Alan Moore went in hard on this in his take on Watchmen There's something very specifically American about Superman He's the world's strongest man because he's the world's righteous man and vice versa
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Worst thing you can do is to program a King Lear game where you're Cordelia, and the point of the game is you stay true to your principles and therefore you die Gotta program in a Golden Ending where if you're EVEN MORE true to your principles you live and they bake you a cake
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People have been trying, for a long time, to engage the "tragic sense of life" in gaming, to really set up a situation where "If you do the right thing, you lose the game, if you give in and do the wrong thing, you win" There's always resistance, people never like it
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i've been bingeing hardspace: shipbreaker, and i feel like there's a parallel here on the surface, h:s is a capitalist hellscape, you're crushed by a billion-dollar debt-indenture, all you do is disassemble wrecks for The Company forever
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every single shift you have to pay for your suit rental, your cutter rental, your fuel, your oxygen, your clone if you die it's this hideous vision of The Company nickel-and-diming you to death
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My favorite game is because it’s cosmic horror that doesn’t get to hide in the glorified ravishment fantasy logic that’s semi-standard The PC could stop at any time, in a multitude of ways, including “oops left game running” You constantly have to re/commit to wanting to see
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But also I suspect people would’ve had a more negative reaction if it were built different as far as art/assets go, and/or rated M instead of T
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