This problem could be rectified by not tying the "asshole" personality to corruption. This is one of my biggest gripes with the game tbh. I often times find myself giving some of my characters large amounts of corruption because they'd have a shitty personality and there is no other way to express it.
Certainly a personality switch would help, but you don't inherently have to undertake corrupt actions in the story to raise corruption, do you? You can gain it through inconsequential incidents or even items. If you plan to act like a rude dude but not really take the rude dude options, you could upkeep it that way. Not ideal, but a makeshift solution is still a solution.
Alright, if it wasn't supposed to do that, why give us a character that we can personally customise as our own? What's the point then? It's supposed to be our "vessel" so to speak, in the game. Basically a blank slate or what looks to be one. A character with no established history whatsoever to do what we want with. Cloud is already a preestablished character in the game with a prior history and personality. The game suffers some tonal inconsistency because of this, if that was the intent of the PC, you should have named them "Bepo The Slut Savior" with a prior history and done what ff7 did. There's still no explanation why having more choice is a bad thing at all, either.
Your character isn't a blank canvas. You have a core personality, it's just influenced by the corruption you've collected, as it were. Sure, some writers veer a little further off from center mass than others, but that is inconsistency in enforcement and nothing to indicate you're a blank canvas. The ability to customize a character has,
quite literally my good forum-goer, nothing,
NOTHING to do with whether you have free reign to do as you dream in every game that features it. I don't even know where you ever got such an assumption, frankly. Unless the only games you've ever played are Elder Scrolls games, 99% of games that feature character customization don't also include the ability to freely manipulate the story and state of the world. Those are far and away minority instances and doing it that way has a tendency to cause issues regardless. Why do you think, say, Skyrim introduced so many NPCs marked as essential? So you can't screw up every questline and break the game by being a murderhobo.
Sure, they might be literally different. However, 90% of the time in the game, corruption leads to evil for other characters. Take the centaurs for example. They were normal before, but after being corrupted they end up becoming a bunch of rape monsters. That doesn't quite sound like they ain't evil at that point in time. The fact that Tollus is also still a human somehow, proves my point that there should be more to the whole corruption/evil nuance thing too. Corruption can also be the champion doing an evil thing, they feel guilty at first, but slowly that guilt fades the more they do it. What that action is? I have no idea, maybe something dark they may have thought they weren't capable of before.
Ooooh, yes, yes, we're getting there for sure. You're aaaalmost to the realization. You've recognized that other characters who aren't the champion can be corrupt and/or evil! But we took two steps back at the end there, once again putting corruption and evil into the same category for the
player. And Tollus being human still (a) may not be true, he could be a demon disguising himself as something else, which is something we've seen other evil characters do already, or (b) he could just be...refraining from sex with demons and thus not becoming physically corrupted and changed into a demon. The realization you very nearly reached is that evil can lead to corruption, and corruption can lead to evil, buuuut...corruption in this setting is a physical occurrence that is largely sexual in lore, and doesn't
have to be evil. The player can undergo corruption, but cannot be evil. Tollus is a great example of a definite evil that may or may not be "corrupt" in the lore of the game. In a sense, he is equal and opposite the champion.
I think your problem is that you have no idea what corruption is, but by definition, you want the ability to be evil. Sure, fine. If that's your flavor, go for it. But you can't complain that every game ever doesn't allow you to be evil. It's unrealistic and childish. Games, regardless of genre, are a form of art and a medium for telling
a story. No one is obliged to make a story that caters specifically to any one group of people. It is a choice. This dev team have largely chosen to not make one catering to murder-happy folks like yourself.
I've seen people here complain about COC and how COC2 is superior by comparison. I thought the same until my own curiosity and seeing others hype the game up made me want to play it. Once I did and figured out how to not get my character brutaly raped everytime, I loved it. A lot. So you can imagine my frustration and why I'd love to see COC2 resemble COC more. Again, this is coming from a guy who thought COC2 was pretty good before and the superior game, and I honestly don't think I'm alone in thinking this way.
For the purpose of this thread, you haven't asked for anything specific to be added, you've been complaining that you can't be evil. I would take that to the gripes thread, personally, but you do you.
For remaining here, I would suggest thinking of specifics. Come up with actual things in some amount of detail that you'd like to see. If they continue in the vein of pointless murder, sure they'll probably be ignored, but at least that would be more constructive than empty comparisons, complaining, and throwing around concepts you don't seem to concretely understand, but "feel." Now you're down to just saying "I like COC1 more, be more like COC1" which is entirely unhelpful.
P.S. If you want a cheat sheet for understanding the difference between evil and corruption in this game, think of corruption as a type of STI, and evil is murdering innocent people!
Now I'm done! Moving on. Sorry for the wall of text, folks. Please enjoy the rest of your thread. <3
