Lately I can't bring myself to play overly violent games, I can't attack even fictional characters unless I can justify it. I can't hold my hands in fists or even hold weapons for too long unless I'm using them as a tool.
I've somehow become a pacifist to the point that violence repulses me, and I feel better for it.
Weird isn't it? I've found myself thinking this from time to time. I've always been a tanker in strategy games, but lately it's become more than just a sedentary playing style, but an elaborate narrative about how if it's a set matter that I have to prosecute this war, I'm going to do it in the safest way possible. When I'm playing Freedom Fighters I try to sneak my way through areas (not that Freedom Fighters makes that really possible), and I do feel kind of bad about shooting all these guys. Mount & Blade makes me wonder how I haven't depopulated the kingdom yet.
Every soldier has a mother after all. Thank goodness for monster-killing games like Quake 2.
Kinda the complete opposite I felt when I decided to see what beating Max Payne on the hardest difficulty would do; but I found some cheats that allow me all weapons with infinite ammo. I just Molotov'd everyone I came across except for the key characters to progress the levels, until the time of betrayal. All this in god mode as well. Also the early levels. Mmm, rat barbecue.
Can't say those shmucks didn't have it coming. Especially late in the game. Although now that you consider it; there was a conversation amongst a couple of my targets that was a punch-clock villain working for the boss of the game, talking about how he has a family to return to and all (of course, killing him is unavoidable), I wanted to avoid hitting him with a molotov, but that's what you get for working with the bad guy. Innocent or not, you're getting fried by the hero.
Oddly reminds me of Brock Sampson right now, to a degree.
Oh right, for a good portion of the beginning of the game, I played "Captain Baseball Bat Boy" and beat the ever-loving crap out of most of my targets with a baseball bat.