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Hynad on 19 May 2015
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curl-6 said:
Qwark said:


You know there were 13 people like Ellie before, which potentially could provide a cure, but just look at their laboratory, they are not able to make a vaccine there. Even if it would, it probally takes an enormous ammount of lives oreven testing multiple forms of vaccines since it is a bit of guessing until you found the right thing. You must make the choise Ellie or a small (5%) chance for humanity to find a cure which can't be massed produced and probably becomes a force of power anyhow since might makes corrupt in a lawless place. The choise isn't black-white neither is  barely anything in the game.

I never said it was black and white. But it didn't let me choose my own shade of grey, it assigned me one, and I found the one I was given unappealing, and that slightly damaged the overall experience for me.


The game's ending isn't about you making choices. It's not about your self-centered vision about what the story should be or not. The developers were the ones telling a story, from start to end, without giving you any choices to influence it ever. You were merely interacting with it. Cut-scenes being nothing more than a "stage complete" screen with the narrative being given instead of a score.

The shades of gray you can't see are in the dilemma, choices and their implications made by the game's protagonists. The stance that you have, and the way you explain it (or in fact, don't explain it) is what makes me see your input on this as black and white. No offence, but the fact that you didn't feel any empathy for the characters and their choices, and the way you choose to complain about what the game didn't give you instead of what the game developer were telling you, the meaning and reasons behind it, makes me think you have an idealistic approach to these kinds of things that prevent you from enjoying someone else's narrative work and visions. Which I think isn't fair to the creators of such narratives.

For your own sake, make sure you stay away as much as possible from Game of Thrones.