magerette said:
You pretty much know where everything you do will take you
If I understand you correctly, the difference is you are choosing to play a role in NWN, which you can choose to change based on your feelings att or based on story changes. In the Witcher it's really unambiguous in many parts, you are forced to unrealistically side someone.
Sure this has happened in other games but it was clear they did it based on their story, not trying to trick us into believing we are making a choice, which is the real manipulation, imo.
Once again I am drawn to the Triss and Shanni quest in chap 3, sure it's fine they need us to choose between the two for story purposes, no problem. In the instance you pick Triss which according to the story at EVERY level she is the only choice and yet even though Geralt has saved her life Beast and saved her from gang rape, given the child away and knows absolutely jack, nadda or squat about magic as she herself said after the Beast fight. Why rub our faces in it?
Ionstormsucks said:
Maybe they thought that sympathetic persons seldom want to burn young ladies
Lol.
Abigail had turned out to be an evil wrench who slyly tricked you into helping her to dispatch of her enemies in the village
Even if that had turned out to be true, the villagers still are trying to burn her for somethings she didn't do.
bkrueger said:
There are other similar situations, where it was obvious for me, what the "good" solution was, though the Witcher is claimed to be open in this regard.
Exactly.
Exactly these possibilities would be the "good" solutions from a non-biased point of view.
Sort of have to disagree here, up rooting a culture to replace it with a previous, becsue they were *there first* could hardly be called good. First was the previous culture good itself, if not and was replaced by a good culture then obviously it would be an evil act, so really the only good solution would be living together in peace, if I understand correctly.
Corwin said:
Think what it's doing for our reputations!!
This is like reading a great novel or seeing a great movie, feeling all warm and fuzzy.
magerette said:
I did feel I was being asked to evaluate complex situations using a different value judgment system than my own--that is, trying to think like Geralt
Yes, so true The Witcher's strongest and best moments came from these times.