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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ourchair" data-source="post: 5339040" data-attributes="member: 85362">What bothers me is when people conflate the two together, not as an affront to the idea of playing a fantasy game itself, but rather, by having certain expectations of what the world was supposed to be and basically presupposing the intent of its creators and designers.For example, I hate it when people expect ALL villains to be 'sympathetic and complex' as if that somehow automatically makes the villain BETTER, when more often than not it needlessly complicates what the villain is contributing to the story. (But that's a whole 'nother discussion altogether)I believe realism has a place in games, but the act of playing the game itself, the narrative components that drive the adventures should be shorn of a thousand undramatic details.</blockquote>