I'm talking about earlier in the production cycle
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
Honestly, as a side note and as a person who doesn't really think he's in the right headspace for this game atm, the "they have NAAAAAAMES!" thing honestly sounds kinda artificial in dramatic terms?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
Like "make sure, Bob, if I'm gunned down by someone you pause and shout my name in anguish so as to ensure that they feel bad for killing me." "Ok Harry."
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That's exactly how it is. I was writing joke parody dialogues a couple days ago about this, based on reviews, and turns out I nailed it, it's exactly like that
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Like that's not how most stories handle this sort of thing for a *reason*, it's just sort of exploiting an emotional blind spot that exists in gamers.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
I dunno, this was an actual repeated thing in that webcomic Goblins, someone would get in an attack on someone else and you'd be rooting for them and then you'd see the victim's friend screaming their name with tears in their eyes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Honestly this is somewhat less successful to me as a way to suddenly generate sympathy for a mook (you have to have friends to be sympathetic?) My favorite trope here is to just switch to the mook's POV and clearly show you their last emotion in life is desperation and terror
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
The Rooster Teeth running gag in Red vs Blue where everyone's courage fails at the last moment and they're always running for their lives breathlessly gasping "Oh shit oh shit oh no oh no"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Like conversely the easiest way to make you feel okay about killing mooks is making them unnaturally fearless (if they don't care about their lives why should I)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
“Innocent” people in Hitman cower if you point a gun at them and even that’s enough sometimes to keep you from being a jerk.
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The worst thing about that scene in God of War 3 where you murder Poseidon's sex slave for no reason is she literally can tell you're going to do it and begs you not to three times before for the final cutscene
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