• Rolder@reddthat.com
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    Me playing Rogue Trader trying to be all holy and emperor loving but holy fuck a lot of those dialogue choices are mean

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    Least in games the good you do is rewarded. In real life the phrases " no good dead goes unpunished" applies more often then it should.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Because it’s my first run. First run is always the PARAGON OF MORALITY™ run.

    I’m only an evil dick who doesn’t care about the consequences when I am fully prepared to handle the consequences. And also know where the biggest weapons are.

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      Yea that is it and I fucking don’t really know why it is so, starting to get boring. Just played BG I again as a priest of helm running to everyone’s rescue and strongly rejecting very cool evil companions. I think I will do an asshole rerun who hires every drow available. Gorion will not be proud but such is life.

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    Every time I mention I like Undertale and get “Did YoU bEat Sans?”

    No, because I’m not a genocidal monster and I never will be. I did the pacifist route. Game over, nothing else to see here.

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    Dev’s usually can’t help but incentivise good behaviour. Unless it’s Fable, Overlord, KOTOR, Torment? Any others that actually let you play the bad guy?

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      It’s one of the reasons Tyranny is such a good game. You start out as a bad guy in an evil system. You can try to do good, but you never really succeed because you’re trapped in an evil system.

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      Most western rpgs let you be the bad guy (Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Baldur’s Gate, etc.). But then most npcs will try to kill you on sight.

      Also Undertale.

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        I’m still bitter Morrowind vanilla didn’t let you side with Dagoth Ur if you decided to also play an evil xenophobic maniac who wants to spread a flesh-eating disease on the continent.

        I’d say very few games have a lot of effort put into the evil arc.

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        Games often present moral choices that are too binary. e.g. kill everyone or save everyone. In that case being evil would naturally be a lot harder because most characters would try to stop you.

        Would be more interesting if the moral question is more ambiguous, or maybe have some moral dilemmas. Like you thought you made a difficult decision but the right one, (perhaps even with many in game characters telling you that you are right), only to find out ultimately you were the bad guy after all.

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          In most of them there are many decisions that are not black and white. There are many factions you can join or antagonize, and usually you have to decide to help one or another as they are confronted.

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          I’ve been playing through Cyberpunk 2077 again and they’re all bad choices.

          The final level of Last of Us had me hesitating, too, because the “right” choice felt wrong. Not that you really get to decide, but it was a cool gameplay moment for me.

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            For cyberpunk 2077 I figured out the good ending. Just never take that job. You can’t leave that one part of the city or see credits roll, but hey.

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      This is not the case for RimWorld, where running a slave labor powered human organ farm sounds like the “easy” way.

      Yet here I am only imprisoning raiders who wronged me and even then trying to reform them so they can be part of the gang.

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        Evil god, good monster. Convert villages with displays of power while your loveable idiot puts out fires and gathers food. Slam dozens of worshippers into the pit to fuel your miracles. Having an evil beast is way more chaotic and you spend a lot of time cleaning up.

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      to me, all you need as a counterpoint to the whole post is GTA-- it does disallow the player doing some terrible things, but not many. and it’s enjoyed by millions.

      that said, i’ve played every GTA since OG part 1 and have yet to turn into a murderous car jacking bank robbing mean person

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        Funny enough, GTA4 was the one I played the most, in part because Niko felt less like a legitimately bad person and more like just a very damaged man. I went out of my way to avoid headshots because I knew I could shoot limbs and the enemies would go down, while Niko would acknowledge it, saying things like “I don’t want to shoot you again, stay down!”