If you haven’t read the series of dark, fantasy books from which “The Witcher” game trilogy takes it’s name (and acts as a narrative continuation of) I implore you to do so.
Proceed at your own risk, you have been warned. WARNING- This article contains massive spoilers for the following games: Fallout 4, The Witcher 3, Xcom 2, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and Far Cry 4. In that vein, I look at 5 examples of “bad guys in gaming” that might not be as bad as you think. “The bad team did all this seemingly bad stuff because it might inadvertantly make everything better, and the good team might not actually be that great…they might actually be raving, sociopath terrorists and you’ve been playing as them for 20 hours….ok byeeeeee.” No longer just simple fables of good and bad, this is With the evolution of technology games as a medium of effective, impactful storytelling have never been more prevalent. Perhaps Mario planned to sacrifice that woman… or eat her… you don’t know. The presented narrative explicitly tells us who is “good”, but there are other possibilities. Ghosts, Mario (then “Jumpman”) saving a damsel from the (then) dastardly Donkey Kong. Video games have portrayed the same conflict since their inception: Pacman vs.
