Even for AAA studios and professional authors. It sound simple, but over the years this has turned out to be a surprisingly important factor. I can't save a civilization that has it's shit together okay?", that's on them. BUT, if people end up upset with you if you admit "Look, guys. If people later end up upset at you playing calvin ball with resource scarcity, that's on you. I got not issues with running out of coal in snow land, so long as it's for honest reasons rather than trying to make your script needs look better. But you get a lot more good will and leeway by being honest with your audience/players with your intentions. So how do they get at me through my sealed space commando armor I paid extra for because I'm the anti min/maxer?" "WHY ARE YOU SUCH A PROBLEM PLAYER!?"īacking yourself into a corner making pleas to logic until you've got no choice but to abruptly pull the "word of god! word of god!" lever too little too late is never a good look. "It's not REALISTIC for your expensive point buy immunities to work on ALL toxins and diseases! Therefore the alien mind control parasites should work on you" "Well, okay. The worst rails are when people pretend there aren't any, then get offended when you trust them and try or expect there to be a lack of them and cause a derail purely by innocent ignorance. All dithering with "But if you look at the time scale-" Gets you is well meaning people trying to provide you answers to a problem you never wanted solved. To say nothing of the ROBOT Ninjas.Įxpect a lot of handwaves or "Contractually doomed to fail game" rather than the 100% authentic "It's the setting of X game" to keep the rails running smoothly, basically.Ĭlick to shrink.Context and trying to hide behind cherry picked "But realistically-" tends to be the make or break behind good rails and shameful rails.įor example, if you want coal shortages, admit you need it for your story to work. But that's also a place that runs on DBZ rules where slavery is more like a gym membership with a side of ninja training. Kenshi is definitely more of a place you might prefer to risk boring old zombies even if you're the meanest "Craft our own cybernetics" group of murderhobos in the land. See also,"No you guys, if you really think about it Pokemon is dark and gritty!"
When left to it's own devices civilization is rebuilding itself pefectly fine and people only hype up the raiders and "gritty moral choices" to sound cooler, because they can't appreciate it for what is and always want to add a little more edge. Every Fallout game by every developer is "AND THEN ARMY OUT OF NOWHERE" as the main problem ("New Vegas is hip and fresh!" "So the main plot threat isn't a looming army like Fallout 1, 2, Tactics, and 3?" ".Shut uuuuup" "Well at least Fallout 4 won't have an army out of nowhere-oh god damnit"). Lot of cleanup left to do-wait, come back! We've got jetpacks and laser chainsaws!"įallout is pretty stable between games. "Yeah there are still countless giant dragon nests (which we all know evolve from ants) we need to clear out now that the alien overlords are exploded.
EDF's duration is "Oh shit, extinction event? *explosions* okay the extinction event is over." So while it fits the criteria on paper, it doesn't cater to always unspoken "Well actually I meant a sandbox/4X/etc game sooooo." when people claim any near extinction setting is fair game. Most people obsess over "status quo, after the fact" or "First day of". Bison's moveset space god with firecrackers nobody told the R&D team to stop improving as your pal drives victory donuts in the nanite loaded ambulence. Honestly I've learned not to hope Earth Defense Force will show up until proven otherwise, even though every game has you contractually obligated to wait until Humanity is down to single digit % remaining before you roll up your sleeves and kill giant psychic stole M.
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