When games have cameos from our existing fictional characters, it never works out quite right.
Baldur’s Gate was one of those games everyone played simultaneously, showing up to school the next day full of stories about what they’d discovered in their explorations of the Forgotten Realms. They all eventually met Drizzt, the hero of a series of Dungeons & Dragons novels popular with the kind of teenager who loves angsty outcast loners who stab the deserving.
Sure, they want to loot his corpse so they can have his fancy magic gear, and for some it’s a way of adding an additional tangle of challenge to a game that probably doesn’t need to be any harder, but it goes beyond that. Even as kids, people just want to see Drizzt dead [1]. At the climax of Shadowrun Returns one of the Shadowrun RPG’s most recognizable characters appears, an immortal elf named Harlequin. Rather than saving the day on his own he asks for your help, and under your control in the ensuing battle feels like he’s near your own power level rather than being so far beyond that he can’t even be represented numerically as the tabletop game insisted.
Of course, that can go badly too. When you face the Joker in his Amusement Mile murder circus in DC Universe Online you do so knowing that Batman will be fighting alongside you the entire time, which takes the oomph out of the moment.
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