Title pretty much says it: Give me a person or group from a game that who you initially looked at as the bad guys, and either sooner or later, realized that they weren't evil at all. Maybe they have done a few things to get in your way, but they're not really your enemy.
I was playing Dead Space 2 and instead of trekking forward, I decided to stop at the orientation room in the temple of unitology. Now, for a long time, I looked at unitology as some of the bad guys in the game; they worshipped a monolith thats' very existence causes death and destruction at an unstoppable rate because it "spoke" to a now-deceased geophysicist in the same way it's giving you hallucinations of your dead girlfriend. This thing is causing you so much trouble and these people worshipped the d*mn thing. For a while, that made them the bad guy to me, they're praying before the cause of all this blood, murder, and chaos. But when I looked at the little orientation video, I realized the unitologists aren't evil, they're just misled. Hell, they weren't even misled, they just misinterpreted the Marker's message. They had good intentions, but the Marker didn't.
The video said: "One body, one mind, one soul." I realized they weren't evil when I really stopped and thought about what unitologists were following. They were following the Marker's message: One body, one mind, one soul. Convergance will cause this.
At first, that sounds great.It sounds like a poetic way to say that all people, everywhere, were coming together to live in peace. And end to discrimination, racsim, sexism, and bigotry in general. Personally, I would give a lot to see that happen.
Problem was, when the message read, "One body, one mind, one soul," that was EXACTLY what it meant. It meant that when Convergance occurred, all available bodies were going to be morphed together into a titanic frankenstein. One body all right, Altman be praised.
But the unitologists didn't know this, when they would read, "make us whole," they saw, "everybody just get along," in a message that actually was, "get squished up into a giant monster". I didn't find it right to label them as the bad guys when all they did was forget to read the fine print. Okay, they did screw over Isaac a couple of times, but they never really looked at Isaac as their enemy. In fact, you're praised almost as much as the Marker is in Dead Space 2, but that's another story.
Anyway. Pick someone you labeled as somebody you thought was the bad guy, then later realized that this person wasn't guilty of anything. Explain how you learned they weren't your enemy, and if/how your opinion of them changed.
I was playing Dead Space 2 and instead of trekking forward, I decided to stop at the orientation room in the temple of unitology. Now, for a long time, I looked at unitology as some of the bad guys in the game; they worshipped a monolith thats' very existence causes death and destruction at an unstoppable rate because it "spoke" to a now-deceased geophysicist in the same way it's giving you hallucinations of your dead girlfriend. This thing is causing you so much trouble and these people worshipped the d*mn thing. For a while, that made them the bad guy to me, they're praying before the cause of all this blood, murder, and chaos. But when I looked at the little orientation video, I realized the unitologists aren't evil, they're just misled. Hell, they weren't even misled, they just misinterpreted the Marker's message. They had good intentions, but the Marker didn't.
The video said: "One body, one mind, one soul." I realized they weren't evil when I really stopped and thought about what unitologists were following. They were following the Marker's message: One body, one mind, one soul. Convergance will cause this.
At first, that sounds great.It sounds like a poetic way to say that all people, everywhere, were coming together to live in peace. And end to discrimination, racsim, sexism, and bigotry in general. Personally, I would give a lot to see that happen.
Problem was, when the message read, "One body, one mind, one soul," that was EXACTLY what it meant. It meant that when Convergance occurred, all available bodies were going to be morphed together into a titanic frankenstein. One body all right, Altman be praised.
But the unitologists didn't know this, when they would read, "make us whole," they saw, "everybody just get along," in a message that actually was, "get squished up into a giant monster". I didn't find it right to label them as the bad guys when all they did was forget to read the fine print. Okay, they did screw over Isaac a couple of times, but they never really looked at Isaac as their enemy. In fact, you're praised almost as much as the Marker is in Dead Space 2, but that's another story.
Anyway. Pick someone you labeled as somebody you thought was the bad guy, then later realized that this person wasn't guilty of anything. Explain how you learned they weren't your enemy, and if/how your opinion of them changed.