3 . oh I agree. some drama is good, also the sense of accomplishment, the feeling of I did something good and these are my spoils of victory. I definately agree. I would not go as far as call anyone weak though, cause to be fair I dont know anyone persnonaly. I have no idea the personal pains, you have faced in your life, thus I would never call you weak, or soft, or too emotional. because even if you were, there is the possibility that there are reasons for that. ( dont get me wrong, there are some SS+ class idiots out there, but you pretty uch spot the after a couple of interactions)
I mean, in games like this, we try to see the world through the MCs eyes. but sometimes we do not want the actual realism to bleed in an artificial setting no matter how close to reality it is.
I recently played "Now and Then" and boy oh boy.. there was drama in there.
for me, cheating, is the worst. also if I wanted to fight for a woman, I would re enter the dating world. but since I wont, why not help a virtual buddy to accomplish his virtual dream. since through the virtual pixels, I get to feel a bit of what I would have wanted to feel in rl. and since I am not a masochist, I would rather not feel betrayed, lied, cheated, or anything of the sort. had plenty of that in my life. would that make me weak? maybe. on the other hand I once had to catch and eat rats to survive. would people find that interesting to experience in a novel? and if they didnt want to see graphic images of half eaten rats, would that make them weak?
ntr/cuckoldry/infidelity/emotional hummiliation(reflected to the player)/sharing/swinging/rape/whoring, basically the standar overused tropes that are there to cause emotional outburst, are for my personal tastes, the wrong kind of drama and after a while it points to the lack of imagination by the dev. plus I dont like to lose thats why I dont gamble, so there is that as well
not everything in life has to be a competition.
as you said it. you compete in practicaly everything out there. dont you wish for a bit of peace? something to help you recharge? I know I do understandably of course how you , me or anyone else, recharge doesnt have to be the same. so your needs are to be respected as well.
players know they cant have everything. on the other hand though, if the dev doesnt wish for anything to change in his story, they should never appear here and ask peoples thoughts. when I see devs like that, " I wont change anything, I wont bend the knee, I will do what I want, but tell me your opinion" I laugh. of course the players are also at fault, because to devs like that, they offer their opinions, he ignores them and then you have world war three in the comments, instead of blocking his ass and never touch his work again..
questions like " how comes this dev doesnt have more patrons" when out of 50 comment pages 49 are nothing but complaints, leave my brain a few hundred cells less
I kinda agree about dark magic. it does have its moments but there are instances where I am " for real? Dude you are a moron"
it certainly isnt house on the rift