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I used to have an rpg on steam, with "fantasy" in the name. One day someone sent me an email asking if there was any way to remove all references to magic from the game so they could play it, as having witches and stuff was a big no for them, but they still wanted to try the game.
I remember when Bioshock Infinite came out, a few weirdos were demanding refunds because in the first 10 minutes of the game, a scene with a bunch of cultists requires you to click a button to "Accept Baptism" from them. They were refusing to push the button on religious grounds, and so they soft locked themselves out of playing the rest of the game. Smh.
Add a "refuse" button that pops up a short text box detailing the consequences. The End, credits roll. Problem solved, now they can all go explain to everyone on the forums why this is the best ending
Kinda reminds me of far cry 5 Where you can finish the game in 5 minutes by not arresting the preacher and just afking
They also had that in Fc4. If you don’t run away, eventually the dictator comes back and takes you to spread your mother’s ashes, and later takes your on a helicopter tour to shoot guns and stuff. Credits roll.
Man I'm still salty about the real ending, I think the 5 min ending might be preferable (not really, again, just salty).
Isn't the whole point of the series to highlight the way games give you only an illusion of freedom and are instead railroading you all the time? That option would go against the whole philosophy of the game.
Reminds me of Alundra on the PS1, where at some point the game forced you to accept praying in a church; I tried to reject it but the game wouldn't let me. It ended up being plot relevant in the end, as
spoiler
you prayed to some demon or something and that allowed him to enter your dreams or something like that, I don't remember too well)I hope you sent them a 0kb game.exe with the tagline "here u go mate, god bless"
If you're under a very tight constraint, you could send 'em .kkrieger in just under 100kb
I would immediately patch in a "no witches" mode.
Every instance of "witch" is replaced with "warlock".
And if there were graphics, every witch would have a photorealistic penis hanging out the front of ~~her~~ his robes.
Sure fam, unchecks "Magic, Witches and stuff".
Then they can interact with peasant NPCs all day long.
Hello there, stranger! I seem to have misplaced my ring! You look gullible enough that I can trick you into looking for it for me, because I am too lazy to do it myself!
You know, it would be really nice if some of them actually knew what that book was talking about sometimes. From my understanding the Bible describes and condemns witchcraft as making deals with evil for power, and basically uses it as condemnation of thinking that the ends can ever justify the means by taking things to the logical extreme.
In most modern settings at least, magic is either an inerhant trait, lots of carful study, or a bargain with a benign spirit of some variety.
There’s is admittedly a long history of people missing the point of this, most of which stated by an utter loon trying to get back at is ex. The people at the time utterly ignored medieval Karen, but this drove him to rant a lot in writings which then got used as a source by latter assholes to justify gojng after the people they wanted to get back at.
All of which ignores the obvious of course, which is to say the Bible doesn’t say you can’t experience story’s about sin in the first place.
Isn't almost all of the Bible (as in everything leading up to Jesus and then also most of the reality Jesus encountered) a story about sin?
And near incest, and killing, and more killing, and shit going down, god getting angry and killing people, and some other stuff.
And OP talks about Alchemy, which commonly uses the energy that different materials have inherently to create magical artifacts.
It's literally using what God already created.