Sounds like the devs lack spine, and this will be an inoffensive slop.
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Slopquel for sure
It's like you're not even considering the short term value this could generate for the shareholders.
I'd just be happy to see "evil" choices which weren't cartoonishly silly. So many of these game end up offering you choices like:
- Kiss the baby, donate all your money to an orphanage.
- Kill the baby, cook and eat it. in front of the mother.
There's never anything like:
- Kiss the baby, take over the orphanage, run an outward front which looks like a fantastic charitable organization while training the orphans to commit crimes for you.
Really well done "evil" should be loved by the people, seem outwardly good while using that as cover to do selfish things. But that is much harder than "Press X to murder an innocent for no reason".
There's never anything like:
- Kiss the baby, take over the orphanage, run an outward front which looks like a fantastic charitable organization while training the orphans to commit crimes for you.
Damn, that'd actually make for a really awesome quest mod in Skyrim
Absolutely, I think games should dispense with the good/evil thing all together and focus on whether choices are self-serving, "pragmatic", diplomatic, earnestly attempting to be moral. Of course, this only gets interesting if the game doesn't consistently punish you for being amoral by imposing consequences that are harsher than the rewards. This also means not punishing the player with worse and less content for not following the "intended" story arch.
I haven't played a lot of Frostpunk 2, but I think that game does a lot with similar concepts.
Yeahhhh.... no.
There are plenty of series about grey morality, and Fable isn't one of them. Fable is the game where you save the world in a grand adventure then go fart in a villager's face and kill him so you can rent out his house. Nothing wrong with that, and I think that sticking by the morality system would really help differentiate this new Fable from other Fantasy RPGs coming out!
Realism is the most important part of a fable.
Sounds lame as hell.
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