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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 9694860" data-attributes="member: 16586">It's competence in terms of situation - not compared to the rest of the world. What we want are characters who will be faced with primarily ethical choices rather than choices about survival such that the game becomes more about survival than ethics and is also not so far above the situation there are no stakes.Note that one way a game could be about survival is what ethical choices you would make to survive, but you still need a baseline competence compared to the situation such that those decisions leave room for there not be a clear answer about what is the best choice.If you are familiar with the video game Days Gone the protagonist is a perfect fit for that situation. He has things at stake, has connections, has a level of survival knowledge that allows him to make credible decisions that have a moral dimension to them. Has internal conflicts related to his criminal past that are relevant to the societal breakdown he's constantly faced with in the zombie apocalypse.</blockquote>