Oooh.
Good vs. Evil?
I can understand why games are made out so that you must be the 'goodie-goodie' type all the time. They have to end sometime, just like life. Evil is persistent throughout all stages of man, good is only a sporadic afterthought meant to cause disorder. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
If you had a choice in the development of the story in a game, how would you end it? Those who make the bad choices always get shafted and those who spend their days cleaning mischievious gnomes from a farmer's yard always get the +10 Platemail of the Gods, as well as the +15 Sword of Unholy Hurting and Bringer of Really Bad Things, so naturally people always choose good because it gets them more experience, phat loot, or some quality time with a prince/princess. *shrug* (I really don't know what I'm talking about right now, so I'll just continue. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />) Games like Baldur's Gate don't even really give you a chance to be evil, sure you can kill innocent bystanders for no apparent reason, but is that evil or just plain stupidity? You lose out on things like that, and most people want to experience alot of things in a game before it ends, being evil in a game just gives them an even more narrow path to walk and less things to experience. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
Good and Evil are in the eye of the beholder. They just don't compute as being seperate entities, like Light & Darkness, Chaos & Order, they each need the other to exist in the first place. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />
I think I got off topic somewhere back along that lonely, dark trail of thought that was spewed violently from my mind and into text.
*cough* Ahem.... Alright...
Why do goodie-goodies always win? Because that's how the story was written..*ta da* The big mystery is solved! - Maybe if it was written a different way it wouldn't end quite so happily for all involved? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
*Note* Yes, yes. I know this entire post was quite shallow, but for some reason I seem to write down odd things just before I pass out into restless slumber and I can't until I write whatever it is down. Please, I beg your forgiveness, I know not what I do! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" />
@Luna. If your interested in a game that has you being doom unto the world I would suggest Blood Omen. It's a pretty old pc (there's also a psx version) game, but it has the theme your speaking about. Or at the very least checking a script of it out here ->
Blood Omen Script.
And I wouldn't suggest getting your beliefs in good & bad from Star Wars books <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> , I remember reading a few of those and Thrawn was by far my most favourite villan (only books I ever read with him in it was Heir to the Empire, Dark Forse Rising, and Last Command). Heh, I'm always glad I left the Star Wars fandom before I went in too deep. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
