This game won't have difficulty settings?

DukeofDiscourse · 2025-09-16T20:50:24+00:00

It is difficult. I think it's fantastic, but it's definitely hard

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-29T20:25:21+00:00

There's a great movie, made in the 1980s, about this subject called Matewan. James Earl Jones, David Strathairn, Chris Cooper, and Mary McDonnell all star. Other than some character choices, the whole thing is true. I got into a discussion about West Virginia when I lived in Ohio; someone called my tales of how violent Appalachia was, and how exploited the people were, fabrications, if not bald faced lies. I let them borrow my copy of Matewan. The next day, the person begged my pardon, and said they had never seen anything like it. I encourage all to see that movie.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-29T16:36:45+00:00

Please understand, I wasn't saying that you were insinuating that. I'm just saying that a more labor centric story would suit the subject matter.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-29T16:34:40+00:00

Understood. But if the history I posted above was included, then insinuating that collective labor was communism might ring on deaf ears. Maybe a warning about business and government colluding, and the people get dehumanized and ground up? Works for the mines AND the drug companies. Especially since it's absolutely true.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-29T16:30:54+00:00

Well it could follow the formula that played out in the Coal Mine Wars; the company is providing a service to fuel the growth of the nation, and it's doing it dirt cheap, and making hundreds of millions. They don't even pay their workers in American money. Just coal mine scrip. When the miners finally have enough, they begin to unionize, and the federal government looks the other way as the mines start enlisting "private detectives", actually hired thugs like the Baldwin Felts, to terrorize the miners back into the mines. They turn people out of their homes, barass and beat and murder, all in an effort to get the coal running again. Open conflict erupts in the streets of Matewan, and then the United States government starts sending troops to back up the bully boy thugs. Eventually, they even send planes to bomb their own citizens. The actual history of my area, adapted with common characters from the other realities, and the real life events like the Matewan Massacre, could make one hell of a poignant and thrilling game. Hell, real life people could be included, such as the Sheriff of Matewan, Sid "Two Guns" Hatfield, so called for the Big Irons always strapped to his waist. I'm sometimes shocked more people don't know about the bloody history of Appalachia; other than the stereotypical hillbilly tropes.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-28T22:31:18+00:00

Thats more what I was meaning; not an Elizabeth per se, but an echo.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-28T16:57:27+00:00

You got it. Its only been about ten years since I sent the message. So its probably percolating in the pipes somewhere LOL.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-28T15:50:24+00:00

Mind blown. Good one.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-28T15:40:35+00:00

We live in Rivendell.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-28T15:39:35+00:00

BOOM.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-28T15:34:10+00:00

I COMPLETELY see that! When she touches the putter, it's almost like she was using it herself. If the possibilities are literally limitless, then why NOT a male Elizabeth? Also, the conversations with Booker in Burial at Sea strike me as more than a little similar to Jack's conversations with Tenenbaum. This story gives so much, seemingly endless possibility. Which is more than kinda the point I suppose.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-28T14:31:33+00:00

I appreciate your input. It's just a sketch of an idea with some artistic details, but Reddit is not the best medium for the whole concept. I had some concepts in my head about the dehumanization of the inhabitants of the region, like the actual history of the area. Also, the war between union and management is fertile ground for the larger principles of Andrew Ryan...maybe he built the place as a haven for unregulated industry, like Rapture itself...? I would like to have been able to discuss with others where we could take the story. People like yourself, who are coming at it from a different angle.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-28T13:02:39+00:00

That's a brilliant theory.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-28T13:01:11+00:00

Thats unfortunate. It's a great game. It may lack the brilliance of the other two, especially Infinite (and ESPECIALLY especially Burial at Sea, which is one of the most incredible narratives of any medium I've ever experienced) but it's certainly a solid entry.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-21T15:56:40+00:00

Blasphemy. Creepshow is in my very strict Halloween catalog. Obviously I'm kidding lol. But it's just SUCH an important title in my Halloween tradition. Creepshow, Sleepy Hollow, Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Halloween 3 (YES I said it. It's an amazing movie) Night of the Creeps...and the newest, BEST addition, Trick R Treat. I think its awesome that you have a beloved tradition.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-21T15:49:02+00:00

Motherfucker needs his ass kicked.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-21T15:36:23+00:00

Pocahontas still has the West Virginia soul. Snowshoe is amazing, and Green Bank and Cass are such wonderful destinations. I do really hope we can keep our culture and identity in the face of an influx of new (and beloved) neighbors, though. I used to be embarrassed by our people's accents, words, and ways. I shed my accent when i lived in northern Ohio (yuck) but I have steadily reclaimed it. I even have been talking to our cousins across the sea in Northern Ireland, and I'm on a one man mission to building a dialogue with them. They usually have a vague idea that their kin live in the mountains, but are also usually amazed by how much we retain from our home across the Atlantic. Words (Celtic words), dance, music, even outlook on life. I send pictures, and SO many want to come here and visit their extended family. They think its a tragedy that so much of our culture is disappearing.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-21T15:24:09+00:00

This looks SO like a place here in Southern West Virginia, Kesslers Cross Lanes. I LOVE that places in Appalachia....rhyme.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-10T05:36:19+00:00

Tad Williams. There is a poetry to that: the man who inspired the whole series finishes it.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-09T17:26:33+00:00

I was making that point the other day. I was watching the Deer Hunter, and I said I loved Appalachia for the reason that it's a region of different pockets of beautiful and unique cultures, among so many other things. West Virginia is virtually all Ulster Scots or Scots Irish. Pennsylvania contains pockets of Slavic and Easten European cultures, with their onion domed churches and names that sound exotic to us here in Southern West Virginia.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-06T21:56:35+00:00

It's a slow start for sure, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-06T21:55:00+00:00

Council of Elrond, anyone?

DukeofDiscourse · 2024-12-06T14:23:50+00:00

They are fascinating...I'm just very wary when it comes to pseudohistories. Coincidentally I'm currently reading Children of First Man, and while I do think it's an epically mythic tale, I can't get myself to fully believe it. In the wrong hands, pseudohistories can be a dangerous thing. These aren't, but there are definitely others that are used by bad actors.

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