Guild Wars 2

ye I mean I guess you wanna make the lore interesting and everything, but why can I rez some npcs while others die a heroic death all dramatized in the story?

well what do you call defeated?:D some lore behind why we can revive each other perhaps?:O

pullnointer.1476:

well what do you call defeated?:D some lore behind why we can revive each other perhaps?:O

Its kinda hard to justify why characters can rez and revive in MMO worlds, even the games that justify it best still have a hard time working lore around it because then when you kill off a lore character permanantly you need to come up with a reason why they couldn’t have rezzed.

Just take rezzing as what it is, a gameplay mechanic, if you need a lore reason, think of it as a “what if” scenario, as in what if this hero failed and died in the process of fighting this monster, but canonically it never actually did happen that way.

As far as GW2 lore is concerned, being “defeated” is just being knocked unconscious and unable to continue the fight. Anything revivable isn’t actually dead, which is why they can be brought back to their feet.

Gameplay and segregation, same reason you ca take giant greatsword to face and not die. I suppose they are just meant to be knocked out rather than dead.