• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 days ago

    Have these people even played Witcher 3? Because there you play as Ciri too sometimes. Her moveset was really fucking cool actually

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      10 days ago

      Also this is one of the games where you play a character that has personality already, self insertion isn’t intended.

      Geralt of Rivia, Lara Croft, B.J. Blazkowicz, Faith Connors, Alan Wake, Max Caulfield, Joel Miller, Ellie Williams, and probably Doomguy those are all roles that you play.

      In contrast you have games like Skyrim, Elden Ring, Terraria, Cyberpunk 2077, Far Cry, Valheim and most classic MMORPGs, where you have a playable character that you can form to your own design.

      That’s just fundamentally a difference in design. Complaning that you can’t self insert in a game of the first category doesn’t make sense.

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          Yeah he’s borderline, I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea to include him.

          He’s silent, but he has always had a face and was emoting with it a bit even in 1993.

          Now in the latest two titles he’s still silent, and you don’t see his face as often, but on the other hand he has started emoting with actions. For example breaking the screen Samual Hayden is using to try and convince him that it was worth the risk to experiment with the hell powers that flooded in.

          There is also tons of lore describing his motivations and previous actions. In the end for me that tips the scale towards him being a preexisting character that you play as. But I can also see that one can ignore that and self insert pretty easily.

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      9 days ago

      Of course not. I am rather confident that at least some of these people are doing it as a false flag. Trying to discredit critics of genuine bad character and game design.

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      9 days ago

      Actually thats the only thing i am bummed about. The ‘blink’ moves she had were so fun. Other than that, seems like the hard choices are back!