It’s kind of interesting though how Bioware’s doomed tutorial guy is usually someone your player character just met. It’d be different if the doomed first party member was like your character’s beloved dad or something.
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It's hilarious how SWTOR has the aristocratic Ulgo family have a whole family legend about their esteemed ancestor Trask Ulgo, the Doomed Tutorial Guy from KotOR 1
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Superninfreak and
"He sacrificed his life to save Revan from Malak's apprentice Darth Bandon After having given the amnesiac Sith Lord vital information on how to look around, walk, open containers and access his equipment menu"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Superninfreak and
"The Republic would have fallen if not for him"
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To be fair Revan’s brain was broken at the time and maybe Revan would’ve never remembered how to open doors without his help.
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Not to mention he would never have learned how bunk scheduling worked, or that the ship they were on was called the Endar Spire, or that he worked nights!
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Superninfreak and
The Force can have a powerful influence on the mind... some say it can alter thoughts, even wipe away whole identities I’m sure that won’t be relevant though
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When I was a kid the twist blew my mind and I loved how they threw the foreshadowing in your face when the reveal happens but I don’t know if it was only surprising to me because I was still a kid and didn’t see plot twists coming or if it was actually well crafted.
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It was fairly unexpected for a game of that era, partially because it blatantly violates the "contract with the player", where if they invite you to design your own PC and give it a name and face and everything they're also letting you imagine your own personality and backstory
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Unfortunately it’s such a well known twist now that most people who play it for the first time today are already spoiled by it.
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Yeah and now everyone's gonna be alert for that particular twist in any new game you make
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Especially because Bioshock did similar twists with subverting player agency. Being an amnesiac who is weirdly good at everything is suspicious now.
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I mean Planescape Torment lampshaded this trope first, although that wasn't really a "twist"
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