There are many kinds of evil, and also the morally gray. Evil doesn’t have to be evil just for the sake of it.
At the end of the day, these kinds of videogames tell stories, and a story full with nonsensical evil will only appeal to those freaks you talked about. In the other hand, if it is handled correctly, the story will appeal to a much broader audience. As an example, at the end of The Last Of Us (the show, idk about the game), the main character refuses to save the world because it would mean the death of the only family he had left, and massacres a lot of people in a mix of survival instinct and paternalistic rage. It is horrible from a moral perspective yet it is a good, engaging story.
I feel like, in the same sense, a character with impenetrable morality and no conflict would not be very entertaining to read/watch/play.
As for the workload, I’d rather they didn’t give me the option to be evil if the story is going to be bad. The devs themselves choose to make different paths, so at least have them be equally fun. (I’m not getting into pressures from above for “branching narratives” or any other marketable terms. Replace devs with “studios” if you wish.)
There have been some theories on this phenomenon, with the most prevalent being the tendency for Wikipedia pages to move up a “classification chain”. According to this theory, the Wikipedia Manual of Style guidelines on how to write the lead section of an article recommend that articles begin by defining the topic of the article. A consequence of this style is that the first sentence of an article is almost always a definitional statement, a direct answer to the question “what is [the subject]?”
man cannot live on memes and news alone. there is a void here. news stories breed reasoned discussion, generally filled with stringent, on topic remarks. memes breed tepid remarks, a step above twitter blue check replies, but little worth reading....
I think I have an idea. When you post/comment, there should be a checkmark for “are you being serious?”. The default value should be chosen on a sub-per-sub basis, so all comments non-serious by default on, say, c/memes, and serious on c/news, for example. Then that information should be hidden unless you downvote or reply to a comment/post of the opposite seriousness to the default of the sub you’re in (I guess there could also be an option to see the warning always or on demand).
I think I should post this properly somewhere but idk where…
Todd Howard: 'We Don't Need to Rush' Next Fallout Game (insider-gaming.com)
i hate this meme (lemmy.ml)
www.instagram.com/p/C6Rtugnvev5/
Roleplaying evil characters
So, I almost never play evil characters in most CRPGs - despite the potential fun to be had - and recently I’ve been thinking about why....
Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)
As apparently, this move is made to target audiobook listeners and podcast listeners, can I recommend audiobookshelf.org...
Philosophy rules (feddit.de)
Link to Wikipedia article about it
HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
For three years there has been a bug report around 4K@120Hz being unavailable via HDMI 2.1 on the AMD Linux driver....
i hate my wife and i love bug lite (lemmy.world)
Upon careful analysis of the top posts, I believe lemmy needs more unhinged text posts
man cannot live on memes and news alone. there is a void here. news stories breed reasoned discussion, generally filled with stringent, on topic remarks. memes breed tepid remarks, a step above twitter blue check replies, but little worth reading....
Memory Cache: local AI for Firefox that you feed (www.ghacks.net)
If you could gift a videogame to anyone, what would you give to whom? And why?
Imagine you could give a Christmas gift to anyone, famous or not, what you would give and to whom? And why?...
What's your favorite game through the ears of Original Soundtrack?
Mine is Skyrim....