Mixed Messages (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, March 03, 2026, 20:41 (1 hours, 55 minutes ago) @ cheapLEY
edited by Cody Miller, Tuesday, March 03, 2026, 20:45

I guess we can argue about what makes for good game design, but at a certain point, you either buy into the world they're creating in Marathon or you don't. I think we have to assume players are smart enough to not take everything at face value and realize when things are diagetic. If we can't even give them that much respect, what are we even doing here? There are tons of locked doors and containers around the map, too. Do players just assume those aren't accessible, or are they smart enough to think that maybe there's a key somewhere that will allow them to get in?

And yet he, and others, have been complaining online about a lack of things to do and objectives on the maps. So I will bet you 100 bucks Skill Up probably saw that message at one point and got out of the area, without realizing staying with a anti-virus kit was not only how to remain in the area and not die, but that there were lucrative events in there during the lockdown. I think so very clearly people are not exploring this game at all and taking everything at face value.

Show of hands, how many people here knew you could do this event? What about the unstable matter event, or the data cards that lead to a huge cache?