I don’t know if its still “subversion” or if its become so common its just straight up a trope now but… the church is evil. It drives me nuts. Just because it comes up so often that I’ve automatically started associating fictional religion with cartoonish levels of evil and its impossible to see a religious group in fiction and not immediately think “yup they’re going to be the bad guys”. Even more annoying when the author acts like its some great reveal and we should be surprised when they’ve had the church officials grinning evilly in every single scene.
I’m personally not religious, and I know irl religion is a contentious issue. I just dislike that fictional religion has been boiled down to “they’re the baddies” when it has the chance to be so much more interesting.
This right here drives me nuts, specially so when the author has a pretense of originality, of delivering some kind of brand new, rebel message. Most of the time it just feels forced.
This one bothers me because in 9 out of 10 cases the author has no idea at all about how religions, be decentralized, centralized, part of the state or separated from it actually work. Rather it reads like a caricature.
Absolutely, I recently finished Stranger of Paradise, the prequel to Final fantasy 1. I assumed all the clips from YouTube were just jokes or edited.
But nope, turns out the main character, Jack, 100% does not give a rats ass about the plot or the people around him matter of fact. The game is still bad though and he was weirdly aware of it.
I think an evil church would work, if a) it’s a church, not the church, and b) they’re openly worshipping an evil deity, who is known to be evil. But generally speaking, that does make me want to scream.
(Doesn’t mean there couldn’t be evil people - there definitely can.)
More like, “oh sorry you’ve failed to intimidate the person because you have 49/51 on intimidating/charming stats”
I don’t mind when the personality stats actually change the way how your MC talks, acts or think around the text, but when it’s a stat check for an important choice it pisses me off. Because It’s kinda unrealistic for me, I can be a polite, nice person, but that shouldn’t stop me to be sometimes rude/mean either, especially under a stat check.
What if it influenced whether you were effective at being rude or mean? In other words, you were still able to perform the action you intended, but the effect varied depending on the value of the stat in question?
Making intimidating a skill seems weird to me. Sure some skill could be used, but if you’re 6’6" with a face scar you can be a total teddy bear in most of your interactions. Doesn’t mean you can’t turn on the intimidation.
I don’t like it when female and male versions of RO are described in the game and visually shown (drawing, Artbreeder) as very similar. Seriously, if I wanted that RO androgynous, I’d choose "They/Them’.
I’d like to push back on the idea that nonbinary characters are expected to be androgynous - the nature of being nonbinary is that it can cover any kind of gender expression or presentation. (And you can be androgynous or otherwise gender nonconforming without being nonbinary or using they/them pronouns.)
With the description, do you mean the way they look physically (like their body shape etc), or how they dress/do their hair? Or is it a behaviour thing?
Oh, one of the ROs in Falrika the Alchemist is a non-binary and androgynous elf, but is still biologically female. They chose to be this way for a more practical purpose. In their own words, “I chose to blend with the darkness and the uncertainties that come with it… so the light of justice and the salvation of the victims will shine.”
