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.

  • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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    1 year ago

    I guess I should have specified the branch of the RPG genre. As much as I rag on western RPGs for the lack of choices, I'm still a huge sucker for Dragon Quest and early Final Fantasy.