Brenda86
Jedi Master
I meant to write this a while back, but I kept getting sidetracked onto different things. I hardly play video games at all these days, and when I do it may only be for 20 minutes, and I get bored with it and go back to reading. But anyway, this was a game my boyfriend was playing while I was reading (The Wave actually :) ) and I happened to watch what he was doing for a few minutes.
I think the game is Oblivion for the XBOX 360, but I'm not 100% certain. He was doing this quest to join this secret organization or something. And this Lizard man gave him a potion, purported to increase strength, give the fortitude to complete the mission, etc. And he said all the fighters drink it before their missions. So my boyfriend has his character drink the potion.
They go out to this village and there are goblins everywhere. At first they seemed pretty threatening and he was killing them. But he went into a house and the goblin was just walking around casually like it was his house and I said to my boyfriend, "Well, that seems really odd. Goblins don't normally do that, they attack you." and I basically told him it seemed like some kind of trick, which he agreed. They got him to slaughter and entire village of innocent people by getting him to drink this potion that altered his perceptions.
Well, he didn't want to do this so he reset the game to before this happened, but he was actually stuck where he was and so to continue the game he had to do it. And it turns out, he found out a little while later in the game that he had INDEED slaughtered villagers, NOT goblins.
And I just remember how much this struck me at the time. The promise of something which is obviously too good to be true, which leads you to do things you ordinarily would not. And then of course it didn't hurt that the Lizard men gave it to him.
I think the game is Oblivion for the XBOX 360, but I'm not 100% certain. He was doing this quest to join this secret organization or something. And this Lizard man gave him a potion, purported to increase strength, give the fortitude to complete the mission, etc. And he said all the fighters drink it before their missions. So my boyfriend has his character drink the potion.
They go out to this village and there are goblins everywhere. At first they seemed pretty threatening and he was killing them. But he went into a house and the goblin was just walking around casually like it was his house and I said to my boyfriend, "Well, that seems really odd. Goblins don't normally do that, they attack you." and I basically told him it seemed like some kind of trick, which he agreed. They got him to slaughter and entire village of innocent people by getting him to drink this potion that altered his perceptions.
Well, he didn't want to do this so he reset the game to before this happened, but he was actually stuck where he was and so to continue the game he had to do it. And it turns out, he found out a little while later in the game that he had INDEED slaughtered villagers, NOT goblins.
And I just remember how much this struck me at the time. The promise of something which is obviously too good to be true, which leads you to do things you ordinarily would not. And then of course it didn't hurt that the Lizard men gave it to him.