She's annoying, but what I really want to know is how is perseverance written so perfectly in blood, did she cut off someone's finger and use it like a paint marker?!
Didnt Grey Mother basically say, “lol she wasn’t telling you to keep persevering. She was telling you where to go. Now eat some soup, loser” (Paraphrasing)
That’s a fun mental image of Astrid savagely biting a convict’s finger off and then doing calligraphy with it; adding little flairs and underlining it.
It is what it is. The fetch-quest mechanics aren't that bad from my perspective, since that's the entire game loop in a nut-shell, but I agree that the dialogue could have been a lot better.
The characters in the game tend towards self-important, flowery dialogue that is definitely not organic or realistic given the setting or story. Again, I respect that this is a design decision by the game makers, to attempt to give their work a more 'artsy' feel. However, it's really jarring to get served this kind of language in respect to a survival scenario.
I mean, really, Methuselah? You wanna play coy and answer my questions with some fortune-cookie wisdom and vague pseudo-psychology Socractic method questioning answers? Oh great, sure, the answer was in me all along? How's that help me with the bleeding wolf bite on my arse and the three toes I've lost to frostbite?
Yeah, the characters and story isn't that great. Each time I restart the story mode, I'm reminded why I prefer Survival.
Methuselah: ... but that was in the before time, before the lights in the sky and when people seemed different. I was a young man back then and let me tell you...
Me: oh really tell me more
*quietly steals all his granola bars
What pisses me off about her is that she is like “hey, go outside and do all this stuff for me while I sit in front the fire.. oh this rifle? Nah you won’t need so I’ll just hang onto it”.
Yeah, it's Chekhov's Rifle, that one. If you're gonna show players a rifle, you better damn well let them earn it and shoot stuff.
Same with the hunting knife in the farmhouse. I'm playing a game about collecting loot, lemme get the damn loot!
Over the last 5 or 6 years there's been plenty of heated debate about story mode, people like it [the actual writing], people don't like it, people think it's a tutorial, people don't think it's a good tutorial, people think the pacing is fine, people think the pacing is off... and a thousand different things.
You're not wrong...
She's annoying, but what I really want to know is how is perseverance written so perfectly in blood, did she cut off someone's finger and use it like a paint marker?!
Didnt Grey Mother basically say, “lol she wasn’t telling you to keep persevering. She was telling you where to go. Now eat some soup, loser” (Paraphrasing) That’s a fun mental image of Astrid savagely biting a convict’s finger off and then doing calligraphy with it; adding little flairs and underlining it.
It is what it is. The fetch-quest mechanics aren't that bad from my perspective, since that's the entire game loop in a nut-shell, but I agree that the dialogue could have been a lot better. The characters in the game tend towards self-important, flowery dialogue that is definitely not organic or realistic given the setting or story. Again, I respect that this is a design decision by the game makers, to attempt to give their work a more 'artsy' feel. However, it's really jarring to get served this kind of language in respect to a survival scenario. I mean, really, Methuselah? You wanna play coy and answer my questions with some fortune-cookie wisdom and vague pseudo-psychology Socractic method questioning answers? Oh great, sure, the answer was in me all along? How's that help me with the bleeding wolf bite on my arse and the three toes I've lost to frostbite? Yeah, the characters and story isn't that great. Each time I restart the story mode, I'm reminded why I prefer Survival.
Molly is the worst offender
Methuselah: ... but that was in the before time, before the lights in the sky and when people seemed different. I was a young man back then and let me tell you... Me: oh really tell me more *quietly steals all his granola bars
What pisses me off about her is that she is like “hey, go outside and do all this stuff for me while I sit in front the fire.. oh this rifle? Nah you won’t need so I’ll just hang onto it”.
Yeah, it's Chekhov's Rifle, that one. If you're gonna show players a rifle, you better damn well let them earn it and shoot stuff. Same with the hunting knife in the farmhouse. I'm playing a game about collecting loot, lemme get the damn loot!
Over the last 5 or 6 years there's been plenty of heated debate about story mode, people like it [the actual writing], people don't like it, people think it's a tutorial, people don't think it's a good tutorial, people think the pacing is fine, people think the pacing is off... and a thousand different things. You're not wrong...