I don't like a game telling me when I do and don't have compassion. If I choose not to forgive somebody, that's a valid fucking choice. I'm a video game it's not. It screws you out of content. Which, like, fine. Keep your content. Don't tell me it's mandatory to LIKE someone.
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It's not JUST about manipulation. Like, all stories try to elicit a certain response out of you, right? But, y'know, sometimes the very premises you're working from are garbage. Ferelden fucking sucks. It's an unjust, racist, theofascist garbage country and it can burn.
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Like I reject your premises that these characters are doing acceptable things. That they're likeable or that I owe them anything. You didn't adequately make the case to me that the world you've envisioned deserves anything from the character I made other than her disdain.
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Like why the fuck would I let Alistair—or any of these characters with worldviews that border on offensive—throw a tantrum at me when the world's at stake, and go unpunished? No, screw that. I'm gonna fuck them up. Maybe you meant for that to make me feel evil. It did not.
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Because, the devs were the ones who set up these bullshit stakes to begin with, right? They're the ones who decided to set in stone the things they set in stone. You can't make the Wardens NOT force-conscript you. You can't make mages NOT be oppressed. So you take what you get.
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If your characters are not going to be nice to me, I dunno why you'd have this expectation that I would conduct myself by your own moral code. Far from it, I will meticulously chase down every teensy weensy bit of slack you left me and use it to tear the whole narrative apart
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Anyway I got to thinking about this because of what I've heard about The Last Of Us Part 2. I'm given to understand these games are linear and cinematic (I wanted to try the first one but it's not on Steam so welp), and therefore makes your protagonist behave in dissonant ways
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And like I have not heard of a single character in this game that, in the role of a protagonist, I would feel the slightest qualm about unceremoniously mowing down. And I mean that literally. Not. A single. Character.
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Oh, you want me to hesitate? Bitch, the only reason they're not already giving Gaea the crimson kiss is because you programmed a cutscene here. Don't insult me by pretending we're simpatico. If you gave me the breathing room of an old Bioware game this would look real different
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This is why I just can't take "this game is about the horror of violence" seriously You didn't *let me* make the smart, ethical choice, and now you want me to feel guilty about that? No, and also fuck you.
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I kind of agree with @BootlegGirl that the idea that evoking guilt as an emotion means you, the player in the real world, are actually meant to literally feel guilty is silly
It's a highly immature idea of what games are about that we can't seem to get past
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jmatonak and
Like the weirdos whose reaction to Undertale was to get the Golden Ending and then put the save file on a flash drive so it can never be corrupted That wasn't the point, it really is just a game, if you actually literally feel bad for playing the Genocide ending that's dumb
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I saw a comment from
@chrysopoetics I liked, which is that sadomasochism is a valid form of pleasure in and of itself without needing justification beyond that1 reply 2 retweets 11 likes - Show replies
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