Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Baldur's Gate 3 Evil Playthrough is BRUTAL" video.
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If you want to see how an evil storyline is written well, play Wrath of th Righteous. You can become a Lich, a Demon, a Devil or - what even those three before fear and see as insane, a Swarm, that just consumes everything, yes, also your own army, companions, civilians, queens - and yourself. Nothing is save.
That's a stupid fart in comparison and doesn't make sense anyway.
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So we got the usual, play a decent humanoid being or be the retarded psychopath.
Was boring 20 years ago, still is.
The gnome hellknight from Pathfinder 2 was a well written evil character. Clearly brutal in his methods and quick with a death sentence, but still very reasonable at that.
That "hurrdurr, I'm a crazy cartoon person, ruining stuff for the lols" thing is just cheesy and bad.
Yeah, I get it that a lot of aggro kiddies and crazies love to do that in their games, but if you actually write that as story content, that's just lazy, because such psychpaths are absolute low level writing.
Pathfinder 2 also got such a character, the "I just love to cut open people" lady. Absolute boring character. At least the other evil woman is driven by the idea of the strong rule over the weak, what especially coming from her position of hard survival makes some sense.
And of course it also got the usual "hurrdurr, me evil, me just randomy destroy something/kill someone" options. But as said: this is old and jsut becomes more boring.
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