@Lady Seems not too dissimilar from writing fanfic, except you also get to play a tactics game while you do it

@witchfynder_finder what’s weird about it is that there are a set number of endings written into the game, right, and those are all like, part of the game, and people are just willfully avoiding some parts of it

idk to me it’s like skipping chapters of a book because you don’t want the characters to suffer

@Lady That makes sense

I guess it depends on, like

Are they only doing this one playthrough and they want it to be "perfect" or is this one of many runs where they want to see a particular storyline play out

@witchfynder_finder they are doing lots of playthroughs but specifically avoiding the endings where X character dies young every time

@Lady Hmmm okay yeah that's very silly

@witchfynder_finder usually with the justification of “i can’t do that to her” or “she deserves better”

like yeah she DOES deserve better but also that’s part of her story and to me it feels kind of like you’re doing her a disservice to willfully pretend like it’s not

@Lady Yeah, I feel you now

You gotta be willing to deal with tragedy in stories in order to fully appreciate their beauty

@witchfynder_finder i think a lot of people treat games more like roleplay than like reading and that might be where this difference comes from

like i want to appreciate the story as a story not just roleplay my way through it over and over

but i’m not sure that’s the common fan approach

@Lady mhmm

Like if you want a video game that you can play like a TTRPG, go play Pathfinder Kingmaker

@witchfynder_finder yeah i mean interestingly i don’t have this complaint about, say, Dragon Age