User blog comment:Spawny0908/Character Disscusion: John and the Honor Meter/@comment-1600536-20111211010159/@comment-3455248-20111211052752

I agree that he's more neutral than good. One problem with game karma systems in general is that good and evil actions are defined by the developers and may not match your own views. Another problem is that there are often rewards for being really good or really bad, but little incentive to play neutral.

I tend to play characters relatively neutral if I'm not penalized for doing so or good if there are significant benefits. One exception was inFamous where my first playthrough was fully evil. That's because I felt justified frying people who threw rocks at me, but the developers defined that as an evil action. I played John Marston with high honor, but I decided that Jack was pissed off at how things ended up so he tends to vent his frustrations on the law a bit more.