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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Raise your hand if your Paragon Sheppard has never shoved that dude out the skyscraper window.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

why would i play boring Shepard

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I usually play overall good, but an impatient dick.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 2 months ago

You can be evil and still stop to pat and love dogs.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I don’t let machines fuck with my emotions. I know what they’re doing, give an option to slap the dog.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Moral choice in most games is pretty ridiculous anyway. In the vast majority of video games, the actions of play are already about doing unethical things (breaking into places you shouldn't be, killing, looting, holding political office, etc) and the story or theming is just there to provide moral cover for why what you are doing is Good Actually ™️. Americans are great at justifying violence because our media trains us in doing it everyday.

If you tried to hold people to IRL standards of ethical behavior, the entire FPS genre would vanish. And that's why these things don't work well in games. You can't punish bad behavior because it would feel anti-player. You also can't reward bad behavior , even though that's realistic, because it offends the miscalibrated normie sense of justice. And simulating the small-scale social consequences of immorality would also be immensely difficult and anti-fun.

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