I mean, I guess you’re right as far as I’m willing to debate the point. Does that change anything? I don’t feel like the franchise has done the Lost thing where every episode (in this case game) only asks more questions and never answers them. I also don’t feel like I’m dying to learn more about the world or that the small scope of their answers takes me out of the experience. Like, it’s perfectly encapsulated to what I need to enjoy the “movie” that is this game.
I completely agree that this has costs, and that it probably can’t go on for forever. Like one of the costs is I don’t super care about this world, it’s not a world I want to run a TTRPG in, or could envision a hundred spin-offs. I want the end of this story and I’d be okay if it stopped. Idk, that’s a fine thing to make imo. And again, it’s been top of it’s class in execution since it’s inception (never played the smaller games like Blue something or other) so idk - hard for me to nitpick the world or the game.
Now Valve please release your new VR set so I can buy it or the Big Picture 2 and get back into VR.
Yeah, I think we more or less agree, and I’m not trying to say it’s a bad game or even a bad story, just that there’s not a lot I need closure on. I think the only thing that could be done to “ruin” it would be to pile on a bunch of unsatisfying answers to the open questions about the world. I’d definitely play HL3 just to experience more of the world, I just don’t care that much about where the story goes and I don’t think that’s ever been the main draw.
It would be nice to get some explanations of the world that would extend it and allow people to tell more interesting stories within it, but I honestly doubt that those answers exist. It really feels like they’re kind of just riffing and they don’t have a bigger vision for where it all goes, if I had to guess.
I mean, I guess you’re right as far as I’m willing to debate the point. Does that change anything? I don’t feel like the franchise has done the Lost thing where every episode (in this case game) only asks more questions and never answers them. I also don’t feel like I’m dying to learn more about the world or that the small scope of their answers takes me out of the experience. Like, it’s perfectly encapsulated to what I need to enjoy the “movie” that is this game.
I completely agree that this has costs, and that it probably can’t go on for forever. Like one of the costs is I don’t super care about this world, it’s not a world I want to run a TTRPG in, or could envision a hundred spin-offs. I want the end of this story and I’d be okay if it stopped. Idk, that’s a fine thing to make imo. And again, it’s been top of it’s class in execution since it’s inception (never played the smaller games like Blue something or other) so idk - hard for me to nitpick the world or the game.
Now Valve please release your new VR set so I can buy it or the Big Picture 2 and get back into VR.
Yeah, I think we more or less agree, and I’m not trying to say it’s a bad game or even a bad story, just that there’s not a lot I need closure on. I think the only thing that could be done to “ruin” it would be to pile on a bunch of unsatisfying answers to the open questions about the world. I’d definitely play HL3 just to experience more of the world, I just don’t care that much about where the story goes and I don’t think that’s ever been the main draw.
It would be nice to get some explanations of the world that would extend it and allow people to tell more interesting stories within it, but I honestly doubt that those answers exist. It really feels like they’re kind of just riffing and they don’t have a bigger vision for where it all goes, if I had to guess.