Prime Junta said:
By "unrealistic," are you saying that the Romans (or people like them, before and since) haven't actually done those sorts of things? If so, you're incredibly naive
No, I simply mean they not understandable acts of evil at the time, as they had no way really of knowing they were being brainwashed nor did they refer to it as murder or rape, actually irrc they consider it a holy mission. Committing evil acts as a RP or in RL even would require you knowing they are evil acts which you are perpetrating. While say the leaders might certainly be, but your example was of your RP character I referred to, hell it's even possible some of the leaders are duped into doing evil things they think or holy. Anyone remember the original names for the war in Irag? Crusade and Infinite Justice they sort of sound holy don't they, wonder why those didn't go over to well.
Second, my point appears to have whizzed right over your head. Specifically, in most games, there's precisely nothing to rape, murder, and arson beyond "because I'm eeeeevil, muhahahaha,"
Maybe it did, all I saying is even if those were available it still wouldn't work as a game, even if you were able to do things in P&P game I can't see going anywhere, so if that what you mean, then I guess it did whizzed pasted me.
In other words: evil people aren't evil because they're evil. They're evil for any number of reasons that make perfect sense to them: they were abused as kids
I agree and that's very well said and while true it's not game material, book or movie sure.
Empirically not true. Tactics like that *work* -- it will scare a large number of people into collaborating with you.
I empirically, disagree it works only as an NPC at least at the moment and the idea as I have mentioned before that you seem to think a developer should spend a vast amount of remorses it would take while only satisfying maybe 5% of the gaming community seems far fetched atm. Who knows though with the corporatists running the show and feeding off the military complex as General Ike warned, that 5% could boom and people could treat rampant violence against innocent men, women and childern as a sporting event. Oh wait Shock and Awe war coverage, hell you maybe in luck there could be a game in the works, NOW!
I'd be thrilled pink if the *antagonist* was evil in a believable way
Damn that's a good idea.
Yes, it was as good as explicitly stated in the big dialog scene before the Act I boss battle.
Like I said I never got that, only Odo falsely trying to blame her, which is exactly what he was doing, blaming someone else for his own act, he even states in his own words "he hated warriors" unless your not giving him credit for anything he says and beleive everything is something she is making him do and say. I feel very comfortable seeing him as a phony if you wish to believe she did this much less had the ability to, that fine but it very far from certain.
A perfect example of this is, if she was really using the doll for this purpose why is she still praying at the doll, maybe it's a representation of one of her demi-gods, Geralt only comments it looked similar.
Additionally why did she have a motive to do this to Odo, just cause?
Lol, all I can say is I hope if you ever get called to jury duty and someones life is on the line your a little more particular about evidence of putting someone to death.
Remember it wasn't about her life OR all the others, it was only was there evidence to kill her, they chose to attack Geralt.
Yes. You could talk to Abigail and get her to explain herself. She basically shrugged it off as "everyone makes their choices; I just sold her what she wanted to buy."
Ok, I will recheck, I sure didn't get that dialog.
Yes, you do appear to have missed it.
Hehe, well even if Abby did sell it knowing, that she was going to kill herself, it would be another very contrived quest plot as clearly Abby's character was not that way, she Clearly would have enlisted her help and had an ally to repay the bastards that were devastating the women in the village, at least from what little I understand about women.
I really like The Witcher but to choose to ignore several places where they intentionally contrive situations to prevent a good or positive outcome would be disingenuous, at least for me.
The Witcher is a somewhat subtle game.
Subtle is not how I would choose to describe it, actually it's pretty in your face about a lot of things, imo, They seemed to have felt their design choice of less evils was too absolute to break, so when it wasn't possible padding was added, which I personally regret they felt they had to stick to this impossible standard and weakened parts of the game for it.
I'll have to get the last one later or in the next post.