Ye be warned here, reader. There be spoilers, though minor is most cases, ahead. This thread is about questions that remain after you beat a game, after all.
I beat the new Tomb Raider last night. I had fun playing it and went along with the story for the most part. There were a few parts where my willing suspension of disbelief broke (Lara falls into a pool of blood with severed limbs and heads everywhere and doesn't even comment on it, much less freak right the hell out), but for the most part I went along for the ride. Until the Oni showed up. At first, I thought they were reanimated corpses or something, or magic, but they bleed and feel pain just like regular humans. So I wondered, "How are these guys still alive?" I figured the game would answer that question, especially since Lara asked that exact question not two minutes later.
But no. I beat the game, and I was never told how these century old Samurai were still alive and well--unless I missed it in a book or document somewhere in the game, just like who was sending out that Morse Code message, and what Star they were talking about.
Anyway, my point is, does anyone else get bothered by these things? When questions are brought up about something in the game that you feel deserve an answer, but you never get it? Or worse, when the game itself brings up questions about itself that it never answers. Examples include Uncharted 3, when Cutter shoots Talbot, and then Talbot shows up later perfectly fine. Cutter himself says, "How is that possible?" and we are never given an answer. Gears of War 3, at the end of the game, Baird is asking a LOT of questions, but the one I remember most is "Why does the Locust Queen look human?" and we are never given an answer. And of course, the big one in Call of Duty: Black Ops II: "Where the hell have you been all these years?" A very good question indeed Woods.
Story is the main driving factor for me in a game, and unanswered questions like these tend to drive me nut because I spend a good deal of time picking them apart, trying to find the answer. Does anyone else do this? Does anyone else know of any other cases where a question is raised but never answered? Not something major, but just a minor detail that slowly chews on your mind.
I beat the new Tomb Raider last night. I had fun playing it and went along with the story for the most part. There were a few parts where my willing suspension of disbelief broke (Lara falls into a pool of blood with severed limbs and heads everywhere and doesn't even comment on it, much less freak right the hell out), but for the most part I went along for the ride. Until the Oni showed up. At first, I thought they were reanimated corpses or something, or magic, but they bleed and feel pain just like regular humans. So I wondered, "How are these guys still alive?" I figured the game would answer that question, especially since Lara asked that exact question not two minutes later.
But no. I beat the game, and I was never told how these century old Samurai were still alive and well--unless I missed it in a book or document somewhere in the game, just like who was sending out that Morse Code message, and what Star they were talking about.
Anyway, my point is, does anyone else get bothered by these things? When questions are brought up about something in the game that you feel deserve an answer, but you never get it? Or worse, when the game itself brings up questions about itself that it never answers. Examples include Uncharted 3, when Cutter shoots Talbot, and then Talbot shows up later perfectly fine. Cutter himself says, "How is that possible?" and we are never given an answer. Gears of War 3, at the end of the game, Baird is asking a LOT of questions, but the one I remember most is "Why does the Locust Queen look human?" and we are never given an answer. And of course, the big one in Call of Duty: Black Ops II: "Where the hell have you been all these years?" A very good question indeed Woods.
Story is the main driving factor for me in a game, and unanswered questions like these tend to drive me nut because I spend a good deal of time picking them apart, trying to find the answer. Does anyone else do this? Does anyone else know of any other cases where a question is raised but never answered? Not something major, but just a minor detail that slowly chews on your mind.
