It’s too close to murdering CEOs.
They don’t want peasants getting ideas.
Lets leave those friends of epstein alone. We are better than them 😔
You can kill each other, but you can’t kill the rich, deranged asshole in charge.
That tracks.
The term I see used for this is “ludonarrative dissonance”. Basically, your experience playing the game doesn’t match what the story is trying to tell you.
The opposite would be “ludonarrative synchronicity”. Like in Doom the protagonist is an overpowered entity feared by all enemies, both in gameplay and in the story.
Edit: specifically applied to games, I’m not sure if there’s a term for movies or other media.
Well, the henchmen usually wears masks or helmets so we and the protagonist don’t humanize them.
It’s even stupider when the game railroads you into it. If I left a trail of bodies in my wake then obviously I intend to kill the main baddie too.
Fuck games that make you let the baddie go.
If I left a trail of bodies in my wake then obviously I intend to kill the main baddie too.
Fuck games that make you let the baddie go.
I think one of the reasons people like FNV so much is kinda this. If you want to, you can tell the final boss to go away. Or you can kill them. I made a character that was speech focused. I didn’t want to reassure the end boss that “oh, logistics is hard, don’t worry, my faction will collapse eventually because of logistics” and I got to cave their head in.
Related: Leaving the bad guy injured or “probably dead”
Cut the head off and make sure they’re for-real dead.
Someone has been watching CW’s Arrow.
Like, Oliver, those henchem you shot with arrows, and your sidekicks shot with bullets are dead. Your friends are actively begging you to kill their leader who has threatened the entire city like 6 times now. Just kill him too, no one cares, they will probably build you a statue.
Far cry 4 was unbelievably frustrating with this “mechanic” a rocket launcher of 50cal round to the face means you don’t get to fuck me in a cutscene… The game disagreed.
Aang be like:
When I was young I thought the ending was the coolest thing ever because taking a person’s elemental bending away is like ripping your entire being away. Like stripping a billionaire of all of their assets and cash. Horrible blow to their ego, lifetime of suffering, etc.
But now that I’m older, Aang should have just killed the bastard. The fight was hella cool tho.
Aang doesn’t kill anyone, though. It’s an important part of his character for the entire series.
Caillou looking centrist loser 😶
Meanwhile Sokka and Toph do a dozen hindenbergs and no one cares
This is just another instance of the class morality. The lower classes are not really people for the upper classes.
Exactly. Also, there a chance the minions are black and the villain is white in this scenario.
This is why I liked the ending of The Watchmen.
the hero didnt kill them! they just uh… fell…? out of shot? i guess?
I remember waiting for a twist when wonder woman was plowing through all those allied forces just to spare the nazi at the end??
This is why Hong Kong '97 is the greatest video game of all time.
Chin gives zero fucks when he blows up the head of Tong Shau Ping.
