Ooh! I like this idea, Chris!
Have certain Lifepath options give you a cutscence, image sequence, audio or even gameplay chunk to reflect those choices as you start play. Have them show up later, even.
That's good!
I'm starting to remember...
In the origional Max Payne, you started out at your home, 3 years before the end of the game. You open the door, and the place has been turned over. As you go through the house you hear your wife and baby being attacked and eventually shot up by supposedly random junkies.
Let's face it, that's enough to get anyone to flip out. And so, Max Payne, Vigilante is born...
I think that reliving certain traumatic experiences in the lifepath, (and maybe even earlier gameplay - que dead girlfriend number 1,) could be a good way of making cyberpsychosis therapy interactive and involving.
Actually, I could probably use some therapy myself... I'm writing some notes for a 2020 campaign and I just wrote up the introduction my brand new players, (who have never played 2020,) are going to get to the Bozo's.
As the players enter a corridor in an apartment block, they find a Bozo, aman, a woman and a 6 year old girl. The Clown has the woman at gunpoint and is going to kill her unless the daughter throws a cream pie into her dads face. The cream pie is concentrated acid...
Yeah... I should probably book an appointment...
