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playing "evil"
Orogun01 replied to Michael_Galt's topic in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)
Actually most serial rapists are diagnosed with some form of psychosis or social disorder that prevents them from fully engaging in courting rituals, they seek nothing more than what many other men want but they lack the means to obtain it. Both cases you present are of people merely exercising their power (albeit, forcefully) over others, the act itself is only as evil as the ends it produces. If you judge morals from an extreme relativistic view then there really isn't any good or evil outside of a system of belief or goal. Then you probably aren't big fan of ethics, since they are basically forced absolute values on a relativist world. Although I do dislike consequentialism, because you can have someone like Kony who acts out of weak morals and low virtues but may achieve some greater good. Now, people may believe that the ends justify the means but they don't justify the person. Just because they achieved a good doesn't make them any less virtuous or any less likely to commit atrocities again if given the chance and without a satisfactory end there is no redemption. Truly is the means what makes a man virtuous, because is the means what he controls and they are a reflection of his character. Is the means what he directly affects and even should he find himself forced in a situation to make the hard choice where the ends damn him either way. He may still remain virtuous as long as his character remains so. -
playing "evil"
Orogun01 replied to Michael_Galt's topic in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)
I respectfully disagree with regards to PS:T, you could go on to commit virtuous and heinous actions. In my view is the world that remained consistently grey with a few exceptions, there was no moral sense as we know it. The world had an atmosphere of desperation and grime about it that portrayed every NPC act as something out of necessity not evil, which is why I think it can be misinterpreted as a grey morality. -
Romance and friendship?
Orogun01 replied to Krikkert's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Now now, we are polite folk around these parts. Manners say that we must show our hospitality, besides it's not like there are going to be romances in the game anyways. So be kind to these new fellas...even if one of them is dressed as a furry. -
Syrian dictatorship continues slaughtering children
Orogun01 replied to Humodour's topic in Way Off-Topic
I love how they used the soundtrack of "The Hurt Locker". -
No free game is worth installing Origins
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Seriously, I'm so jealous of that guy. I always wanted to reenter the atmosphere while listening to "Where Eagles Dare".
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Don't use blink. The game apparently doesn't understand that shadows = being hidden. Plus it just takes me out of the story when the guy who was tortured for 6 months comes out being Mahatma Ghandi.
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Romance and friendship?
Orogun01 replied to Krikkert's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
In PE's case that may well work since they counted the reason for no romances as having to do with the "condition" of the main character, it could be a sexless romance put there just to really give the player a sense of aggravation. P.S. Don't romance any peasant girls they are known disease carriers. Who is to say that your main character has to romance anyone? What if two of your companions find an attraction for each other, I think that's easier to write as well. If I have to watch two lovebirds in a game I want the option to cleave their heads, its bad enough that I can't do it in RL but if I can't do it in my fantasies then I really don't see the point of roleplaying -
Did they gave her any recipe for a follow up medication or treatment or something to help?
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Romance and friendship?
Orogun01 replied to Krikkert's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
In PE's case that may well work since they counted the reason for no romances as having to do with the "condition" of the main character, it could be a sexless romance put there just to really give the player a sense of aggravation. P.S. Don't romance any peasant girls they are known disease carriers. -
Romance and friendship?
Orogun01 replied to Krikkert's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
In video games, romance = sex scenes/fade to black and implied sex -
I really hate that game, I get how it can be compared with Thief but then I actually analyze the game and realize that it's actually an offense to Thief to compare it. Stealth comes down to just blinking from place to place, the game ask you to be an assassin but penalizes you for playing like an assassin ergo killing people. Then it gives you a bunch of lethal powers and gadgets and just one nonlethal dart. It frustrates me.
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Maybe something not as in-depth then, but the ability to stylize the stronghold to a particular culture.
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Development time too short
Orogun01 replied to PeonWarrior's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Also, less red tape and better direction with smaller studios. No one spends a month modelling a character that was never going to make it into the final version, or the project gets changed midways because some corporate saw his son play a game an enjoy so now he wants his game to have the same features. -
Hopefully it will be the last time, best wishes.
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Length of the Game
Orogun01 replied to firstarioch's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
This in a nutshell is the appeal of the silent protagonist, its an empty vessel for the player to insert him/herself into the story. -
Then you missed the other moves that exist. Such as?
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Sorry to hear, maybe a second opinion or another doctor would help. Sometimes they misinterpret symptoms.
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Large herbivores, please
Orogun01 replied to jb.'s topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
I support killing giant vegans hippies. -
Quantity, I'm tired of strongholds that feel deserted. It really makes it feel small when I only have a ballista, 3 farmers and 2 soldiers and then I'm expected to fight off the hordes of the entire underworld, which translates to being transported to a new area (which I never seen) to fight alongside soldiers(that I didn't knew I had). Quite frankly, it throws whatever familiarity I have with the stronghold out the windows and suddenly i'm not fighting to keep my property.
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I never found much challenge on just constantly pressing 2 buttons to attack or counter and then eventually using a special takedown. The combat system didn't have much depth and the gadgets didn't bring much to it but what they did and they did it well, was style. In the end it tied with the whole batman experience and an in depth combat system doesn't mesh well with a sandbox game, so I can't fault their choices.
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Go easy on the jargon
Orogun01 replied to StreetBushido's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
I personally don't feel like i'm playing a fantasy game if an hour into the game I understand what people are saying. -
Romance and friendship?
Orogun01 replied to Krikkert's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Personally I would prefer if they focused on defining the characters and if along the way the developers see that the relationship between companion and player starts shaping to allow for romantic involvement, then they shouldn't shy away from it. The process seems better than writing a character as a romantic option from the offset. On the romances as a whole in a video games; there are worse things to waste time writing, (e.g: all the books and backstories in Bethesda's games, specially Dishonored) All things that won't see the light of day on the final product. -
American state legalises coal seam gas fracking on university campuses
Orogun01 replied to Humodour's topic in Way Off-Topic
This seems like an issue where your ignorance about how unsafe mining is. The contamination it causes spread far beyond the drilling site, I personally don't see how a little profit is worth the potential damage to the student's health.
