The expansion doesn’t explain it, because everything doesn’t need to be explained. Maybe you haven’t read a lot of books recently but there are many things in books that happen today that aren’t explained. Hell, short fiction today doesn’t have ending half the time anymore, at least in the traditional sense of the word.
People have always complained about this game because not everything was given to them on a silver platter. But this I have to know it now, as if the story is over and Caithe is dead is just impatience. Caithe can come back into the story and explain herself or she may not. But everything really doesn’t have to be explained. That’s just not how it works.
Also patronizing me by calling my comments cute really doesn’t make your arguments any stronger.
As for the Trahearne thing, well, no we went in trying to rescue Trahearne and talking to him came upon the solution of how we might attack something you can’t attack phyiscally.
It’s really only an issue if you’re looking for issues and let me tell you, if you want to find issues you can find them with any story or book. The problem isn’t the things you’re mentioning.
You liked the length and depth of the original story. The new story is different because it’s faster and doesn’t go into the same level of moment to moment detail and you don’t like the change.
Neither the point about Caithe or the point about figuring out how to beat the dragon is bad writing.
A lot of people complained the personal story was too long or the personal story was too boring so Anet stream-lined it, mostly like as a reaction to complaints.
The same thing happened in Guild Wars 1. People complained Prophecies was too long and too slow, so Anet made Factions. The story was fast, the game was half the size, it could be finished much faster and you leveled far too fast. Why? Because they were reacting to people’s complaints. Anet has a tendency to over-react, and that’s why the story is the length it is. Within a shorter story, particularly one that’s continuing, you don’t to explain everything at the moment.
Would it be interesting to hear Caithe’s story. Sure it would. Is it required to hear Caithe’s story. No. Because she’s a character that drives the action forward and she served her purpose in the story.
Again, in a novel where you have hundreds of pages, you put everything. In shorter stories, you often leave people to figure stuff out. It’s not bad writing and it’s not uncommon.
As for the later cub comment, there’s nothing really to explain. We know what the revenant is, and the story of Rytlock and what happened to him is not the story of HoT. These side passages don’t get explored in shorter stories for a reason. Then they become longer stories, which some people complain about.
A lot of people who love story complained that the expansion was too fast and didn’t give enough detail. A lot of people who don’t like story complained the original story was too long.
And because a game isn’t a book, Anet has to balance it out between people who don’t want a longer story and people who do. There will always be a percentage of people dissatisfied with the balance.
First of all, please give examples of people complaining about the length of the original story. I can’t remember it being an issue. The problem I remember, was the final battle, which wasn’t really a battle at all. There were a lot of complaints and that part was fixed, now we have a decent final battle (bugged though).
Secondly, the main issue is, that both personal stories came out unfinished. Defend it how you want, but the main reason for all those loopholes and questionable decisions is the expansion being rushed. That’s the main cause and this is where they fail once again.
About fiction that does not require explanation, yes, this kind of fiction exists. Those are complex stories, which leaves most of the stuff for the public to figure out. But aren’t you the one, who said that the video game story should do what it’s supposed to do? You were the one, who said that most people don’t give much attention to the story of a video game. So, was this story supposed to confuse those people even more? That was the purpose?
You see, the points you make does not connect. They are full of loopholes and they do not follow reason. Arguing with you is like playing HoT. I’m trying to understand what are you saying. Sometimes your points make some sort of sense, after a while they’re contradicting themselves, your jump from point to point for no resason, it’s hard to follow but I still try to. Just like playing HoT.
Wait, I figured it out. You are Heart of Thorns. You are a computer program trying to defend itself. That is just natural to you and all my efforts were in vain from the start.
You need examples about people complaining about the original story? You’ve never seen any complaints about it? I’m sure you can find your own complaints.
The original story seemed to go on forever. Anet even tried to shorten it but people who liked the story insisted it get restored. They tried to shorten it because people don’t play the original PS. For a lot of people is it too long. It seems to go on forever and a lot of it is just filler missions. The original PS is some of the least compelling content in the game in my opinion.
Complaints were varied, not just in the length of the final mission but its anticlimactic nature. Or the fact that once you hit level 60, no matter how many alts you have you’re basically doing the same stuff over and over again.
There have been many complaints about the short story but the biggest thing you’ll notice is how many people don’t do it at all. That should tell you something. It really is a long drawn out process unless you love story.
And in fact, how it’s drawn out in some ways, I consider worse writing than the writing on Heart of Thorns.
There were too many side stories that really weren’t that impactful, and didn’t need to be there, and probably shouldn’t have been there. The PS had so many characters that came out of left field, including Trahearne if you didn’t start with a Sylvari.
By contrast, you don’t have that problem in the HoT story because the story is basically the same for everyone, with the exception of some changes to the Sylvari character’s dialogue.
As for your comments about fiction, unfortunately that was my profession. You really don’t want to explain everything in most short stories these days, for a reason. They would no longer be short stories. You can’t explorer every avenue in a shorter work and HOT IS a shorter work.
The HoT story accomplished what it was supposed to accomplish. We absolutely 100% do not have to know everything about Caithe’s reasons, because she’s not there as a main character, she’s there to drive events forward. We may see in the future more of her motivation, but I think obvious that just like Trahearne knew he had to heal Orr, she knew she had to get the egg to the jungle. No one asks why or how Trahearne knows that, we just know it’s his wild hunt. We know it. We don’t have to question it.
You’re questioning it because you want to find flaw. But since you KNOW that the dream of dreams is incomplete, and you don’t get to see everything and there are sylvari that specialize in interpreting what you’ve seen (yes we know that from in game), then there’s no reason to assume that she had all knowledge. But she did know what she had to do. I’m not even sure why this is a conversation.
The Heart of Thorns story was made to be shorter, because the first story was too long for a lot of people. Personal source is people I’ve talked to, which is annecdotal. A more important source would be how many people never do it on a second character, which Anet would know and I don’t.
But yes, I believe Anet knows it was too long.
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