Post by nikolaithebeast on Feb 25, 2014 19:18:31 GMT
After playing a unsettling amount of Metro Last Light (greatest game i've played in some time), I realized something.
The best kind of lore that makes you go "OH!" is the kind that at no point will actually involve you.
For example, during the events of Elder Scrolls:Skyrim, The Khajit homeland, Elsywer, is in a revolution against the current monarchy and thalmor. This NEVER affects anything. ANYTHING. in game. You find one book that tells you to go make love to as many people as possible, then get there and help them.
Now, that shit was awesome as fuck to find. I spent unsettling amounts of time trying to find further reference to this. NOTHING, by the way, exists but that one book.
Moving on, we are a expanded and massive galaxy, aye?
Why the fuck don't we have any conflicts?
Thus, I'll take it to myself (and by that I mean I'll whine and bug Gollee and Tim until they agree) to write up some possible conflicts that could be going on in the background, make up fake news articles and the like!
So, what do we have for ideas? Just mine, really.
Thus, Post YOUR ideas, and i'll add them to a newer post in a week or so with a poll.
Currently, we have:
Robot Uprising: It's obvious that this idea has been done before, but it would be neat to hear of. Essentially, a planet has been taken over by AI's, amassing into one central AI known as the Swarm. They have the entire planet hostage, and are attempting to gain civil rights for themselves. The goverment begins pleading UGNF for assistance, as well as attempting to hire mercenaries to remove the issue.
Miner's Strike for Benifits!: Miners refuse to work on NMC mining stations, claiming a lack of safety protocols and health benefits make the job dangerous. Of course, NMC begins hiring new miners, and so on and so forth.
New British Empire Station taken over by corrupted AI: A NBE station finds it's AI suddenly far more corrupted and far less safe, forcing workers to continue their work without break or shift leave. NBE is unable to properly respond, as the station is fully locked down, and NBE counter response is unable to respond without damaging the station.
Dragons Claim NT outpost!: G'harsi, or more commonly known as "Is that a fucking dragon!?", inhabitants of Adhomai, were moved onto a colony outpost by NT forces in order to domesticate them. This, as you can guessed, failed, and they claimed the outpost, turning it into a nest. NT forces are deploying mech troopers in order to restrain the subjects.
UGNF Deploys Counter Pirate Task Force to Handle Growing Bandit Group "Red Iron": Due to the growing threat and size of the bandit group known as "Red Iron", the UGNF have begun counter operations against them, stating that they expect to handle the growing threat by the end of the year.
Now, i'll leave this about for a week, so toss any idea's you have up here and i'll add them in, then i'll...well...do a thing and make a poll. Or, maybe we'll do them all, and bug skull to add articles into the newspaper database!
Maybe i'll just bug skull a whole bunch.
The best kind of lore that makes you go "OH!" is the kind that at no point will actually involve you.
For example, during the events of Elder Scrolls:Skyrim, The Khajit homeland, Elsywer, is in a revolution against the current monarchy and thalmor. This NEVER affects anything. ANYTHING. in game. You find one book that tells you to go make love to as many people as possible, then get there and help them.
Now, that shit was awesome as fuck to find. I spent unsettling amounts of time trying to find further reference to this. NOTHING, by the way, exists but that one book.
Moving on, we are a expanded and massive galaxy, aye?
Why the fuck don't we have any conflicts?
Thus, I'll take it to myself (and by that I mean I'll whine and bug Gollee and Tim until they agree) to write up some possible conflicts that could be going on in the background, make up fake news articles and the like!
So, what do we have for ideas? Just mine, really.
Thus, Post YOUR ideas, and i'll add them to a newer post in a week or so with a poll.
Currently, we have:
Robot Uprising: It's obvious that this idea has been done before, but it would be neat to hear of. Essentially, a planet has been taken over by AI's, amassing into one central AI known as the Swarm. They have the entire planet hostage, and are attempting to gain civil rights for themselves. The goverment begins pleading UGNF for assistance, as well as attempting to hire mercenaries to remove the issue.
Miner's Strike for Benifits!: Miners refuse to work on NMC mining stations, claiming a lack of safety protocols and health benefits make the job dangerous. Of course, NMC begins hiring new miners, and so on and so forth.
New British Empire Station taken over by corrupted AI: A NBE station finds it's AI suddenly far more corrupted and far less safe, forcing workers to continue their work without break or shift leave. NBE is unable to properly respond, as the station is fully locked down, and NBE counter response is unable to respond without damaging the station.
Dragons Claim NT outpost!: G'harsi, or more commonly known as "Is that a fucking dragon!?", inhabitants of Adhomai, were moved onto a colony outpost by NT forces in order to domesticate them. This, as you can guessed, failed, and they claimed the outpost, turning it into a nest. NT forces are deploying mech troopers in order to restrain the subjects.
UGNF Deploys Counter Pirate Task Force to Handle Growing Bandit Group "Red Iron": Due to the growing threat and size of the bandit group known as "Red Iron", the UGNF have begun counter operations against them, stating that they expect to handle the growing threat by the end of the year.
Now, i'll leave this about for a week, so toss any idea's you have up here and i'll add them in, then i'll...well...do a thing and make a poll. Or, maybe we'll do them all, and bug skull to add articles into the newspaper database!
Maybe i'll just bug skull a whole bunch.