EvanManManMan wrote:dota2reporter wrote:lol, does it matter?
Yes
It allows for easy angleshooting of your alignment
You are supposed to play to the best of your ability as both alignments and if your attitude about rolling one leads to not doing that then you shouldn't play at all
trying to think why i wanted to play this game. i only like rolling town. basically the only thing thats appealing to me about mafia is the concept of pouring large amounts of effort into something that's superficially useful. i wouldn't enjoy coloring an entire page with a pen. i don't think it's the difficulty of the task of solving the game which is appealing either, it's just the fact that it's possible to spend a long time doing it. a good analogy is a jigsaw puzzle, which is something i enjoy as well. i'm not sure that's quite it though. it feels bad to have players you think are wolf flip town, but i couldn't care less about the actual outcome of the game. if a jigsaw puzzle just dissolved in front of my eyes i wouldn't care that i hadn't finished it and some of the pieces were in the wrong place. perhaps it is about being proven right and as flips occur i steadily lose interest over time because there are fewer players left to solve, and by the end of the game i give zero fucks? i think it's aspects of both.
thoughts evan?