going dark side in the original kotor was pretty much the last time i did an evil path in any game, most of it was pretty banal kick-a-puppy-and-cackle shit but the bit on the beach near the end messed me up
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one of your earliest followers is this earnest-but-naive teenage girl with a tentacle head who grew up an orphan in the worst slums and had a wookiee best friend who was basically her father figure, and when you save the wookiees life he has some sort of unbreakable life debt oath to you. theres a bit where you land on a beach at the end and if youre dark side enough the girl will refuse to keep following you, and you can invoke the life debt to compel the wookiee to choke his only friend and surrogate daughter to death with his own hands
I have a deep suspicion of people who play the "Bad Guys" in PC RPGs and TTRPGs. Unless I'm extremely frustrated and just going through the motions the "Evil" options usually make me feel really bad and gross, and I always wonder why someone else would want to feel that way, or what they're actually feeling instead of bad and gross. Same reason I don't trust Confederate Civil War reenactors or wheraboos. Sure, study history, but why would you want to re-create that.
Yeah, I mean I get the urge to play a dominating force, but there are literally a dozen historical choices from Napoleon to Cao Cao with better motivations for your morally questionable 1-tag.
going dark side in the original kotor was pretty much the last time i did an evil path in any game, most of it was pretty banal kick-a-puppy-and-cackle shit but the bit on the beach near the end messed me up
spoiler
one of your earliest followers is this earnest-but-naive teenage girl with a tentacle head who grew up an orphan in the worst slums and had a wookiee best friend who was basically her father figure, and when you save the wookiees life he has some sort of unbreakable life debt oath to you. theres a bit where you land on a beach at the end and if youre dark side enough the girl will refuse to keep following you, and you can invoke the life debt to compel the wookiee to choke his only friend and surrogate daughter to death with his own hands
You are a monster
yeah even as an edgy teenager i felt really dirty and awful, and could never bring myself to do an evil run of anything since
I have a deep suspicion of people who play the "Bad Guys" in PC RPGs and TTRPGs. Unless I'm extremely frustrated and just going through the motions the "Evil" options usually make me feel really bad and gross, and I always wonder why someone else would want to feel that way, or what they're actually feeling instead of bad and gross. Same reason I don't trust Confederate Civil War reenactors or wheraboos. Sure, study history, but why would you want to re-create that.
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Yeah, I mean I get the urge to play a dominating force, but there are literally a dozen historical choices from Napoleon to Cao Cao with better motivations for your morally questionable 1-tag.
Can we make Romance of the Three Kingdoms reenactments a thing?
I'd love to do living history in non western cultures.
But while I'd like to take part I'm also the whitest person alive so I think I might not be the person to take charge of that.
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Seeing Lucas reckon with the fact that the prequels suck will never not be funny to me
Oh hell I remember that bit. Forced myself to do a dark side run through gritted teeth and now that scene is burned into my retinas