Gotcha. Thanks for the summary without any obvious spoilers!! Ethics in gaming journalism done right.
That's one way moral grayness can be done wrong in media. It's more realistic and engrossing when shit isn't black and white, but when it becomes "the evil villain actually has a point and the goody two shoes criticizing him are just dirty hippies who can't accept reality" then it's worse than complete moral certainty.
There is a certain genre of RPG writing that has two options and a hidden third option, which Outer Worlds suffered from immensely. Now, there isn't anything wrong with having a hidden option sometime, but the problem comes in when that is always portrayed as the "best" option. They tend to be based on compromise, so it reinforces a very lib worldview when it comes to allegories for capitalism; "unfettered" capitalism bad, communism also bad but less so, compromise good.
Gotcha. Thanks for the summary without any obvious spoilers!! Ethics in gaming journalism done right.
That's one way moral grayness can be done wrong in media. It's more realistic and engrossing when shit isn't black and white, but when it becomes "the evil villain actually has a point and the goody two shoes criticizing him are just dirty hippies who can't accept reality" then it's worse than complete moral certainty.
There is a certain genre of RPG writing that has two options and a hidden third option, which Outer Worlds suffered from immensely. Now, there isn't anything wrong with having a hidden option sometime, but the problem comes in when that is always portrayed as the "best" option. They tend to be based on compromise, so it reinforces a very lib worldview when it comes to allegories for capitalism; "unfettered" capitalism bad, communism also bad but less so, compromise good.