Creating a time paradox, since this happens several days before the previous scene where Ellie fights her
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Yeah, I mean, that's the even bigger problem, because it's not a time-travel thing, it's just a flashback. The events you're playing through are not only unchangeable, they've *already happened*.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
I think this is fine overall; it's just a mistake generally to see the narrative possibilities of video games as relying on player choices.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Because even in games with strikingly different endings depending on in-game choices, you're not really creating anything. You're just going through a few different cuts of the same story.
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Yeah the degree to which "linearity" bothers you I think really depends on the degree to which you were previously aware that "interactivity" was always a magician's choice in the first place Like at this point I'm extremely cynical about the idea of "You are your character"
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I think it's tricky because most of the games I like have me design my protagonist and then the narrative kind of hijacks them like a derailing GM
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I’ve always wanted to make a game with very very detailed character creation only for that character to be murdered in the opening cutscene and the rest of the game you play as a PI investigating the murder
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Those kind of slap-in-the-face surprises are fun but you can only really pull it off once
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Again, I find it really interesting how this worked with Darth Revan in the KotOR series Where they kind of deeply fucked themselves over because they didn't have the technology yet to fully carry over customized characters like in Mass Effect
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
(And even if they had, they went ahead and made the final sequel an MMORPG, where that wouldn't have been possible anyway, and had to pay off a whole setup where Revan's Second Coming is the most pivotal event of the series)
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Everyone was always gonna hate it, and they kind of tried to dodge controversy in a cowardly way by making Revan a generic white dude (to match the demographics of their playerbase), but the white dudes were still mad and everyone else was just EXTRA mad
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Doing it with Revan continuing to be a Mysterious Hooded Figure whose face and voice are never revealed onscreen and who could be anyone of any gender would've been much more interesting But they weren't good enough writers to pull that off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
They chickened out on that *from the beginning*, like they just went and decided the most interesting storyline was marrying Bastila so they just went ahead and canonized that The tie-in novel ("The Old Republic: Revan") doesn't even MENTION Carth's NAME
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