“Watch some cute animal videos. Remind yourself that you could easily kill and eat every one of those tiny, helpless creatures. Preferably in front of their owners.”
What the hell kind of game is this?
It’s a survey created by Paradox Interactive and Obsidian Entertainment that playfully tests your capacity for evil. The studios won’t actually announce what their new game is until later this week. That’s understandable given that the Game Developers Conference is kicking off this week, and so we should expect a whole ream of trailers, interviews and panels revealing various bits and pieces about upcoming titles.
(NX information, anyone?)
But I digress. Paradox, Obsidian, and evil. The former’s games can be particularly nefarious especially if you like a bit of sibling rivalry with your regicide. And let’s not forget the fun of exemplifying Stirling Archer levels of obnoxiousness in Alpha Protocol.
I feel like the underling’s capability for retaliation is being underestimated here. But maybe it’s not because you’re an overlord or some kind of summoned demon; I’m starting to think of the Overlord games now.
The new game will be announced via Paradox’s Twitch channel on 11:00 AM AEDT Wednesday (8:00 AM AWST, 10:00 AM QLD time and 10:30 AM for those in Radelaide). Given the histories of the two studios, it’d be surprising if there wasn’t some kind of strategy/RPG cross-over here. Turn-based, probably, although a real-time game would be quite nice.
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19 responses to “Paradox Wants To Know How Evil You Are For Their Next Game”
Is this a survey we can take too? If so is there a link available?
That’s the True Evil. To tell us that there is a survey we can take but then not tell us how to find it.
Plot Twist: You will also die if you can’t complete it within the next 20 minutes.
But if you do complete it, you will be doomed to live a cursed life. A half-life so to speak.
Living with a half life wouldn’t be so bad.
What about 3 half lives?
But the frogurt is also cursed
Potassium-benzoate
Strange to not include the survey link in the article?
http://humanresources.paradoxplaza.com/
Nooooooo, the point of Video Games is that it’s a fantasy world where you can make all the right decisions to make everyone happy and save everyone instead of the bleak reality of no-right-solutions sadness and inevitable despair. ;_;
If I’m the only person left alive and I’m happy and saved from having to deal with everyone else’s constant nagging that they’re unhappy with how I do things is that a good or bad ending?
A BAD ENDING
But at least a sad ending is easier to jack off too
@.0;
You’re right. The point of video games is to make all the right choices to make everyone (who is me) happy, and save everyone (who is me) instead of the bleak reality of no-right-solutions sadness and inevitable despair. The point is that there’s always a right, good choice to make everyone (who is me) happy. That choice just happens to come at the demise of every other character in the game. Those who aren’t me don’t count
Apparently I’m dangerous, which everyone knew already so it’s not much of a survey.
lol I’m ruthless in games, as evil as can be 🙂
And the test results prove it: Your capacity for evil appears to have squeezed out your capacity for anything else, including empathy and reason. It’s not just that you have evil thoughts; you appear incredibly eager to leap from “mildly annoyed” to “actively murdering anything in sight.” That’s… fine! We’re okay with that.
that was fun 😛
Wasn’t there a robots-versus-Old-Gods strategy game called Human Resources that failed to get funded last year? Could Paradox have gotten hold of the rights, if the URL is anything to go by?
Sometimes I have bad thoughts.
Could it possibly be a sequel to evil genius?