What are the common tropes/cliches you see in CoG games (and other games) that you like (and don't like)

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OOOOOO this is a really interesting question…

I think some of my favs would be…;

  • The emotionally stilted father figure… either because they’re used to being professional, because they HAVE to be, etc… It’s just. urghhh… tugs on my heartstrings every time. I also enjoy the occasional washed out alcoholic dad that cares HEAPS about his kids and loves them with his whole heart and feels guilty bc he doesn’t think he can be good enough for em… :cry:
  • flamboyant-but-smart villain and their stoic, emotionless right hand. Just… the DYNAMICS… the ways this could go so right and also so wrong… on one hand you have the “right hand is the secret mastermind” trope, which is pretty Okay, I’m indifferent on that one, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND YOU HAVE THE “Villain was taking advantage of the fact that the right hand is actually starved of socialization and human contact, and is highkey manipulative???” WHICH IS JUST SO FUN TO PLAY AROUND WITH… whether its the MC or a character the MC is interacting with… ejhfsnfiusorf…
  • Those characters that play 5d chess with multiverse theory when they talk to people, who think through every interaction, who haven’t slipped their facade… and then their facade slipping. Never ceases to be satisfying,
  • FOUND FAMILYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY it will never not be great its the worlds best trope… just any friendship is magic kinda stuff.
  • …Frenemies is always fun, especially when its because they’re defending two people on opposing sides, and then the two people reconcile and get along, and now its really awkward bc like. “I have no reason to hate you anymore but also im stubborn so like…-” ESPECIALLY when they realize the others actually fun to hang out with…
  • The sort of push-and-pull dynamic of enemies to lovers, except there isn’t like. a transition. They are enemies AND lovers at the same time. Like. They’ll be at eachothers throats but also enjoy casual conversation, drinking wine together and one slips poison into the others drink and the other does the old “over the shoulder” trick and doesn’t drink it… every conversation full of barely veiled murderous double entendres… but also they know murder would be unsafe at any given point. Two people who can just. PERFECTLY push eachothers buttons.
  • the Shy Jock character. I just think they’re cute sdebfhekjrhfns… The one that gets super flustered… yeah…
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