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[*]I don't kill 'innocent' NPCs or animals in games - Now, there are a few exceptions to this rule as well. I AM guilty of killing rats and ravens in Resident Evil 4 and 5, but that might have more to do with being attacked by crows in earlier RE games. Then again, I shoot the fish too in 5, so maybe I'm more of a bastard than I realize. I suppose there's an animal hierarchy I subscribe to, and fish, rats, and birds are on the lower end of the pecking order, because I would never shoot the larger, caged animals, like the goats and nutria, in the labs in Resident Evil 5. And anyway, if the rats, ravens, and fish were so innocent, why would they drop stolen treasure, and grenades, when you killed them?

I NEVER kill nonthreatening humans that I don't need to in games, though. It's just not something that appeals to me. Even cowering enemies, like the frightened Nazis that cringe in BloodRayne, or the Das Lof Gang members who 'give up' in Narc (the arcade game) I leave alone...unless I'm out of handcuffs.[/list]
Haha, I'm the same. I just can't bear being an asshole in games. There are some games that I've beaten multiple times like Chrono Trigger where I still haven't picked some of the dialogue responses just because I always have to pick the nicest choice. Or that trial, I didn't get it perfect on my first or second playthroughs, but now I can't do a single thing that they'd judge as improper. Sometimes in games I want to see all the different branches of a dialogue tree so I'll save right before, but the one I keep will always be the nicest one (unless I have to pick something else to trigger something worthwhile; like I've yet to permanently keep Albel in Star Ocean 3 because you have to tell him that you dislike him or something like that).

But, yeah, when it comes to killing things, I can't kill innocent people, and I especially feel guilty if I kill innocent animals, even if by accident (that happened sometimes in Infinite Undiscovery, and I still didn't want to do it despite getting item creation materials). I'll always give my fiance a hard time if he kills the animals in Resident Evil 4, and we even had a conversation once about which animals had to be humanely killed, haha. If it looked like the animal had any chance of escaping, he'd leave them be, but if they were trapped and we knew the town would later get overrun with zombies, we had to save them from an even worse demise, haha. Of course, they had to be killed in the most humane way possible, with a shot to the head, rather than slashing them with the knife or something.

Hell, we'll take it one step farther and even arbitrarily pick out legitimate enemies to leave be. Like if the enemy isn't an active threat, sometimes my fiance or I will tell the other "Hey, he's a nice guy. Just leave him alone. He's only trying to... [insert enemy's innocent motives here]", haha. And if I kill the enemy, my fiance will be like "Why'd you do it?" and try to make me feel guilty.

This probably makes us sound certifiably insane, haha, but it's fun.