>>716325783 (OP)The cartoonish morality era in RPGs is a real thing. Fable, KotOR, everything Bioware for that matter, Fallout had Karma involved for some reason, I'm playing Elin right now and it has a Karma system from Elona which was also created at roughly the same time.
It's just a weirdly persistent theme from the mid 2000s to like 2012.
I wonder why that is?
Is there a Patient Zero everyone was cribbing from? Evangelical Christianity was more of a legitimate thing in US politics at around that time, the Bush years. Maybe that had something to do with it?