RPG Heroes Are Jerks 119
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samzenpus
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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.
No Article (Score:3, Insightful)
Karma (Score:3, Insightful)
Fable too.. oh and you get attacked for theft.
BUT it is SO easy to steal.
What the fuck? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:No article... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:LOL (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.
Re:What the fuck? (Score:3, 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.
Re:Karma (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.
Re:What the fuck? (Score:1, Insightful)
Idle? This one's in games, which is why it shows up on the front page for everyone with idle disabled.
Re:this is terrible (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:LOL (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...
Re:What the fuck? (Score:1, Insightful)
Obviously that was supposed to be .org, not .com.