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Editorial Avellone on Game Morals: They're not important

DarkUnderlord

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Tags: Chris Avellone; Obsidian Entertainment

<a href="http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=1&showentry=115">Chris Avellone, Creative Director (and Lead Designer on the Alpha Protocol CIA RPG) at Obsidian Entertainment has posted a thing on morals in games.</a>
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<blockquote><b>Do you consider moral choices in games to be an important aspect of game design? If so, why?</b>
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At the risk of being quoted out of context, I don't think it's important.</blockquote>
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HO HO HO. <a href="http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=1&showentry=115">Read the rest yourself</a>.
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Basically I take it he's saying that games like AoD aren't inferior to games like PS:T, even though they focus on practical values of choices rather than moral ones.
 

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So which thread are we supposed to have brilliant discussions in about MCA's lack of morals?

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Have the brilliant discussion in RPG Design - the last bastion of hope on the Codex.

Lumpy said:
Angler said:
There have always been newsposts that were reposts of threads in Gen RPG. And that's a good thing.

There have always been newsposts that were reposts of threads in Gen RPG and credited the person that found it. And that's a good thing.
 

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Angler said:
There have always been newsposts that were reposts of threads in Gen RPG and credited the person that found it. And that's a good thing.
Yeah, that only happens if I notice the thread in Gen RPG or Gen Disc or wherever else it is as opposed to just stealing it from elsewhere.
 

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