Decisions, decisions, decisions!

Right now if you looked in my PS3 you would see Fallout: New Vegas. Excellent game. Should I be good or bad? Should I join this faction? Should I kill my partner to finish the quest or kill the quest giver? Should I get those implants? (LOL)

In my 360 right now is the original Fable. Should I be good or evil? Should I just focus on the main story or check out the side quests? Do I want to get married or buy a house?

Decisions, decisions, decisions! I love these games but I have one problem with them. Open world RPGs STRESS ME OUT! What if I make the wrong decision? What if I piss some game character off and miss out on something completely awesome!? What if I accidentally kill someone who I was not supposed to kill? Or, like I did in Fallout 3, what if I explore too much and miss a giant chunk of the story?  I get so overwhelmed with “What Ifs” that I get to a point where I do not want to continue because I have this fear I might do the wrong thing.

Why do I care so much!? Most often I tell myself I will play the game a second time, be evil, and explore all the “What ifs” but that is only if I make it through the first time! THE STRESS IS SO INTENSE. It makes the games addicting, but I hate laying in bed, falling asleep and wondering….Should I trust this faction, I mean I might be able to use them in the future. I may want to just kill them though in case they turn against me for some reason, that way they are already dead. Maybe I should just ignore them all together? What if I leveled up and got my speech as high as possible, could I get everyone to get along? Screw that, I will just kill them all. Holy balls, I am insane.

I will blame all my mental agony on excellent writing and the game developers creating worlds I actually care about. I don’t want to see my characters or allies die! I don’t want to see the world destroyed! (…at least on my first play through.)  I want to do everything right, but it is not black and white (Well,  Fable kinda is…) it is grey! How do I know what the “right” thing to do is!?

So now, I am stressing about all my stressing, LOL! Anyone else feel the same? Have you ever stopped playing a game just because you did not want to make the wrong decision? Am I just crazy and take it all to seriously!?

An Intro to The Story

As I mentioned before I am currently working on an RPG. It is a very light hearted RPG and often makes fun of many RPG stereotypes. However, as I write more and more of the story it starts becoming more serious.

The story is about a young boy. I haven’t decided on a name yet but for now I call him Akio. Akio doesn’t just want to be a Hero…in his mind he WILL BE a hero.

This is an idea of Akio

He has made a check list of sorts on how to become a hero. (Based off the many stereotypes found in Video Games/Books/ Animes) An example of a few things on THE HERO LIST are:

1. Be an Orphan or forget my past

2. Be slightly feminine looking with spikey hair

3. Gather a group of Allies

4. Defeat an evil Villian 

5. Save the world

That is just a very simplified idea of what is on the Hero list. Luckily for Akio he is both an orphan (…or is he…?) and slightly feminine looking. (He wears a bow in his spikey hair to enhance his girlyness and give him a better shot at being a hero) Like I said, he is very determined to be a hero and would do just about anything to reach his goal…

This is another pic of Akio, I was going to call him Logan but decided against that...

The story starts with Akio setting off to find a group of allies. Once he has his allies, then it is time to go fight evil! His search for allies brings him to a Tavern where he meets Chuck. Chuck is the typical ‘dark’ character. The character who has a troubled past, is always serious, wears red and black and usually wields a giant sword just to show how strong he is. Or at least that is what Akio thinks when he first sees Chuck…..

I don’t want to ruin their first meeting so I’ll save it for when I copy the whole game script over here.

This is an idea of what Chuck would look like.

 

Akio’s path to becoming a hero takes a turn for the worst when he realizes the world is completely at peace. He has almost everything checked off on his Hero list…and yet he still isn’t one. The world simply doesn’t need a hero. There is no evil villain to defeat, heck there isn’t even a run of the mill boss character. It’s time he put matters into his own hands.

Through a series of events involving a robot, a scientist, and a bunch of experiments gone wrong Akio learns the wonders of the ability to fuse. (Which I will explain in another blog) Akio can create monsters himself by simply fuseing two other ’regular’  beasts together, like a Sewer Rat with a Wolf! What is created is a fiend worthy of a hero to battle. 

The plan is simple, all he has to do is make the fiends attack an innocent village! Not to worry though, he’ll be there with his allies to save the village and become a hero! Then he just has to make more fiends,  Rinse and Repeat! Soon he will be known across the world as a hero! It’s a perfect plan…

That is pretty much the intro to my RPG in a very small undetailed nutshell. I have it in script form in a note book. I am planning on copying that over here eventually. On a side note, I have no idea how to make the pictures smaller, so they are just going to stay that way for now. I wanted them to be links but I see now that they are not! LOL!