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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-01-26 03:17 pm

[ SECRET POST #2216 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2216 ⌋

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elaminator: (Mass Effect 3: Kaidan - Dat mouth)

Re: Thief or Assassin's Creed?

[personal profile] elaminator 2013-01-27 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, alright, that makes sense. Everyone enjoys a little escapism now and then.

There's only a couple games where I feel comfortable doing that (one being Fable, and that's mostly because there are so few characters with actual personalities). I usually wimp out and be nice to everyone instead, so I kind of envy you.
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Re: Thief or Assassin's Creed?

[personal profile] tyger66 2013-01-27 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The only games where I have consistently chosen "good" choices over bad are the Mass Effect series, and that's only because certain characters are just so lovable that I can't be mean to them (Tali, especially. That little Russian alien babe....I will give her all the hugs!). I'm still a complete asshole the rest of the time in-game, though.

Interestingly, Fable II is one of the only games that had a moment that made me think "wow, this is making me a worse person" and it was the part where you had to not feed the prisoners. My mom walked in while I was playing through that part and for real sat down and had a *talk* with me. >.>
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Re: Thief or Assassin's Creed?

[personal profile] elaminator 2013-01-28 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Ahahahaha. Your mom is kind of adorable tbh. I admit there are moments in the Fable games where being an asshole makes you really truly evil and terrible, but I can justify it to myself easier because you don't have teammates to grow attached to or influence.

IDK if you played Fable III but there were some pretty awful moments in that one too, though I never finished my evil playthrough. (Hell, the very beginning was rough.)
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Re: Thief or Assassin's Creed?

[personal profile] tyger66 2013-01-28 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Fable III is actually my favorite of all of them, if only because of the absolute ridiculous beauty of it, especially the parts in the desert with the darkness. That game has the only moment in the entire Fable series where I just. cannot. make the evil choice, and that is leaving Walter behind in the desert. I always cry over his entire character arc, tbh. (The beginning...are you referring to having to choose between the villagers or your love interest? Because I always just let the villagers die...)

Yeah, my mom is pretty awesome, and she usually just rolls her eyes while I kill villagers and cackle maniacally, but idk, sitting there ignoring people who are begging for food is kind of worse, in a way? I don't really have the words to articulate it, but the second situation is more....insidious, I guess. So she sat me down and Talked about video games and whether they Influence me, and when she was satisfied she got up and let me get back to starving prisoners to death.
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Re: Thief or Assassin's Creed?

[personal profile] elaminator 2013-01-28 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
I like them all but have a soft spot for Fable III because of Walter, too. And while I can understand picking evil choices in video games, leaving Walter behind just seems unnecessarily cruel and heartless. I couldn't do it either. His death is probably the only time I've ever cried during a Fable game. (Yep! Haha, I just feel awful being all, "YOU PEASANTS ARE GONNA DIE FOR MY LOVE INTEREST!" I let them live my second time, which funnily enough was my evil playthrough.)

Aww, aha. It's nice that she takes such an interest in your well being! And I agree about the starving...that was one section I'll never forget. On one hand: EXPERIENCE! On the other...having to listen to people beg for food for a good three minutes.
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Re: Thief or Assassin's Creed?

[personal profile] tyger66 2013-01-28 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
The interesting thing about the beginning is that the villager/love interest choice actually does not affect your alignment at all one way or the other. It's just supposed to be an intro to the moral choice system.

Also: WALTERRRRRR *SOB*

Yeah, me and my mom generally love the same movies, books, and tv like 90% of the time, but she doesn't do non-casual video games, so she gets surprised sometimes by the extremes that some games go to in order to make an impact. Personally, I feel that that was probably one of the greatest sequences in the game, if only because it's stuck with me for YEARS afterwards, and I still feel bad about it, even though no actual human people were hurt in any way at all.