Quote Originally Posted by Raven2014 View Post
The only thing I'm struggling to wrap my head around is why you're so insistent to take the story out of its context.

Ok, put it this way: if there is a society in real life that look like the ancient, I am of the belief that they will not go toward their doom but will reach enlightenment instead - there, happy? However, I will not impose that to the story, it's called breaking the 4th wall. Once you do, then yes everything stop making sense. For example, the truth teh Ea discovered is like ... what? I mean we're hardly an enlighten species and we already know the universe gonna eventually end, the core of the planets will eventually cool and the sun will eventually run out of fuel ... and I don't see we spelling doom and gloom. You meant to tell me a specie that had transcended physical existence like the Ea decided to off themselves because of that ... common that's just ... stupid.


The ability to take thing in context is why I can enjoy the story as it is presented, instead of breaking the 4th wall and impose my own interpretation. When I see the ancient has a warped view on death and callous attitude toward death, I'm simply re-telling the view of the "in-game character" (Herme and Venat). When I say the Ancient society as it is would go down the path of ruin, that's not my belief of such a society in real life would have that fate. It is because the game has gone to great length to convey the message that it's a much proven scenario with all of those death world.

Pointing out the messages the game is trying to tell you is not taking things out of context...its literally just pointing at parts of the story. You take this expansion and then look at it with what we've learned from those prior, from the bonus short stories, from their interviews and Q&As and go "A-ha! I see what they were going for!"

Out of curiosity, why do you think we are given the option to promise Hermes that we'll show him the meaning of life together? Without "breaking the 4th wall" death is the end, is it not?