#its also just a fuckin relief to play as someone detatched from in-game drama bc influencing npcs feels...gross | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ruthlesslistener · 2 months

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Unpopular opinion but I actually deeply fucking love games where the protagonist is silent and relatively passive when it comes to interacting with other characters, even if that means watching them go down paths that end in their destruction. Sure its likely done as a 'blank slate'/self-insert sorta thing but quiet, stoic, nonverbal people also exist and the perceived lack of a personality =/= no characterization whatsoever

#this is a passive-aggressive jab at d2 fans tbh #im not saying its not frustrating sometimes but the yw is an actual character. you just happen to control them #anyways ghost hollowknight and wolf sekiro i love you #its also just a fuckin relief to play as someone detatched from in-game drama bc influencing npcs feels...gross #i dont know how to describe it other than im playing games to be an observer of the world not a participant #/social burnout applies to in game characters as well but even weirder bc to me they arent people #theyre just mechanisms of storytelling pushing a theme/lesson

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