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[-] axont@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are like 5 games ever that are morally complex. Most games that let you choose between two sides let you pick between a faction of fascists or ineffective cultish hippies. It's rare for games to present better ideology than those.

Off the top of my head, I can only think of a handful. Disco Elysium, Fallout: New Vegas, Planescape: Torment, Frostpunk, Caves of Qud, Vampire TMB. All of those have writing that allows the player to explore what good or bad are in the right situations. DE is probably the best I've ever seen in a game, an absolute masterpiece that shows you the consequences of the bad moral choices, and yet also explores why you might choose the good ones.

I haven't played Baldur's Gate 3 yet but I'm told the writing is actually pretty good, so I'll check that out.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

Morrowind as well, all the factions suck (except the anti slavers), and hate each other, but complex material systems of oppression and co dependence trap them in a decaying structure and have caused even the more noble institutions to be corrupted. And now that system is no longer capable of defending itself.

You may or may not be the Nerevarine, and even if you are it's unclear what that actually means and if it's prophecy or you taking it "by violence". But you can use the fact other people think you are to break the cycle.

Of course once you have there's no guarantee of anything better on the other side, you're just some guy, you know.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

Broke: you are the Nerevarine, the chosen, the prophesised

Woke: you're just some guy

Bespoke: the Nerevarine was always just some guy and the Tribunal was always fated to pay for their crimes at the hand of the common man

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