Jbuster
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Qué? Oh do spoil, tell, spill, indulge, insert other words. What type of Savin induced tomfoolery are you speaking on?and Etheryn will include heir quest shenanigans I look forward to reading( the reactions to)
Savin. Tomfoolery. I can already guess.Qué? Oh do spoil, tell, spill, indulge, insert other words. What type of Savin induced tomfoolery are you speaking on?
You know I've been absorded in playing Tyranny lately. Obsidan studios of the 2000s are GOATS, and I can say that being evil feels so good to the fact that I've been thinking over how these shmucks write evil...and it just makes me gag. They have no understanding of the concept.
And we're off to the races! Champ preg with irrelevant NPCs! Will this year beat out the last one?! FIND OUT SOON!Atani’s marefolk guards can now knock up the PC with lil’ horselets! (by Skow)
The problem with evil in RPGs is that evil actions are, by definition, anti-social and tend to make things worse. And since RPGs are on a personal scale, it's hard to really create compelling content that one can call 'evil' without diving into real-world nastiness that a lot of people deal with. So "stab a guy because you can" or "be a random asshole" tends to be the norm, because those are power fantasies. Any other kind of evil would dive straight into edge lord territory, or just be unappealing. Nobody wants to roleplay an abusive parent or a serial kiddy diddler. Not that the CoC 2 devs are any good at writing even the basic kind of evil you commonly see, but this is one case where I don't blame them for not doing well.Neither does anyone else, honestly.
Evil in the much-lauded BG3, for instance, as many things as it does right, falls right back into lazy, tired, "kick that baby off a cliff - onto a puppy" brand evil, with little consistency or thought behind it.
Obsidian and (sometimes) Owlcat are the only studios that seem to put any thought into evil narrative recently.
Actually spot on in my opinion. Besides the comical stab person because funny evil, I think one of the only evil characters that can be wrote is the like sociopathic manipulator type. Because you can avoid the "abusive parent" type edginess like you said and still have a character be unequivocally evil. But I feel that can be hard to write in this type of situation, due to that sort of being how the player has to think? Like I could say my champion said or acted a certain way just to cause every character in the game to do what I want them to do without actively believing that I guess.The problem with evil in RPGs is that evil actions are, by definition, anti-social and tend to make things worse. And since RPGs are on a personal scale, it's hard to really create compelling content that one can call 'evil' without diving into real-world nastiness that a lot of people deal with. So "stab a guy because you can" or "be a random asshole" tends to be the norm, because those are power fantasies. Any other kind of evil would dive straight into edge lord territory, or just be unappealing. Nobody wants to roleplay an abusive parent or a serial kiddy diddler. Not that the CoC 2 devs are any good at writing even the basic kind of evil you commonly see, but this is one case where I don't blame them for not doing well.
If you're looking to be evil, I'd say grand strategy games like Stellaris or colony sim games like Rimworld provide the best 'evil' experience, mostly because they don't label it as such. They're just options that have consiquences, both good and bad. And they also provide you with scenarios that might prompt you to dive into evil. Sure, I might not start out looking to turn raiders into leather hats in Rimworld, but if a raider burns down my stockpile or kills one of my colonists I might consider it.
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We are finally getting out of the boat, champion, any update now!
Small youtubers would make you think there's a surge of abusive parenthood and diddler simulators when the market for such things has always been niche, and only from time to time they get filtered to more casual playersNobody wants to roleplay an abusive parent or a serial kiddy diddler
The problem with evil in RPGs is that evil actions are, by definition, anti-social and tend to make things worse. And since RPGs are on a personal scale, it's hard to really create compelling content that one can call 'evil' without diving into real-world nastiness that a lot of people deal with. So "stab a guy because you can" or "be a random asshole" tends to be the norm, because those are power fantasies. Any other kind of evil would dive straight into edge lord territory, or just be unappealing. Nobody wants to roleplay an abusive parent or a serial kiddy diddler. Not that the CoC 2 devs are any good at writing even the basic kind of evil you commonly see, but this is one case where I don't blame them for not doing well.
That, in this case, is purely their own fault. It's a case of them starting with a low number of poor quality corruption options, so nobody plays them, so they don't get developed. Not to mention the poorly defined nature of corruption and every character already being hypersexual. It just leads to 'corrupted' characters becoming just a list of goth mommies, which is both unimaginative and limits what they can do with regular characters.As an aside, this exact reason is one of the ones I've seen Savin throw out - most people don't do the corruption options, so prioritizing them is low-impact.
yeah cause they release them after the fact, so you've already locked yourself out of corrupting them by the time its an option - case in point, ahmri.As an aside, this exact reason is one of the ones I've seen Savin throw out - most people don't do the corruption options, so prioritizing them is low-impact.
What hag?Nice try Savin, but one femdom scene won't make me like her. Still obligated to check it out though because now we have a grand total of 3 pieces of actual femdom content for dick users! I'm not counting the hag's because what the fuck even was that.
- Cait has a new scene if she has high thiccness (or is a half-leothran): either she amazon presses you if you have a dick, or she mating presses you with her strapon.
If you replace the share?utm_source=FuckOff with f/WWWKLZs it works. Dunno why that redirect happenlink doesn't work?