thomblake comments on Memetic Hazards in Videogames - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 10 September 2010 03:01:18PM 5 points [-]

I have a friend, Rit, who refuses to play cRPGs this way. Towards the end of Final Fantasy 8 (don't expect spoilers ahead), you are supposed to do all your sidequests before rescuing a friend in trouble; by FF tradition, this should be obvious to the player since you just got free reign of the world map. Rit said, "Screw that, she's in trouble, I'm going straight there!"