What the heck is happening with Act II‽ (Spoiler warning for basically the entire plotline)
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Please tell me that I am not the only one who was disturbed by Act II's storyline? Are we really helping a bunch of eugenicist slavers crush a rebellion of their undesirables because their leader was "corrupted by evil magic"‽ Making the oppressed the bad guys, but it's okay to oppose them because "they go too far", is already a very common and bad trope, but at least it usually comes with the empty promise of an effort to make a better world... We don't even get that here...
Between siding with the oppressed and the slavers, we had to be on the slavers side and get moved around the desert in a fortress pushed by hundreds of dessicated slaves. Why? Who thought it was a good idea? PS: Please don't come with any watsonian answer to this. GGG writing team is the one who make the story. Bite life's throat, celebrate your victories, be excellent to other people, love yourself, be an anarchist. Last bumped on Dec 11, 2024, 10:51:55 AM
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the world is a complicated place, why not reflect that in video games as well?
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Dune but Paul helps the Harkonnen.
Haha.
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" Isnt that reason enough? The goal is to cleanse the corruption before it destroys everything, no? |
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So don't help them? If you're selfless enough to not play the game, you could save the imaginary slaves.
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Simply put, this is Wraeclast, the land of chaos and despair. It's a harsh world full of harsher choices, and survival doesn't come with many options.
Sure, GGG could water things down and present us with a less morally ambiguous narrative, but that wouldn't be as interesting. |
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inb4 platforming fascism
Honestly, I wasn't really paying attention, but I did notice that the God of Sin is trying to save the world for some reason? I thought he'd be happy about it. Last edited by bonertron34#0300 on Dec 10, 2024, 6:17:32 AM
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I was wondering when the circus clowns emerge.
You, and people like you, are the reason AAA games are dying. You want everything sanitized and written through the lens of real world societal issues and politics. Everything must be written as if we are 10 year old children, everything white must be demonised, etc. Thank god for GGG, and we need more like them, for sticking to their created world. Wraeclast is a brutal, dark, and tragic place. It's an unforgiving place where the strong succed and the weak die in horrible ways. I'm glad some people still have the balls to show a world for what it really is. Also, just so you know, slavery is till a thing in the real world today; albeit slightly different than the classical definition. If you're so upset about it, go make a difference instead of crying about it being portrayed in a video game. TL:DR: it's fantasy, have the maturity to make the distinction. |
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