the thing is that whether or not Arthur was manipulated into doing all the bad things he did, he still did them. his actions still left a mark that he can't really undo. he still does terrible things in the game but then does so many good things. he harmed others and there's no avoiding that. and that will greatly differ depending on how you honourably you choose to play in the open world. the game asks you why you like a character who hates himself and who does all these bad things. i think it makes you explore yourself and your own attitudes towards a character, and towards life. I loved Arthur, hated some of the things he did, but ultimately the end of the game was a tragic one. why? because amidst that game i got to know Arthur a lot better as a person. but i still can't avoid the horrible things he's done. Put it another way, from the outside Arthur just seems like a bad guy right? Because of what he's involved in, because of the life he leads. And the game puts it in a way that you can't ignore that. I guess the point i'm making is that if you never got to know Arthur better you'd always have thought him a bad man. When the end is nye for him i think you start to analyse the depths of your own empathy and humanity a little more as you sympathise with him. or maybe you played so dishonourably that you don't really care? if you played honourably you hope it didn't all go to waste in that virtual world.
I feel you 100%. Arthur is way too ambiguous to clearly call him good. And like you say, whether you were played into committing such actions or not, you still did them. What I find interesting in this game is the idea that your environment can create a person you think you are before you know better, and how life internalises it as time goes on. To me the idea that Arthur grows when his environment - the people he meets in the world - changes, and he questions the "code" he lived by is what fascinates me. It's the hope or salvation, dare I say redemption that comes from being able to move away from the environment that restricts you. I grew up in the countryside and was blown away by living in the city. Guess all that "civilisation" left it's mark on me😂
Another wonderful and impressive video. Keep goin bro
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the thing is that whether or not Arthur was manipulated into doing all the bad things he did, he still did them. his actions still left a mark that he can't really undo. he still does terrible things in the game but then does so many good things. he harmed others and there's no avoiding that. and that will greatly differ depending on how you honourably you choose to play in the open world.
the game asks you why you like a character who hates himself and who does all these bad things. i think it makes you explore yourself and your own attitudes towards a character, and towards life. I loved Arthur, hated some of the things he did, but ultimately the end of the game was a tragic one. why? because amidst that game i got to know Arthur a lot better as a person. but i still can't avoid the horrible things he's done.
Put it another way, from the outside Arthur just seems like a bad guy right? Because of what he's involved in, because of the life he leads. And the game puts it in a way that you can't ignore that. I guess the point i'm making is that if you never got to know Arthur better you'd always have thought him a bad man. When the end is nye for him i think you start to analyse the depths of your own empathy and humanity a little more as you sympathise with him. or maybe you played so dishonourably that you don't really care? if you played honourably you hope it didn't all go to waste in that virtual world.
I feel you 100%. Arthur is way too ambiguous to clearly call him good. And like you say, whether you were played into committing such actions or not, you still did them.
What I find interesting in this game is the idea that your environment can create a person you think you are before you know better, and how life internalises it as time goes on.
To me the idea that Arthur grows when his environment - the people he meets in the world - changes, and he questions the "code" he lived by is what fascinates me. It's the hope or salvation, dare I say redemption that comes from being able to move away from the environment that restricts you. I grew up in the countryside and was blown away by living in the city. Guess all that "civilisation" left it's mark on me😂
Good video
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Glad to have you on board brother🤙
Did the exact same thing!!!!