I started playing Fable last night for the Xbox. Because now that I live with J. we are a three console household. Xbox, the Cube, the PS2. So now that I have the box of X, I’m playing Fable. And what I find fascinating is, is that I still cannot make myself do something bad.
See, in Fable, you can choose the good path, or the dark path. You can be a hero, or an evil sorcerer tattoo man. I started Fable about a year ago and got fairly far before quitting and I had definitely gone the hero route then.
Last night I started again and find that it is almost impossible to go the evil route. I hit my baby sister a couple of times, but she just told me she’d tell on me.
There are boxes to steal, people to hit and kill, all kinds of things, and I just can’t do it.
Not even in a video game.
Some guy yelled at me for hitting another knight and I stopped, right away, I didn’t want to be kicked out of Knightcamp!
A part of me wants the bad tattoos, the evil man clothes, the bad man moustaches, but I can’t. How can I let the little girl not have her teddy bear back? How do I not help the old man find his son? Am I really supposed to hit him over and over? Are you kidding?
I’ve often thought the reason I don’t do bad things is only because I’m afraid of jail. That I’m the ultimate detterent success story.
But now I wonder, here I have the freedom to do all those bad things, and all I can do is up my strength so I can help the poor guy get the sparrows off the roof.
Geez, ohwa tawimp Iam
2 comments:
I'm so much the same way. I like games like Animal Crossing where you just do nice errands for people, check your mail, and plant flowers. If I was mean to people in a game, it would bother me for a ridiculously long time.
Erica Reid,
You rock my silly little world.
Hixx
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