Why is race and nationality ignored so much in the lore? (why does the lore fail)

[Abriael]

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unless your brain is different than the average person in which case depending on the difference a square could be a whole different experience.

Marketing teaches that the whole concept of "average person" is a logical fallacy.

Abriael, you don't know how to tell a story in a video-game medium.

Wall-of-text never even worked for Star Wars intros.

Go tell it to Monkey Island, King's Quest, Final Fantasy, Baldur's Gate and quite a lot of other extremely successful games the text of which could easily fill thousands of walls.

Want more modern examples? Oblivion, The Witcher 1 and 2 (and The Witcher 2 is all the rage nowadays), Mass Effect 1 and 2... How do they convey the biggest part of their lore? With books )or similar). What are books? Walls of text.

Sorry to burst a bubble, but text in videogames still isn't dead. It's actually quite far from that point, especially for telling stories, and even more side-stories and general lore.

umm, pokemon is not a repetitive game in any way.

Pokemon is the most shining example of repeatitive grinding brought to the extreme consequences. And people (me excluded, mind you) love it.

Capture pokemon -> travel trough such an absolutely nondescript land that describing it as "monotonous" and "repeatitive" is equal to giving the designer undeserved prize -> fight aganst nondescript opponent through an oversimplified, skill-less fighting miningame -> Capture pokemon -> travel trough such an absolutely nondescript land that describing it as "monotonous" and "repeatitive" is equal to giving the designer undeserved prize -> fight aganst nondescript opponent through an oversimplified, skill-less fighting miningame -> Rinse, Repeat, until you chaugt them all.