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Bisected8
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(Primordial Chaos)
9th Dec, 2012 02:41:14 PM
No thoughts?
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StarSword
Since: Sep, 2011
9th Dec, 2012 03:47:20 PM
That's probably part of The Law of Conservation of Detail: to wit, leave out details that aren't important for the story.
Do we have a trope that covers situations where Video Game characters only seem to "live" for whatever the gameplay entails (so they never spend their masses of gold to buy food or entertainment, never get anything from the store but healing items, socialise with anyone, etc).
To give some examples;
- Exagerated: Borderlands, the characters only ever spend their money on anything but guns, shields and ammo. Day and night pass, but they're never shown eating or sleeping or as much as entertaining themselves.
- Straight: Hitman, since 47 never seems to do anything beyond buying/upgrading weapons and training in between missions but could be living off camera.
- Downplayed: Sandbox WRPG like The Elder Scrolls (since you can buy all sorts of useless, but everyday, items, and doing everyday things, like sleeping, gives your character bonuses in most games but you don't need to do so like an actual human being, only sleeping for an hour, for example).
- Averted: The Persona series (since you get bonuses from making sure that the MC lives out his life in between dungeons).
Edited by Bisected8