Wait, this guy/girl is the hero? He/she's a dick!
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I feel as though there are too many games here, and not enough stuff from other mediums. So I'll do ones from movies.
Ariel(Little Mermaid): literally the entire plot of this film is about how much she screws everything up because she isn't happy with what she has. Seriously, listen to "part of your world" and tell me I'm wrong.
Luke Skywalker: has no issues wasting storm troopers left and right, but when he has an easy opportunity to kill the emperor, striking a blow to the heart of the empire, shortening the war, and saving lives, he cranks up the angst to 11 and refuses to strike down evil incarnate.
Indiana Jones: Not so much of a dick, as he was a guy with no reason for being there in raiders of the lost ark. Think: what if everything went exactly as the Nazis planned? They would have opened the ark just like they did in the film, and this would happen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ythpzsu18
Ariel(Little Mermaid): literally the entire plot of this film is about how much she screws everything up because she isn't happy with what she has. Seriously, listen to "part of your world" and tell me I'm wrong.
Luke Skywalker: has no issues wasting storm troopers left and right, but when he has an easy opportunity to kill the emperor, striking a blow to the heart of the empire, shortening the war, and saving lives, he cranks up the angst to 11 and refuses to strike down evil incarnate.
Indiana Jones: Not so much of a dick, as he was a guy with no reason for being there in raiders of the lost ark. Think: what if everything went exactly as the Nazis planned? They would have opened the ark just like they did in the film, and this would happen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ythpzsu18
Outside of the GTA IV era: Yes. But they where still likeable somehow, or where ment to be emotionless so you could pretend to be them. In the GTA IV era both Niko and Johnny show care for their friends (especially Niko). Luis acts like a though nut and never gets out of that role.wabbbit said:
Nico Bellic. Seriously.
'I need more maaaahney! I'll do anything for maaahney, just enough to leev peacefully!'
Fuck off Nico, you made five hundred million dollars gambling on a horse race. If you really wanted to quit you would have quit BEFORE
[spoiler: Just in case anyone hasn't played this 6 year old game I guess?] your cousin/paramour died at the hands of an insane Russian ganger. [/spoiler]
Kids, this is why you don't make a linear narrative in which the main thrust is the protagonist's quest for cash, and at the same time involve currency as a gameplay mechanic. Every player will end the game with fat stacks of cheddar, and yet their hero will still be whining about how poor he is and make shitty choices based on his perceived poverty.
'I need more maaaahney! I'll do anything for maaahney, just enough to leev peacefully!'
Fuck off Nico, you made five hundred million dollars gambling on a horse race. If you really wanted to quit you would have quit BEFORE
[spoiler: Just in case anyone hasn't played this 6 year old game I guess?] your cousin/paramour died at the hands of an insane Russian ganger. [/spoiler]
Kids, this is why you don't make a linear narrative in which the main thrust is the protagonist's quest for cash, and at the same time involve currency as a gameplay mechanic. Every player will end the game with fat stacks of cheddar, and yet their hero will still be whining about how poor he is and make shitty choices based on his perceived poverty.
The good old reactive way. Well many games work like that they put you in a situation and obviously there are certain ways you can act. And in some it will be the only one that keeps you alive.Raine_sage said:
Though I guess with some tricks one would hide and walk off later but..seriously who does that?