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RPG Heroes Are Jerks

Posted by samzenpus on from the leave-no-box-unopened dept.

I have to give him credit for smashing the vases to get the medicine, and finding the legendary wedding dress among the rags. However, he forgot to kill the peasants for xp and you should always check the fireplace for any remaining food.

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  1. No Article by Psychotic_Wrath · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How come this is still tagged with story?

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  2. Karma by Mekkah · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At least with some games (Fallout) it affects your Karma when you do these things, steal and whatnot.
    Fable too.. oh and you get attacked for theft.

    BUT it is SO easy to steal.

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    1. Re:Karma by Enderandrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It all started with Ultima IV, where the goal of the game wasn't to kill the big baddie, but to ascribe to a series of morals.

      Richard Garriot realized precisely this problem, the "protagonist" in most RPGs was causing as much harm as they were supposedly doing good.

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  3. What the fuck? by bcmm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What the fuck has happened to Slashdot?

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    1. Re:What the fuck? by wizardforce · · Score: 2, Insightful

      They figured that adding idle would lure a few digg users and at the least generate a ton of discussion/page views complaining about idle. You know what? they were right. It did generate a ton of comments on the issue and to top it off I bet that more people like us are complaining about idle than those who block the entire section. It's like car accidents, a traffic jam forms because of all the people who slowed down to take a look. Now it's to the point where idle has effectively infected Slashdot and the stories that would belong in idle end up mis-categorized as something else. Eventually there will be enough of this idle garbage finding its way into other sections that there will be no way to avoid running into it any more. The thing is that I seriously doubt that anyone actually pulling the strings behind Slashdot realizes that Slashdot was/is popular because it catered to the nerd demographic. Once it becomes significantly tainted with the idiocy of digg, anyone who was here for the nerdy aspect will jump ship leaving Slashdot a rotted out husk of what it once was.

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    2. Re:What the fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Idle? This one's in games, which is why it shows up on the front page for everyone with idle disabled.

    3. Re:What the fuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Obviously that was supposed to be .org, not .com.

  4. Re:No article... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously. This kind of random observation shit goes on your blog, samzenpus. Even putting it on idle is a stretch. But the front page?

  5. Re:LOL by russ_allegro · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I used to think this, however when you are playing you only see from your perspective, how do you know there aren't a bunch of others who claim they are trying to help, to just fail or abuse people's charity. If the world was about to end I would imagine there would be lots of people claiming they would go and save the day. If I gave all my stuff to every one who claimed that, I would just be starving for the remaining time I had left. This is why I wouldn't want you going into my house taking stuff, and I would still sell you weapons at my weapon shop instead of giving it to you for free. If I gave weapons away for free, there would be no weapons for the "real" heroes to buy, whoever they might end up being. I would have ran out of my stock and been unable to refill my inventory.

  6. Re:this is terrible by osu-neko · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.

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  7. Re:LOL by Rich0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Better still is the hero that has some kind of official backing from a kingdom, or government, or whatever who starts out with a knife and a T-shirt, and has to start out exterminating rats or whatever.

    Then he has to steal or earn money doing menial tasks to buy equipment.

    If this guy is the hope of the world or whatever, you'd think that the king who sent him out could at least equip him as well as the castle guards...