Doesn't it rule when, in a video game, your character is about to do something extremely stupid, but you're still forced to go through with it? Like, I can understand some of the people who hated TLOU2, that shit is a real conundrum for narrative design. - ThreadSky

innerpartisan.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Doesn't it rule when, in a video game, your character is about to do something extremely stupid, but you're still forced to go through with it?
Like, I can understand some of the people who hated TLOU2, that shit is a real conundrum for narrative design.

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travisteatime.bsky.social•36 days ago

The real bitch is not simply being forced to do stupid shit ("stupid shit" has tons of narrative utility) but the game then blaming you for the results, and I do mean "you" as in "the player", if only indirectly by expecting you to feel bad about it.

THAT fucks people up.

travisteatime.bsky.social•36 days ago

Granted, even *that* set-up can be salvaged and used for clear narrative / emotional purposes (...Undertale, duh) but the guilt-trip itself is usually just degrading, it's like you're watching Funny Games, noone needs this.

Hell, hot take: This is why Spec-Ops: The Line is just tedious.

innerpartisan.bsky.social•36 days ago

I kinda liked in Spec Ops, where they at least kinda concealed it. But some games are really laying it on thick, yeah.

esmerylan.bsky.social•35 days ago

I still haven't played TLOU2 but the final part of the first game, where Joel's made up his mind to do something horrible and selfish and you as the player have to carry out his plan even if you think he's in the wrong, pisses me off to this day.

lambdatotoro.bsky.social•36 days ago

/looks angrily towards my copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution/
Yeah. Cutscene Jensen is so naive and bad at decision making, it's unreal. It's infuriating a lot of the time that this superhuman-cyber-James-Bond always falls for the simplest tricks in the book and the player has to clear up after him.

innerpartisan.bsky.social•36 days ago

neat, another reason to hate the deus ex sequels!

lambdatotoro.bsky.social•36 days ago

Have you seen the hbomb video about it? One million reasons to do that condensed into a mere.... three and a half hours.

mrsalty.bsky.social•36 days ago

It can feel dissonant in an interactive medium the way it generally doesn't in a book or movie or what have you. Bothers me more in some games than others, for reasons I'm not altogether sure of.

innerpartisan.bsky.social•36 days ago

Guess it's the exact opposite for me, I can most easily handle such dissonance in books and movies, lol. Or in music, I guess. I'm a Cannibal Corpse fan, after all 😁

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