Every time....then it's time to reload and make all the exact same decisions as every other playthrough again.
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I love how Pathfinder let's you turn off the text that indicates what each dialogue option gives you. Looking over your alignment history can be interesting after a few dozen hours.
And it ideally stops you from just picking the "usual" options every time.
The most liberating thing I ever did in computer role-playing games was during a playthrough of Neverwinter I said that I would choose the dialogue or action that I would realistically do no matter what the game says about the consequences or the karmic effects.
This is resulted in more than one NPC going "how the hell did you see straight through our con"
Priest: "My son, I'm looking for an amulet of"
Me: "Don't care, don't have time, not my problem. Adventurer not charity case"
Priest: "We don't have much money, but I can offer you s--"
Me: "I said --no--"
You miss out on experience and rewards but the true reward is the fact that you don't have a quest log full of side quests that you don't actually want to do
Living with purpose is its own reward.
Saying yes just to collect the mission is a horrible habit that devs has spent 30 years training us to do.
I've done renegade runs dozens of times where I'm a dick to most people, but my crew is hard. I've only successfully done it once where I was a dick to everyone. At the end all but I think grunt survived 2 or something. Avoided any loyalty missions where I couldn't see value in it. Mission always comes first. It was horrible. It was the saddest. Party. Ever.
Only exception to me is Ashley, no room for spacists on my ship, though she does totally change that tune by me3
There's definitely some things I will never do regardless,
Tap for spoiler
Not curing the Genophage and lying to Wrex is one, will never kill Wrex either.
Ashley's poetry is worse than her space racism. Don't get me wrong it's a close number 2, but I always want to punch her after she recites the poetry
Someone once said evill runs are "being an asshole to everyone ...except to your own team." And ive followed that advice. It works really well in the Mass Effect games. My team loves me, and we're all hard asses to everyone else.
Not played Mass Effect, but this is how my only try at a stormcloak run in Skyrim ended. It's not really a "good run vs evil run thing" given the factions involved, but when you do the stormcloaks the whiterun jarl shames you for betraying him and invading his city and I didn't really feel like keeping on with that plotline after it.
Frankly all the factions in Skyrim suck, that's why every playthrough ends up murderhobo
There's zero roleplay-ability in skyrim. They just point you at an arrow and you move there, killing everything in the way. If choices mattered it would be a much better game.
yeah i wanted to play as an orc archer/chef but sadly the game doesnt allow you to be orc, or an archer, or be able to cook food and sell it
Ok and that changes the game how, exactly?
ever heard of roleplaying?
Ever heard of actual roleplaying games?
Skyrim is an action adventure game. If you enjoy making things up with your imagination that's awesome, I'm not going to stop you. But you can also roleplay mega man x games that way too.
Bethesda games are not rpgs anymore though.
really? because there are roles you can play in bethesda games. might as well say baldurs gate 3 isnt really roleplay its just a dice game 😂
Yeah? Which class did you pick in skyrim?
How much did that class choice change anything about the game? Did anything become harder because entire questlines became unavailable to you as an orc? Did killing anyone dramatically change anything about the have?
You're just an orc bow assassin. "Amazing".
archer
when i didnt have open ranges and was in more compact areas, it was exciting and scary as my bow could not be as effective
i didnt need a quest to go into an orc stronghold. but then again, i couldnt disguise myself in the thalmor embassy as an orc
quests were lost when hulda died but then ysolda took over
and yes, an orc archer is amazing. thank you for agreeing with me in the end
Spoken like a true 12 year old. I'm happy for you.
okay
Lmao
I definitely was sniping everything and everyone in that game.