And then you pick what you thought was a harmless dialogue option, but instead it sets off a cutscene where you’ve insulted the Emperor and now must murder everyone in order to survive.
Video game be teaching you about the “no gods no masters”
“glass him”
There’s a game I’ve played that was bad for this but I can’t remember which one it was. Like all options looked neutral and reasonable but would lead to the character doing wildly different things. Or ones that looked friendly would be the opposite. Like if you choose “Agree with them”, you might get “Yeah, you’re right, you fucking asshole.”
Though it is a lot funnier describing it now than it was experiencing it, in the moment I was like “wait, no, wtf are you doing?”. Seems like a game designed more for people watching than the one playing.
Me when starting my third playthrough of BG3: This time I’ll choose the evil options!
Also me defending the grove: FUCK
They do try to entice you with drow ass for being evil, which was a pretty bold move.
You know… you’re making a convincing argument. Maybe Zevlor indeed needs to die.
I was thinking that the other day I can do literally anything and I always end up doing what I would hope I’d do if I had my characters power.
It’s not that I don’t want to hurt their feelings. In fact I really want to give the smartass sarcastic answer. But I’m worried I’m gonna fuck up my quest. Or make things unnecessarily difficult for myself.
If you ever killed a Little Sister for more Adam, you are a bad person and you should feel bad.
When that game came out my kid was about the age of the Little Sisters… I couldn’t make myself kill one.
If dying countless times in simulations of guns ha taught me anything, it’s that guns are very deadly.
Sometimes I feel like a bad person because I see posts like these of people given the freedom from consequence to be good or bad yet still choose to be good. Meanwhile when I play these games I love the fact that I can murder, steal and commit all manner of moral crimes.
I’d still be a bit concerned if your default mode in a ROLEPLAYING game is murder-hobo, but I’d let you explain it at least.
My playthroughs usually start with me being nice, then as I learn which characters I care about, what things I want and how people react to me being evil I become more and more of a “murder hobo” as you so eloquently put.
As an example, in baldurs gate three I usually gaslight wyll into believing karlach is a devil so that he’ll kill her and I get a sweet piece of armour. My whole reason for doing this is that I find karlach annoying and the armour is pretty cool looking (and can be sold if I’m not using it)
Same with astarion, killed off immediately because hes annoying, I like him best when he’s comically evil lo
Edit: same with scratch lol. Don’t like dogs what can I say
I’d say that’s a bit more frugal than murder-hobo. Most people kill Gale though cause he won’t shutup.
Edit: almost forgot he blows up. He stayed at camp then I guess. God he’s annoying.
I need gale. Him respecting into alchemy nerd is a cannon event
Ah so games make you weak and less manly and emotional /s
