"it's a bad moral choice, there aren't enough rewards for nuking megaton! you can get all those caps easy in the lategame! if you try to turn burke into the sheriff instead, burke kills him and he drops one of the best assault rifles in the game early!"

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I've heard that complaint so many times from so many Epic G!mer chuds. They think it's "preachy" if being a nazi is not rewarded enough in their bideo bames.

    In Megaton's particular case, I've personally known chuds that nuked the city because it had a politically colored leader. :us-foreign-policy:

    • InvaderZinn [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I would love to see the look of horror on their faces if they are forced to watch an "evil" playthrough of infamous: Second Son. I'm sure many le epic Sith Lord space nazis from KOTOR would be pearl-clutching at the idea of having to play as comrade "evil" Delsin, here's some examples of what you do:

      • Your graffiti art goes from generic art to "Militarized police force bad"

      • The in-game CHUDs targeting conduits goes from randomly attacking people for their sick pleasure to you giving them a taste of their own medicine. Poor fools eventually become too scared to be much of a threat.

      • Even if you're not playing with an evil playthrough, Delsin is indigenous rep and is coded to be left-leaning: he uses environmentally friendly paint for his art, he constantly teases his brother for becoming a cop, and he befriends societal misfits like a drug addict in recovery and a nerdy guy that has spent his whole life terrorized by bullies and now the anti-conduit hate mobs.

      spoiler

      In the good ending, you expose to the public that Augustine is a fraud and then conduit-normie relationships magically improve overnight, in the "evil" ending, you [redacted] her and put a permanent end to her fascist reign. The hate groups then get the message and stop.

      • One more thing: The setting is the Pacific Northwest, a place with a LOT of nazis. Delsin is indigenous. You bet your ass that a lot of the anti-conduit bigots are 14 words nazis themselves. "Evil" Delsin is a Native American that does a reverse-genocide. Teaching many nazis in the inFamous US a much-needed lesson. "Evil" Delsin still has his anti-bigotry, anti-fash personality so after he's done with the main game, what's stopping him from fully denazifying, if not decolonizing the rest of the US?

      "Evil" Delsin is our homelander.