description text that says shit like "combat pancreases are standard issue in the wetwork industry" is diagetic exposition. it's good. it will never take you out of the game world. it's a good way to dump exposition on the player.
Them retconning the Fallen from clans of degenerate tech worshipping psycos to "just some immigrants who need help guys" will always be one of the lore changes that I will never forgive them for.
Have you never played a souls game?
I can’t see how those are different at all, they also aren’t digetic unless they are what the character is thinking in which case they could both be diegetic.
And boy how! The Hive has, by the lore, Wiped out all known life except the races present in game, and likely in ways you can only imagine.
i'll one-up you with DaemonXMachina 1 (2nd game gets rid of giant robots so i skipped it):
They are literally Destiny's version of Khorne worshippers
the knowledge level of the narrator and the player and how the friction between them drives the narrative forward. you, the player, don't know anything. the game has to do a careful balancing act of you not knowing anything and not beating you over the head with exposition.
Also, Tarkov doesn’t do resets anymore I think? They only “reset” because that’s when they would implement new updates while the game was still pre 1.0
The faction milestones would be even harder to unlock without them. Making them easier to progress will be the deciding factor for me
Years ago, I noticed that the game was almost entirely lacking in heterosexual relationships that don't end in tragedy (Crow/Amanda, Zavala/dead wife) or have something else wrong with them (Clovis Bray's relationship with his wife, parents of a kid who was the PoV of a lore entry being racist against the Fallen, Drifter having a thing for the Emissary's former identity, etc.). Gay relationships? All over the place! (Osiris/Saint obv, the Bray sisters having unnamed girlfriends, Micah's Two Dads, Mara trying to hook Crow up with one of Uldren's gay lovers as soon as Amanda has been disposed of, Awoken society in general). There's Drifter/Eris, I guess, but it took them forever to do anything with that and I don't know whether they did anything to ruin/destroy it since I stopped after Echoes. And some gender stuff goes back pretty far, there was a lore entry in Forsaken about the gender distribution of the Awoken in the Distributary, something like 2/3 female, with the remainder split around evenly between male and "otherwise."
They could have so easily just invtented an entire slew of new contracts that further develop the story.
I havent played tarkov much in 1.0, but i believe they have a sort of account reset/optional wipe mechanic. I think Hunt has the same thing.
Sorta, there's no joy in it though, for them, they are basically Natural Selection Lawyers, they must kill because if something can be killed and not the other way around it's not just good, they are 'legally' bound to do it
cruelty squad mentioned, proceeding to posting the grappendix...
Well that and remember they get power from doing it. Kill something stronger than you and you grow, that's the entire point of the sword logic.
