At the same time, because this game has a different scope, I’m counterbalancing it with my intense desire to steal all of their stuff. I mentioned it before when I spoke about being a dick in Mass Effect, that I like being nice to people in video games where I’m given the choice.
I wish I was playing Pipe Dream … over and over and over …). I think it’s perfectly reasonable that you get different receptions from people when you say “Nice to meet you” rather than “Well up yours too, buddy!”, but I’ve got a little problem: why is it that I can’t be nice to someone’s face, and then steal all of their stuff and wreck their shit when they’re not looking without getting penalised? You know, like in real life? I went to a bar, said hello to the family that ran the place, then I went out back and attempted to hack their computer (and another thing: I have no idea how computer hacking works in this game. It goes above and beyond the Paragon and Renegade system of Mass Effect, and I’m not really sure what I think of that. It’s even got a precedent in RPGs: I know firsthand that in Ultima V many actions affected your karmic rating (and because I was about seven or something, almost always for the worse). The problem with karma is it sees everything. It’s what got Jason Lee hit by a truck instead of winning $100,000. Karma is the universal law of “what goes around comes around”. It means I rarely catch the zeitgeist, but if there’s anything I’ve learned from the internet it’s that the zeitgeist is full of flames and crimes against grammar and spelling. I can afford not to play them because they were all cheap enough for there to be many of them.
I am renowned for my collection of unplayed, cut-price video games. I never pay so close to full price for a video game. I had to have it, so I went out and bought it. I got caught up, as I sometimes do, in a fever.
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