*Any kind of game*, and this subtle ugliness of how games work is much more insidious in a cutesy dating sim than a violent war game about blowing up buildings Which Avellone was self-aware about, and why he was skeeved out by Bioware companion romances
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But hey, it turned out he knew whereof he spoke Because that's how he treated his whole career and the women in it A game of Rock Star Game Dev Simulator where you can try to bed every woman you meet as a sidequest for XP
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And the game might be this gloomy thing about being a self loathing tortured alcoholic but you're still the main character and so no matter how many times this ends in disaster you might as well shoot your shot each time because hey there might be content behind that skill gate
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Just like the Nameless One, being this apparently unstoppable endlessly respawning menace blundering thoughtlessly through countless people's lives leaving a trail of carnage in your wake Treating them all as learning experiences you somehow never learn from
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Fucking disgusting
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The design doc for Torment was this ridiculous fratboy leering sexist thing ("Blonde babes, undead babes, demon babes, Asian babes") And I always thought the character of Deionarra was him transcending this toxic game bro culture he was coming from, indicting and condemning it
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Turns out that was more of a confession
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Lolsob and the whole core mechanic of Torment with the amnesia and the past lives and the alternate personae is really just this complicated fantasy metaphor for "Wow I must've been drunk again"
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(So much of this fantasy and horror stuff is just a metaphor for booze Like the magic potion in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is just alcohol You can translate the whole story into just "He became an alcoholic")
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Even worse: he became aware that he was happier drunk than sober. No tragic story of losing a battle against addiction here: addiction is his best friend, true companion and kindred spirit.
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Hyde is more real than Jekyll and all the potion actually did was start dissolving the mask Jekyll always was He starts off "needing" it to "escape" being Jekyll and ends up needing it to be able to change back at all
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