If there is one outcome, remove the guise of control. Have my character speak for me. I don’t fucking care. I’d rather feel like my character is doing or saying something I wouldn’t personally do than for me to be given a fucking pop-up that means nothing and is just there to reinforce a self-insert facade. At least make a bit out of it if you’re gonna do it. It’s genuinely one of the worst pieces of game design outside of legitimately predatory behavior.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I quit early and the scenes most talked about in the fandom around me that weren't just directly awooga hypersus were about how cool it was that helping some needy people actually resulted in them being murderous criminals with the narration tsk tsking you for caring too much, because it's "cliche" and "political" for helping people to result in helped people.

    It didn't help that that same fandom was so awooga for Ciri in its discussions, either. kombucha-disgust

    If the epilogue strokes play out as you say they do, great. I'm glad to hear it. I didn't make it that far.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      about how cool it was that helping some needy people actually resulted in them being murderous criminals with the narration tsk tsking you for caring too much, because it's "cliche" and "political" for helping people to result in helped people.

      I think that's from the first game? Where there are some elven guerilla fighters smuggling supplies into the city, and if you help them they later assassinate someone else you're on good terms with (because they're fighting a protracted people's war against the human authorities)? I'm fuzzy on the details because I didn't get that far in that one. But there were a lot of problems with that game.

      I can't think of any case like that from the third game. I know there are some "somebody in this situation is getting screwed over no matter what" choices but in general it's narratively better to be merciful and generous than vengeful and self-serving.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It's all a blur to me, but I'll take your word for it.

        I know the first one was the one with the dae le sexy sex trading card collection, which was steeply offputting to me in and of itself at the time because "dae le mature game" was already seeming downright juvenile to me as a pop culture trajectory.