I think the best game I've done started as "it's a DND world and you're a band on tour".
It started with a simple "the bridge is out on the way to your next show", then there was a battle of the bands, a sketchy record label, and then the players organized a recall of the mayor that was in bed with the capitalists. That game went great places.
Yeah I don't think I would happily play another "and then you all meet for the first time and work together" game unless it was like intentionally subverting the trope. It adds so many problems and suspension of disbelief problems.
Not good.
They could be ignorant and not understand how politics affects pretty much everything.
They could be foolishly cynical and think that "none of it matters", so they just don't pay attention.
They could be like pathologically avoidant and don't want to talk about a potentially disharmonious topic.
They could have shitty views they don't want to talk about.
Not good. Not good people.
It's not as bad as it used to be.
Not sure if the person who made this site is joking, stupid, or evil. Or some combination
Racism and capitalism, mostly.
Those things lead to poor education for the public, which makes all subsequent decisions stupider.
Then, the stupid people try to make as much short term money as possible for themselves.
Simultaneously, anything that benefits the minorities (eg: black folks) is disliked. Mass transit, for example.
Ooh I remember that. That game was really popular in my friend group around 2008-ish. It spread to my work, too. Someone put a post-it note about the game by the time clock, and someone else invented a hand signal for it.
Yeah I think DND 3e had some wacky stuff with templates. Big effective level penalties if I recall for most of them
Like some variant of the paradox of tolerance, I feel like someone who does something so flagrantly in violation of social norms should forfeit their protection.
Fine, park your shit on the sidewalk. Now no one's going to help when you're bleeding out.
Bg1 and 2, Dragon age, and mass effect famously had save imports, so "the only way" doesn't check out.
The dark souls games are so far removed in time that the previous game is legend, so that's an option.
For the tv show they also could have, as I said, just set it somewhere and somewhen else. They can have rumors about what's happening in Vegas, but it's 20 years ago and you're in Chicago, so who knows what's true.
So, yeah, they could've done something else and still made a TV show.
What made new Vegas interesting was that it's not just another kitschy wasteland romp. It's post-post-apocalypse, and it asks who rebuilds after.
My limited understanding is the TV show nuked the NCR so they could do more wasteland theme park, and not continue that train of thought. But also didn't just set it somewhere else.
But admittedly I haven't actually watched it.
But also, again, trying to make a TV show intersect with a video game with multiple endings is a foolish idea. You won't make everyone happy, and it's an entirely avoidable problem. They could've just set the show in a different part of the world that hasn't had a game.
Lol this works in a way the author probably didn't intend. They are wearing extremely dangerous tools that were never really a great idea. They'll code some circles, set their legs on fire, and crash into a wall.