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A look at & review of what has been called the worst RPG of all time (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Linked video is part 1 of 4, and as long as it is, it's the shortest of them.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

I had heard vaguely about how this was a bad system before, but never before realised just quite how bad it was, and in what ways.

Warning: references to sexual assault, sexism, and racism

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I once tried to read F.A.T.A.L.'s rulebook. Not because I wanted to play it, of course. I just thought it would be fun.

I was wrong. It was fun for, like, ten seconds. When literally the first page of the book throws you into a scenario where you have three or four different reasons to have sex/sexually assault a woman, the book loses its charm pretty fast.

It then quickly spirals into a gross, demeaning, disgusting pile of misogyny, gore and ignorance, all in the name of "historical accuracy", hiding their distasteful opinions behind "prominent philosophers" and hand-picked statistics.

I applaud anyone who is able to read more than ten pages of that abomination and survive long enough to write a review. Had I continued reading past that point, my brain would have liquefied.