- Sep 6, 2019
- 798
- 6,684
...Alright so? It's not exactly normal human behavior to dump your life's story on your daughter's S/O the first time you meet them. And that's IF you're even bothering to date her in the first place. Even still, just because I'm fucking their daughter doesn't mean I magically care about them enough to hear them yap for that long in one sitting.To be fair, they are the potentially your girlfriends parents and would have heard of them if you interacted with her enough before. Also you normally should be able to meet them before the quest, but Liv's kids are bugged cause this game is dogwater.
This being a prevailing issue in many forms of media does not suddenly make it good or okay writing. Hell, every genre you've listed has never been known for smart or intelligent writing. Don't get where you're coming from in terms of it being a thing in RPGs. In almost every one I've played there is a reason the MC is the one doing these things and not somebody else.snip
Dragon Age? You've got special powers that almost nobody else has and are basically forced to fight the rest of your short life. Fallout 1 and 2? You're the best candidate to leave the settlement. Literally any JRPG? You're the chosen one special anime protag. KOTOR 1 and 2? You're literally the most broken characters to ever exist but just didn't know it yet. Divinity Original Sin 2?
You don't have permission to view the spoiler content.
Log in or register now.
You get the point. Usually in RPGs you are the one in the middle of things because not many people have the ability to do what you can, and/or the MC is privy to special knowledge most others don't. In this game, other people can, according to the devs, help just as much if not more and have the same knowledge as we do.
Even if every single example I brought up is somehow wrong, I'll take that L. Still doesn't make it good writing, though. What-aboutism is like the worst defense to literally anything.
Read above. I don't shit on this game for no reason, I genuinely do want to enjoy it. However, I'm not going to turn my brain off in order to do so unless it's to crank the hog. The devs chose to make this game much more story and lore focused than both the first game and TiTS. The onus is on them to have it enhance the product, not bring it down. I don't go lambasting those games because they're not trying to be more than they are.I think we're at the point of discussion is that it's because THIS game is the one doing it, that's the problem. Other stuff doing the same thing doesn't matter, it's that CoC2 is doing it at all. Like what's that one One Piece meme? "Gotta maintain the agenda" or what have you. But I don't know, maybe I'm missing something.
Tho I will say if it's an issue no matter what, regardless of what piece of fiction it's a part of, well then fair enough.