After 20-some years of playing video games, I’ve pretty much become resigned to the fact that my default alignment is, in obsolete D&D terms, somewhere between chaotic and neutral good. I’ll roll up all kinds of characters in pen-and-paper games, but if I’m looking at a screen on anything but a first-person shooter, I’m going to make good-guy choices more often than not.

That’s why I like games that have consequences for the goodness (or evilness) of a player’s actions. It was one of my favorite things about the “Baldur’s Gate” series, for instance. By the end of the game, my play style always drove Jaheira, a true neutral character who didn’t want to be perceived as a goody-two-shoes, into an incessantly complaining state of agitation. Evil characters who joined up with my party didn’t stick around long.