Hi everyone,
I come and go playing this game, I love it. I love the expanse of it all. I love the background. I love the universe. I love to explore. (I enjoy fighting the AI, not so much real people- but that's why they have solo play mode.)
But...
I hate the story.
It's so dry. I've heard many people lament at the story that there is no cohesion, nothing continues- nothing brings you back for MORE!
It feels like it's handled by two or three people, writing in a bubble. The same bits and pieces, over and over again, nothing is fluid and there is no dynamic content. Sure community goals, but to do what? change some minor economy struggles?
Here's the problem; you don't have personality behind the main characters. You don't have actors who play the game, or are a part of the game. There needs to be actors, and writers behind each character, and a director choreographing the entire story. The actors and writers for each galactic power, who come together and draw up political stories for each superpower. Have some creative dissonance and (in office) politics. The actors represent the character they portray, interacting with players in game, choose political missions and expansion efforts. Have real people drive the galaxy, instead of a few stuffy writers thinking they know how to make it feel better for the community.
There needs to be actors voicing the lead characters, bringing life to the story. Have these actors (and their writers) interacting with the players, talk about the efforts in the game, name players who've made big efforts in "news" events and speeches. Get the actors into the recording studio once a week and do a monologue, a speech, a state of the state address. Something!
It's dry. It's old. The technical aspects of the game is great, but the story is so dead and unappealing right now. Why have I chosen one power vs. the other, right now? because Aisling Duval is a pretty face. I'll choose another eventually so I can get ships I want. But that's no real reason to play this game, it's why I get bored and go play something else for a while. I want this game to be so much better! I want to come back to this and want to catch up on the story, I want to be able to have that feeling of not being able to put the book down... but right now, elite dangerous doesn't have that. Just go explore... go battle some griefer... money clearly isn't an objective.
Come on frontier. Get some good writers, and actors in there, make the story something I want to be a part of!
Also, we need a stock market exchange, and some form of gambling system to spend these crazy credits.... slot machines or something I can do while toting my goods or exploring the vast distances.
I come and go playing this game, I love it. I love the expanse of it all. I love the background. I love the universe. I love to explore. (I enjoy fighting the AI, not so much real people- but that's why they have solo play mode.)
But...
I hate the story.
It's so dry. I've heard many people lament at the story that there is no cohesion, nothing continues- nothing brings you back for MORE!
It feels like it's handled by two or three people, writing in a bubble. The same bits and pieces, over and over again, nothing is fluid and there is no dynamic content. Sure community goals, but to do what? change some minor economy struggles?
Here's the problem; you don't have personality behind the main characters. You don't have actors who play the game, or are a part of the game. There needs to be actors, and writers behind each character, and a director choreographing the entire story. The actors and writers for each galactic power, who come together and draw up political stories for each superpower. Have some creative dissonance and (in office) politics. The actors represent the character they portray, interacting with players in game, choose political missions and expansion efforts. Have real people drive the galaxy, instead of a few stuffy writers thinking they know how to make it feel better for the community.
There needs to be actors voicing the lead characters, bringing life to the story. Have these actors (and their writers) interacting with the players, talk about the efforts in the game, name players who've made big efforts in "news" events and speeches. Get the actors into the recording studio once a week and do a monologue, a speech, a state of the state address. Something!
It's dry. It's old. The technical aspects of the game is great, but the story is so dead and unappealing right now. Why have I chosen one power vs. the other, right now? because Aisling Duval is a pretty face. I'll choose another eventually so I can get ships I want. But that's no real reason to play this game, it's why I get bored and go play something else for a while. I want this game to be so much better! I want to come back to this and want to catch up on the story, I want to be able to have that feeling of not being able to put the book down... but right now, elite dangerous doesn't have that. Just go explore... go battle some griefer... money clearly isn't an objective.
Come on frontier. Get some good writers, and actors in there, make the story something I want to be a part of!
Also, we need a stock market exchange, and some form of gambling system to spend these crazy credits.... slot machines or something I can do while toting my goods or exploring the vast distances.
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