Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism/Video Games: Difference between revisions

** [http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games8/gameindex/lifeark3.htm The next installment] has the ship you so painstakingly evacuated crash. into a moon. [[It Got Worse|Things get worse]] in the [http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games8/gameindex/lifeark4.htm next part] as your efforts to stop the black hole from swallowing your ship have turned it into a super black hole which will [[Apocalypse How|destroy the universe]]. Your only chance is to escape into another universe, which is done through cooperation with another alien race which requires a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] on their part. Finally, in the [http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games8/gameindex/lifeark5.htm fifth installment] you land on Earth, accidentally destroying a few states. By the end of that game you repair the damage you caused and set up a colony on the moon, hoping not to screw up anything else.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games generally lie heavily on the cynical side. As an example, in San Andreas, the only two police officers that seem non-corrupt are both killed by the corrupt ones that drive the plot. Even generic cutscene cops often care more about taking bribes or eating snacks than actual justice.

** Even then ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas]]'' was more optimistic than the other ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games in the franchise. Carl and Sweet managed to defeat the corrupt cops and their traitors without losing anyone close to them, especially after Cesar pulled a Retirony moment out. Compared to what happens to the later [[Grand Theft Auto]] Protagonists, San Andreas is by far the most optimistic of the franchise as the sequels will not be so kind to the other protagonists who loses everything close to them.

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