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How To Be Evil in RPGs When You’re a Chronic Goody-Two-Shoes (www.superjumpmagazine.com)
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Additionally, so many games struggle with implementing evil choices or quest resolutions that are actually satisfying or at least interesting. For example, how many times have you seen an NPC ask for a favour and the Good option is "okay I'll accept this sidequest" and the Evil is "fuck you, I'll decline your side quest"? How many times does the Evil option just involve murder hobo-ing to the extent that you lose a ton of content because you kill off companions and quest givers?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I think this is a big problem even without evil choices. I really want to see more games explore things happening because you DIDN'T accept someone's quest. Maybe something bad happens to them, or perhaps they resent you for turning them down and spread bad rumors about you.

    Sadly like you said most of the time the choice in taking a quest is actually: do you want more content, or not? Not much of a choice at all.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you mean just video games, then yes we agree.

    TTRPGs can be this way, but don't have to be.

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