It'd be pretty difficult to specifically reward you for being a 'gray' character. (Two games)
Jacob Send a noteboard - 20/09/2011 05:02:28 PM
The best probable system is still going to have to track the two elements (black/white) and then tabulate a sort of net balance. Maybe the game could assign certain power strengths within certain ranges.
I know the PS3 exclusive inFamous had a somewhat dynamic Morality scale, and your powers developed, looked, and acted very different based on how you used them. The further you slide different directions the more powerful different powers became. However, the best balance of powers, the most capable hero, pretty much results from making regular choices from both sides of that spectrum.
Those games also offer interesting choices, some even akin to that healing while stealing energy thing.
A game to watch for, as it is not yet out, is DISHONORED. The game promises a very robust morality system, plus a dynamic arc that plays out very differently based on the moment by moment decisions a player makes. Game Informer did a big spot on it a while back, that featured a 2 part talk on Morality in the game, and a niffty little text "choose your own adventure" sample of that game, that you should really check out. I'll link the GameInformer hub.
I know the PS3 exclusive inFamous had a somewhat dynamic Morality scale, and your powers developed, looked, and acted very different based on how you used them. The further you slide different directions the more powerful different powers became. However, the best balance of powers, the most capable hero, pretty much results from making regular choices from both sides of that spectrum.
Those games also offer interesting choices, some even akin to that healing while stealing energy thing.
A game to watch for, as it is not yet out, is DISHONORED. The game promises a very robust morality system, plus a dynamic arc that plays out very differently based on the moment by moment decisions a player makes. Game Informer did a big spot on it a while back, that featured a 2 part talk on Morality in the game, and a niffty little text "choose your own adventure" sample of that game, that you should really check out. I'll link the GameInformer hub.
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- 20/09/2011 03:56:19 PM
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I don't think I know anything that matches what you want.
- 20/09/2011 04:39:22 PM
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- 28/09/2011 12:58:11 AM
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You are a horrible human being. *NM*
- 20/09/2011 08:24:05 PM
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*NM*
- 20/09/2011 08:24:05 PM
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I'm morally grey! Women love me, and men want to be like me. *NM*
- 20/09/2011 09:15:31 PM
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- 28/09/2011 12:58:11 AM
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It'd be pretty difficult to specifically reward you for being a 'gray' character. (Two games)
- 20/09/2011 05:02:28 PM
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Take Knights of the Old Republic, for example
- 20/09/2011 05:08:04 PM
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That's not so much an alignment as just metagaming the system.
- 20/09/2011 09:27:49 PM
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Maybe I didn't explain right
- 20/09/2011 11:19:51 PM
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I'd say that's evil.
- 21/09/2011 03:00:32 AM
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of course, then you get into question of whether actions like that example are evil
- 21/09/2011 04:03:03 AM
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That's actually a pretty narrow view of Neutral when it comes to Alignment or Morality.
- 21/09/2011 02:19:34 PM
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You might want to try The Witcher series.
- 21/09/2011 05:16:05 AM
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Grey decisions are good but...
- 21/09/2011 06:19:04 PM
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they don't reward it because, for the most part, they don't want you taking a middle ground.
- 21/09/2011 07:10:48 PM
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Well that's just stupid. Tired of picking the 2 sides over and over *NM*
- 21/09/2011 08:02:11 PM
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Neutrality is often boring or selfish. Good stories seldom have truly neutral protagonists. *NM*
- 22/09/2011 06:27:05 PM
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Are you kidding?
- 22/09/2011 06:54:19 PM
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There's a difference between doing "bad" things for a good purpose, and being neutral. *NM*
- 22/09/2011 09:12:16 PM
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I have an on-topic comment as well as a general rant on game morality systems. 
- 21/09/2011 06:43:21 PM
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- 21/09/2011 06:43:21 PM
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if they wanted to make the conversation mechanics more complicated...
- 21/09/2011 07:14:21 PM
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