22nd May 2004, 8:07 PM
I want to point out there are things I never have an intention of trying to explain, for example things like the bouncing mailboxes that talk to you. That's just video game fun right there, and any explanation would actually make the whole thing WORSE for being explained :D.
Just a note, the games don't tend to explain this away, whether the makers have explanations or not, but consider this. If they DID go out of their way to say stuff like "Ganon, which is but an avatar of his true form", wouldn't that cross the line from "legendary" to "assanine"? Explanations like that don't really need to be explained in-game during the story, and I think that it would in fact hurt the story to have such a thing. Indeed, Lord of the Rings did it right. Tolkein knew that explaning all the bits and pieces during the story would just make it utterly stupid sounding. So, instead save it all for the apendixes, where such things belong. Thus, I submit a master guide that's external to the games where people can read these explanations. A Perfect Work guide so to speak.
Just a note, the games don't tend to explain this away, whether the makers have explanations or not, but consider this. If they DID go out of their way to say stuff like "Ganon, which is but an avatar of his true form", wouldn't that cross the line from "legendary" to "assanine"? Explanations like that don't really need to be explained in-game during the story, and I think that it would in fact hurt the story to have such a thing. Indeed, Lord of the Rings did it right. Tolkein knew that explaning all the bits and pieces during the story would just make it utterly stupid sounding. So, instead save it all for the apendixes, where such things belong. Thus, I submit a master guide that's external to the games where people can read these explanations. A Perfect Work guide so to speak.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)