or Theresa, etc.

How did your characters behave, and how did you decide what would happen in each of the major plot points of the game?

[Hexadecimal]

When I play games, I usually go through and do what I would do if it were me... since I usually just play as myself...
then I will often play as the extreme versions of the characters to get any extra storylines... but since Fable doesn't really offer that I just play as myself...

so my character ended up as "evil" although I didn't feel that that many of my actions were particulary evil... though I was quite the jerk...
and when I played through as a good guy, I wasn't particulary good...
the game's moral scale left much to be desired...

[Liberator]

I put a lot of thought into my character's actions actually...I believe wholeheartedly in doing "good" and my character reflected that. Not that he didn't have the occasional vice *cough*The Bordello*cough*....

[Darg]

Originally Posted by ercpkr

The first couple of times I played through the games, I played an absolute good guy and an absolute bad guy, so I didn't really put any thought into it, I just made the decisions that were good and evil respectively. The next time through with my neutral mage, I simply made the decisions that benefitted me the most (ie. killing Whisper for the money, leaving Twinblade alive, since there was no incentive to finish him off, etc.)

The fourth time I played through the game... now you'll think I'm a total nerd... I made up a "personality" for my character, deciding that he was deep-down a good person, but on the surface was a tortured soul, so I would do things like accept evil quests, but not finish off the job by killing the trader begging for his life, or I would finish off surrendered villains mercilessly, but I would spare my childhood friends like Whisper or Theresa, etc.

How did your characters behave, and how did you decide what would happen in each of the major plot points of the game?

Hey, you're not a nerd or anything. Whether any of us want to reveal it or not, we all do it and it's just a virtue of good gaming. That's where the whole 'role-playing' aspect of the game comes in. It's the same thing with every other rpg or game as well. Hey, on the back of Oblivion's case it says 'live another life in another world', so why shouldn't you?