I’ve pretty much spent all of Friday and Saturday playing. I kinda have an OCD personality where I’m trying to explore everything. The map is enormous. It blows my mind. And much of the enormous map is highly detailed too, with plenty of random buildings dotting the countryside for you to explore.
I haven’t played many RPGs lately, but the “openness” of this one is pretty impressive. There’s a lot of way to solve various problems, but mostly the variations allow you to move your “karma” postively/negatively by doing good or evil deeds - ie solving a problem by murdering someone, or finding a more humane way around the situation.
The game scares me on how my playing style reflects my personality. Most games up till now act kinda like a novel or a movie that you play through - there’s a storyline and you follow it. Since you’re offered so much choice in this and it’s actually reflected with outcomes I’ve noticed some striking situations: at times I feel hesitant doing certain game actions, since they feel so wrong, so I find another way around it and get a karma boost. At other times certain characters seem to be so annoying/unjust that they need to be punished in some way.
It blew me away when I got a “pessimism” perk in the game for squashing other characters dreams. That actually reflects my current state of mind.
