Grape_You_In_the_Mouth
Arcane
So I was wondering if there's anyone else out there who really loves the Geneforge 1 plot, and I'm here to discuss why it is my favorite story ever. Planescape fans, dry your tears.
Why I Think It's the Best Story Ever
Not only does it start with a story of mystery and discovery, but that lonely adventurous discovery leads to a huge game of branching choices about the interplay of people's ability to control life itself, how life should react to that control, how that control can change your own humanity, and mankind's lust for power. All of the facets of the story are essentially an interplay on some idea of self-preservation or morality, and how that idea can be used for or against other political/moral goals. This allows the hero to decide whether to punish or use sentient creatures to an extreme to degree, at ultimate costs or benefits to their lives or general societies. Slavery, worship, rebellion, survival, and independence are all heavily represented in the factions which follow towards a story of not just one evil villain's madness, but two powerful beings who are pitted against each other in a vacuum of power. I've never seen in my life a story which has such a full web of ideologies combined with factions that mesh so exhaustively to question those ideologies.
Why do you love the story, and if it's not the best, what is and why?